@datemike1 wrote:
2 - 16oz bottles for $29.99 plus $15 for shipping.
Yes, that's price gouging. And while i find that appalling, my bigger issue here is what happens when sellers are allowed to do this. They hoard these supplies and buy them all up once they're put on the shelf, adding to the already high demand and very low supply for products that people need. If people know they are allowed to then resell them on eBay for a huge markup, that will only increase the shortages. But I did hear back from eBay customer service, these instances are in fact gouging and they're working to get them removed but they are backlogged, according to them, I don't know if that was just lip service to get me to back off or if they're genuinely overwhelmed trying to keep on top of sellers pulling this **bleep**.
@go-bad-chicken, @perrance78 I understand none of us are Walmart and we're all here selling to make money, but if you think it's ok to rip people off on essential items during a national emergency by buying and hoarding valuable inventory solely for the purpose of jacking up the price then I'd suggest you should probably re-think your priorities... That's not ok.
Yes I would say that "2 - 16oz bottles for $29.99 plus $15 for shipping" is gouging.
BUT in your original OP you stated:
"........and refuse to pay $20 for a bottle that costs $1."
That I do not believe to gouging. I did the math and a seller selling you a $32ozs bottle of alcohol for $20, I presumed shipping was included. By my math that seller made somewhere around $6.50 in profit. I am not in the business of selling these types of products, they have no interest to me whatsoever. But if I did I would want to be making some money for my efforts. And its that away with everything that I choose to sell.
Maybe if eBay began sharing with its sellers that Walmart size postage discount that it receives from the USPS, we could get that bottle of alcohol's cost down.
