"He has 17,700 bottles of Handsanitizer and nowhere to sell them"..................

[mansons2005]

New York Times article about The sad tale of a guy who just wanted to make a buck...............

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-purell-wipes-amazon-sellers.html 

Is it any wonder the stores were sold out and old folks (such as myself) couldn't purchase any???

[bar-29368]

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@magbenv0 wrote:

How about he DONATES the rest ?

Nursing homes,senior centers, adult day-care centers ...

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An update to the story says he supposedly "looking into donating" the rest

[krazzykats]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/03/15/coronavirus-price-gouging-men-hoarding-hand-sa... 

[magbenv0]

Good,he should make his mother proud(a lil anyway),and feel blessed that I'm not her. I very much liked the earlier idea in this thread of him handing them out in front of all the stores he decided to empty out of them also,would be a noble thing to do.🔆

[dk0]

I have never had any desire for my state's AG to get to know me.

But I am glad to hear this particular seller and his AG are becoming acquainted!

[picknparley]

Ya, nothing like shaming your family name. 

It says an online petition signed by thousands spurred the investigation and possible charges to come.

I sure hope they nail his hiney to the wall. 

[southern*sweet*tea]

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@krazzykats wrote:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/03/15/coronavirus-price-gouging-men-hoarding-hand-sa... 

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"Matt Colvin defended his practice in the New York Times profile, saying there is "crushing overwhelming demand" for products like sanitizer. 

“The Dollar General in the middle of nowhere outside of Lexington, Kentucky, doesn’t have that," he continued. 

Harrison County, the site of the first and the most of Kentucky's COVID-19 cases, is a rural area north of Lexington."

OOOOOhhhhhh....I know exactly what I'd to to him, and it wouldn't be nice. He's a slug. What do you do with slugs? You throw salt on them.

Like I said upthread, screw rural folks so the city can live, right Matt Colvin?

[krazzykats]

LOL@salt on the slugs!

Me thinks any profits he made, may be spent on fines and other things...

^..^( )___

[picknparley]

"...Me thinks any profits he made, may be spent on fines and other things..."

And then some!! They better fine him more than he made. The dirty scum.

[mansons2005]

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@magbenv0 wrote:

Good,he should make his mother proud(a lil anyway),and feel blessed that I'm not her. I very much liked the earlier idea in this thread of him handing them out in front of all the stores he decided to empty out of them also,would be a noble thing to do.🔆

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Nobility of character, as with a sense of duty and honor, is a trait that is in-born, instilled as a child, or earned early in life. I fear that this seemingly failed example of humanity has not been able to acquire it by this point in his life, and as such, he is beyond the pale. 

[sodelight]

The problem with the limiting is it only works so far. As is typical with people, they always figure out a way around rules. They simply bring their entire family with them, each purchasing the limit. They go back to the car and return doing it all over again as many times as they can get away with.

Face it, these stores are so mobbed with people they have no idea if they already made a limited purchase. There's also the self checkout which would make it easier to overcome the restriction, I doubt the registers are programmed with the limitation.

Your relying on people's honor....good luck with that!

[oaklandmaryland]

what's sad about it - he deserves it

[ersatz_sobriquet]

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@picknparley wrote:

"....He thought about it more. “I honestly feel like it’s a public service,” he added. “I’m being paid for my public service.”

SO typical of the millenniums.

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That's not really fair for millennials, I have a daughter with an exemplary sense of morality. 

Frankly, he sounds more like a politician. 

[dk0]

Seriously, why do we always have to find ways to divide ourselves?  (Other than making it easy to find a scapegoat for our problems?)

We divide ourselves by race, religion, ethnicity, political party, sex, sexual orientation, etc.  And of course, generation, which is some totally made up thing whereby someone decides that people born in certain years have the same traits (generally called stereotyping), and we give that "generation" a name.

Sadly, I guess part of humanity is finding some other group to dislike.

[chapeau-noir]

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@picknparley wrote:

"....He thought about it more. “I honestly feel like it’s a public service,” he added. “I’m being paid for my public service.”

SO typical of the millenniums. They have a very skewed look at everything and it all comes back to self-justifying their unethical actions.  They have no respect for their families or the communities they live in.  

I have to say that stores like Dollar G, Walmart, Target, etc really dropped the ball. They put profits over ethics when they let these people come in and buy cartloads.

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Huh - sounds exactly what my parents' generation used to say about us.

[picknparley]

"...Huh - sounds exactly what my parents' generation used to say about us."

Or my parents. But we were being raised under a different set of morals.  And my generation wanted little to do with the junk from China.  

Yes, all generations these days have tag names. The millennials are an age group where many (not all) see all the junk as necessary and cool. And that's not an opinion as much as a fact.  The amount of junk that has been purchased and is now in our landfills in mountainous. And even knowing many of those products are produced by under-paid, and sometimes under-age workers, doesn't phase them. As long as they get their new widget they're cool.