Submitted on Thursday 19th March 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 31st March 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Stop price gauging in UK at this critical time! Make it illegal to raise price
DescriptionPrice gouging occurs when a seller increases the prices of goods, services or commodities to a level much higher than is considered reasonable or fair. Price gouging may be considered exploitative and unethical. Usually this event occurs after a demand or supply shock.
To protect public at this critical time, where people are forced to stay at home to protect public from getting ill, they have limited resources or dont have any, and there are businesses who found a chance to get richer feom vulnerable people.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/303070
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