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Brothers hoard 18,000 bottles of sanitizer and are stuck with most of it * 2
    #26537435 - 03/15/20 08:37 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

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Two brothers from Tennessee who said they tried to capitalize on the coronavirus outbreak by buying nearly 18,000 bottles of hand sanitizer now claim they have nowhere to sell the products after a crackdown on online price gouging.

After the first COVID19-related death in the U.S. was announced, 36-year-old Noah Colvin and his brother, Matt, cleared out hand sanitizer from stores around Chattanooga, Tenn., and parts of Kentucky, The New York Times first reported. Their intention was to sell the goods on Amazon at marked-up prices.

They sold the sanitizer for between $8 and $70 each, multiple times higher than what they paid for the product at local stores, the paper reported.

The brothers declined to disclose their exact profits, saying only that it was "substantial."

Despite backlash and accusations of profiteering, Noah Colvin defended his methods to The Times, saying there was "crushing overwhelming demand" in areas not carrying the products.

"I honestly feel like it's a public service," he said. "I'm being paid for my public service."

But, Amazon, along with other online platforms including eBay and Walmart, shut down sellers such as the Colvin brothers who were found to be price gouging.

"Price gouging is a clear violation of our policies, unethical, and in some areas, illegal," Amazon announced in a statement. "In addition to terminating these third-party accounts, we welcome the opportunity to work directly with states attorneys general to prosecute bad actors."

Now, some 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer have been sitting in Noah Colvin’s garage, with no place to sell them, the paper reported.

After the brothers made headlines, news outlets reported that investigators with the Tennessee attorney general’s office ordered the Colvins to end any profiteering strategies. The state, which has had laws against price gouging, was investigating the case.

Noah Colvin told WRCB-TV that after the backlash he's now looking into ways to donate the supplies.

"With business, there is wins and there is losses," he said. "This is a situation where cutting my losses is the right thing to do."




TLDR: Brothers bought 18K of sanitizer to price gouge people with but got shut down on Amazon/Ebay/etc. and are stuck with 17,700 bottles of it in their garage.

They are now "looking into ways to donate" the surplus of sanitizer they have siting in their garage.


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Re: Brothers hoard 18,000 bottles of sanitizer and are stuck with most of it [Re: Niffla] * 5
    #26537446 - 03/15/20 08:42 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

10 points for effort


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Re: Brothers hoard 18,000 bottles of sanitizer and are stuck with most of it [Re: evlyshrooms] * 4
    #26537452 - 03/15/20 08:46 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

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evlyshrooms said:
10 points for effort




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Re: Brothers hoard 18,000 bottles of sanitizer and are stuck with most of it [Re: Niffla]
    #26537463 - 03/15/20 08:51 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

How do u feel about this op?...


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Re: Brothers hoard 18,000 bottles of sanitizer and are stuck with most of it [Re: Niffla] * 2
    #26537497 - 03/15/20 09:02 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

idiots.


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Re: Brothers hoard 18,000 bottles of sanitizer and are stuck with most of it [Re: CookieCrumbs]
    #26537525 - 03/15/20 09:16 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

They’ll have to take to the streets now


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Re: Brothers hoard 18,000 bottles of sanitizer and are stuck with most of it [Re: Led Zeppelin] * 1
    #26537532 - 03/15/20 09:18 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

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Led Zeppelin said:
They’ll have to take to the streets now





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Re: Brothers hoard 18,000 bottles of sanitizer and are stuck with most of it [Re: BabylonRuleDem]
    #26537618 - 03/15/20 10:37 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

These people are sick I'm glad they're not going to be able to price gouge FUCK THEM


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Re: Brothers hoard 18,000 bottles of sanitizer and are stuck with most of it [Re: Seriously_trippin] * 1
    #26537621 - 03/15/20 10:40 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

