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He has 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer and nowhere to sell them

American said:
Yeah capitalists are hateful bastards, not socialist/ communists who killed millions.

Sent from Hillary's private email server.
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I said we amplify vulture capitalism, it was not a comment about all of capitalism.
 
HumblePi said:
.......said the guy that still has Hillary Clinton living inside his head.
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Hillary Clinton caused a lot of damage, and made millions off her position as Sec State. And BTW, you statement is irrelevant to my point.
 
American said:
Hillary Clinton caused a lot of damage, and made millions off her position as Sec State. And BTW, you statement is irrelevant to my point.
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Hillary Clinton "caused a lot of damage" you say? Really, what sort of horrible damage did Hillary do? Could it be even close to allowing an epidemic erupt in our country without doing a damned thing? Tell you what, make a list of the things Hillary Clinton did that caused a lot of damage. I'll do the same for Trump, then we'll meet again and compare our lists item by item. Deal?
 
American said:
Oh awesome, one asshole has convinced you we need to go full blown communism. Let's now dump regulated capitalism, and put everyone in gulags in Siberia. Yay!

Sent from Hillary's private email server.
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Lmao, yeah - full blow communism with millionaires and no billionaires.

All it took was one Nazi rally for good people like you to march at Charlottesville with them.

See? We can both do this and one of us doesn't need to hide behind a colorful nametag to do it.

:)

Я Баба Яга [emoji328]
 
AncientGeek said:
He has 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer and nowhere to sell them - StarTribune.com

Colvin is one of probably thousands of sellers who have amassed stockpiles of hand sanitizer and crucial respirator masks that many hospitals are now rationing, according to interviews with eight Amazon sellers and posts in private Facebook and Telegram groups from dozens more.
Colvin does not believe he was price gouging. While he charged $20 on Amazon for two bottles of Purell that retail for $1 each, he said people forget that his price includes his labor, Amazon’s fees and about $10 in shipping. (Alcohol-based sanitizer is pricey to ship because officials consider it a hazardous material.)
Colvin said he was simply fixing “inefficiencies in the marketplace.” Some areas of the country need these products more than others, and he’s helping send the supply toward the demand.

With "citizens" like this; who needs foreign enemies?
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Haven't read this thread, but I did see this in the local Vancouver newspaper:

People are giving away toilet paper on Craigslist after panic-buying it | News

Sadly people doing the right thing rarely goes viral.
 
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nota bene said:
"Targeted"?! Poor only guy. Except that he's not; what he did went viral because it was so egregious.
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Excellent usage of "egregious" in a sentence!

And yes it did and was.
 
JustHanging said:
Excellent usage of "egregious" in a sentence!

And yes it did and was.
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I keep thinking about the colonial humiliation of being put in the public-square stocks, and it occurs to me that thanks to the Internet, the consequences for these two brothers is even more terrible. Not to insult Dr. Mudd yet again, but their names are mud.
 
AncientGeek said:
He has 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer and nowhere to sell them - StarTribune.com

Colvin is one of probably thousands of sellers who have amassed stockpiles of hand sanitizer and crucial respirator masks that many hospitals are now rationing, according to interviews with eight Amazon sellers and posts in private Facebook and Telegram groups from dozens more.
Colvin does not believe he was price gouging. While he charged $20 on Amazon for two bottles of Purell that retail for $1 each, he said people forget that his price includes his labor, Amazon’s fees and about $10 in shipping. (Alcohol-based sanitizer is pricey to ship because officials consider it a hazardous material.)
Colvin said he was simply fixing “inefficiencies in the marketplace.” Some areas of the country need these products more than others, and he’s helping send the supply toward the demand.

With "citizens" like this; who needs foreign enemies?
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he needs to go to prison.
 
Mason66 said:
OK let's see how much this man is making for each sale.

He charges $20.00 for 2 bottles.

Cost of bottles $2.00
Amazon Sale fee $3.00
Shipping $10.00

Total $15.00

Without his labor of taking the products to the post office, or where ever he takes them, there is $5.00 left.

How much is the man entitled to make on a sale considering he has to spend more money to ship the product in gas at least?

He also has to wait 30 days for amazon to pay him for any sales he makes.

It doesn't sound like he is getting rich off of selling these bottles.
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under a national emergency (except in California where it is 10%) he is allowed to raise his cost price by 20% and he can charge shipping seperate(which he was doing.)
So if the bottles cost him $2 he could raise the price to $2.40 plus shipping per bottle.
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
Free market entrepreneurial capitalism in action is what made American great once and is what will Make America Great Again.

Right?
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absolutely not.

american capitalism makes people rich which is a good thing in normal times and one of the most attractive things about our democracy to the individual... the ability of anyone to exceed their original status.

however as we all know that also can bring problems as there is inevitably someone who is going to try to take even more at any cost and it is those ****heads we have to be vigilant of.

we just need to be more vigilant of those at the top.

on the other hand, one of the things that made america great is pulling together in times of crisis.
 
