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Profiteering on eBay

tvol3640 — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 11:52:52 GMT

Why is eBay not doing anything about profiteering by mainland China based sellers hawking "Australian Stock" toilet paper from Australian locations at inflated prices back to Australian buyers at inflated prices. You only have to have your eyes open to see people of Chinese appearance systematically video surveying supermarket aisles so that masses of their friends can empty whole shelves of selected products (e.g. toilet paper, laundry detergent, canned tomatoes, pasta, rice, flour, etc.) and then resell them from their warehouses in Australia to the unknowing public at inflated prices: https://ebay.us/JiOifG

https://ebay.us/fVbFAF

EBay should take a leaf out of Amazon's book and ban these sellers: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-purell-wipes-amazon-sellers.html

Ebay is complicit in this profiteering on the back of the coronavirus.

Re: Profiteering on eBay

davewil1964 — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 12:04:54 GMT

It is only profiteering if the items are sold for way over market price and actually paid for. Why "Australian Stock"? If they are in fact getting their minions to strip supermarket shelves, the stock would definitely be Australian, without quotation marks.

I doubt it is exclusively Chinese sellers, either. You are bordering on racism. I could be wrong, but I don't hang around supermarkets looking for alleged profiteers.

You are about a fortnight late with your whinge.

Try reading the buying and/or selling boards. There a many threads about this that predate your addition. Even if they aren't racist.

Edit: $23 for a 12-pack delivered is likely to give the seller less than usurious returns. Postage would eat up most of the difference between cost and sale price. Then there's eBay and Paypal fees. Or don't they count?

Re: Profiteering on eBay

brerrabbit585 — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 21:09:15 GMT

How are they China-based sellers if they're physically in Australia? You've said they're actually going into the supermarkets and buying it so they can't be based in China.

Re: Profiteering on eBay

tvol3640 — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 01:22:49 GMT

Yes, the stock is Australian and located in Australia, but if you look closely at the seller's details it says "based in China". I'm not being racist and the point is not even the price, but the fact that local supply chains have been at least disrupted and at worst hijacked by foreign state actors. If you're not concerned about that then you should be.

Re: Profiteering on eBay

go-tazz — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 01:46:59 GMT

Here are just two items out of other threads in regards to eBay stopping the sellers that are trying to cash in on

the hysteria.

So next time please read other threads before starting yet another one on the same subject and see that your

post is now just another frivolous post on the same subject that has already been covered by other posts.

Toilet roll selling at outrageous prices as coronavirus hysteria causes shortages

As fears over coronavirus continue to mount across the world, some opportunistic Aussies have been trying to capitalise on the outbreak.

"Responding to a person selling three 50ml bottles of Dettol hand sanitiser on its platform for AU$45 (£23), an eBay spokesperson said the firm ‘does not allow sellers to list items that attempt to capitalise on disaster or tragedy’.

’ “We have updated our filters to block listings in breach of our policy and are regularly sweeping the site to remove such items.”

eBay is continuing to monitor global developments associated with COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and what it means for eBay sellers. Here's what you need to know at this time.

Rules for listings: We love that people can buy anything on eBay in times of need but we don't allow listings that attempt to capitalise on disaster or tragedy. Please ensure that your listings comply with eBay's policies.

Re: Profiteering on eBay

macscot22 — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 04:48:11 GMT

I understand eBay USA have along with amazon withdrawn toilet paper and hand sanitizer ads where the sellers are clearly profiteers. Why isn't eBay australia following suit? Obviously the lure of the almighty dollar is too strong to resist and I would classify eBay Australia in the same despicable self interested group as those black marketeering scum

Re: Profiteering on eBay

imastawka — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 05:03:00 GMT

I've said it before on one of the dozens of threads about this subject....

They can only profiteer if someone buys it.

Otherwise they're stuck with it.

If someone wants to spend hundreds of $$ on toilet paper, then they're idiots.

Ebay Australia is doing what it can - if you'd bothered reading earlier posts, or other threads.

Re: Profiteering on eBay

4green2000 — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 05:11:04 GMT

an abc radio spokesman was saying not to buy at all, TP from ebay sellers. People power will shut them down.

Re: Profiteering on eBay

imastawka — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 05:34:07 GMT

@4green2000 wrote:
an abc radio spokesman was saying not to buy at all, TP from ebay sellers. People power will shut them down.

Bit rough. What about the genuine sellers, who're trying to make a living?

And coincidentally, were selling TP long before all this started.

