Reddit reviews Nestlé Pure Life Bottled Purified Water, 16.9 oz. Bottles, 24/Case

> Não é $99 por água, é $99 por CASE of water.

Só para que fique claro: continua sendo absurdo porque essa case of water custa $13.

> O comerciante dá o preço e o cliente decide se concorda ou não, o comerciante verá que exagerou e começa a reduzir os preços.
Você só se refere ao livre mercado quando aumentam o preço, mas não se refere ao mesmo termo quando aparecem outros comerciantes vendendo a preço mais barato para competir com o cara dos $99

Que outros comerciantes??? Não tem outros comerciantes, amigão! A cidade está isolada e inundada! O cara está cobrando $99 precisamente porque não tem concorrência! Eu não me refiro aqui a outros comerciantes porque eles não existem!

Como eu falei, é pagar $99 ou morrer de sede. Repito a pergunta: você não acha isso imoral?

At the bottom of the article, they said Amazon contacted them and would be removing those listings. So I searched for "water" and literally the first item was a case of water for $28 and people complaining in the review section. Liars.

https://www.amazon.com/Nestl%C3%A9-Bottled-Purified-Water-Bottles/dp/B00LLKWVL4/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1505164896&sr=8-3&keywords=water

https://camelcamelcamel.com/Nestl%C3%A9%C2%AE-Life%C2%AE-Bottled-Purified-Bottles/product/B00LLKWVL4

It looks like Amazon has never even sold that before...

I see no reason to do so. I feel like a lot of the outrage stems from jealousy of how a company can make money off selling water and taxing it on that basis is silly.

Bottled Water Extraction:

• Still falls under regulation of the regional district IIRC
  
• Draws a negligible amount of water from aquifers or drawn from rivers which if "unhavested" would flow into the ocean.
  
• Is no different from Farming, brewing or any other industrial activity. Or golf courses or lawns or ice rinks.
  
• Is often opposed by people far far away from the municipalities affected by the so called damages and increased local jobs.
  
  Either way, individual industries should not be taxed arbitrarily just because they operate profitable industries.
  
  Also other general critisisms.
  
  >They go on to sell each bottle of water at prices that range from $.50 a bottle to upwards of $9 a bottle at entertainment venues such as concerts and sporting events.
  
  Im pretty sure nestle doesn't sell those bottles for 9$. The author seems to be implying that insane sport stadium markups are nestles fault and nestly somehow profits from this.
  
  >Hypothetically speaking, if Nestle sells each bottle of water for say, $2.00, they turn an immediate revenue of $3,381,400 before production expenses, just off packaging a million litres of water
  
  First this fails to make clear that revenue doesnt equal profit. Second Nestle doesn't sell a bottle of water for nearly 2$, The corner store might, but not nestle itself. Its like the author doesnt understand the supply chain.
  
  FWIW according to Amazon Nestle would sell each bottle for at maximum 84 cents.
  
  >permits alone that allow them to drill a staggering 12 million litres of water every day.
  
  12 million litres sounds big, but in the grand scheme of water flow its really freaking small. Furthermore, author assumes that the maximum water draw allowed by the permits is the actual water draw, plants could be drawing a fraction of this.
  
  >According to 2015 water rate statistics provided by the City of Toronto, the average Ontario water consumer pays about $3624/million litres of water consumed, as opposed to the $3.71 paid by Nestle, almost a 1000X markup for Ontario citizens.
  
  Author conflates raw well water with treated, processed, piped city water. Turns out Torontonians can go down to the lake and run a pipe from it too for free(ish)