They haven’t gotten then all! It’s outrageous that Amazon still has so many jerk sellers right now.
At some point about six weeks ago, I was looking on Amazon for a batch of those masks (typical cheaper type you’d wear in a hospital). For a box of 50, one distributor was wanting $50. Ridiculous sum, and he probably made $40 profit off each box.
price gouging = a made up crime
My wife is a PA and still sees patients. We couldn't find masks anywhere. Period. She made several varieties herself but it's a cumbersome process for someone having to wear it in 8 hour shifts.
Enter a "price gouger" on Amazon. Yeah, we paid $1.20/mask for a package of surgical masks. She's been wearing masks in medicine for decades, and she said these were top notch. I gladly paid their price.
I went back to the seller's page on Amazon after having read this thread. Yep. He's gone.
Nice going Amazon. Now buyers can't get it at any price. And if I had known they were going to do this, I might have doubled the order.
My garden wagon’s tires are getting flat. Went to order a cheap air compressor to re-inflate them. Now I am a PRIME customer and seldom have to pay shipping so I got out of the habit of looking at the shipping charges.
I found one for $25 that would meet my limited needs and ordered it. It was only when I got the confirmation email did I discover they added $26 for shipping. I cancelled the order.
Fortunately this was not a necessity. If they get too flat I can take them off and drive up to Big O tires and they will put the air in for me.
But this just shows some are taking advantage of the situation.
Never studied economics did you? The market sets the prices. If the price is too high nobody buys. If the price is too low a few people buy the whole supply. So-called gouging is just supply and demand at work. Which would you rather have, toilet paper at $4 a roll or no toilet paper?
I’m wondering when Amazon is going to reduce their Prime charges since delivery went from two days to two weeks.
I wonder if they suspended any of the deceptive Chinese sellers peddling inferior products at inflated prices, or only the American ones?
Chinese sellers seem to get away with murder on Amazon.
In mid-February, when I started stocking extra food, I ordered four pounds of an item from Amazon for $11.45. Since, many vendors have doubled the price and two pounds now cost about that much, and four pounds $20.00+.
I ordered a toilet seat attachment bidet in December for $48. Then my daughter asked if I could install one in her home (during the toilet paper shortage). The price for the same unit went to almost $300.
I wish Amazon would post the country for each item. I hate it when I order something and then discover it will take a month to get here from Australia. I’d have paid the extra buck of two to purchase a similar or same item domestically. But, you don’t know until you place the order and then check and find out the delivery service is one you never heard of and even then you might not know where your stuff is coming from until it arrives 3 weeks later and the box is all in Chinese.
This is rich, In early March Amazon was selling Kleenex tissue for $18. The exact same four pack was at Target for $8 IN STOCK. I never opened the Amazon package when it arrived and it was returned. To say the least the Amazon Nazis did not publish my review on why the were over charging so much.
Just this morning I saw Amazon had 8oz. of rubbing Alcohol and was charging $14.00 for it, ummm OK whatever Amazon.
I have had Prime in the past. I much prefer ebay these days. Bought a few laptops there in the last four months and an amazing Lenovo all in one with optane mem that makes the 3.5” Seagate hard drive move really fast ..... Going by crystal disk mark