Canadian couple reportedly made CAD$100,000 (around $72,000) buying large quantities of Lysol disinfectant wipes and reselling them at inflated rates on Amazon amid panic over the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
Manny Ranga, 38, and his wife Violeta Perez, 37, have quickly cashed in on fears caused by the virus by buying up stocks of wipes from local Costco outlets in Vancouver, Canada and selling them for more than four times the amount online, according to a Thursday article in The Toronto Star.
“It’s a big opportunity with all these products,” Ranga told paper. “I’ve got to pay the bills. With a regular job, I won’t be making this money… I know it won’t last forever.”
The couple were said to have begun their price gouging scheme a few weeks earlier, when the emerging outbreak inspired them to go on a shopping trip for themselves. Their new business model was hatched when a woman stopped them in the parking lot and offered to pay double for their supplies.
“Everything we do, we’re in the moment,” Perez told the paper. “We’re hustlers.”
The pair frequently travel from store to store in their area, loading up their truck whenever new stocks of items like wipes and cleaning liquid become available. Bulkier in-demand items like toilet paper are less favored because they are difficult to store and ship.
When one Costco location threatened to place limits on the amount of wipes the couple could buy, Perez claimed that such a limit was “not fair” because other people were also engaging in price gouging schemes.
The couple were said to be trading on Amazon’s marketplace platform under the name “Violeta & Sons trading ltd,” according to the article. One listing was said to feature a CAD$20 (about $14.50) package of wipes being offered for CAD$89 (around $64.50).
There are always parasites who will take advantage of a crisis to make a buck. Usually these people are Jews and third world dindus, but obviously some degenerate white people are doing this.
Would you pay $149 for a two-pack of 12-ounce bottles of Purell? How about a single container of Clorox wipes for $44.25, plus $14.59 shipping?
As the coronavirus spreads and people rush to protect themselves and their families from getting sick, the U.S. is seeing heavy demand for everything from masks to hand sanitizer.
Shoppers scouring the internet and Main Street for these critical supplies say they are being hit with eye-popping prices. Shipping costs have also skyrocketed, with one shopper being quoted $500 for ground and $5,000 for next-day air.
Third-party sellers who stock the vast virtual shelves of Amazon.com, Walmart and eBay seem to be testing what the market will bear. And social media has been flooded with complaints. Even California Gov. Gavin Newsom joined the chorus Tuesday: “Seriously, @amazon? These prices are absurd.”
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, whose state has been hit the hardest by the coronavirus outbreak, said his office is investigating and asked for residents to file complaints if they spot gouging.
This coronavirus panic has revealed how stupid and drone-like most people are.
These kooks are literally fist-fighting each other in stores over toilet paper and other shit.
These animals will kill each other over toilet rolls because they’re so panicked.
Apes.
“Manny Ranga and his wife Violeta Perez”
Given their names, Ranga and Perez, they are NOT white.
They’re living off white Canada and screwing their “fellow” citizens in their new “homeland.”
Our spokesman Nick Fuentes talks about this regularly, but Martinez missed it in this case.