/biz/ - Business & Finance

Because the same price gouging laws apply to everyone and he broke the threshold between reasonable profit and fucktard.

he couldn’t even move the garbage out of the way of his inventory for a photo in the New York Times? What a lazy fuck.

>>17800318
dude sell it the old fashion way, go door to door (wear a mask).

>>17800318
I’m not a commie but, fuck this guy

>>17800350
That makes sense.

>>17800318
that sad face kek

Jesus what a fucking clown. He just needs a sign stating the business is veteran owned and he would be the complete cliche.

>>17800318
why do Americans dress like children?

>>17800318
>Be among the very few of Americans who saves
>Amass a comfy safety net
>Spend it all on hand sanitizer

>>17800318
His own fault. If he didn't have his own platform he set himself up for failure by lack of realm of control.

>>17800318

thank god amazon and ebay are cracking down on these people so others don't get taken advantage of. Hope he dies.

>>17800443
>Hope he dies.
look at his face, guarantee he also hope he dies.

What a fucking loser. He dresses like a 12 year old. Grow the fuck up burgers.

>>17800318
I hope he gets home invaded by niggers are murdered in front of his family (if he has one).

>>17800501
and*

>>17800501
>family man, family business.
>has no family
that would be amazing, this guy is growing on me rapidly.

>/biz/tards shitting on the guy for TCB'ing
If your not allowed to list items AMZN/eBay using Demand Pricing (under price gouging 'laws') - are you still allowed to list in-demand items as auction tho? Can't be guilty of scalping where the customers are setting their own price, shirly?

>>17800318
Because you're a goy and goyim are not allowed to make a profit.

>>17800565
The purpose of the law is to slow/prevent panic not stop profits so yes, you can be stopped from auctioning to morons to prevent headlines like "Last bottle of hand sanitizer sold for 5000$“

Put aside how you feel about price-gouging for a second. How do feel about the fact that all of commerce is quickly being reduced to one or two centralized gatekeepers who can and often do shut you down for any reason?

>>17800484
>>17800402
Post your outfits.

>>17800350

>reasonable profit

Amazon makes $200 billion of profit every year though. How's the reasonable?

>>17800614
I feel like I have to pee pee and poo poo.
:(

>>17800614
Nothing we can do about it. Normans don't care, obviously. Lawmakers don't care because they're comped.

>>17800402
Jealous much?

>>17800395
Underrated

>>17800633
Many transactions, infrastructure, improvements. Not just cletus being an extra middleman that does nothing at all.

>>17800384
Wait, now that it might affect you, you say "I am not a commie but..."?

Seriously, if you are not even able to stand by your capitalist ideals when the negative effects only MIGHT affect you, you will throw any ideals out of the window, if shit really hits the fan.

So you migth not be a commie, but you are not a capitalist either.
You are just a hypocrit who lets others think for him.

>>17800318
>Why are Amazon and Walmart allowed to buy and resell goods for profit but I'm not?
Because you are goyim, goy. Know your place.

>>17800696
>amazon is not an extra middleman that does nothing at all
wtf, and i thought this was smart successful board

>>17800402
boy scouts are taught to "be prepared" and tactical short trousers allow you to equip emergency supplies while maintaining a full range of motion to provide maximum execution of all operations

>>17800318
You are, you just need to enter into a resell contract with whatever company owns the product you're selling.

>>17800783
>warehousing and global distribution network rivaling that of the USPS
>"nothing at all"
Calling you livestock is too kind.

hot take but isn't this reselling good? it delivers a supply of demanded items when they are demanded, providing fresh supply when the conventional stores running on just in time delivery systems are emptied out. it alleviates shortages.
>>17800350
that's subjective. someone buys for that price, he has the right to sell for that price. dickwads sell a painting some fuck on acid painted in 2 minutes for 10 million dollars, and that's okay, but some fuck selling hand sanitizer for $20 a bottle is suddenly a monster? if no one was willing to spend that much he'd have to lower prices.

>>17800318
>Why are Amazon and Walmart allowed to buy and resell goods for profit but I'm not?
Nobody is stopping you, go out and sell all you want fagot.

>>17800318
Did he get a business license and all that other junk?

>>17800633
Not from price gouging you retard

>>17800384
>t, commie

>>17800866

>I support capitalism but when people start "price gouing" (whatever they Hell that even means) that's going too far!!! The government needs to interfere! Small government guys!!!

