Profiteering on eBay

[tvol3640]

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.

[imastawka]

IT'S NOT PROFITEERING IF NO-ONE BUYS IT

Ebay don't read here.

BTW Welcome to the boards   

[porcelain_dolls_by_me]

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.

[davewil1964]

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@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.

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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.

[porcelain_dolls_by_me]

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

[davewil1964]

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@porcelain_dolls_by_me wrote:

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

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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.

[go-tazz]

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@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.

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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.

[*tippy*toes*]

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@go-tazz wrote:

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@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.

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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.

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I doubt it. That would ruin the outrage.

[liverpoolfcfanatic]

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

[liverpoolfcfanatic]

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

[liverpoolfcfanatic]

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

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