Attorneys General across the United States are cracking down on
individuals and businesses that are selling hand-sanitizer, face
masks, disinfectants, and other products at a substantial mark-up,
taking advantage of product shortages related to COVID-19.
Over the weekend, a New York Times article, which was
widely circulated across social media platforms, reported that two
Tennessee men, Matt and Noah Colvin, had bought over 17,000 bottles
of hand-sanitizer in the past several weeks and were selling them
on Amazon for multiples higher than what they had paid for them.
Consumers, who were unable to find hand-sanitizer online or at
local retailers, paid between $8 and $70 a bottle for
hand-sanitizer that the Colvins had posted on Amazon.
