He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them

[Steeleballz 7,550]

11 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

baaaa Capitalism. Nothing more 

 

    Yes it's capitalism, but capitalists still have to follow the same laws as everyone else. Which means you can't price gouge items like that in an emergency. Doesn't matter whether you think it's a public service or not.

 

   Like I said, they really need to crack down on the worst offenders with fines and make people think twice about doing it. I think this guy saw that's what was coming.

[cyclone27 710]

$1-2 extra no one would have cared but being super greedy and selfish got them infamy and public shame. Hopefully they will confiscate any profits made from the gouging and fine them in addition.

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,378]

1 hour ago, Steeleballz said:

 

    Yes it's capitalism, but capitalists still have to follow the same laws as everyone else. Which means you can't price gouge items like that in an emergency. Doesn't matter whether you think it's a public service or not.

 

   Like I said, they really need to crack down on the worst offenders with fines and make people think twice about doing it. I think this guy saw that's what was coming.

I was halfway joking. John Stossel did a piece one time on this subject. He mused that as supplies dwindle,  prices rising sharply discouraged hoarding.

[Steeleballz 7,550]

6 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

I was halfway joking. John Stossel did a piece one time on this subject. He mused that as supplies dwindle,  prices rising sharply discouraged hoarding.

 

   Yeah I see people selling their toilet paper on eBay already for 20% over normal. I think people realize it's going to be on sale pretty soon. Once people stop buying it, the shelves will be overstocked PDQ, and no one really needs any for a while.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

I think this guy will be unpleasantly surprised next year when he completes his 1040.  Not enough IMO (as I stated earlier), but it's a start.