Hand Sanitizer prices (1 Viewer)

[egautr1]

So I am a teacher and was looking to buy some supplies for my classroom and so I went on Amazon to buy some hand sanitizer as I am almost out. So I go look at them and most are unavailable or super over-priced.
So I did a quick google search and came across articles like the one below explaining the price gouging that is going on from 3rd party sellers.

California Governor Newsom Criticizes Amazon Over Coronavirus Price Gouging

One seller posted a 12-pack of one-ounce containers of hand sanitizer for $3,892.84.

www.newsweek.com

In the article it mentioned this:

A check of the website on Tuesday evening revealed several listings averaging around $40 for an eight-ounce bottle of Purell, over ten times the typical price. One listing offered a case of 12 one-ounce bottles for $3,892.84, which equals just over $324 per ounce.

This is ridiculous!! How is this not price gouging? as I thought that was illegal? Maybe some of the legal minds on here can explain how they are able to do this in times of emergencies.
I haven't looked but I read it is the same for the medical Masks and disinfectants.

So this is precisely what I was worried about with the spread of this virus. I am not so scared of the virus itself, I am more scared or worried about the actions of dumb and over-reacting people causing a panic on things like this. I fear this might just be the beginning. Is it only a matter of time before this spreads to other basic necessities like toilet paper (which I heard is already in short supply), bottle water, food, etc.

I don't trust the general populace in this country to do what's right for others and to think about people other than themselves. Anybody else feel this way?? SMH....

 

[zeetes]

So I am a teacher and was looking to buy some supplies for my classroom and so I went on Amazon to buy some hand sanitizer as I am almost out. So I go look at them and most are unavailable or super over-priced.
So I did a quick google search and came across articles like the one below explaining the price gouging that is going on from 3rd party sellers.

California Governor Newsom Criticizes Amazon Over Coronavirus Price Gouging

One seller posted a 12-pack of one-ounce containers of hand sanitizer for $3,892.84.

www.newsweek.com

In the article it mentioned this:


This is ridiculous!! How is this not price gouging? as I thought that was illegal? Maybe some of the legal minds on here can explain how they are able to do this in times of emergencies.
I haven't looked but I read it is the same for the medical Masks and disinfectants.

So this is precisely what I was worried about with the spread of this virus. I am not so scared of the virus itself, I am more scared or worried about the actions of dumb and over-reacting people causing a panic on things like this. I fear this might just be the beginning. Is it only a matter of time before this spreads to other basic necessities like toilet paper (which I heard is already in short supply), bottle water, food, etc.

I don't trust the general populace in this country to do what's right for others and to think about people other than themselves. Anybody else feel this way?? SMH....

pretty dumb.

you could also try sams or costco, if you can. the costco in br had the big bottles of sanitizer 2 days ago.

 

[bclemms]

It is, Amazon deleted over a million listings already.

 

[tomwaits]

Price gouging is good. It helps for a better distribution of scarce goods.

 

[efil4stnias]

So I am a teacher and was looking to buy some supplies for my classroom and so I went on Amazon to buy some hand sanitizer as I am almost out. So I go look at them and most are unavailable or super over-priced.
So I did a quick google search and came across articles like the one below explaining the price gouging that is going on from 3rd party sellers.

California Governor Newsom Criticizes Amazon Over Coronavirus Price Gouging

One seller posted a 12-pack of one-ounce containers of hand sanitizer for $3,892.84.

www.newsweek.com

In the article it mentioned this:


This is ridiculous!! How is this not price gouging? as I thought that was illegal? Maybe some of the legal minds on here can explain how they are able to do this in times of emergencies.
I haven't looked but I read it is the same for the medical Masks and disinfectants.

So this is precisely what I was worried about with the spread of this virus. I am not so scared of the virus itself, I am more scared or worried about the actions of dumb and over-reacting people causing a panic on things like this. I fear this might just be the beginning. Is it only a matter of time before this spreads to other basic necessities like toilet paper (which I heard is already in short supply), bottle water, food, etc.

I don't trust the general populace in this country to do what's right for others and to think about people other than themselves. Anybody else feel this way?? SMH....

i hear ya.

on a side note...i read a Twitter thread last night on toilet paper.

apparently the Australian term is "poo tickets" lololol.

 

[0rion]

On a related note.....do you use a class app like bloom? If so put a request out for hand sanitizer and I'm sure more than a few parents will step up and supply it. I know I have zero problems sending things into my kids rooms. No way the teachers should be out of pocket for supplies like that.

 

[egautr1]

pretty dumb.

you could also try sams or costco, if you can. the costco in br had the big bottles of sanitizer 2 days ago.

Yeah I agree. I usually just get the big one from Sam's club for like $6 but haven't had a chance to get over there just for one bottle of hand sanitizer and it's only sold in stores. will try to swing by the one in covington.

Price gouging is good. It helps for a better distribution of scarce goods.

Please explain. Or maybe I just didn't pick up the sarcasm....

