For days many have been reporting people gouging on the price of toilet paper. We were given the procedures to report them. We are told it is working.
As of today, there are an additional 1000 toilet paper posting when compared to yesterday at this time. I know EBAY is knocking them down as fast as they can, but they obviously they can not keep up. I am now seeing sellers with feedback scores over 1000 and 100% positive gouging so greed has not gotten to some legitimate people.
Reporting is still important but it is painfully obvious EBAY can not keep up and the prices are getting higher. People see what others are getting for toilet paper so they are taking their stock piles and gouging the people who need it. People say, just don't buy it from EBAY. Well if you have none and desperate you will. It is easy for people who have to say, don't buy it then. The more people get the idea they can make money on EBAY selling a basic necessity, the more difficult it will be for stores to keep certain products in stock.
More states are issuing Stay at Home Orders. Businesses are closed, people out of work, and you mean to tell me EBAY can not make a coding effort or spend money to hire people to make sure Toilet Parer adds do not go up or help take the gougers down? I don't buy it.
I am a coder. I know it takes time. I know what impacts changes can cause. When there is a major issue and the business says fix it, a team gets together and you know what, they fix it. I am not saying it will take 10 minutes but while other companies have made an effort to stop this gouging, EBAY still as of last night, has not put toilet paper as a forbidden item to sell or a simple addition of price gouging to their reporting system.
I have reported gougers from the procedures posted in the community forums and 12 hours later the postings are still there. This proves EBAY is overwhelmed. This means they have to do something else. The definition of insanity is to repeat the same process expecting a different result.
Too difficult or too much time is not an excuse. Remember, EBAY gets posting fees and selling fees from everyone of these gougers that get through. I'm sorry, the good of the country comes first so if EBAY can not or is unwilling to take the time and money as other companies have to improve the process of removing these listings, then maybe they should be shut down until they can.
I never said EBAY was not trying, but as mentioned, they can not keep up so they must not allow ANY basic necessity sales. We should not have to to tell them to do it. Hire people as supermarkets, delivery services and others have done to meet the needs.
I hope everyone and their families stay safe. When our supply chain is being stressed, EBAY can not go as business as usual. They need to do what others have done to stop or drastically slow this gouging down.
KrazzyKats • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1998
