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Best regards,
@veg1100 People are starting to get afraid of a round two of Covid and have started panic-buying TP and other items again here in Tucson AZ.
So I am glad that ebay is not letting people sell these items. They need to be left on the store shelves where people can buy them at regular prices.
@veg1100 This has been an ongoing topic since earlier this year when Covid-19 arrived from ... outside the US. You have to understand that in business AND during a National Emergency the opportunity exists to provide wanted or needed products for eBay members. There would have been nothing wrong with eBay allowing the items they banned to be sold AND tying a price structure down for those items based on prices found in stores ... in other words, set max prices that those items could be sold for on the site instead of taking them down from alleged, and in certain cases, price gouging. eBay is a California company AND the state has its own "anti-price gouging" law.
"California's anti-price gouging statute, Penal Code Section 396, prohibits raising the price of many consumer goods and services by more than 10% after an emergency has been declared."
And there you have it ... eBay lost huge opportunities for its Sellers to be able to sell items for reasonable prices the entire year since Covid-19. It would have been a win-win-win ... Consumers win because they can have items delivered to their front door inimizing exposure to the virus, Sellers win because they can sell wanted ot needed items instead of NOT being able to sell them and finally, eBay wins because they get their Selling Fees and help meet the needs of consumers' safety concerns.
It just business, just a business decision and eBay made a bad one ... of course all of this is just my humble opinion ...
