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 Post subject: Matt and Noah Colvin
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Fuck these opportunistic bags, i hope his garage stays full of these for the rest of time

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-purell-wipes-amazon-sellers.html

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Matt Colvin stayed home near Chattanooga, preparing for pallets of even more wipes and sanitizer he had ordered, and starting to list them on Amazon. Mr. Colvin said he had posted 300 bottles of hand sanitizer and immediately sold them all for between $8 and $70 each, multiples higher than what he had bought them for. To him, “it was crazy money.” To many others, it was profiteering from a pandemic.

The next day, Amazon pulled his items and thousands of other listings for sanitizer, wipes and face masks. The company suspended some of the sellers behind the listings and warned many others that if they kept running up prices, they’d lose their accounts. EBay soon followed with even stricter measures, prohibiting any U.S. sales of masks or sanitizer.

Now, while millions of people across the country search in vain for hand sanitizer to protect themselves from the spread of the coronavirus, Mr. Colvin is sitting on 17,700 bottles of the stuff with little idea where to sell them.


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Let the market decide if people want to pay $70 for hand sanitizer. Clearly people were and this fellow was serving a need. Amazon are the real dbs here. Denied.

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Let the market decide if people want to pay $70 for hand sanitizer. Clearly people were and this fellow was serving a need. Amazon are the real dbs here. Denied.


This mult was more entertaining as hockeygay.

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billypootons wrote:
Fuck these opportunistic bags, i hope his garage stays full of these for the rest of time

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-purell-wipes-amazon-sellers.html

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Matt Colvin stayed home near Chattanooga, preparing for pallets of even more wipes and sanitizer he had ordered, and starting to list them on Amazon. Mr. Colvin said he had posted 300 bottles of hand sanitizer and immediately sold them all for between $8 and $70 each, multiples higher than what he had bought them for. To him, “it was crazy money.” To many others, it was profiteering from a pandemic.

The next day, Amazon pulled his items and thousands of other listings for sanitizer, wipes and face masks. The company suspended some of the sellers behind the listings and warned many others that if they kept running up prices, they’d lose their accounts. EBay soon followed with even stricter measures, prohibiting any U.S. sales of masks or sanitizer.

Now, while millions of people across the country search in vain for hand sanitizer to protect themselves from the spread of the coronavirus, Mr. Colvin is sitting on 17,700 bottles of the stuff with little idea where to sell them.


Facebook marketplace would probably be a good solution.


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Our Marketplace has rules about selling over sticker price. Do others have the same rule?

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 Post subject: Re: Matt and Noah Colvin
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SpiralStairs wrote:
Let the market decide if people want to pay $70 for hand sanitizer. Clearly people were and this fellow was serving a need. Amazon are the real dbs here. Denied.

Yep.

What's wrong with someone taking advantage of a great business opportunity?

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SpiralStairs wrote:
Let the market decide if people want to pay $70 for hand sanitizer. Clearly people were and this fellow was serving a need. Amazon are the real dbs here. Denied.

Yep.

What's wrong with someone taking advantage of a great business opportunity?

Isnt jewelry marked up much more than that? And fountain soda is marked up significantly more than that.

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 Post subject: Re: Matt and Noah Colvin
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Darkside wrote:
Douchebag wrote:
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Let the market decide if people want to pay $70 for hand sanitizer. Clearly people were and this fellow was serving a need. Amazon are the real dbs here. Denied.

Yep.

What's wrong with someone taking advantage of a great business opportunity?

Isnt jewelry marked up much more than that? And fountain soda is marked up significantly more than that.

Don't care.

You interested in buying a roll of toilet paper for $5?

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 Post subject: Re: Matt and Noah Colvin
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Douchebag wrote:
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Let the market decide if people want to pay $70 for hand sanitizer. Clearly people were and this fellow was serving a need. Amazon are the real dbs here. Denied.

Yep.

What's wrong with someone taking advantage of a great business opportunity?

Isnt jewelry marked up much more than that? And fountain soda is marked up significantly more than that.

Don't care.

You interested in buying a roll of toilet paper for $5?

No. I was agreeing with you for what its worth.

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Darkside wrote:
Douchebag wrote:
SpiralStairs wrote:
Let the market decide if people want to pay $70 for hand sanitizer. Clearly people were and this fellow was serving a need. Amazon are the real dbs here. Denied.

Yep.

What's wrong with someone taking advantage of a great business opportunity?

Isnt jewelry marked up much more than that? And fountain soda is marked up significantly more than that.

Great point..jewelry and diet coke can also be used to scrub feces off your hand.


