03-07-2020 07:52 AM
It appears that ebay is promoting the spread of the Virus by blocking sales of needed sanitizing products to customers that possibly/probably cannot find the items locally due to shortages.
03-22-2020 12:55 AM
You are wrong. Most likely you did not reach yet to the point in your life to make fair judgments. It's ok, we all are wrong time to time but I wish you can fix that in the future.
03-22-2020 03:13 AM
If someone usually sells hand sanitizer, etc. for a reasonable price on ebay and finds that they can no longer do so, I would suggest you offer that item...for a reasonable price...locally. I bet you would find people interested in buying the product. Better yet, if possible, donate it to nursing homes or other places in need. How good you would feel providing an item so hard to get to people who cannot find it.
03-24-2020 10:32 PM
03-24-2020 10:47 PM
Taking advantage of a worldwide pandemic to make money is despicable.
Price gouging is illegal.
03-27-2020 10:15 AM
03-27-2020 10:21 AM
If you start an auction at 99 cents, how is that the seller gauging? People will pay what they think it's worth
03-27-2020 11:20 AM - edited 03-27-2020 11:22 AM
@annasalcedo55 wrote:If you start an auction at 99 cents, how is that the seller gauging? People will pay what they think it's worth
I'm done explaining price gouging. I'm happy to let people make their own decisions from here on out, and to let prosecutors and judges do their jobs - which in some cases will be to explain the concept of price gouging to the people they prosecute for that crime or civil infraction, depending on state.
If you decide to risk it for a few bucks, best of luck living in fear for the next two years, or whatever the statute of limitations is for price gouging.
03-27-2020 11:31 AM
03-27-2020 06:09 PM
When you sell an item that is prohibited, Ebay removes it. What's so hard to understand about that?
03-27-2020 06:11 PM
Youre just as ridiculous as the ones who want the death penalty for sellers who "gouge".
03-27-2020 06:41 PM
Why is the item prohibited? I thought price gouging was prohibited.
03-27-2020 09:22 PM
According to Ebay:
"Effective immediately, eBay will block new listings and start to remove listings that sell:
03-31-2020 12:46 AM
03-31-2020 05:57 AM
@jimid82551 wrote:
All this has done is left countless families unprotected and underprepared
I find it curious that I have never heard any health expert claim that eBay's ban is an issue.
With all the exhaustive new coverage around the world, if this was an issue you would think one of the health experts would have said something by now.
03-31-2020 10:37 AM
why would you think that? why would they even be apprised to ebays policies really, or be knowledgable of units that are frozen in people garages in the u.s? or consider those who try to sell any excess toilet paper or particulate respirator masks they might have over-purchased in panic, discovered they couldnt, then silently moved on?
i think your giving a whole lot of undeserved 'compassion, care, and concern' credit to the media. do you see them reporting on the alarming price increase on contactless thermometers? i havent - what was $20 a few weeks ago is now $100 msrp. Alibaba vendors has raised their wholesale costs from $8 to $50. and this is a much more terrifying issue is terms of cause, as this starts at the source. the manufacturers of infrared lenses saw this as an opportunity to increase profits 10 fold - there is no shortage. just another opportunity to monetize for large companies who were going to do quite well throughout this financially crippling pandemic as it was. they wanted to do better. and so the manufacturers of the thermometers also followed suit