Welcome To The Black Market.

[Geeko Sportivo]

[Geeko Sportivo]

[Life is Golden]

If you're rich and don'y mind being gouged, you can do it. By chance, I managed to find some TP at a local store. An 18 mega roll pack cost around $13.00. If I had bought it on Amazon, it would have cost closer to $40.00.

Nope, you just have to check randomly and grab it when it's out there. I can get as much as I want instead of having to wade thru a Covid hotbed grocery store and leave with only pack of toilet tissue or paper towels.

[anonymoose]

Apparently the corona virus made people start preparing for doomsday. So they started buying all the TP they could find.

I started hoarding toilet paper last fall when I heard we only have 12 yrs. until the end of the world because of the weather or climate or something like that. I was already well prepared.

[a777pilot]

They knew they would be in lockdown.

That's as good as answer as any. Thanks.

[Sailor]

You may have found it difficult to find toilet paper and rubbing alcohol. It may have started out with hoarders. Then continued with people buying what they could when they got the chance. But no doubt another reason for it is the black market. Supply and demand. Unfortunately, it is the capitalist way. These things can be found. But at gouge prices. If you're lucky, only twice what it cost you in a store.

Black market has been around long before this. What do you want to buy? PM me.

[Minister of Truth]

Have you ever been to Cuba?

Since you are attempting to dismiss a basic fact of Cuban life, I'm going to hazard a guess that you have not.

https://translatingcuba.com/cuba-the...eps-ivn-garca/

[Jack]

Since you are attempting to dismiss a basic fact of Cuban life, I'm going to hazard a guess that you have not.

https://translatingcuba.com/cuba-the...eps-ivn-garca/

No. I haven't been to Cuba. I haven't been to North Korea. And, I doubt you have either. I think you are just making stuff up ... and then spouting off as if it's all true.
I notice TinyDog does that too. He'll make stuff up, claim it's true, then go on for 20 minutes 'debunking' the stuff he's just made up.
These tactics don't make much for a Debate, but are interesting if you're in the mood for Story Telling.

[blades]

I keep at least 50-100 rolls on hand all the time and havent had to go out and buy any,,,

the smart thing to do is stock up during times of abundance so when things get scarce you done have to worry and dont become one more person buying in a panic,,,

[Bobb]

I started hoarding toilet paper last fall when I heard we only have 12 yrs. until the end of the world because of the weather or climate or something like that. I was already well prepared.

Hey moron, how does that butt wiping go with you? I mean, how do you know when you've got all the excreted sht and aren't wiping your body away.

[Minister of Truth]

No. I haven't been to Cuba. I haven't been to North Korea. And, I doubt you have either. I think you are just making stuff up ... and then spouting off as if it's all true.
I notice TinyDog does that too. He'll make stuff up, claim it's true, then go on for 20 minutes 'debunking' the stuff he's just made up.
These tactics don't make much for a Debate, but are interesting if you're in the mood for Story Telling.

Well, get started on your path to enlightenment by clicking the link.

[Jack]

Well, get started on your path to enlightenment by clicking the link.

Bull Durham: "The black market is the only way you can survive in Cuba. Due to the lack of capitalism."
Jack: This is a blanket statement. You link one article and conclude 'capitalism' (or in this instance, illegal activity) is the only way to survive in Cuba.

But to your credit, you at least had a link.

[Minister of Truth]

Bull Durham: "The black market is the only way you can survive in Cuba. Due to the lack of capitalism."
Jack: This is a blanket statement. You link one article and conclude 'capitalism' (or in this instance, illegal activity) is the only way to survive in Cuba.

But to your credit, you at least had a link.

Well, if you are going to call the black market "capitalism," then, you are doing my rhetoric for me. Because, it has been well-documented how the Cuban system forces people to utilize the black market to survive.

[Jack]

You can 'survive' in Cuba without committing crimes. You're talking about 'getting ahead'. People in the US can survive, but some choose to sell Marijuana to 'get ahead'.

[Doc Dutch]

I keep at least 50-100 rolls on hand all the time and havent had to go out and buy any,,,

the smart thing to do is stock up during times of abundance so when things get scarce you done have to worry and dont become one more person buying in a panic,,,

Agreed. OTOH, there's profit to be made when people panic.