Price Gouging Warning

[wvu5starclothing]

So how is Price Gouging when you start a $25 retail item on Auction for 1 day at .99 and free shipping. Thought I might help a buyer in need for this item . Its not my fault that it got bid up to $70 before being kicked off.

[dhbookds]

What was the item?  Are you aware that some items are banned right now? 

[wvu5starclothing]

It was a Mega 96 rolls of Toilet paper. Don't think its banned from selling just banned for prige gouging.

[japan-treazures]

In these times of emergency, eBay considers anything essential that is selling over the reasonable normal price as price gouging.  Rather you agree with your item being cancelled, this is the time we are in. 

Some of the items that I have seen that eBay considers essential are: hand sanitizes, soaps, Lysol spray, wipes, toilet paper, alcohol and disinfectant sprays. 

I have seen 16 oz. alcohol bottles with bids up to $70+ before they are removed by eBay. It isn't the sellers fault that it got bids up to $70, but, as seller we have the responsibility to buyers in need, eBay policies and the US law. 

if you want to help someone, try listing it as a buy it now at 10 - 20% above what it cost you and actual shipping and eBay will most likely not remove your listing. 

Here is the ink to eBay's price gouging policy:

https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-items/price-gouging-policy?id=5106&st=3&pos...

[luckythewinner]

@wvu5starclothing wrote:

So how is Price Gouging when you start a $25 retail item on Auction for 1 day at .99 and free shipping. Thought I might help a buyer in need for this item . Its not my fault that it got bid up to $70 before being kicked off.

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First ... if your goal was to help a buyer in need, a low fixed price would make more sense than an auction. 

Second ... it is "price gouging" because eBay owns this site and decides what "price gouging" means.  

[coolections]

If there was not a world wide epidemic wit hundreds of thousands of people dying would you have listed the toilet paper ?  If you would have, would you have done it at auction for 99 cents ?

[per50nl_5]

That's taking things too far to say this person listed the toilet paper because hundreds of people are dying. That's even more questionable to use that for the sake of an eBay community argument.

[adkhighker]

Anyone knows that many of the eBay price gougers are getting away with it by running 1 day auctions which are up and over so quickly that they don't get caught, which in looking at all your sold transactions for TP and similar items is exactly what you have been doing.

If you really wanted to help someone in need you would have sold them at lower than retail prices with fixed price listings like someone else upthread already mentioned.  I hope eBay eventually gives all such price gouging sellers the boot for good.

[griffithbarbara1]

That's because the prices go real crazy up there on the auctions. Just some info... I might be late but I seen where someone said that Chris Spielman did one for 100% charity for what's going on right now but got removed. I was wondering is that what all those bids on thousands of dollars were about? Charities? I just found that unbelievable but then I seen last night it was for a cause towards this epidemic? Very interesting