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mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
I just heard on the news that with the US in a State of Emergency States with Price Gouging Laws can take action against Resellers who are at fault, INCLUDING (and they Named these) both eBay and Amazon.
Now, all those threads about price gouging take on a new perspective. If the state of California has a price gouging law in place OR passes one in short order then I suspect eBay will have the authority to regulate prices sold through its venue ...
@socalboomer50 wrote:eBay can't possibly police these listings to prevent gouging whether fixed price or auctions, and for the time being should just ban them all. It won't matter where you advertise as there will be people who see the ad and report them.
My post that you were responding to wasn't about what you state above.
But with that said I agree with you and I've said that very think on various threads over the past couple of weeks.
It is a process for Ebay. They have closed 1,000's of listings over the past 10 or so days. More keep cropping up and they try to catch those too.
Out of the ones you provided links to. As of this post one has been removed.
@moondogblues wrote:
" 2009 Swine flu and the 17,000 US deaths from that one "
Apples and oranges...one is a yearly figure and the other just from January/Feb/and part of March.
Yes, I get that BUT the big difference is for Coronavirus the US put a travel ban from China in place early, Italy didn't and our gov has declared a state of Emergency ... in 2009 no travel restrictions and a State of Emergency took 6 months to declare ...
I grant you its not an apples to apples comparison but its better then comparing it with the regular annual flu that starts in southeast Asia and migrates around the world.
@mr_lincoln wrote:
@moondogblues wrote:
" 2009 Swine flu and the 17,000 US deaths from that one "
Apples and oranges...one is a yearly figure and the other just from January/Feb/and part of March.Yes, I get that BUT the big difference is for Coronavirus the US put a travel ban from China in place early, Italy didn't and our gov has declared a state of Emergency ... in 2009 no travel restrictions and a State of Emergency took 6 months to declare ...
I grant you its not an apples to apples comparison but its better then comparing it with the regular annual flu that starts in southeast Asia and migrates around the world.
I'm not sure how helpful it is to try and relive or revisit the actions or inactions taken in 2009. It would be a complex discussion to say the least.
You are however convinced of certain things with the current Pandemic that are not completely true.
We knew about the virus in late December 2019. Because this virus started in 2019 is why the name is Covid19. It is very debatable if 30+ days is "early" for banning travel on China. It also took close over 2 1/2 months for the National state of Emergency to be declared. Again debatable on how quickly that was done.
But with that said, we are where we are. It is my hope that the recent things that the government is doing will get us on the right path to learning more about this virus and how to contain it. It is past time and all the missteps and hold ups on getting tests out to the areas where they are needed was unnecessary and caused great harm to the process. Next week that should all change as more kits get released in numbers that matter.
We can all see how the number of infected continue to climb as more and more test kits become available and people that need to be tested get tested. From the first of the week till now that number and more than quadrupled.
That is what is important. Finding those that are infected is the only way to get this thing under control. Most people will willingly self quarantine and the few that won't, well hopefully we find the right way to deal with that without fear and unreasonable measures.