>>17800808
more than 50% of AMZN sales are (still..) smallco platform users tho. AMZN shutting down entire markets (because demand went up) is counter-productive. Most sales and logistics are still seller-fulfilled - buyers are all 'Amazon customers' tho, right up until there's a problem. Then, any pissed-off customers magically become 'your problem'. Fuck AMZN, they are literally the middleman monopoly people here are denying they are

>>17800621
sorry I stopped wearing shorts when I was ten faggot.

>>17800916
>Amazon makes most of their profit from selling toilet paper and groceries to consoomers on the internet
You can't possibly be this retarded

>>17800808
>owning warehouses that just fucking stores millions of actual produced items
>having a website
>having a guy negotiate with fedex and ups on how much to pay them for bringing the shit to peoples homes
again, i thought this was the smart board

>>17800318
Damn, based

>>17800949
If it's that's easy then why isn't that fag in op's pic doing that? Why aren't you doing it yourself right now?

>>17800621

>>17800318
this motherfucker is probably one of the people who has listing of
>5$ surgical mask which is like 0,10cents
>25$ hand sanitizer

and other fuckin scam listing to get rich off fuckin panicked people, a lot of them being eldelry

everyone bumping price of those shit, would also bump price of bread and rice and potato when people would be starving on the streets

fuck him

>>17800501
>>17800443
>>17800384
>on /biz/
>against free markets
>commie cuck
wew lad

>>17800402
Movies in the nineties honestly.

>>17800614
It's the inevitable conclusion to a central bank, fiat system.

>>17801037
He's free to sell them from his garage
eBay Amazon are private businesses

>>17801031

When companies do it, it's acceptable but when your typical opportunist does it people lose their shit.

>>17801031
Pic related flogs cunt-smell candles at $75 a pop.
No one complains
You dont wanna pay $25 for hand sanitizer, then don't - or demand a more efficient distribution syste, one that isn't bottle-necked by a monopolist internet retail system

>>17801117
>Pic related flogs cunt-smell candles at $75 a pop.
>No one complains
You're not serious, right? I'm pretty sure most people know that shit is bullshit.

>>17801081
>t. commie cuck

There's nothing wrong with selling goods at an increased price when demand is high.

>>17800384
Why? He foresaw something that you failed to foresee

>>17800866
This might be something he regularly sells,
and if he bought when the market was low that is his business. You don't need hand sanitizer the way you need water or medical supplies. Just wash your fucking hands with dish soap or turpentine

>>17801031
>Gouging Hand Sanitizer
You don't need hand sanitizer its not a life saving device like bottles of water. You are just a Jelous Faggot
Go Back

>>17801234
You're no different than those fags trying to force a Christian bakery to make them a homosexual cake.

>>17801473
You're no different than those rabbis who suck bloody baby dicks.

>>17800318
If I start to suffocate you, but offer to sell you your air back, is that capitalism?

>>17801525
You have to be 18 to use this web site

>>17801525

You're probably one of those socialist bootlickers who think roads should be publicly owned.

>>17800546
mom & dad still count

sometime the cats & dogs also

Give it 3-4 weeks and we'll see something like this.

>>17800318
Honestly you people laugh at toilet paper hoarders, but you really dont have enough toilet paper yourselves. The average person uses 1 roll per day. If you have a family of 4, that's 28 rolls a week. Over 100 a month. TP rolls will be worth their weight in gold in a few months, because everyone needs it.

>>17801088
What companies are doing it?

>>17801586
1 roll per day? what are you doing with it? eating it? wow, ameritards eat everything. you are as bad as bat eating china bugs

>>17801584
This, these idiots are blowing way too much money and drawing for too much attention to themselves

>>17801586
>The average person uses 1 roll per day.
lol

>>17800318
For fucks sake man sell local then. Don't let that stop you. You know how to use Craigslist. Hustle motherfucker hustle!

>>17801584
Longer

>>17800350
This. Firstly he's probably not a registered business so his little operation is illegal already, secondly price gouging laws exist for a reason. If he wants to sell them at a reasonable price he can go for it assuming he is lawfully allowed to do so, but if he's just an opportunistic faggot he should not he relying upon Amazon to prop up his illegal endeavor.

>>17801663
>probably
>reasonable price
>lawfully allowed
Please go kill yourself

>>17800614
Literally nothing is stopping the dude from advertising and selling his product himself

>>17801586
You don't really even need toilet paper retard, you're just buying it because other people are buying it.