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 Post subject: Re: Matt and Noah Colvin
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Darkside wrote:
Douchebag wrote:
Darkside wrote:
Douchebag wrote:
SpiralStairs wrote:
Let the market decide if people want to pay $70 for hand sanitizer. Clearly people were and this fellow was serving a need. Amazon are the real dbs here. Denied.

Yep.

What's wrong with someone taking advantage of a great business opportunity?

Isnt jewelry marked up much more than that? And fountain soda is marked up significantly more than that.

Don't care.

You interested in buying a roll of toilet paper for $5?

No. I was agreeing with you for what its worth.

Don't care.

Give me $5.

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 Post subject: Re: Matt and Noah Colvin
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Ok.

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 Post subject: Re: Matt and Noah Colvin
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Darkside wrote:
Douchebag wrote:
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Let the market decide if people want to pay $70 for hand sanitizer. Clearly people were and this fellow was serving a need. Amazon are the real dbs here. Denied.

Yep.

What's wrong with someone taking advantage of a great business opportunity?

Isnt jewelry marked up much more than that? And fountain soda is marked up significantly more than that.

yeah but it's not like they're trying to sell you a 44oz fountain coke for $25-50. I think that's the fundamental difference here.

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 Post subject: Re: Matt and Noah Colvin
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Living where they live, now that the guy's name is out, I figure it is just a matter of time before people raid his house and take whatever they want.

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Living where they live, now that the guy's name is out, I figure it is just a matter of time before people raid his house and take whatever they want.


That's what guns are for you cuck.

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Living where they live, now that the guy's name is out, I figure it is just a matter of time before people raid his house and take whatever they want.


That's what guns are for you cuck.

Do you talk to every one here like that, or do you have a special hankering for me for some odd reason?

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Living where they live, now that the guy's name is out, I figure it is just a matter of time before people raid his house and take whatever they want.


That's what guns are for you cuck.

Do you talk to every one here like that, or do you have a special hankering for me for some odd reason?


Just gun hating morons like yourself.

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SpiralStairs wrote:
FukNuggitt wrote:
SpiralStairs wrote:
FukNuggitt wrote:
Living where they live, now that the guy's name is out, I figure it is just a matter of time before people raid his house and take whatever they want.


That's what guns are for you cuck.

Do you talk to every one here like that, or do you have a special hankering for me for some odd reason?


Just gun hating morons like yourself.

I don't hate guns or anything else, save toilet paper hoarders, of course.

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Sounds like they donated it, likely on the advice of a lawyer trying to make sure they avoid criminal prosecution.

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Sounds like they donated it, likely on the advice of a lawyer trying to make sure they avoid criminal prosecution.

That, or trying to make sure they avoid a bunch of toothless rednecks with masks and shotguns.

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Sounds like they donated it, likely on the advice of a lawyer trying to make sure they avoid criminal prosecution.


They were raided by the Tenn AG office. Did not have much of a choice.

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FukNuggitt wrote:
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Sounds like they donated it, likely on the advice of a lawyer trying to make sure they avoid criminal prosecution.

That, or trying to make sure they avoid a bunch of toothless rednecks with masks and shotguns.


You're not anti-gun..........sure.......

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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
Sounds like they donated it, likely on the advice of a lawyer trying to make sure they avoid criminal prosecution.


They were raided by the Tenn AG office. Did not have much of a choice.


I'm curious as to why they agreed to be interviewed for the article in the first place


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conns7901 wrote:
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Sounds like they donated it, likely on the advice of a lawyer trying to make sure they avoid criminal prosecution.


They were raided by the Tenn AG office. Did not have much of a choice.


I'm curious as to why they agreed to be interviewed for the article in the first place


Can't gouge people if people don't know you're open for business!

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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
Sounds like they donated it, likely on the advice of a lawyer trying to make sure they avoid criminal prosecution.


They were raided by the Tenn AG office. Did not have much of a choice.
Presumably for violating Tennessee's price-gouging laws, which make no mention of forfeiture of remaining stock as a punishment (everything I'm seeing says their stock is being seized).

Nevermind, that was editorilization that I read as news.


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Actually, the AG's office just showed up with a posse and a U-haul?


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SpiralStairs wrote:
FukNuggitt wrote:
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Sounds like they donated it, likely on the advice of a lawyer trying to make sure they avoid criminal prosecution.

That, or trying to make sure they avoid a bunch of toothless rednecks with masks and shotguns.


You're not anti-gun..........sure.......

Nope, I just like lampooning rednecks. I don't hate them, either.

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goodwill stores in TN have a pre-sale for hand sanitizer.... $10 a bottle


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Nomination denied for obvious reasons.

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Nomination denied for obvious reasons.


since you are on life support im surprised you had time to post here


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