Lady Gaga’s inflation: hosting and passage can cost almost six times more; See comparisons

A bus of the bus offered by the same company and at the same time, but in several weeks it is almost six times more expensive

What is the price to watch a presentation of your idol? For many fans of the singer Lady GagaThe cost is very high. Although pop diva came to Brazil for a free presentation in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, the 3rd, The increase in prices and tickets for hosting for the capital of Rio de Janeiro was a reason for a complaint among the fans.

In rapid research conducted by EarthThe difference in values ​​is wide open: a bus of the bus between San Paolo and Rio de Janeiro, offered by the same company and at the same time, is It costs almost six times more Compared to the weekend following the Click Bus bus platform.

The price increase in prices is repeated with the hopes. A hotel in Copacabana offers a daily rate of $ 1656 for two people between 3 and 4 May, not to mention taxes. Already the following weekend, one night between 10 and 11 May, even for two people, is at $ 504 in this same hotel, an increase of over 328%. The comparison was made by the booking platform.

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In Airbnb, an apartment is announcing its rate for R $ 1.665 to sleep on Saturday 3 May. The following week, however, this same property has a promotion of three nights out for a lower value than this, for R $ 1.650, from 10 to 13 May.

See the comparison between the prices offered by the bus companies on the weekend of Lady Gaga and the following Saturday:

• The comparison was made using the travels that leave the capital of San Paolo around the 00 on Saturday. So the fan would arrive in Rio de Janeiro near 6 in the morning.
• The travels started from the Tietê (SP) bus station and as a destination for Novo Rio, in the center of the capital of Rio de Janeiro.

What does the legislation say about it?

Although the variations in the prices of bus tickets are frightened, they are within the law. This is what the legal teacher explains, Gustavo Kloh, by FGV Rio.

Ordinance 4770 of the National Land Transportation Agency (Ant) has released that bus prices of ticket prices based on the question, in the same way to what happens with air tickets. There is a forecast of a limit to be charged by the bus companies, but this roof is still very difficult to hit.

“This fluctuation is expected and authorized,” says Kloh. Explain that the calculation of the limit is performed with the following formula: multiple 0.16 for the number of passengers on the bus and the mileage between the two cities.

Considering a bus with a capacity of 50 passengers and a distance of 400 kilometers, approximately from San Paolo to Rio, it would give $ 3200. “That is, the passage of R $ 500 does not scratch the ceiling,” says the professor.

Procon-Rj will act in abusive practices on hosting platforms

As for the accommodation, the Procon-Rj, together with the state secretariat for the protection of consumers (sedcon) of Rio de Janeiro, has opened an administrative process to contain illegal increases on online platforms. The institutions received complaints from fans who reported it The tenants cancel the reservations made in advance to be able to increase the price of hosting.

“The platforms will have to inform how many owners have canceled reservations or renegotiated values ​​between April 20 and May 10. There is evidence that many cancellations are being checked to renegotiate the highest leasing values, a practice considered offensive by the consumer protection code”, says Procon-Rj and Sedcon.

The operation will compare the amounts charged in the same period of the previous years. “If a proven abuse of economic power, a clearly excessive advantage or a price of price abuse, the penalties will be applied to both platforms and owners,” says the Secretary of State for the protection of consumers, Gutemberg Fonseca.

Guide that consumers who have had the reservation canceled to collect all the vouchers and record a complaint. “It can be a contract, e-mail or messages. The consumer who has been injured by an abusive practice must record a complaint in the consumer service channels (Sedcon) and Procon-Rj,” he says.

See what the complaint channels are:

Speak Consumer (Sedcon):

WhatsApp: (21) 99336-4848

Telephone: 0800-2020143

E-mail: antenance@sedcon.rj.gov.br

Procon-Rj:

Compose 151

WhatsApp for complaints: (21) 98104-5445

Source: Terra

Earl

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