HumblePi said:
Hillary Clinton "caused a lot of damage" you say? Really, what sort of horrible damage did Hillary do? Could it be even close to allowing an epidemic erupt in our country without doing a damned thing? Tell you what, make a list of the things Hillary Clinton did that caused a lot of damage. I'll do the same for Trump, then we'll meet again and compare our lists item by item. Deal?
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Well...

She's a rape-cheerleading sociopath & warmonger.

A vampire beloved by Cheney and Kissinger.

For more details, see Google.

:thumbs:
 
3leftsdoo said:
Well...

She's a rape-cheerleading sociopath & warmonger.

A vampire beloved by Cheney and Kissinger.

For more details, see Google.

:thumbs:
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She's none of what you have accused her of and if you have any shred of proof of any of it, bring it. You do the Google legwork, you're the one pointing fingers.
 
HumblePi said:
She's none of what you have accused her of and if you have any shred of proof of any of it, bring it. You do the Google legwork, you're the one pointing fingers.
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Whenever you're ready, Google is waiting.

A little hold music in the meantime:



*swoooooooooooooooon*
 
3leftsdoo said:
Whenever you're ready, Google is waiting.

A little hold music in the meantime:



*swoooooooooooooooon*
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No thanks, I stick to facts and never intentionally look for conspiracy theories and fake news.
 
HumblePi said:
No thanks, I stick to facts and never intentionally look for conspiracy theories and fake news.
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Well, unless they're Democrat-approved & MSNBC shared, right? :thumbs:

The truth doesn't change, so whenevs.

:)
 
3leftsdoo said:
Well, unless they're Democrat-approved & MSNBC shared, right? :thumbs:

The truth doesn't change, so whenevs.

:)
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Unless someone such as yourself that makes wild, unfounded claims and proves them, yes.
 
HumblePi said:
Unless someone such as yourself that makes wild, unfounded claims and proves them, yes.
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I hope this doesn't blow your mind too badly...

Those interested in the truth?

They seek it out.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step.

When people are ready to trade Mother Goose for Noam & Howard & Chris & the like, they're ready, and not a moment sooner.

I ain't snatchin' no candy from babies & replacing it with broccoli!

:)
 
Ahlevah said:
I have never understood this logic. If a willing buyer agrees to pay a specific price for something in high demand and short supply, how is that a ripoff? If you think the price is too high, then don't buy it. If you think the price is too high but still buy it, then you're an idiot, because, obviously, if it were, in fact, too high, then you wouldn't have bought it.
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Ah yes, the old Harry Lime excuse. In The Third Man, Orson Welles plays a character who hoarded penicillin after WWII, in Vienna, diluting it and selling it on the black market, with resulting deaths of children. This guy is not that ambitious as Welles’ Lime character, but he carries on a proud tradition.
 
Nickyjo said:
Ah yes, the old Harry Lime excuse. In The Third Man, Orson Welles plays a character who hoarded penicillin after WWII, in Vienna, diluting it and selling it on the black market, with resulting deaths of children. This guy is not that ambitious as Welles’ Lime character, but he carries on a proud tradition.
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Another terrible analogy. What you described--taking a life-saving antibiotic and adulterating it--is a criminal act. On the other hand, if prices aren't permitted to increase when demand increases no one should be surprised at the result.

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Coronavirus in US pictures: Low traffic, empty grocery store shelves
 
Ahlevah said:
Another terrible analogy. What you described--taking a life-saving antibiotic and adulterating it--is a criminal act. On the other hand, if prices aren't permitted to increase when demand increases no one should be surprised at the result.

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No, the guy was creating a black market as Harry Lime did in the film. Such people were subject to prison sentences. Obviously, this is nowhere near as bad as what the Lime character did, and given that we have soap and water to do the job, we can deal with his scheme. But it’s still pretty loathsome, and the analogy fits, limping as most analogies do.

Btw, Welles gives one of the great movie speeches, where I believe he describes the evils of Renaissance Italy, that nevertheless produced such mind-blowing art despite its crimes. He then describe the years of good government and stability in Switzerland which produced... the cuckoo clock! Worth checking the movie out just for that.
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3leftsdoo said:
I hope this doesn't blow your mind too badly...

Those interested in the truth?

They seek it out.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step.

When people are ready to trade Mother Goose for Noam & Howard & Chris & the like, they're ready, and not a moment sooner.

I ain't snatchin' no candy from babies & replacing it with broccoli!

:)
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Since we're going in the Buddhism direction.....

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One of my neighbors did something like this. When she told me, I encouraged her to share. She agreed. So I created a Google Sheets doc and shared it in our Nextdoor app. There's a column for contact information, a column for items that we have and can spare, and a column for items that we don't have and need. The response has been overwhelming and entirely positive.
 
3leftsdoo said:
Now we're cooking!

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You will be cooking as long as you stay away from “opinion blogs” for your news sources along with Breitbart, Hannity and Fox news,
Just sayin’..
 
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