Price gouging by Japan sellers

Question

This platform used to have a policy that banned price gouging from sellers. For some reason, that policy was discontinued years ago, and the direct result has been an overwhelming increase in prices for plastic modeling items from Japanese sellers. I had contact today with a seller that has items inflated 500% over what is normal retail on items that are still commonly available. As an avid museum quality model builder and owner of a YouTube channel with more than 11,000 subscribers, I plan on e...

inceptions · Accepted Answer

eBay does have a policy about price gouging. Price gouging means charging unreasonable prices for critically needed items in short supply during an emergency (such as bottled water after the local waterways are poisoned after a train carrying chemicals explodes or face masks and hand sanitizer during a worldwide pandemic). It does not apply to plastic models.