Sentences with phrase «jacking up prices»

You would think a state that brags on its license plates about its «Smiling Faces» might consider it prudent to try to reduce smoking by jacking up prices, but Sanford doesn't think the $ 125 million in Medicaid funding and $ 5 million toward cancer research are worthwhile goals unless there is a concomitant reduction in some other tax.

There has always been heavy demand for the NES: Classic Edition, and scalpers on eBay have been jacking up prices for months.

Resellers on sites like Craigslist and Amazon are jacking up the prices to make a profit (often as high as $ 500, which is $ 200 more than the retail price).

Sony is constantly jacking up their prices please provide examples.

Of course, that also includes being rude to tourists and jacking up prices, but hey la vie est belle.

Disney Parks keep jacking up their prices but there seems to be insatiable demand for the experience they're offering.

Companies can also offer those deals on their websites, but they must offer exactly the same deal through their app (which prevents publishers from jacking up prices to cover the 30 - percent take that Apple removes).

That is, we the authors are punished for jacking up the prices.

It should come as very little surprise to you that after jacking up the prices of their ebooks at the start of 2015, the Big 5 sold fewer ebooks.

I think my favourite consignment store is jacking up its prices on some brands, like J. Crew.

«It's unacceptable for a health care company to put life - saving medicine out of people's reach by jacking up prices,» said Stringer, although he stopped short of saying the city pension funds would divest from Mylan.

Strong attendance figures give theme parks good reason to keep jacking up prices.

Others are speculating that the park companies are getting a price hike out of the way in early 2014 just so that they can add on another price hike before the year is over, without getting as much grief for jacking up prices by, say, $ 10 or $ 12 all at once.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals became embroiled in scandal for jacking up the prices on some of its drugs, including Addyi, the little pink pill.

The high demand and limited supply has apparently created an opportunity for small third - party retailers that have some consoles in stock to jack up the price.

«And the greater fool has this belief that's wrong that they are going to grow [subscribers] forever and one day jack up price and keep the excess price increase,» said Pachter.

According to a recent study from Kaiser, to make up for the loss of CSR payments, insurers would have to jack up the price of premiums by an average of 19 % more than the current projected increase for 2018.

In September, the pair sent a letter to Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli after he jacked up the price of Daraprim, a drug used to treat malaria and parasitic infections in patients with weakened immune systems, from $ 13.50 to $ 750 per pill.

Over in the House of Representatives, Democrats have also been hot on the tail of pharmaceutical companies that have jacked up the prices of some of their drugs, though they've making less headway than their Senate bipartisan counterparts.

Excess speculation restricts supply and jacks up prices, too — which further cements the belief in the minds of buyers that they have to act fast, and that the recent pace of the market is sustainable.

Imagine the old days: You went to a store and had no idea what other stores charged for the same products — which meant the store you were in could jack up the price.

And no, we can't just jack up prices and pass the additional cost along to customers.

Her company is best known for jacking up the price of life - saving EpiPen anti-allergy medication, but it also manufactures naloxone, a drug meant to treat opioid over-doses.

You can learn a lot about the ethics of pricing by contemplating why hardwares stores generally didn't jack up their prices.

Many resellers are jacking up the price by double or more.

By threatening a blackout, Justice argues, Time Warner's Turner networks can jack up prices for networks such as CNN, TNT and TBS.

Most goods sold in Hawaii must arrive either by boat or by plane, which jacks up the price considerably.

The judge said that the punishment for the founder of Turing Pharmaceuticals is not for jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug, nor for his abrasive behavior.

High oil = dead economy, jack up the price, watch sales nose dive, watch alternative energy research sky rocket, watch big oils continued fall.

If not Mylan's Bresch, it's Turing Pharmaceuticals» Martin Shkreli, who jacked up the price of Daraprim — used to treat life - threatening infections — from $ 13.50 to $ 750 a pill.

«Kooky 18th century protectionism will jack up prices on American families — and will prompt retaliation from other countries... if the President goes through with this, it will kill American jobs — that's what every trade war ultimately does,» Sen. Ben Sasse (R - NE) told Politico's Burgess Everett.

February 2015: Launches new company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, which acquires an old drug and jacks up their prices.

Earlier this week Loblaw Companies Ltd., Canada's largest grocery chain, admitted it took part in an industry - wide scheme to jack up the price of bread.

The hedge fund founder and CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals jacked up the price of a popular HIV drug from $ 13.50 per pill to roughly $ 750.

Charter's cord cutting problems shouldn't be surprising, given the company's response to this market evolution has been to largely double down on all the bad ideas that helped create it in the first place (from shoddy customer service and relentless price increases on everything from programming to hardware rental, to using sneaky fees to covertly jack up prices further).

They are jacking up the price and then offering a discount to make it look like savings.

Jim Bakker is hawking survival gear with a verse at jacked up prices.

I just bought a down / featherbed mattress topper — it was through a Groupon and they totally jacked up the price before putting it on «sale».

Knowing the clubs out there they will just jack up the price tag!

He might have been on the market, but we would only have been used again by Liv (so to jack up price).

if he said publically, «we're vigorously looking for a # 1 striker»: it would break dainty giroud & all sellers would jack up their prices.

Of course, it would also help by jacking up the price a lot, too.

«Organic» labels... MORE tend to jack up the price, and questionable certification standards make it difficult to know if you're really getting what you paid for.

The simple that some mothers and fathers buy these toys from other deserving parents and kids, and then jack up the prices to be double, triple, or more than the original price makes us sick.

Some train companies have jacked up prices so much that some season tickets are now a fifth of the average salary in this country.

For example, the insane jack up price of epipen and the contract is just tip of the iceberg.

Some warranties can jack up the price of the original item though.

Governments could also simply tax Internet access, or providers could jack up the prices, in such a way as to price it out of reach of most people.

And once Nestle acquired the company, they really jacked up the price, and I think it's like $ 800, or something ridiculous like that, if you don't have insurance coverage for it.

ATLAS would have berberine if it didn't taste like Satan's nutsack (if we ever use berberine it will be in pills), ASCEND would have pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) if it wouldn't have jacked up the price horrendously, that sort of thing.