>>17801473
fair enough

>>17801681
>Amazon has to let my sell my overpriced shit because ???
Go sell it out of the back of a truck you fucking retard, no vendor owes your shitty product anything.

>>17801686
>You don't really even need toilet paper retard

>>17800726
Or you know, someone who doesn't equate an economic system to a religion

>>17800350
>>17801663
totally arbitrary bullshit. what the fuck gives you, or anyone else the right to decide when private commerce between totally voluntary parties is unfair, and in need of a public sector worker who is totally lacking in critical thought to step in to totally halt it. every product in your house was made by a chinese guy who gets paid what you would consider total paltry wages and you socialist/keynesian ballgobbling penisvacuums are totally fine with paying megacorps in continuing such a brand of government-subsidized price gouging that you can remain happily ignorant to, but if an american guy trying to run a productive business rather than being a 9-5 wagie under someone's foot responds to massively increased demand for something by adjusting his prices so that he'll be able to keep up with the demand when suppliers invariably adjust THEIR prices, you call him a soulless price gouger. laws, in a system run on taxation and in which there is no naturally-enforced pressure for politicians to meet the expectations they set, do not work the same for everyone. fucking christ, the blindness.

>>17801748
Literally just wash your ass dude

>>17800350
>>17801663
even if things do get stupidly irrational and some moron wants to pay $2,000 for a bottle of rubbing alcohol from someone who both you and i might consider a scumbag, why the fuck would you want to step in and stop such a fucking moron from learning his lesson? better to spend $2,000 on a bottle of rubbing alcohol and hate yourself for it now than to regularly spend sums of $15,000 later on in life doing fairly simple things like getting a fucking set of outdoor stairs built or getting a garage door put in by a conniving contractor, all because you never had the opportunity to appreciate how markets work and how one can save money by shopping around, or questioning whether they actually need something, or even considering making something themselves. you're doing a disservice to the naive by trying to shelter them from the reality that they're operating on bad fundamentals.
the people who actually do blatantly and opportunistically scam others will get fucked, and will get what is coming to them; if you, as a government, do not use your capacity for cruelty to hurt or restrict the natural rights of people who charge more than you personally think they should charge for something, then competition will happen—and it will blow the fuck out of the scammers and conmen. otherwise, these scumbags will operate in the shadows, and—because good men tend not to like operating in scenarios where the legal system is against them—will have little in the way of competition to keep them from expressing their scumfuck nature; price gouging, poor-quality goods, FAKE goods, harassment of customers, lacing their goods with drugs or poisons when the customers try to negotiate a better price—all of the possible shades of morally derelict dishonesty.

cant wait for 2 to 3 weeks when this nothing burgers and this faggot makes next to 0 profit

faggot

>>17800318
You make a good point. Amazon literally changes the price of items throughout the day.

Something I wanted to buy the other day was 13.98 when I got on the pc it was 19.99. After double checking it was indeed the same item. The fact other items I had in my cart also changed price pissed me off. Waited until it went back to 13.98 later that day.

>>17801842
>>17801857
fuck, forgot to connect these posts in some way
>>17801857 is a continuation of >>17801842

>>17801031
$5 surgical mask...

Anon what stores are you going to where they are 0.10!?

>>17801525
Nice fallacy. it's not even remotely similar

>>17801682
This. Price gougers are the most hypocritical pieces of shit imaginable. They wantmto utilize the benefits of an existing organization's infrastructure to exploit people and then complain when the organization enforces rules. Literally nobody is stopping them from selling. Just can't sell on a privately owned platform.

They want to talk about entitlement? That's peak entitlement.

>>17800318
get fucked fag

>>17800318
Oh, you just found about the miracles of Capitalism™

>>17801586
>the average person uses 1 roll per day

>>17801586
pretty good bait

>>17800350

Haha yeah lets ENSURE NOBODY HAS ANYTHING FOR SALE DURING EMERGENCIES that'll teach those idiots to prepare

>>17800866

Yeah sure, in potentially deadly situations you wouldn't want people to go around selling essentials for PROFIT, perish the though! Thanks papa government, for punishing the bad man.

>>17801031

You mean to say when there is a SHORTAGE of FOOD, and there's more DEMAND than SUPPLY, you wouldn't want people to risk their lives for profit to bring you food at a higher price?

