Because it’s not illegal, just immoral.
JakenVeina@midwest.social 16 hours ago
How is it that eBay doesn’t have any resposibility for helping to crack down on these?
then_three_more@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
This is mostly what it’s designed for, peak capitalism. If it weren’t for the scam concerns presented by the fact that this is a spot in line and not actually a real product sale, eBay would want to have more of this.
artyom@piefed.social 14 hours ago
If fleaBay stopped them, they’d just do it somewhere else and then they would lose profits and solve nothing. It’s really not their responsibility.
When Ford and Tesla tried to stop stuff like this they were lambasted for infringing on customer freedoms.
https://carbuzz.com/news/ford-sues-john-cena-for-flipping-his-gt-supercar-and-making-a-profit/
mrfriki@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Probably because there are not a firm law on scalping, on top of being international site which makes applying laws even more difficult.
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Yea… but also, they’re a private business, they don’t have to accept it. It’s called having integrity.
It’s pretty slimey to be like “welp, it’s immoral, but not illegal, so we’ll profit off of it”.
then_three_more@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
It’s a business and an American one at that. Of course they’re going to put profit over morality.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
And stop it how exactly?
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 12 hours ago
Company policy to delist scalped products. It’s quite simple. It’s not like these listings are hard to find.
FlordaMan@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
It’s a corporation. They only care about money. Integrity is only important to them if it leads to more money.