mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
There have been numerous threads regarding price gouging; There have been posters who didn't seem to think that this practice wasn't something eBay could do anything about and some defended the sellers engaged in this practice. I say make a list of sellers that are in your state and submit them to your government officials. And before you jump and claim these items are essentials see the notice regarding a list of items covered under price gouging laws I received from our local District Attorney. I removed my city's name information but you should have seen similar messages from your local officials.
@lightlily_arts wrote:If eBay is shutting the call centers down who is monitoring the listings. Have you seen the prices for Lysol withother surface cleaners, and Bath and Body hand sanitizer products?
The call center was never responsible for monitoring listings, so no problem there.
You had stated "Only US sellers selling hand sanitizer have had their listings pulled from what i can see." And it simply isn't true. Ebay has and continues to remove the listings that violate the policy on a regular basis. Since they started the ban there have been 1,000's and 1,000's of listings removed by sellers in all countries, not just the USA. Your posts made is seem like Ebay is favoring China and allowing their listings to remain. But many of them have been removed too. Maybe when you view it, it seems different. But keep in mind that when you look it is a snapshot in time and not at all representative of all the work Ebay has done over the past week and the sheer volume of listings they have removed.
@laserprinterkits wrote:Try searching "toilet paper" On Friday there were around 20,000 listings. Tuesday night 18,000.... now we are over 20,000 again. I can't say ebay is not trying but what I can say is what they are doing is not working. They have to take stronger measures or they will find those fees are going to be paid back to the states and plenty more. There is a reason amazon and online walmart stopped this abuse. Keep reporting this to the state attorney general's office. This is why we continue to see stock out in our local stores, these people doing this on ebay are using this as a means to profit and cause more fear and panic as important daily items are scarce.
I have no information on if Ebay is actively going after TP listings or not. It isn't among the banned items Ebay previously announced and I haven't seen any updates to that announcement.
it would be a very good question for the Weekly Chat that happens a little later today as it is a concern.
Do keep in mind that as has often happened with the banned items, the sellers get creative and as Ebay closes some listings, they create a new selling account and list in a different category to try and hide from Ebay's eyes so to speak for as long as they can.
You are absolutely wrong. Toilet paper and hand sanitizer are covered under price gouging. Notice we received from our police department.
