Boycott Olympic price-gougers: B.C. blogger
Last Updated: Saturday, February 27, 2010 | 2:08 PM PT
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A Kelowna, B.C., blogger wants people to boycott businesses who bump up their prices during the Olympics, even after the Games are over.
Richard Taylor has been posting about prices on Twitter, and has created a website to keep pressure on restaurants, pubs, cafés and bars accused of inflating their prices, some by 30 per cent, just for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
"To see that across the board, it's not something that we believe is ethical," he said. He also objects to gratuities being automatically added to bills.
"I think the people that want to vote with their wallets and take their business to places that weren't gouging tourists and weren't gouging Vancouverites during the Games, they'll have a resource they can go and check," said Taylor.
Taylor plans to go to London and be a price watchdog for the 2012 Olympics.
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