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Man Gets Banned From Selling Hand Sanitiser on Amazon, Has 17,700 Bottles To Spare

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On March 1, the day after the first coronavirus death in the United States was announced, brothers Matt and Noah Colvin set out in a silver S.U.V. to pick up some hand sanitizer. Driving around Chattanooga, Tenn., they hit a Dollar Tree, then a Walmart, a Staples and a Home Depot. At each store, they cleaned out the shelves.

Over the next three days, Noah Colvin took a 1,300-mile road trip across Tennessee and into Kentucky, filling a U-Haul truck with thousands of bottles of hand sanitizer and thousands of packs of antibacterial wipes, mostly from “little hole-in-the-wall dollar stores in the backwoods,” his brother said. “The major metro areas were cleaned out.”

Matt Colvin stayed home near Chattanooga, preparing for pallets of even more wipes and sanitizer he had ordered, and starting to list them on Amazon. Mr. Colvin said he had posted 300 bottles of hand sanitizer and immediately sold them all for between $8 and $70 each, multiples higher than what he had bought them for. To him, “it was crazy money.” To many others, it was profiteering from a pandemic.

The next day, Amazon pulled his items and thousands of other listings for sanitizer, wipes and face masks. The company suspended some of the sellers behind the listings and warned many others that if they kept running up prices, they’d lose their accounts. EBay soon followed with even stricter measures, prohibiting any U.S. sales of masks or sanitizer.

Now, while millions of people across the country search in vain for hand sanitizer to protect themselves from the spread of the coronavirus, Mr. Colvin is sitting on 17,700 bottles of the stuff with little idea where to sell them.

“It’s been a huge amount of whiplash,” he said. “From being in a situation where what I’ve got coming and going could potentially put my family in a really good place financially to ‘What the heck am I going to do with all of this?’”

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

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7 minutes ago, Chris Morlock said:

Now they BETTER be forced to give them out for free. And spend a year in jail.

...do you really think that's how it works? I mean, truly, honestly - do you think anything remotely resembling that will happen?

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4 minutes ago, Dennis Reynolds said:

...do you really think that's how it works? I mean, truly, honestly - do you think anything remotely resembling that will happen?

He was simply exercising his God-given right to pursue the American Dream lol3

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55 minutes ago, LÉON said:

He was simply exercising his God-given right to pursue the American Dream lol3

 

1 hour ago, Dennis Reynolds said:

...do you really think that's how it works? I mean, truly, honestly - do you think anything remotely resembling that will happen?

What I meant was to prevent these price gougers from receiving any more money from forcing panicking people to buy their overpriced reselling.

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On 3/16/2020 at 3:38 AM, Daenerys said:

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the face mask lmfao1

rip2 Canva came through for my graphic design skills

It's like the face is saying to her "gorl you a clown for going to college when there's a ban on large gatherings" ny1

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