Luke Plunkett. Luke Plunkett is a Contributing Editor based in Canberra, Australia. He has written a book on cosplay, designed a game about airplanes, and also runs. Best Buy Apologizes For Selling 4. Packs of Water While CNBC Asks If Disaster Capitalism Is So Bad. Did you see those packs of water being sold at a Best Buy store in Houston for as much as 4. The photos went viral as an example of predatory price gouging in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. But the company is now apologizing and saying it was all a big misunderstanding. Meanwhile, CNBC doesnt think that disaster capitalism is such a big deal. There have been over 5. According to the Texas Attorney General, the price gouging has included hotel prices quadrupling, fuel for as much as 1. But Best Buy was recently singled out on social media when a tweet showed that some packs were being sold at a Houston location for 2. People were disgusted, to say the least. This was a big mistake on the part of a few employees at one store on Friday, a Best Buy spokesperson told CNBC. As a company we are focused on helping, not hurting affected people. Were sorry and it wont happen again, the statement continued. Not as an excuse but as an explanation, we dont typically sell cases of water. The mistake was made when employees priced a case of water using the single bottle price for each bottle in the case, the spokesperson from Best Buy concluded. The penalty for price gouging in Texas is a fine of up to 2. And if the victim is over the age of 6. So while Best Buy contends that it was all an honest mistake, they have a legal responsibility not to price gouge during a disaster. Thats the law in Texas. But amazingly, a host from CNBC acknowledged that while it might be immoral to overcharge during a crisis, he still wondered if the law should be enforced. CNBC had the Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, on their network this week and asked why businesses shouldnt be allowed to charge whatever they want, even after a natural disaster. Watch Big Hero 6 Free Online. Attorney General, clearly all of us would be agreed that its a moral issue to try and oversell necessities at a time of crisis. Is it and should it be a legal issue as well the CNBC host asked. Surely its up to the seller to sell their product at the price they wish, even if morally clearly at this time they shouldnt be overcharging for necessities. The Attorney General shot back that the law is in place for a reason and that he was going to enforce it. Well, clearly the Texas legislature thought differently, because they were the ones who put the penalties in place. Its up to 2. 0,0. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said. So, of course, our legislature, signed by a governor many years ago, clearly didnt want during natural disasters the necessities to be jacked up in price, Paxton continued. So that was a decision that they made and were enforcing it. Its incredible that anyone could ask whether selling 1. Nothing, not even the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, should apparently get in the way of making a buck. CNBCCorrection This post originally misstated one of the prices for the packs of water. I regret the error. Opinion Six Reasons Trump Would Be Disaster for U. S. Jews, Israel and the Middle East. Trumps new approach to foreign policy would leave Israel twisting in the wind. Ishtar is a 1987 American actionadventurecomedy film written and directed by Elaine May and produced by Warren Beatty, who costarred with Dustin Hoffman. Watch Like No Other Slave Orgy on Redtube, home of free Anal porn videos starring Aiden Starr Mona Wales. XVIDEOS UnHolY DisAsTeR Game Over Scene 1 WIP Demo free. YtVpHt8MIC8/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Disaster! The Cartoon Video Download ' title='Disaster! The Cartoon Video Download ' />All Games 100 free, no payments, no time limits, no trials, no ads.