On a related note.....do you use a class app like bloom? If so put a request out for hand sanitizer and I'm sure more than a few parents will step up and supply it. I know I have zero problems sending things into my kids rooms. No way the teachers should be out of pocket for supplies like that.

I don't use an app like that. I will look into it though. I have a teacher website where I posted a message asking for kleenex and hand sanitzer but only a few have brought something in, and I work in a pretty affluent area.

Now I get $100 from my school for supplies and things from the classroom. But I have to purchase it myself and then get reimbursed from the district. So I try to spend all the money in one place so I only have one receipt to turn in.
But yes, I think it's ridicoulous I have to spend the little money I get on supplies on things like tissues and hand sanitizer. That stuff should be standard in every classroom in the country and supplied by the school. But we all know how much this country and particularly this State feels about public education.....?

 

[tomwaits]

Please explain. Or maybe I just didn't pick up the sarcasm....

Lots of good stuff written about it.

"Price Gouging" Is Essential and Humane | Andrew Mitchell

Recently, several commentators have condemned price gouging in New Orleans as if they were reporting an inherently unjust practice that no reasonable person would accept. So, once again, writes Angelo Mike, it needs explaining why price gouging is not only not bad, but is essential to the...

mises.org

Price Gouging: A Life-Saving Market Mechanism | TJ Roberts

As Hurricane Florence prepares to ravage the Southeastern United States, social media warriors, and “news” outlets are exclaiming their outrage at the business owners who are raising prices on essential items such as water, food, gasoline, plywood, and even hotel rooms. This “price gouging,”...

mises.org

‘Price Gouging’ After a Disaster Is Good for the Public

If government prohibits suppliers from charging more, consumers hoard, exacerbating shortages.

www.wsj.com

How My Students Reacted When I Explained That Price Gouging During Disasters Is Actually a Good Thing | Lili Carneglia

As fate would have it, the week Hurricane Florence hit the Carolinas coincided perfectly with my lecture on price controls. The 500 price gouging complaints in North Carolina and 118 filed in South Carolina during the disaster’s aftermath serve as a timely reminder that the forces of supply and...

fee.org

 

[Tapxe]

Lots of good stuff written about it.

"Price Gouging" Is Essential and Humane | Andrew Mitchell

Recently, several commentators have condemned price gouging in New Orleans as if they were reporting an inherently unjust practice that no reasonable person would accept. So, once again, writes Angelo Mike, it needs explaining why price gouging is not only not bad, but is essential to the...

mises.org

Price Gouging: A Life-Saving Market Mechanism | TJ Roberts

As Hurricane Florence prepares to ravage the Southeastern United States, social media warriors, and “news” outlets are exclaiming their outrage at the business owners who are raising prices on essential items such as water, food, gasoline, plywood, and even hotel rooms. This “price gouging,”...

mises.org

‘Price Gouging’ After a Disaster Is Good for the Public

If government prohibits suppliers from charging more, consumers hoard, exacerbating shortages.

www.wsj.com

How My Students Reacted When I Explained That Price Gouging During Disasters Is Actually a Good Thing | Lili Carneglia

As fate would have it, the week Hurricane Florence hit the Carolinas coincided perfectly with my lecture on price controls. The 500 price gouging complaints in North Carolina and 118 filed in South Carolina during the disaster’s aftermath serve as a timely reminder that the forces of supply and...

fee.org

From the first link.

It means that those who most urgently desire goods will be able to get them — they won't just show up at stores and find nothing left for them. Those who less urgently desire these goods have a guide for rational economic calculation. Some will find the new prices make the consumption of the good less beneficial than foregoing it and purchasing some other, cheaper substitute.

I'd like to know if they've taken into account the rise or reselling online. It happens with sporting events and so to with needed items. Someone sees an opportunity to resell at an outrageous price and therefore stocks up in the early stages of a coming event. They reduce the supply for others and then profit by holding them for ransom.

TL;DR sounds like a bunch of money centric explanation for being a pretty shirtty human being by profiting off of others suffering.

 

[tomwaits]

From the first link.


TL;DR sounds like a bunch of money centric explanation for being a pretty shirtty human being by profiting off of others suffering.

It does sound like that, and politicians push that narrative, but if you read the explanation it makes sense and you can see its not that at all.

 

[GeauxWhoDats]

 

[Grumpy Old Manatee]

Hand "Sanitizer" is essentially 70% ETOH. Might as well buy a bottle of Vodka or Everclear and an aloe plant to keep your skin from drying out.

 

[0rion]

Hand "Sanitizer" is essentially 70% ETOH. Might as well buy a bottle of Vodka or Everclear and an aloe plant to keep your skin from drying out.

Just to be clear...you don't mean drink the vodka and then smear aloe all over yourself right?

 

[zeetes]

Just to be clear...you don't mean drink the vodka and then smear aloe all over yourself right?

of course he does. how else will it work?

 

[Torgo]

Hand "Sanitizer" is essentially 70% ETOH. Might as well buy a bottle of Vodka or Everclear and an aloe plant to keep your skin from drying out.

Actually, you can just make it with rubbing alcohol and aloe vera gel, but I like your way much better.