Re: Profiteering on eBay

bloke1960 — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 06:21:35 GMT

how can you allow such profieering on hand sanitiser ?

it is criminal IMO

Re: Profiteering on eBay

imastawka — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 06:34:07 GMT

IT'S NOT PROFITEERING IF NO-ONE BUYS IT

Ebay don't read here.

BTW Welcome to the boards

Re: Profiteering on eBay

porcelain_dolls_by_me — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 08:09:20 GMT

Well maybe eBay should adopt some sort of social responsiblity and (a) read here and (b) vet post that are exploiting peoples hardships at this crtitical time.

They cannot simply sit back and wash thei hands of the situation - it is morally irresponsible.

Re: Profiteering on eBay

davewil1964 — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 08:45:47 GMT

@porcelain_dolls_by_me wrote:
Well maybe eBay should adopt some sort of social responsiblity and (a) read here and (b) vet post that are exploiting peoples hardships at this crtitical time.
They cannot simply sit back and wash thei hands of the situation - it is morally irresponsible.

Nobody is forcing people to buy it. There ARE alternatives to toot rolls. Used for many millenia efficaciously.

Do you take into account postage costs, eBay fees, selling fees? They would have to get a minimum of $25 per bottle just to break even. Or don't seller costs count?

And soap works just as well.

Re: Profiteering on eBay

porcelain_dolls_by_me — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 07:48:52 GMT

And your point is!???????

Re: Profiteering on eBay

davewil1964 — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 07:55:43 GMT

@porcelain_dolls_by_me wrote:
And your point is!???????

What I wrote. It was in English

I will add that ALL sellers of these items are not necessarily profiteering, and that the cost of selling online make these items more expensive than the non-existant ones in supermarkets.

Re: Profiteering on eBay

go-tazz — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 08:24:30 GMT

@porcelain_dolls_by_me wrote:
Well maybe eBay should adopt some sort of social responsiblity and (a) read here and (b) vet post that are exploiting peoples hardships at this crtitical time.
They cannot simply sit back and wash thei hands of the situation - it is morally irresponsible.

Have you been reporting them via the Report item function on each listing to help shut them down?

In the drop down boxes Listing practices > Fraudulent listing activities > You suspect that a listing is

fraudulent.

Just ignore what it says underneath the box and click on the Submit report.

Just make certain you only report the profiteers that use the auction format as there are geneuine sellers

on there who use the BIN system although there are some now using the BIN system but their high prices for

single packs stand out.

Re: Profiteering on eBay

*tippy*toes* — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 12:47:48 GMT

@go-tazz wrote:
@porcelain_dolls_by_me wrote:
Well maybe eBay should adopt some sort of social responsiblity and (a) read here and (b) vet post that are exploiting peoples hardships at this crtitical time.
They cannot simply sit back and wash thei hands of the situation - it is morally irresponsible.
Have you been reporting them via the Report item function on each listing to help shut them down?

In the drop down boxes Listing practices > Fraudulent listing activities > You suspect that a listing is

fraudulent.

Just ignore what it says underneath the box and click on the Submit report.

Just make certain you only report the profiteers that use the auction format as there are geneuine sellers

on there who use the BIN system although there are some now using the BIN system but their high prices for

single packs stand out.

I doubt it. That would ruin the outrage.

Re: Profiteering on eBay

liverpoolfcfanatic — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 10:17:33 GMT

I will rephrase what you said with a twist

Why is anyone doing anything about profiteering by Western based sellers hawking "Asian Stock" from Asian locations at inflated prices back to Australian buyers at inflated prices. You only have to have your eyes open to see people of Western appearance systematically setting up slave labour factories in Asian nations such as Bengladesh, China and Cambodia so that masses of their friends can fill whole warehouses of selected products (e.g. EVERYTHING YOU OWN.), pay workers less than a basic living wage and then resell them from their warehouses in Australia to the unknowing public at inflated prices

How's that keyboard you're using which is made in China, that $2 t-shirt from K-Mart or those Nike shoes you are wearing right now?

I guess you don't have a problem because it keeps your costs down

Re: Profiteering on eBay

liverpoolfcfanatic — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 10:22:38 GMT

Whoops, should be from Asian places at dirt cheap prices and sold to Western people at inflated prices

People who complain about prices being too high and exploiting hardships don't have a problem with western corporations underpaying sweatshop workers, working in awful inhumane conditions, to produce the stuff you and I take for granted right now

People attacking the Chinese are dumb and it is based on racism. Considering the Chinese have been used for so long for cheap labour, it smacks of hypocrisy

Re: Profiteering on eBay

liverpoolfcfanatic — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 10:34:40 GMT

I really like how he/she says "Australian stock" when many brands of sanitiser and tp is made in Thailand or China

Bless