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This article is very low on information. The man is accused of price gouging, and was threatened by the Tennessee AG, but the article says he purchased all his
by freeopinion 7y ago
This article is very low on information. The man is accused of price gouging, and was threatened by the Tennessee AG, but the article says he purchased all his stock before a state of emergency was declared and hasn't sold any since the state of emergency was declared.
He's an Amazon seller, but it doesn't say at what price he was selling. Selling hand sanitizer during a crisis doesn't seem like gouging unless the price was exorbitant.
It may have been exorbitant as his account was suspended. But the article doesn't mention the actual asking price.
- paulgb 7y agoHere's the original article that started it all, which has more information. It quotes the prices as ranging from $8 to $70 per bottle. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-purell-wipes-amazon-sellers.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-pu...
- learc83 7y agoHe was selling it for different prices, but the highest was $70 for a single bottle from the NYT article.
- guerrilla 7y agoThere's a previous story which got quite famous which you're missing that went into great detail on this: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-purell-wipes-amazon-sellers.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-pu...
- surge 7y agoSome of the bottles were going for $70. It wasn't a marginal mark up. He also probably bought the entire supply in a store, so he wasn't correcting inefficiency. And the AG too the supply and donated it, not him.