Customer gouging on eBay during the CoVid-19 (Novel Coronavirus) outbreak

Recently, during the initial stages of the outbreak in the U.S., public announcements were made regarding the punishment of those who would charge outrageous prices for items related to personal saety and health during th outbreak, namely, masks, medicines and the like.

Amazon.com, among others, began weeding out violators.

To my amazement, eBay has done little or nothing. You can readily find twenty-dollar disposable masks. Before the injunction, I found a one-hundred-twenty dollar mask.

My experience has shown eBay to have questionable ethics. I get the imression that eBay exercises the highest ethics when there is no challenge, or issue. But, when a contest occurs, the ethics seem to fade away and give way to fiduciary fundamentalism.

This works in most cases, most of the time. In general, eBay is a good place to do business if some common sense and restraint is exercised.

Unfortunately, in this time of crisis, eBay's lip-service to ethics is revealed and is glaringly obvious.