Sentences with phrase «sold at inflated prices»

In an unregulated marketplace, where the same service can cost $ 500 against $ 15,000, for pretty much the same thing, depending on where you shop; where useless services are sold at inflated prices; where one large operation with many imprints, and controversial practices dominate the information stream, how do you know who to trust?

They look cute as a button, but usually all the manufacturer is doing is putting adult food in tiny packages and selling it at an inflated price.

TT: «Gentrification» is typically used to describe the acquisition of residential properties, redeveloping them, and selling them at inflated prices to folks that don't resemble the existing neighbors.

Not exact matches

The deceptive company then borrows money to pay for the increased dividend while personally selling shares at the inflated price.

They might also exercise their stock options, acquiring shares at a low price and selling them at grossly inflated prices.

What happened is that the early privatizers bled their companies while selling shares to the workers at prices that were being inflated by the flow of wage set - asides into the stock market.

In finance, a pump and dump is a form of fraud that involves artificially inflating the price of an asset through misleading sentiment in order to sell it at a higher price in the near future.

By adding things like salmon protein hydrolysate, damaged protein and other fillers, manufacturers are able to sell you an inferior product at an inflated price.

Palermo pulled off similar s *** in the pastore deal... they overrated their own player... spoke about interest from number of clubs and ended up selling him at a HUGELY inflated price And paying 40mil euros for a young player who scored 17 goals in a league where even gervinho is considered a star is beyond ridiculous.

anyway the sooner elneny is integrated the better and gabriel needs to start... ox should be farmed out on loan, walcott sold to whoever will take him... should have gone a year ago at an inflated price wont get much for him now as people have seen through the hype other than wenger... and a quality attacking option brought in asap which is difficult but not impossible...

He has in fact, sold off some of Man Utd's best young players, loaned out their brightest spark and continues to buy players at inflated prices.

Sanchez OUT (seems to be overrated by almost every1 in the world, would be sold at a hugely inflated price) Bale IN

There is a great deal of effort being put forth by the owners / patent holders / royalty beneficiaries to market and sell it at grossly inflated prices.

In an increasingly virtual, convenience - driven, safety - conscious and arguably desinsidtised world, people will alway search for authentic, intense and meaningful experiences - the dominance of fast food doesn't diminish the number of people who care about their cooking and eating experience, the ányplace, anywhere» availability of digital music streams and downloads has made vinyl record sales thrive and the likes of Singer, Eagle E-types, Morgan are making hay from established OEMs not being able or willing to deliver the full flavour experience (except for a tiny number of limited edition Porsches that no one can buy at list price anyway and get sold at inflated collector prices as a result.

Amazon.com and Duplicity Why would Amazon sponsor a third - party marketplace on its own retail website, and allow third party resellers to offer the same products Amazon sells at both wildly inflated and drastically reduced prices?

Sony finally made a fine, although severely restrictive, e-reader device and even at the 1.000 $ price tag sells it beyond expectations... The market for bigger e-readers is definitely there, and could multiply abruptly if the price comes back down to Earth (300 - 500 $), but some inflated CEOs, who believe the planet Earth rotates around themelves, refuse to see what is plain as the daylight.

Adobe is currently receiving flack for selling software at inflated prices in Australia, where Creative Suite costs $ 1,400 more than in the US.

Amazon recently stopped selling the Kindle DX (for the second time) and since then the device has only been available used, and at majorly inflated prices.

Right now that continues to be dividend stocks at reasonable prices with the chance to sell call options at inflated prices.

Finding Dividend Growth at a Reasonable Price (dGARP) stocks is an investment strategy that combines tenets of both dividend growth and value investing by finding companies that show consistent dividend AND earnings growth but don't sell at inflated valuations.

As a result, stocks and bonds always trade at their fair value, making it impossible for investors to either purchase undervalued stocks or sell stocks for inflated prices.

As properties affected by mortgage fraud are sold at artificially inflated prices, properties in surrounding neighborhoods also become artificially inflated.

