Harris County receives nearly 200 price gouging complaints after Hurricane Beryl disaster

Nearly 200 gouging complaints have been made in Harris County after Hurricane Beryl. Here's what to do if you spot businesses charging too much.
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[@M4RI4TIGER]

Hotels are definitely price gouging. Aside from not being able to book a hotel due to unavailability, the prices were 2-3X more than what is “normal”.

[@JL-fx2cd]

@@M4RI4TIGER ... come on... it all part of the plan... free market... at the end of the day, we're all ADAPTIMG to climate change... price gouging in texas is part of the adaptation... right? Freedum...

[@pearlsswine]

Lol "muh price gowgyng". Sweetheart, that's literally how hotels work. The Bellagio is not a human right, no matter how much TikTok told you it is.

[@M4RI4TIGER]

@@pearlsswine I don’t have a TikTok and I wasn’t aware of that.

[@7ch1no38]

Gas station on 610 homestead price gouging gas

[@I.Odnamra]

Inflation is price gouging the more I think about it

[@bobbygetsbanned6049]

But all of Houston gonna vote for Biden's inflation again.

[@Sandy-dd5jz]

Everyone taking advantage of everyone .. How sad humanity can be😊

[@watermelonsprite1497]

they know, they dont care 😂

[@ronbelanger4113]

It is just yanks.

[@Snicesqwork]

Gas station on Ella tried to come with $4.60 it wasn’t on the screen

[@enlighten2seven605]

Thank you come again

[@cupcakegirl1064]

Before hurricane small bag of ice -$.89 After hurricane small bag of ice-$3.79

[@Freespiritblair]

7 pound bag of ice is 3.69 now in Fort Worth, Texas and has been all summer. Where could you ever get an .89 cent bag of ice?

[@bobbygetsbanned6049]

@@Freespiritblair They probably haven't bought ice since 2006.

[@philoctetes_wordsworth]

Where? I have no functioning air, and have been buying ice by the 60#+ for a few years. I have NEVER seen ice that cheap. Nope. I found a Windmill water place that also has an ice maker. I pay $2.50/20#.

[@SOLDOZER]

Where are you getting ice for .89 cents?

[@cupcakegirl1064]

@@SOLDOZER The Pit Stop

[@marmars1081]

A local gas station that has had the price of gas at 3.09 for months suddenly charged 3.29 when I paid in cash.

[@watermelonsprite1497]

most timewise and star shop shells were like that

[@purearea5142]

That’s not price gouging dude

[@SOLDOZER]

I left Monday and headed out twords San Antonio. On Monday hotels were $135. By Thursday they were $250.

[@saltysal110]

Gov. Abbott is a clueless joke all he does is pass the blame. Abbott and his minions need to put their Big Boy pants on and do their job! Enough with the excuses.

[@eliasarechiga1927]

Everything’s high

[@gbpatriot9794]

Primary stockholder of centerpointless??? Who's on the board???

[@JuniperJupiter23]

You mean principal stockholder, and there isn't _one_ for Centerpoint. There's many, and the largest are mega corporations. CenterPoint's CEO, Jason P. Wells, made $7,000,000 just in 2023. CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (US:CNP) has *1336* institutional owners and shareholders. Largest shareholders include Capital International Investors, Vanguard Group Inc, BlackRock Inc., T. Rowe Price Investment Management, Inc., AMRMX - AMERICAN MUTUAL FUND Class A, State Street Corp, ABALX - AMERICAN BALANCED FUND Class A, PRWCX - T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Fund, VTSMX - Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund Investor Shares, and Boston Partners.

[@bellagab3]

Hotel without power allowed me to book online. Drove all the way there to find out they didn't have power and now they want to charge $175 cancelation fee, literally more than the price per night

[@watermelonsprite1497]

girl get your refund 🪓

[@jasonmoses7785]

Just call card company in morning after you block your card tonight

[@thomascrum185]

Ya the fines are only like 10% of the profit they made from price gouging. They will pay the fine and continue to do it as long as they can!

[@juniorlopez8206]

Gas stations chips drinks

[@LostHisSoninIraq]

It’s a nice diverse city !!! Full of loving caring nice people. They never have road rage, no shooting ever, lots of clean well dressed people, nice cars, competent workers, great scenery, and Ofocurse beautiful weather! No way they price gouge. Rumors!!!

