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sl8

(13,674 posts)
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 07:03 AM Mar 2020

Coronavirus 'hustlers' make over $100,000 selling cleaning products on Amazon

From https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-cleaning-products-stockpiling-costco-amazon-a9401716.html

Coronavirus 'hustlers' make over $100,000 selling cleaning products on Amazon

The retailer says they are cracking down on sellers involved in price gouging

James Crump @thejamescrump
14 hours ago

A couple in Vancouver have made over $100,000 by selling Lysol cleaning products on Amazon, amid coronavirus panic.

With Covid-19 officially classified as a pandemic, consumers around the world have started stockpiling goods, with soap, toilet roll and cleaning products the main targets.

The couple, Manny Ranga and Violeta Perez told the Toronto Star that they visit all of the Costco's in their area every day, buying as many disinfecting wipes and liquid cleaners as possible, before selling them on Amazon.

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From https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/03/12/were-hustlers-amid-coronavirus-fears-this-couple-has-made-more-than-100000-reselling-lysol-wipes.html
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‘We’re hustlers’: Amid coronavirus fears, this couple has made more than $100,000 reselling Lysol wipes

By Douglas Quan
Vancouver Bureau
Thu., March 12, 2020

VANCOUVER—As Manny Ranga and his wife, Violeta Perez, loaded up their Ford F-150 pickup outside a Costco near downtown Vancouver this week, some passersby couldn’t help but stop and stare.

What stood out wasn’t just the sheer volume of the couple’s purchase. It was the fact that it was all the same product: Stacks upon stacks of Lysol disinfecting wipes.

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Coronavirus 'hustlers' make over $100,000 selling cleaning products on Amazon (Original Post) sl8 Mar 2020 OP
Ah the joys of the free market Blues Heron Mar 2020 #1
Should be illegal. This could kill people who go looking for disinfectants and can't get any. femmedem Mar 2020 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author democratisphere Mar 2020 #3
my local costco has limits of two of this kind of stuff... i dont think this cpl.. samnsara Mar 2020 #4

femmedem

(8,196 posts)
2. Should be illegal. This could kill people who go looking for disinfectants and can't get any.
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 07:10 AM
Mar 2020

I hope they are stigmatized forever because of their greed.

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samnsara

(17,605 posts)
4. my local costco has limits of two of this kind of stuff... i dont think this cpl..
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 07:25 AM
Mar 2020

...will be able to do this much longer.

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