Profiteering from a Pandemic?

[Bb70charger500]

I understand making a buck ! But in times like this you shouldn't be ! These a holes go out and buy out the stores so no one else gets any then turn around and raise the price ! These people should be shot!
I saw a guy buy $1000 worth of t.p. at the very beginning of this whole thing ! Well say him the other day selling it in a parking lot at a insane profit (sad part is he had a line)

 

[Bb70charger500]

I will add I have plenty of both t.p. and bullet s ! I'm good!!!

 

[Roger63]

So this is the toilet paper isle in my local Walmart. I found a manager and posed the question, why toilet paper? Her response was if we have to go under a quarantine all of these people that **** more than cows in a field will have something to wipe their ***'s with.

 

[gkent]

Yeah, they're "helping" by charging $80 for a $20 pack of TP and preying on peoples' fears...

Ok, where'd you get this number from ?!?!

 

[gkent]

Oh ****, this happens in AMERICA too ?!?!?

On March 1, the day after the first coronavirus death in the United States was announced, brothers Matt and Noah Colvin set out in a silver S.U.V. to pick up some hand sanitizer. Driving around Chattanooga, Tenn., they hit a Dollar Tree, then a Walmart, a Staples and a Home Depot. At each store, they cleaned out the shelves.

Amazon said it had recently removed hundreds of thousands of listings and suspended thousands of sellers’ accounts for price gouging related to the coronavirus.

Amazon, eBay, Walmart and other online-commerce platforms are trying to stop their sellers from making excessive profits from a public health crisis.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/...eFq_X0IeRJKtMlbgesx9lWKV5vYH8q5rAa799pFgW1d1E

 

[turbine68rt]

Helping?? I don't think so. There is a big difference between running a business and working for a profit compared to screwing someone for money just because they are vulnerable...

Agreed.....something doesn't add up here. The article says they sold 100k of products in 3-4 weeks. They send their kids to private school @ 20k/yr. If they can come up with 6 figures in cash in less than a month, why in the world would they need to resell paper products to "survive"? Am I missing something here or do they need a better financial adviser?

 

[Dennis H]

I’m sick of hearing about it. Don’t want to hear another ******* word. Act normal, do regular things and wash your hands.

 

[dadsbee]

Ok, where'd you get this number from ?!?!

Exactly what they were doing Stan, buying a $20 pack and selling it on Amazon for $80. Amazon has shut their account down... that said Walmart online had listings for hand sanitizer at over $80 a bottle last week... claiming it "isn't us, it's our resellers" !

 

[steve from staten island]

I’m sick of hearing about it. Don’t want to hear another ******* word. Act normal, do regular things and wash your hands.

Do what I do, go in the garage and fool around with anything. When you get tired of that I watch "Me" TV all the old shows, my favorites and it lets me forget about this ****. Im back in the sixties and seventies

 

[44070dart]

Exactly what they were doing Stan, buying a $20 pack and selling it on Amazon for $80. Amazon has shut their account down... that said Walmart online had listings for hand sanitizer at over $80 a bottle last week... claiming it "isn't us, it's our resellers" !

Yeah, I saw the guy that has over 17,000 bottles of sanitizer and got shut down. The best thing is he doesn't get it. He can't see what he's doing wrong. What a douche bag.

 

[dadsbee]

Maybe the RCMP will seize them and donate them to the Vancouver hospital. Doubtful though as Canada doesn't have a profiteering law.

 

[moparedtn]

Ok, where'd you get this number from ?!?!

Watch the video report on the link provided by the OP. The scumbag in question there is doing sanitizing wipes,
but it's the same numbers - $20 items being sold on Amazon for "four times that amount". Report says he and
his wife have done six figures so far in "business" that way.

 

[moparedtn]

Yeah, I saw the guy that has over 17,000 bottles of sanitizer and got shut down. The best thing is he doesn't get it. He can't see what he's doing wrong. What a douche bag.

Exactly. No remorse, not seeing how wrong it is....

 

[moparedtn]

I’m sick of hearing about it. Don’t want to hear another ******* word. Act normal, do regular things and wash your hands.

Amen, brother. Exactly what I been preaching....for example:

We went weekly shopping today and started with Wally World here in our little town. Sort of half expected to see carnage and maybe even some hostilities? (A fella can hope...)
Results? Several wiped out shelves for sure, including such oddities as the rice section and some of the pasta.
Yes, toilet paper was extremely thin too, but the employee showed shortly thereafter with another pallet full as we goofed around with fellow shoppers on the aisle, joking and chatting with them and employees.
They WERE limiting quantities purchased, BTW.
Yes, I used the provided sanitizing wipes on the shopping carts wherever we went (and on my hands after), but I always do that anyways.

I even got "jumped" by a little girl, who play-grabbed the TP bundle I had under my arm. We "struggled" a while and yes, she eventually won the battle to the great amusement of her parents and siblings.
You know me - I like to have a good time in the store.

Point is, the store was pretty sparse in customers, eerily so and they seemed to have a handle on the TP situation, if not some of the other wiped out sections (like eggs. Eggs? Yup, entire section wiped out).

We go next to Food City and again, pretty sparse for customers for a Saturday afternoon. A few shelves seemed a tad empty, but they had tons of TP and even had additional displays of featured brands on sale in the aisle to boot.
They also were limiting quantities, but it didn't appear they even needed to.
They saw demand, rose to the occasion like they should, and had it handled.

Bottom line? Although there were signs of idiot/panic buying perhaps the day before, all is well in our little Rogvegas for the basics of life in our stores - and I didn't get in one real altercation over any of it.
Dang it...
I refuse to panic when it surely isn't warranted - and I'm gonna have fun with anyone who does.

 

[44070dart]

Man it better warm up so I can get to work in the garage, because me or the wife is going to hit the floor. Love the girl, but 24/7 and one of us is going to get hurt. Lay 5 to 2 it's me, sneaky little redhead.

 

[moparsaver]

Man it better warm up so I can get to work in the garage, because me or the wife is going to hit the floor. Love the girl, but 24/7 and one of us is going to get hurt. Lay 5 to 2 it's me, sneaky little redhead.