[@keg10609]

We just paid 3.49 for gas when down the street it was 2.99…. Man if I would’ve known

[@dons3073]

What about rent gouging no I didn’t think so

[@purearea5142]

The whole USA has been price gouging for about 1 yr now. What’s the diff?

[@tracydowney1901]

Read my article last week in the Huntsville item- re: Harris county residents coming to Walker County for gas. Prices too high was the complaint- “By 50 cents” Yeah check the hotel fees too.

[@trinaisspeakin4539]

Fat Teddy, GoGo Greg, Dead Eye Paxton and Dufus Dan won’t do a thing about it. They’re focusing on Centerpoint because all it requires is lip service…. Everything else is irrelevant.

[@mike_w-tw6jd]

will voters believe them this time?

[@intergalacticchicano]

Some gas stations some the 146 and 225 were gauging prices

[@Maritza3]

It’s also sad but true !!! I live here is so disappointing 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@user-ic2bk1pi3b]

It’s normal for stores like Costco, HEB and Krogers to increase prices. They always do that even without an hurricane.

[@user-jk2hb5qq8r]

Whats new?? That has hsppened every time theres a disaster!! Someone always thonks they have tp overcharge people!! So sad!!! Hotels over charging???? They beeb doing that since covid!! Jacked up thrir prices to make up for being closed and have NEVER LOWERED them!!!!

[@SuspiciousGanymede]

Supply and demand, no power means cold things and electricity is at a premium.

[@mike_w-tw6jd]

u sellin?

[@gottagift]

Polk county Sheriff Grady Judd also encourages folks to report any information on drug dealers who may be price gouging at this time.

[@juanzuniga7616]

Can you make a complaint on houses being price gouged, how about taxes😂

[@gccheryl4038]

Some people are just off the rails right now, good grief, complain about everything. We should be counting our blessings and walk on if we don't like the prices.

[@7ch1no38]

@@gccheryl4038 yea but there's no need to take advantage of folks either tho..there already doubling there money..why kick someone while there dwn

[@7ch1no38]

@@gccheryl4038 it's like saying stop complaining to center point because you have no power.count your blessings that your alive and walk on

[@catmejia6109]

Girl hush…..so,e people haven’t been able to work, access their banks and more so yes money matters….there should be no price gouging when the whole damn city has gone through this disaster….just seriously s t f. U

[@7ch1no38]

@@catmejia6109 🤣

[@pearlsswine]

​@@7ch1no38Jesus Christ, you're barely literate.

[@oscar708]

The hotels downtown and all over the city

[@aaronramirez2610]

If you see something, don't say anything, other wise you will be know as a snitch,and no one wants 2b a snitch.

[@GraveRot]

Thats why we have all these out of town houstonians shopping in lufkin a hour away

[@ronbelanger4113]

Zero surprise, profit is king in USA.

[@tempe1d]

Wait its biden fault yeah? 😂😂😂

[@helloidharbl6753]

The shrinkflation and high rent prices, yes.

[@tempe1d]

@@helloidharbl6753 he made it hot and the storms in the atlantic oceans. 🤣🤣🤣 wait. Biden made the world spin. Impeach him now and stop the flat earth from spinning

[@orlandor7825]

Bidenomics at its finest!🤡😂

[@philoctetes_wordsworth]

Sounds like texas, SOP to me.

[@frankt5987]

I thought this was a capitalists society not a socialist one. Since when are businesses a human rights group.

[@mike_w-tw6jd]

u rich?

[@jbertrand12345]

Texas sounds horrible.

Its called capitalism

[@bobbygetsbanned6049]

Oh now yall are mad about prices but when Biden doubled prices in 2 years yall didn't complain and are ready to vote for him again.

[@mike_w-tw6jd]

it was hunter's laptops fault

[@DudeSweet072]

Dont like the price, dont buy it.

[@dons3073]

Cheap trick

[@JL-fx2cd]

Come on... its texas... free market, right? This should be ok...

[@bobbygetsbanned6049]

It should be ok, because it is a free market. These same people cry when the shelves are empty because the stores weren't allowed to raise prices to prevent people from hoarding. Then they will cry we need limits on what people can buy because they don't want the free market to do it's thing.

[@Needglory23]

😂😂😂

[@sharont1]