Posted on 03/14/2020 6:00:11 PM PDT by NoLibZone
“Everything we do, we're in the moment.” the Star quoted Perez as saying in a published article Thursday. “We're hustlers.”
The paper reported observing Ranga and Perez outside a Costco store near downtown Vancouver loading the back of their Ford F-150 truck with stacks of Lysol disinfecting wipes. Their purchase reportedly left Costco with an empty shelf.
DOJ WARNS COMPANIES AGAINST PRICE FIXING DURING CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK
Ranga said that a six-pack of wipes, which might sell for $20 at Costco, could fetch four times that online, according to the paper.
When reached Friday after the Amazon suspension, Ranga said he objected to the way he and his wife were portrayed in the previous day’s story.
British Columbia Premier John Horgan told a news conference Friday that he found it “offensive” that people were using the coronavirus endemic to hoard and resell them online.
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So, the big tech and companies want to protect their monopoly on the economy.
Why provide things that people want when you can be all holier-than-thou with price “gouging”. If person A is willing to buy something from person B at price X, what in the hell’s business is it for anyone else?
Wipes are NOT NEEDED BY ANYONE. Soap or detergent with water is fine, and it is even possible to use things called “cloths” or “paper towels” to “wipe surfaces.”
Let these people do their thing. Costco will get more and there is no need for such wipes, anyway.
It is much easier to use one of those wipes when you are wiping door handles than a wash cloth with soap on it. Alos my store has no paper towels or those wipes because of the mindset of the person in the article.
Sorry, use weak bleach on a cloth, if soap or detergent is too troublesome.
Your need for super levels of convenience is not a matter for government or even Amazon to enforce.
True. Let the guy choke on them for all I care.
I must say something about Wipes are NOT NEEDED BY ANYONE.
Yes, they are. They are needed by those of us who do not want to smell fecally incontinent when we are in public, at a friend’s home or on the road using public restrooms. Especially if a woman or man is taking any osmotic diuretics or traveling and getting diarrhea. Women are especially susceptible to messy bottoms under those conditions.
Being able to clean up in the privacy of a restroom cubicle is much more desirable than in the main wash basin area. Then, having a sanitizing disposable paper can be used on the bottom, thighs and fingers so as to not spread fecal germs.
This is rather a lecture ...being older than dirt I really and truly like “wipes”...when I am done I feel I might be welcome back into the human rat race again. Smelling like feces will guarantee I won’t be.
Or put the restaurant’s hand sanitizer of a paper towel and wipe things down. I’ve also done that.
This is not rocket science and does not need government or other pressures to address.
Finally, why are you heading out into such public settings when we are all being encouraged to stay at home, where we have everything we need at home?
There are state laws precluding this behavior with criminal charges and fines attached. While it’s never been enforced against an online marketplace, given how sales tax is now enforced against them, it’s probably better not to beg the question of a court.
Further, anyone who has servers in CA, like eBay and yes even a couple Amazon data centers - well, if they find out you have a ‘price gouger’ on your marketplace, CA will confiscate your servers without notice for ‘investigation’. All of your servers.
Whether they want to or not, they don’t get a choice.
How about you consider minding your own damned business.
L
I don’t think resellers clearing out retail shelves in a time of need is a desired economic outcome.
A month from now there will be rental storage units piled high with these goods, unable to be sold.
Six months from now these goods will be sold for pennies on the dollar at auction because the renters failed to pay the rent since they didn’t reap the profits expected.
Says the man who butted into someone else’s business.
Hypocrite.
I am laughing at these resellers being stuck with thousands of bottles of purell and handi wipes....Teach them a lesson.
Now, if they would have re-sold the items at a reasonable mark up of a few dollars over purchase price... then it would have gone un noticed....people would have shrugged their shoulders and bought the items and the re-seller would have made a small but nice profit.
If they purchased a bottle of hand santiizer for one dollar and sold it for two dollars...there would have been some screaming, but they would have sold quite well as the market would bear that price.
Change that price to $10 for a normally $1 bottle of hand santizer and thing become different. Potential customers begin looking for alternatives and find them and maybe even offer those alternatives for sale...
I don’t mind re-sellers. But they have to realize there is a point where the market says no....and you are stuck with bottles of santizer and wipes...
I calls ‘em like I sees ‘em.
Now go hump someone else’s leg.
L
Yep
Love it! That’s really funny!
L
I was about to say the same thing
“I was about to say the same thing.”
Great minds and all that.
Best,
L
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