but this isnt the answer. while a wildly infectious virus is blanketing the globe you don't completely ban the sale of essentials when many people are without. All this has done is left countless families unprotected and underprepared, And in turn driven the prices up dramatically from when the ban was implemented.
take a look at the auction style listings that have slipped passed the block sensors. 4 bottles of lysol spray for 500$-$2000, with countless bids. this is a testament to how negatively ebays response has affected its buyers, as this is the new normal.
The answer would be implementing a new set of rules, possibly ones that denoted a maximun markup percentage over the price the seller paid. This would probably have to be split into segments, given some have access to wholesale prices, and others are just standard ebay sellers, who paid retail, or may have even been gouged themselves. ebay could mandate submission of a receipt if concerns arrise, much like Amazon does.
they could also manually approve each and every listing if theyre truly that worried about it. this would create a bottle neck but it is far less reckless and lazy than the current solution. Though it appears they are merely only concerned with minimizing the amount of complaints submitted, as well as eBay's liability to gouging fines. if ebay were at all concerned about the well-being of its buyers, this potentially detrimental policy wouldnt have been approved in the first place.
*lady*madonna*
