This guy and there's a couple that claims to have made $100k selling their pallet of disinfectant wipes. Not sure I would be advertising who I am for the desperate person who may want to jack them up.
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NYT: He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them
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Well Matt and Noah can just drive their asses around those stores and return all that hand sanitizer then, because apparently the marketplace doesn't see inefficiency as the issue here.
Mr. Colvin does not believe he was price gouging. While he charged $20 on Amazon for two bottles of Purell that retail for $1 each, he said people forget that his price includes his labor, Amazon's fees and about $10 in shipping.
Oh, I forgot that, yeah. It's all good then.
Oh, I forgot that, yeah. It's all good then.
Tfw you have 17,700 items in stock but no way to advertise them.
Of course, when even Amazon is dropping you...
Wow. And I thought Martin Shkreli was a special breed of asshole. It's disheartening to think of how many degenerates are out there just salivating for a calamity so that they may rise to the occasion...
But to pat yourself on the back like you've done something decent is just... I can't right now. I've given too much time to this pos already
Under socialism, the state would have actual teeth and be able to seize this guy's' inventory to fight the pandemic. Maybe forcingly buy him his stock at cost.
I have a simple idea: shove them all up your ass, one by one.
Hand sanitizer is no better than regular soap and water. Hope this guy can't sell a single bottle of sanitizer. Heartless dick, trying to profit from the fears and pain of others.
I really wish he would just donate the stuff to his local hospital, but a dark part of me just wishes local authorities would confiscate it for the public good.
Good. Fucking scum. Yesterday we had someone try to steal a big bottle of hand sanitizer that we have at work next to the register since we're asked to use it anytime we handle money. When they approached them they just said they thought we were selling them and left. Fuck these people.
Shkreli was worse. I don't blame this guy as much of an asshole as he is. Our society wants people to be like this.
Only reason Amazon banned him is bc thats 17k less they can sell. After all they had a press conference yesterday where they referred to infected people as consumers and not patients so we know what their priorities are
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He probably thought that he might get sympathy from the American public and this force Amazon and EBay to revert their bans. After all, he thinks he's a public hero!
A lot of people think they are smart when they are actually really fucking stupid.
That also explains like 80% of the internet.
17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer on the wall, 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer on the wall, take one down and pass it around, 17,699 bottles of hand sanitizer on the wall...
This is one of those things that if he were charging more during a crisis he could get his ass in trouble by the government, they warn you not to do it, they give you a number to call to report this kind of behavior, but no one calls it and the government actually doesn't punish them after they've been reported so the real hustlers are not afraid.
At least this is how it happens in Florida during hurricane season.
Did you know that hand sanitiser is dangerously flammable? There was a safety incident at one of our projects where a smoker managed to burn his hands after applying sanitiser. Just, y'know, in case you smoke
His attitude towards the situation is disgusting. I honestly hope he loses big money on all this shit.
You should write him a strongly worded letter and attach it to his door.
And then another.
And another.
And another.
Don't threaten him or his family; just make the letters more weird and cryptic with each one. You know, randomly insert Babylonian mythology into the middle of paragraphs.
You know. Freak him out a little.
Flaming bag of poop on the doorstep.
America is full of these POS's. It's the proverbial character of Trump's base. They revere this type of "hustle", precisely in the mold of that of their God Emperor and the billionaires they worship.
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Motherfuckers are crazy, and they get even crazier during pandemics. Why advertise who and where you are tho these people?
Yeah he really should just donate all of it. Only way to not look like a massive asshole
He's basically trying to profit off of people who really needs shit like this. Selfish, greedy asshole.
Right? Quick way to get your face out there so when people panic, they go after you
I wonder if we could we reach zero before he is able to sell all of them.
He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them (Published 2020)
Amazon cracked down on coronavirus price gouging. Now, while the rest of the world searches, some sellers are holding stockpiles of sanitizer and masks.www.nytimes.com
On March 1, the day after the first coronavirus death in the United States, 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?'"Mr. Colvin is one of probably thousands of sellers who have amassed stockpiles of hand sanitizer and crucial respirator masks that many hospitals are now rationing, according to interviews with eight Amazon sellers and posts in private Facebook and Telegram groups from dozens more. Amazon said it had recently removed hundreds of thousands of listings and suspended thousands of sellers' accounts for price gouging related to the coronavirus.Amazon, eBay, Walmart and other online-commerce platforms are trying to stop their sellers from making excessive profits from a public health crisis. While the companies aimed to discourage people from hoarding such products and jacking up their prices, many sellers had already cleared out their local stores and started selling the goods online.Now both the physical and digital shelves are nearly empty.Mikeala Kozlowski, a nurse in Dudley, Mass., has been searching for hand sanitizer since before she gave birth to her first child, Nora, on March 5. When she searched stores, which were sold out, she skipped getting gas to avoid handling the pump. And when she checked Amazon, she couldn't find it for less than $50.--------------------------Mr. Colvin does not believe he was price gouging. While he charged $20 on Amazon for two bottles of Purell that retail for $1 each, he said people forget that his price includes his labor, Amazon's fees and about $10 in shipping. (Alcohol-based sanitizer is pricey to ship because officials consider it a hazardous material.)Current price-gouging laws "are not built for today's day and age," Mr. Colvin said. "They're built for Billy Bob's gas station doubling the amount he charges for gas during a hurricane."He added, "Just because it cost me $2 in the store doesn't mean it's not going to cost me $16 to get it to your door."But what about the morality of hoarding products that can prevent the spread of the virus, just to turn a profit?Mr. Colvin said he was simply fixing "inefficiencies in the marketplace." Some areas of the country need these products more than others, and he's helping send the supply toward the demand."There's a crushing overwhelming demand in certain cities right now," he said. "The Dollar General in the middle of nowhere outside of Lexington, Ky., doesn't have that."He thought about it more. "I honestly feel like it's a public service," he added. "I'm being paid for my public service."As for his stockpile, Mr. Colvin said he would now probably try to sell it locally. "If I can make a slight profit, that's fine," he said. "But I'm not looking to be in a situation where I make the front page of the news for being that guy who hoarded 20,000 bottles of sanitizer that I'm selling for 20 times what they cost me."
More in the link.
Stonks.