>>17800318
Well technically you can trade the goods you have for labor or othet goods. The government can't crack down on trade unless it involves Fed notes (dollars) as long as your not trading anything illegal like drugs they can't do anything.

>>17802271

Exploit people how? You know that buying is voluntary and completely optional right?

>>17802470
He didnt risk his life to generate food, he risked nothing to seize all your available food.

I don't really care since this fag isn't a producer nor a real merchant, he's trying to capitalize on a crisis to price gouge vulnerable people. Hope he dies from corona

And that's speaking as a serious free marketer, doesn't mean we don't still have human morals.

>>17802509
>Exploit people how?
By artificially diminishing the supply during times of high demand and charging people prices egregiously above it's fair market value. That's practically the definition of exploitation.

You are, of course, entirely free to do so as an individual, but when companies kick you off their platform for being an exploitative piece of shit, they have every right to do so, and you have no right to complain. Go advertise and sell out the back of your truck like others have already said. You are not entitled to sell on Amazon or Ebay.

>>17801203
No dude that is actually true. A few weeks ago before this happening was really getting started, vagina scented candles were out of stock due to high demand. Its a legit thing, you can google it.

>>17800916
>>17802441
There's no reason why communities shouldn't be able to band together and fucking hang you by the streetlamps. I wonder if your free market will cut you down before you run out of breath.

this really isn't something the gov needs to step into
in a few days when the panic ebbs away people will realise the TP factories still work and they don't really use all that much anyways and the soapy gels are just a meme

this dude on the other hand will learn the fate of all the dropshippers you have a very bad business model and are totally at the merci of platforms that can kick you of at will
while you are sitting there eating the costs of inventory, i remember when retards were shilling their very successfull dropshipping businesses here, don't hear them anymore

>>17802664

These fags don't understand that you can be a capitalist/individualist first but still understand duty to your family and community especially in times of crisis. What are these cunts going to do when we're being invaded, hoard all of the food, jack up the prices tenfold and then expect their community to not turn on their cancerous asses and post them up on pikes?

>>17801011
>graphic tee
OH NO NO NO NO

>>17801426
> its not a life saving device like bottles of water.
That's the most American post I've seen YTD.

>>17800318
What a horseshit story by the kike media to stir up unrest once again. What is really happening is Amazon has a pricing bot, that they have had for years, that will not allow you to sell over what they find to be a fair price. They will disable your listing with a pricing error and if you don't lower your price enough in 30 days, they send your products back to you. It only applies to fba merchants, he could list them self fulfilled and sell them for what he wants, the customer just won't get prime service and he will have to ship them.

>>17803147
What's really happening is about ten good ol' boys have already driven by this dickweed's garage in flyspeck Hixson and stolen all of his shit to resell at the I-75 flea market.

end of the article

>>17803231

LMAO

>>17800614
He can just open up his own fucking website if he wants to sell them, like people did back in the 90s, or open a B&M store at a strip mall.

>>17801586
I'm fat as fuck and even I don't use a roll a day.

>>17800350
>price gouging laws
dumb laws that prolong and worsen shortages. makes prices higher by pushing needed supplies onto the black market (where sellers need to charge more to compensate for the legal risks they are taking).

>>17802979

I dress like I'm broke and act like I'm dumb. They never suspect a thing until I'm balls deep inside them.

>>17800633
build a platform from zero like that and you'll be able to do it one day.,

>>17800633
Total net profit is not the same as the percent of profit made per item. If I have a gumball machine that sells gumballs for 50 cents when I bought them for 25 cents, I can double my money, but I'm not going to make the same profit as an online retailer selling shoes, games, literally anything else in high volume for a 20% profit.

>>17800384

1st option - the supplies will be bought by the first wave of people who were happy to do it by lack, panic whatever reason

2nd option - the goods are obtained by people who are ready to pay the most

I don't see ethic essues with both of them.

>>17800443

making no use of goods that people need. Amazon is the actual bad guy

>>17801031
>bump price of bread and rice and potato when people would be starving on the streets

What's wrong with that? The supply is limited. No way of distribution will increase the amount of bread.

>>17800318

You have to bribe the right senators first

The free market decides. By free market I mean angry people with guns

>>17800350
If there were no price gouging laws he wouldn't have been able to afford that stack, and there wouldn't have been shortages in the first place because prices would match demand and whether you got sanitizer wouldn't be determined by if you got in line early enough. Price gouging laws are what produce these fucktards.

>>17800516
I like are* better