Letter to the editor: Shameful price gouging during Taylor Swift weekend

It’s a shame when people visiting Pittsburgh for a reunion, wedding, graduation or some other event have to pay three times the cost of a hotel room because greedy owners are gouging patrons because of a concert at the stadium, which the visitors were not in town for to begin with.

Shame on Mayor Ed Gainey, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald and Gov. Josh Shapiro for allowing legalized robbery. There should be percentage limits on increases in supply-and-demand venues. They like to bill Pittsburgh as a blue-collar town; well, I think the weekend of the Taylor Swift concert June 16-17 has shown how money-hungry these businesses have become and that price gouging is out of hand.

I don’t begrudge anyone making a profit, but they are legally robbing people. I suggest out-of-towners stay away from Pittsburgh during concert/sports events downtown if they don’t want to get fleeced.

I hope these elected officials don’t break down in my neighborhood, because they might have to cash in an IRA to get their car fixed. After all, fair is fair … right?

Jack Juris

Buffalo Township