Wednesday, March 18, 2020

He has 17,000 bottles of hand sanitizer and nowhere to sale them.



Thôi sống làm chi với niềm đau
Lạnh lùng một bóng với trăng sao
Bao nhiêu ảo ảnh vùi theo gió
Chờ ngày nắng ấm thổi về mau

Dĩ vãng trôi qua đếm chi sầu
Số phận con người đặt để trao
Thương, yêu, hận, tủi là phù mộng
Quay gót, vô tâm tim chẳng đau

Hụt hẩng ngàn lần có gì đâu?
Thời gian là liều thuốc nhiệm mầu
Mong cho muối xát con tim nhỏ
Thanh thảnh cho đời thôi hư hao

nói không nói không màn, không tranh, không ghét mà giờ phải ghét, Có ai có thể tưởng tượng được trong lúc giăc "bịnh" vi trùng ký sinh học của tổ cha thằng Chinese mang ra làm hại cả thế giới vậy mà có nhiều người tham lam, tật đố, vơ vét hết đồ về mình. Không biết rồi nó có mạng sống để xài không? Xin bà con hãy sống bằng tình thương, nhẹ nhàng, đâu có phải tận thế chết hết đâu mà phải sợ?  Ai cũng chết một mình mình sống với ai?

An Amazon merchant, Matt Colvin, with an overflow stock of cleaning and sanitizing supplies in his garage in Hixson, Tenn.
An Amazon merchant, Matt Colvin, with an overflowing stock of cleaning and sanitizing supplies in his garage in Hixson, Tenn.Credit...Doug Strickland for The New York Time

On March 1, the day after the first coronavirus death in the United States was announced, brothers Matt and Noah Colvin set out in a silver S.U.V. to pick up some hand sanitizer. Driving around Chattanooga, Tenn., they hit a Dollar Tree, then a Walmart, a Staples and a Home Depot. At each store, they cleaned out the shelves.

Over the next three days, Noah Colvin took a 1,300-mile road trip across Tennessee and into Kentucky, filling a U-Haul truck with thousands of bottles of hand sanitizer and thousands of packs of antibacterial wipes, mostly from “little hole-in-the-wall dollar stores in the backwoods,” his brother said. “The major metro areas were cleaned out.”

Matt Colvin stayed home near Chattanooga, preparing for pallets of even more wipes and sanitizer he had ordered, and starting to list them on Amazon. Mr. Colvin said he had posted 300 bottles of hand sanitizer and immediately sold them all for between $8 and $70 each, multiples higher than what he had bought them for. To him, “it was crazy money.” To many others, it was profiteering from a pandemic.

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The next day, Amazon pulled his items and thousands of other listings for sanitizer, wipes and face masks. The company suspended some of the sellers behind the listings and warned many others that if they kept running up prices, they’d lose their accounts. EBay soon followed with even stricter measures, prohibiting any U.S. sales of masks or sanitizer.

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