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The reason (the only reasonable one o can come up with) is the added cost of inspection before selling them. I don't disagree that the mark up mentioned in the
by bluejekyll 10y ago
The reason (the only reasonable one o can come up with) is the added cost of inspection before selling them.
I don't disagree that the mark up mentioned in the post was extreme, but I don't have a good idea of what it would be otherwise.
Based on my having visited places with high tariffs, or a difficult place to deliver things (top of a mountain) you definitely see large markups. Not 6x, but 2x-3x isn't uncommon.
- marcusgarvey 10y ago> the added cost of inspection before selling them. I wouldn't expect the supplier to bear this cost; it's the jailers who are doing the inspecting.
- ryanlol 10y ago> or a difficult place to deliver things (top of a mountain) you definitely see large markups. Not 6x, but 2x-3x isn't uncommon. But surely they aren't charging 2x-3x more because they need to make profit, but because it's justifiable for them to charge 2x-3x more (mostly due to lack of competition). However, profiting from prisoners by exploiting artificially restricted competition seems rather unethical to me.