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Thom Dunn / 5:30 am Mon, Mar 16, 2020

Amazon and eBay punished coronavirus price-gougers by making it harder for the rest of us to get hand sanitizer

The New York Times has an excellent, harrowing story about Matt and Noah Colvin of Tennessee — two of the many people who have tried to exploit the coronavirus panic for profit. The Colvin Brothers saw the chaos coming, and thought to buy up all of the hand sanitizer they could find. The plan, of […]
Mark Frauenfelder / 8:51 am Mon, Jan 4, 2016

20 minute Uber ride cost $1,114.71 on New Year's Eve

After Matt Lindsay celebrated New Year's Eve in Southwood Community Centre near Edmonton, he hailed an Uber to take him and his friends home. The driver who picked up Matt warned him that the "surge rate" was 8.9 times the regular fare. Lindsay accepted the surge and took the ride, which lasted 20 minutes. From […]