03-14-2020 12:02 PM
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???
03-15-2020 01:10 PM
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03-15-2020 02:14 PM
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.🔆
03-15-2020 02:17 PM
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!
03-15-2020 02:26 PM
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.
03-15-2020 02:29 PM
@krazzykats wrote:
"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?
03-15-2020 02:37 PM
03-15-2020 02:42 PM
"...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.
03-15-2020
02:42 PM
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03-18-2020
08:28 AM
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kh-stanley1
@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.🔆
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.
03-15-2020 03:10 PM
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03-15-2020 04:15 PM
@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.
That's not really fair for millennials, I have a daughter with an exemplary sense of morality.
Frankly, he sounds more like a politician.
03-15-2020 04:37 PM
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.
03-15-2020 05:25 PM
@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.
Huh - sounds exactly what my parents' generation used to say about us.
03-15-2020 05:37 PM
"...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.