Coronavirus and gear sales....
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mooncobra
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Inearthed":1hsu64k4 said:Sure some people are buying some items for the sake of actually needing it but there a bunch of people buying it in huge quantities to resell and make money. People are selling TP by the roll on Craigslist, FB marketplace, etc. Also saw some family selling inditch for a ividual rolls in the parking lot of Target / Fred Meyer
OH MAN!!! a couple guys bought ALL the HAND SANITIZER at Safeway a couple days ago when they restocked, and these two went outside, and sold it for MASSIVE profits! people were saying, "shame on you!," and they laughed and kept selling!! it was crazy to watch for a minute! some people didn't have enough to buy even one, and they would say, "watcha got?," and take a little less than asking price and thought they were doing a good deed!
stratjacket
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wow, pretty crazy...
Inearthed
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mooncobra":2pkip6dz said:Inearthed":2pkip6dz said:Sure some people are buying some items for the sake of actually needing it but there a bunch of people buying it in huge quantities to resell and make money. People are selling TP by the roll on Craigslist, FB marketplace, etc. Also saw some family selling inditch for a ividual rolls in the parking lot of Target / Fred Meyer
OH MAN!!! a couple guys bought ALL the HAND SANITIZER at Safeway a couple days ago when they restocked, and these two went outside, and sold it for MASSIVE profits! people were saying, "shame on you!," and they laughed and kept selling!! it was crazy to watch for a minute! some people didn't have enough to buy even one, and they would say, "watcha got?," and take a little less than asking price and thought they were doing a good deed!
Sounds about right. A friend of mine is claiming their cousin spent ~$5k at Costco, kept enough for himself and sold the rest to people locally for a total of $75k.
RedPlated
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Inearthed":1qmti6jo said:mooncobra":1qmti6jo said:Inearthed":1qmti6jo said:Sure some people are buying some items for the sake of actually needing it but there a bunch of people buying it in huge quantities to resell and make money. People are selling TP by the roll on Craigslist, FB marketplace, etc. Also saw some family selling inditch for a ividual rolls in the parking lot of Target / Fred Meyer
OH MAN!!! a couple guys bought ALL the HAND SANITIZER at Safeway a couple days ago when they restocked, and these two went outside, and sold it for MASSIVE profits! people were saying, "shame on you!," and they laughed and kept selling!! it was crazy to watch for a minute! some people didn't have enough to buy even one, and they would say, "watcha got?," and take a little less than asking price and thought they were doing a good deed!
Sounds about right. A friend of mine is claiming their cousin spent ~$5k at Costco, kept enough for himself and sold the rest to people locally for a total of $75k.
WOW.
dirtyfunkg
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Inearthed":266epss8 said:mooncobra":266epss8 said:Inearthed":266epss8 said:Sure some people are buying some items for the sake of actually needing it but there a bunch of people buying it in huge quantities to resell and make money. People are selling TP by the roll on Craigslist, FB marketplace, etc. Also saw some family selling inditch for a ividual rolls in the parking lot of Target / Fred Meyer
OH MAN!!! a couple guys bought ALL the HAND SANITIZER at Safeway a couple days ago when they restocked, and these two went outside, and sold it for MASSIVE profits! people were saying, "shame on you!," and they laughed and kept selling!! it was crazy to watch for a minute! some people didn't have enough to buy even one, and they would say, "watcha got?," and take a little less than asking price and thought they were doing a good deed!
Sounds about right. A friend of mine is claiming their cousin spent ~$5k at Costco, kept enough for himself and sold the rest to people locally for a total of $75k.
This is the unregulated free market at work, folks.
El Mariachi
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This whole thing is affecting all walks of life. I was on a sales forecast call earlier this week and it was called out that a CFO for a large company has frozen all large purchases until Jun/Jul time frame.
Rick Lee":1603ws6w said:
funny you say that... i stood in line for a while on tuesday at the grocery store with a box of trojans in my hand, and that was it. everyone else had like 2 carts full of shit, and no one would let the guy with one item go ahead
i got plans for stayin in, and it don't involve worrying, baby
....or worrying about a baby 
panhead
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They could have put that 5k in Johnson and Johnson stock and made way more if they knew what they were doing.mooncobra":1j7svqv3 said:Inearthed":1j7svqv3 said:Sure some people are buying some items for the sake of actually needing it but there a bunch of people buying it in huge quantities to resell and make money. People are selling TP by the roll on Craigslist, FB marketplace, etc. Also saw some family selling inditch for a ividual rolls in the parking lot of Target / Fred Meyer
OH MAN!!! a couple guys bought ALL the HAND SANITIZER at Safeway a couple days ago when they restocked, and these two went outside, and sold it for MASSIVE profits! people were saying, "shame on you!," and they laughed and kept selling!! it was crazy to watch for a minute! some people didn't have enough to buy even one, and they would say, "watcha got?," and take a little less than asking price and thought they were doing a good deed!
stratjacket
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spacebard":gx2xswqt said:tstern66":gx2xswqt said:
I will do this before selling gear.
Haha, that’s pretty damn funny
skullfxr
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Here in Tampa everything is a lowball and/or a trade offer. While half of the trade offers are pathetic I have made out great on more than a few. I list FT on all of my CL stuff and just ignore the idiots. I traded a faded Gibson V w/o case for a USA Charvel PROMOD with a really nice case. I had $300 into the V a decade ago. But if you want to sell and don't want to ship, Craigslist is the only solid way to move things. For a free classified that gets a lot of exposure, I can tolerate the dumbass lowballers. I just don't respond.
panhead
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Yep they just got bustedInearthed":23w9ny6u said:mooncobra":23w9ny6u said:Inearthed":23w9ny6u said:Sure some people are buying some items for the sake of actually needing it but there a bunch of people buying it in huge quantities to resell and make money. People are selling TP by the roll on Craigslist, FB marketplace, etc. Also saw some family selling inditch for a ividual rolls in the parking lot of Target / Fred Meyer
OH MAN!!! a couple guys bought ALL the HAND SANITIZER at Safeway a couple days ago when they restocked, and these two went outside, and sold it for MASSIVE profits! people were saying, "shame on you!," and they laughed and kept selling!! it was crazy to watch for a minute! some people didn't have enough to buy even one, and they would say, "watcha got?," and take a little less than asking price and thought they were doing a good deed!
Sounds about right. A friend of mine is claiming their cousin spent ~$5k at Costco, kept enough for himself and sold the rest to people locally for a total of $75k.
or two other guys? hand santizer gouging 