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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: theking on September 03, 2021, 04:01:00 PM
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Instead of helping, take advantage of the situation:
First flames, then fees: Tahoe evacuees report price gouging
STATELINE, Nev. -- As fearful Lake Tahoe residents packed up belongings and fled a raging wildfire burning toward the California-Nevada border, some encountered an unexpected obstacle: price gouging.
A rideshare company quoted a fee of more than $1,500 to be transported from the smoke-choked ski resort at Heavenly Valley to the safety of Reno-Tahoe International Airport, about eight times the going rate. A Nevada hotel-casino outside the evacuation order zone advertised a two-night stay for $1,090.72, almost four times the midweek rate offered a day earlier.
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