Please pass over the opportunity to rip us off

Now I know that Passover is one of the most expensive times of year. Believe me I know. There is a reason why they call Matzah Poor Mans Bread. Now I can understand why some things are more expensive during this time of year. There is an expense in creating products that are only useful for 7 days a year, but don’t jack up prices if there is no reason too just to make a bit more money off of those that need it most.

I’ll just give one example because it happened to my wife. Last week she took the car to the same car wash we always go to which is probably about 3 times a year including right before Passover. Now the normal cost for our Van is 80 NIS for cleaning both inside and out. It is the same amount of work any time of year and they don’t do anything extra because it is soon to be Pesach. So this time when my wife drops off the car she asks how much it is and this guy tell her 150 NIS. Almost double what is normal! Now it was not like there were hundreds of cars waiting to get in to be cleaned. So my wife complanied how come so much. He said “ok, 120 NIS”. Just like that he dropped it 30 NIS. My wife was still not happy with being robbed so she went in to speak to the manager and told her what happened. The manager answered “ok 100 NIS”. So just like that they dropped the price 50 NIS and not wanting to argue anymore we accepted to pay 20 NIS more as a PPP (pre-Pesch-Premium).

Now this bugs me because what if the next person in line didn’t say anything? It seems they look at Americans and assume we would be willing to pay more because we can??? (I guess they don’t read the Wall-Street Journal). There was no posted price list and it seemed they were just looking for suckers to take advantage of. Not what I call good business!

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