Maybe he learned a lesson but somehow I doubt it. Either way it got back to the community free of charge.
I was wondering what laws did he break?
Might as well get rid of the merchandise asap. They are too well known right now for the wrong reasons.
This may pass as a ‘humanitarian act’, enough to slow the death threats down a bit.
Sometimes, it doesn’t pay to ‘corner the market’.
You may become a Villain.
It didn’t help that he first wiped out the inventory in the area around him, and then jacked up his price.
I thought they got governmentally confiscated? Read that elsewhere.
If he’d just market them up 25% or so... He’d have made a decent profit and provided an e-storefront with a lot of sanitizer available in one place.
But he tried to pull a Martin Shkreli and corner a scarce resource in a time of need.
Amazon came down on him because allowing him to continue would make Amazon look bad.
We knew this was coming.
Making a profit from hoarding and for retail price gouging in-a-crisis is never a case for “Supply and Demand”, but rather one of extreme Profiteering, ripping off the vulnerable.
What a carpet bagger this jerk was.
Anyone defending these jerk-wads needs to look into how they did it first, and then just join the Dem/Communist party if they still think what they did is OK.
well, the greedy bastard can’t sell any of his hoard anyway because ebay, amazon, craigslist and etsy put the kibosh on gougers ...
If the economy completely collapses, and the fed starts printing a vigintillion dollars of fiat ‘to save the economy’ and a loaf of bread costs a billion, will they come and arrest us for selling gold or silver at whatever price someone is willing to pay for it?
(Yes, Yes, they will And FReepers who didn’t themselves prepare for the situation will cheer for the jackbooted thugs.)