Report Price Gouging

[robpy-6]

Amazon had removed a million listings for price gouging, so I don't see why Ebay can't do the same. There are just too many to report to Ebay one by one.

Ebay is based in California. Maybe reporting to the California Attorney General's Office might help.

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. Local laws may also contain their own prohibitions on price gouging.

Complaint link;

https://oag.ca.gov/consumers

[mam98031]

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@keonaspellmon wrote:

Can I report Ebay for allowing this?

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Yes, but they aren't.  If you take a little time and read the thread, you would see that Ebay is working hard to remove these listings.  But you need to do whatever you think is best.

[sweetperrin30]

I agree, I just reported a seller, but had messaged them first saying that what they listed and the amount was price gouging. I am reporting as many dubious sellers as I can. We have been out of cleaning supplies in my town for weeks and it just burns me up seeing people on here jacking up prices on stuff lots of folks need, and many families who have very medically fragile kids are in desperate need of.

[slhproxy]

No they don't. There are no report item links anywhere on the page. Look up Clorox wipes for $364 and you'll see what I mean.

[mam98031]

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@slhproxy wrote:
No they don't. There are no report item links anywhere on the page. Look up Clorox wipes for $364 and you'll see what I mean.

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Find this spot on the listing and click on it.These will be among your options on the report page for most items if in the proper categories.If the seller is trying to be tricky & post in an incorrect category, you can use these options.

@slhproxy 

[slhproxy]

Thank-you very much for showing where this is. Ebay's instructions did not mention I needed to scrawl all the way to the bottom of the listing to find this link, which they then make to appear insignificant. However, once I found it, the site wouldn't respond beyond my clicking "report category", and even that didn't respond the first time without my refreshing the page. The next two categories wouldn't respond at all, in spite repeatedly refreshing the page.

[mam98031]

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@slhproxy wrote:
Thank-you very much for showing where this is. Ebay's instructions did not mention I needed to scrawl all the way to the bottom of the listing to find this link, which they then make to appear insignificant. However, once I found it, the site wouldn't respond beyond my clicking "report category", and even that didn't respond the first time without my refreshing the page. The next two categories wouldn't respond at all, in spite repeatedly refreshing the page.

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You are welcome, but the button is not at the bottom of the listing, it is just above the ISBs [item specific boxes] which is just before the description.

That screen is a little flaky.  You have to get your cursor in just the right spot for the top down menus to appear sometimes.  Annoying to be sure.

@slhproxy 

[civicwagonparts]

I tried to report several items. Reporting system was working slowly or not at all.

Now I am getting "don't miss out item ending soon" emails for the product I was trying to report with links to all the other overpriced items. Thanks eBay!

Search for "Clorox", then filter "sold listings" and see 1,000's of items are actually selling. 

eBay is not trying very hard to stop this. Think of their increased revenue from the fees on these items. 

I have contacted my local news stations.

[shop18brands]

there is price gouging, check carefully

[mastr_2380]

Need to check isopropyl alcohol, CHEMIST brand, 99.9 percent, 1) gal @ $149.95. STELLER brand 99 percent isopropyl alcohol, 4) gal $699.00. SHAME ON YOU!!

[mytwins6tracy]

Hoe do you report price gouging,2 cans of Lysol is up to 55,000,that's horrible,when there are people who need lysol because of the crons virus

[mam98031]

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@mytwins6tracy wrote:
Hoe do you report price gouging,2 cans of Lysol is up to 55,000,that's horrible,when there are people who need lysol because of the crons virus

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Click on this icon.Select these reasons if they are available. Sometimes they aren't when a seller has listing in an incorrect category in an effort to hid the listing from Ebay.If the price gouging reasons aren't available try these.

[nomore_1940]

Good post robpy-6 and thank you for the link to CA AG office. Unfortunately ebay is doing very little to prevent price gouging. Of all the items I reported not a single one of them was removed. All the ones I reported were for selling hand sanitizer under a different name in their listing such as calling it hand soap or hand cleaner. ONce you look at their pictures the pictures clearly showed that the bottles were hand sanitizer. Some of the sellers are running 1 day auctions or even 7 day auctions starting the price for a small bottle of sanitizer at a couple of bucks and having it end up selling for $150 or $200. 

OTOH ebay will immediatley remove a listing for a toy cap gun if the seller doesnt put in one of those orange plugs in the end of the barrel and that is good. Yet they wont end listings that are being reported for price gouging. Figure that. I guess they stand a lot more to make off a $200 bottle of sanitizer then a ten dollar cap gun. 

[bar-29368]

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@flores wrote:

The item in question is food and a basic necessity.  Here in my state there is a law that any such item cannot be priced above 10% after a declared emergency.  Maybe retailers should follow what some are doing in Denmark: first item $8, second  one $80. We are all in this together.

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Ah but what kind of food?

There are many sellers here who sell foodstuffs and have for years, especially to folks who crave a particular product they can't get in their present locality.

Not all "food" is created equal.

[bar-29368]

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@socalboomer50 wrote:

Since i'm retired and over 65 I've been confined to the house.  Family won't let me out even though I promised to be good.    Just stuck watching and playing online.  Meanwhile I'm reporting listing with price gouging.  It's not just sanitation and toilet products; it's anything they can get away with. Food health supplements etc.

I messaged this seller as they are in California and threatened to report them to the Los Angeles District Attorney.

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Food health supplements are not 'essential'

[amase53]

It’s gone again. I tried to report at least 20 sellers today for price gouging and it’s gone