There's literally hospitals and shit that can't get hand sanitizer right now

these guys are total scum bags


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Re: Brothers hoard 18,000 bottles of sanitizer and are stuck with most of it [Re: sh4d0ws]
    #26537673 - 03/15/20 11:52 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

:okay:


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Re: Brothers hoard 18,000 bottles of sanitizer and are stuck with most of it [Re: sh4d0ws] * 3
    #26537674 - 03/15/20 11:54 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

I'm coming for your garage full with the sanitizer to loot you when the shit hits the fan. Like its not "your" bomb shelter if I have a gun, it's "our" bomb shelter. My definition of societal collapse is fighting for shit in thunderdome. Covid probably isn't a thunderdome event. But I'm lifting weights anyway. I've been having lots of zombie dreams lately, maybe from watching so many zombie movies. My theoretical gun above isn't real either lol, I live in Canada we are totally fucked on zombie day and I will admit I was wrong about gun control on Z day for sure.

I have enough psychedelics to last decades after I quickly dumped my cryptocurrency holding last week just in time before it all crashed, and I bought bark and acid analogues with it, so DMT right at the peak of acid trips during the apocalypse. If I live until next weekend. I mean we all could get the plague and die but whatever, I think we'll make it, also Ive been drinking and may delete this whole post, shroomery has become this weird thing in my life that I actually like and I'm going to try and not get banned anymore, if I was mean to you I apologize.


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Re: Brothers hoard 18,000 bottles of sanitizer and are stuck with most of it [Re: viraldrome] * 2
    #26537676 - 03/15/20 11:57 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

I actually have some DMT I extracted last year I still haven't dipped into yet...been thinking it's a good time for a nice strong DMT breakthrough what with the world ending and all

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Re: Brothers hoard 18,000 bottles of sanitizer and are stuck with most of it [Re: sh4d0ws]
    #26537692 - 03/16/20 12:14 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

You know damn well they are gonna loop hole their way around it or something. This does sound like sweet justice though


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Re: Brothers hoard 18,000 bottles of sanitizer and are stuck with most of it [Re: Niffla]
    #26537709 - 03/16/20 12:27 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

Those scam artists! How dare they monopolize the system like that! :kingcrankey:


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Re: Brothers hoard 18,000 bottles of sanitizer and are stuck with most of it [Re: Niffla]
    #26537878 - 03/16/20 04:32 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

The Holy Congee
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3-4 years ago, A chinese mafia around this urban parts took advantage of the country's rice crisis, stockpiling tons of smuggled rice for months, bussiness as usual, then an unexpected hurricane came, that flooded the secret warehouse, What a great loss, and there's no other choice but to let the crowd in as it was revealed. It gave feed to lots of people with free congee during the storm.




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Re: Brothers hoard 18,000 bottles of sanitizer and are stuck with most of it [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
    #26537893 - 03/16/20 05:02 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

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Those scam artists! How dare they monopolize the system like that! :kingcrankey:




That is the system.


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Re: Brothers hoard 18,000 bottles of sanitizer and are stuck with most of it [Re: zZZz] * 1
    #26537925 - 03/16/20 05:44 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

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zZZz said:
:okay:




:knowwhatnevermind:

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Re: Brothers hoard 18,000 bottles of sanitizer and are stuck with most of it [Re: Niffla]
    #26537951 - 03/16/20 06:26 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

how does hand sanitize kill a virus if a virus isnt living?


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Re: Brothers hoard 18,000 bottles of sanitizer and are stuck with most of it [Re: gopher]
    #26537971 - 03/16/20 06:39 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

:mindblown:
Indeed, Had wonder about that.
but i guess it has something to do with denaturing the protien/shell to render its capabilities to attach.


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Re: Brothers hoard 18,000 bottles of sanitizer and are stuck with most of it [Re: gopher]
    #26537990 - 03/16/20 06:59 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

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gopher said:
how does hand sanitize kill a virus if a virus isnt living?





What exactly is a virus then?


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