According to the EMH, stocks always trade at their fair value on stock exchanges, making it impossible for investors to either purchase undervalued stocks or sell stocks for inflated prices.

At the same time, according to the complaint, these senior executives sold millions of their personal Wells Fargo stock at inflated prices, earning hundreds of millions of dollars, while failing to take corrective action to protect plan participantAt the same time, according to the complaint, these senior executives sold millions of their personal Wells Fargo stock at inflated prices, earning hundreds of millions of dollars, while failing to take corrective action to protect plan participantat inflated prices, earning hundreds of millions of dollars, while failing to take corrective action to protect plan participants.

Long - term capital gains associated with selling shares at a price inflated by share repurchase (and no associated dilutive transactions) are generally taxed at a much lower rate than the regular income tax rate at which a dividend is taxed.

In a pump and dump scam, the bad guys load up on a cheap and worthless stock, convince inexperienced investors to buy it at inflated prices (pump), and sell their shares off when the investors push the price up enough (dump).

Online applications, including social media and messaging apps, have been used to push up the price of tokens, in order to sell them to other buyers at artificially inflated prices.

Using market orders may lead to purchasing stock at inflated prices or selling it too low, because many buyers and sellers will post unrealistic bid or ask prices.

«The retail pet industry has a system - wide problem that begins with cruel puppy mills, continues with the way they ship baby animals across the country in cramped quarters, and ends with consumers often being sold sick animals at an inflated price,» John Goodwin said.

In short I consider Hills Prescription Feline c / d a lower quality food, marketed cleverly through veterinarians offices, loaded with ingredients that are known to be dangerous to pets, and sold at an over inflated price.

The lawsuit alleges that Petland sold sickly puppies from large - scale commercial breeding facilities to consumers at inflated prices.

On top of that, Winship says, most frequent flier seats are seats that would not have sold, so they would have flown empty anyway, making selling miles at inflated prices even more lucrative for air carriers.

The lawsuit alleges: «With an inflated share value, senior execs were then able to offload shares, selling more than $ 13.2 m of stock at fraud - inflated prices.»

This being almost the definition of the optimal self - interested player in Game Theory, again where the US drops CO2 emissions 50 %, China shifts to producing high - efficiency low CO2 equiment to sell to the USA at inflated prices, while distributing bargain - basement knockoffs to its own people.

Bottled water consumes way too many resources like oil, and up to 40 percent of the bottled water sold in the U.S. is nothing more than tap water, put into plastic bottles and trucked to you, at a ridiculously inflated price.

Pump and dump» (P&D) is a form of microcap stock fraud that involves artificially inflating the price of an owned stock through false and misleading positive statements, in order to sell the cheaply purchased stock at a higher price.

Apple, Google, and others are guilty of selling cases at inflated prices compared to the official Western prices, and import tariffs make many alternatives nonviable.

It is a form of a microcap stock fraud that is engaged to artificially inflating the price of an owned stock through false and misleading positive statements, for them to sell the token that was cheaply bought at a higher price.

The public has been able to purchase retail diamonds only at inflated prices and if ever wishing to sell, have not been able to garner fair market value.

So not only can the hackers not get any funds out, but any funds they spent purchasing VIA in an attempt to sell it off at a massively inflated price is also permanently locked.

Because a whale might have unfathomable amounts of money and the belief that their contract will expire at a value less than the price they purchased the contract for, it would not be surprising if the whales pumped up Bitcoin price in the days leading up to the contract expiration date by buying more Bitcoin, and then sell off a large chunk of it on an exchange at the inflated price — hours before their contract expires.

I find that a lot of vendors have their properties on the market at inflated prices, and they're saying they are not going to sell their properties unless they get «x» amount of dollars.

Another issue is that many times, the common areas are owned by the developer and later sold back to the development at inflated prices.

Instead of listing at the inflated price, Habibi says, he gets sellers to «come to realistic expectations of what the home will likely sell for.»

Not surprisingly, during the sell out in March, people were putting the Aldi candles on eBay at highly inflated prices!