Back in 2008 - 2012, ammunition was in great demand. MANY Walmart employees found they could buy up the stock and then re-sell it on Craigslist and other online venues for many times the retail price. Boxes of 22 ammo that sold for $19.95 were being sold for over $100.00
To counter this, Walmart eventually placed limits on purchases per person. Still, in many stores the managers may have been in on the scheme and so it continued.
It is illegal in most states for COMPANIES to extort consumers and use shortages and emergencies to drastically raise prices.
However, there a no laws on the book to prevent EMPLOYEES from taking advantage of consumers this way.
It's time for that to change.
A VAST array of consumer products are greedily bought up by store employees before the public ever has a chance to purchase them at their normal price. Item on shelves ranging from Dollar Stores to Walmart. These ruthless employees will stake out the stock rooms and then intercept and buy out stock of incoming items then post them on ebay, Amazon, Craigslist and wherever in order to line their own pockets at consumers expense.
This is often why you will have such a hard time finding popular items on the store shelves, but PLENTY on ebay at exorbitant prices....often more than ten times the store price.
It's time to pressure our legislators into recognizing this abuse and put laws on the books severely punishing this type of price gouging of consumers.
One way these greedy profiteers could be caught is to randomly spot check ebay sellers and Craigslist sellers who often sell items in quantities beyond normal and do so often and repeatedly. Profiles could easily be used to sort out these types of people and bring them to justice.
Consumers are faced with shortages and excessively over priced goods due to this. If it can't be stopped, it may become necessary to pass laws limiting the quantity of common consumable goods that can be sold to one customer per day. Sad, but a testament to the nature of our eroding society.
Now "some" may argue that it's the "free market", but that's simply not the case. This is fraud and price gouging. There are tens of thousands of laws on the books to help prevent fraud.......but this fraud has none.
Please contact your representatives and pressure them to recognize this abuse that you are paying for.
To counter this, Walmart eventually placed limits on purchases per person. Still, in many stores the managers may have been in on the scheme and so it continued.
It is illegal in most states for COMPANIES to extort consumers and use shortages and emergencies to drastically raise prices.
However, there a no laws on the book to prevent EMPLOYEES from taking advantage of consumers this way.
It's time for that to change.
A VAST array of consumer products are greedily bought up by store employees before the public ever has a chance to purchase them at their normal price. Item on shelves ranging from Dollar Stores to Walmart. These ruthless employees will stake out the stock rooms and then intercept and buy out stock of incoming items then post them on ebay, Amazon, Craigslist and wherever in order to line their own pockets at consumers expense.
This is often why you will have such a hard time finding popular items on the store shelves, but PLENTY on ebay at exorbitant prices....often more than ten times the store price.
It's time to pressure our legislators into recognizing this abuse and put laws on the books severely punishing this type of price gouging of consumers.
One way these greedy profiteers could be caught is to randomly spot check ebay sellers and Craigslist sellers who often sell items in quantities beyond normal and do so often and repeatedly. Profiles could easily be used to sort out these types of people and bring them to justice.
Consumers are faced with shortages and excessively over priced goods due to this. If it can't be stopped, it may become necessary to pass laws limiting the quantity of common consumable goods that can be sold to one customer per day. Sad, but a testament to the nature of our eroding society.
Now "some" may argue that it's the "free market", but that's simply not the case. This is fraud and price gouging. There are tens of thousands of laws on the books to help prevent fraud.......but this fraud has none.
Please contact your representatives and pressure them to recognize this abuse that you are paying for.
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