Sentence examples for exploitative prices from inspiring English sources

The IVF pioneer Lord Winston criticised private clinics for their highly exploitative prices and misleading information about the chances of success.

In 1897 he bought his first Monet; and for the next 17 years, ignoring critics, friends and associates, he pursued the acquisition (at relatively low, but never exploitative prices) of what would eventually become the modern classics.

Hospitals have been merging with each other for decades; as a result, in many parts of the country, a single hospital mega-system has a virtual monopoly, and takes advantage of its market power to charge exploitative prices to the privately insured and uninsured.

("Fair trade" coffee is supposedly bought at a price that offers peasant producers a "living wage", rather than at the "exploitative" price paid for commercial coffee).

Its damning report uncovered evidence of older people falling victim to "possible exploitative pricing" by insurers, and specialist websites that claim they provide a "free" service but are, in some cases, pocketing sales commission of up to 6% from the customer's pot – which reduces the income the retiree will receive for the rest of their life.

Workplace discrimination, shady business protocols, exploitative pricing and more combined to spur the movement to ditch the ride-hailing app.

He, too, wants high gas prices: not for exploitative gains, of course, but to support the development of alternative fuels within the U.S. at higher costs than gasoline.

Exploitative merchants were paying terrible prices for them to knock out cheap pieces for quick sales to tourists.

Supporters of the move say that with their own farm-to-market distribution networks, global supermarket chains will get rid of exploitative middlemen and pay higher prices directly to the farmers.

The Turing scandal has shown just how vulnerable drug pricing is to exploitative, rent-seeking behavior.

Newman: I'd say that antitrust definitely has a role to play when it comes to exploitative data practices in zero-price markets.