Fox News: Californians File Class Action Lawsuit Against Amazon for Price-Gouging

RUSH EXCERPT:

LARSON: “Exactly. It’s interesting because early on, when this pandemic started to make headlines and people started buying more and more things, Amazon made it very clear, it’s their policy for themselves and their policy for their third party sellers that they won’t allow price gouging. But after the state of emergency went into effect in late March in California, many residents in California noted things that they had normally bought through the site were seeing price increases of 50 to 500%. So clearly, not the case and this was across the board. Purchasing Amazon products as well as purchasing products through third-party sellers which Amazon sets the rules for them and they are free to set the pricing that they want to do and they have to keep it within a certain constraint, but we saw this a month ago with certain products. You wanted to try and buy a face mask, if you wanted to buy hand sanitizer and things like that, they were selling for upwards of $100 for just a little 8-ounce bottle of hand sanitizer. So definitely, still some shenanigans going on. Let’s hope this was early on in the crisis and that Amazon will get this figured out.”