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There is dishonesty in this situation. If you ask Costco if it's ok to buy lots of toilet paper to resell, they'll say no. By buying in bulk to arbitrage you'r
by reitzensteinm 7y ago
There is dishonesty in this situation. If you ask Costco if it's ok to buy lots of toilet paper to resell, they'll say no.
By buying in bulk to arbitrage you're acting against the interests of Costco and their customers, and hoping you fly under the radar.
- gruez 7y ago>There is dishonesty in this situation. If you ask Costco if it's ok to buy lots of toilet paper to resell, they'll say no. That's debatable. Plenty of small businesses buy Costco stuff to resell, or for business use. They even have business memberships! Unless they have explicit no resell notices (although even then it's unclear what legal force they have), I wouldn't say it's dishonest.
- rayhendricks 7y agoCostco literally is designed as a small business supply warehouse. There are some Costco they cater exclusively to this. Now not trying to price gouge in a pandemic is another thing.
- reitzensteinm 7y agoRight, which is why it's easy to fly under the radar. It was poorly worded, but if corporate had a button they could press to stop new entrants buying a bunch in hopes of selling online at high markup, I believe they would. Trouble is, there's no way to filter them out, and any attempt may in itself signal a lack of faith in the system and result in more panic buying.