When will we be able to readily purchase cleaning products, sanitizer, and toilet paper again?

I also never thought I'd see the day where anyone would pay $150+ (with shipping) for a bottle of glycerin and rubbing alcohol.

I have the same question, OP! I thought that we’d at least be able to find some of these items by now, but it’s still extremely scarce out there and I haven’t been able to really find any of the items you mentioned (including rubbing alcohol) almost a month since this all began...

I found bog roll yesterday in London at WILKO - which is a sort of new Woolworth's here. I told my neighbour about WILKO (89 yrs old ) in my daily email and she was most sniffy about it.

I happen to have loved Woolworth's...and now WILKO.

But no lunch counter, sadly.

Thank you, OP. I just reported this asshole for price gouging.

That should be reply 1.

R5 you ain't seen nothin' yet—people are willingly paying $1,500+ for a box of 12

It doesn't bother me as much when the bid goes that high organically, r6. The seller in the r1 auction has his reserve for one bottle set higher than the current high bid of $152.00. That's gouging.

I did too, r4.

R7, those bids are fake bids to build up the price. Don’t be fooled. I reported both for gouging.

[quote] I told my neighbour about WILKO (89 yrs old ) in my daily email and she was most sniffy about it.

I would be too if, at 89 years old, I got an email from you. Every. Fucking. Day.

R8, how do you distinguish a fake bid from a real bid?

I am buying it all out still bitches. I have over 144 rolls and still need more! Get out of my way and get a bidet.

I have OCD, I use Hand sanitizer every damn day. All of a sudden, I can't find what I need cause fools have decided to become germaphobes in the last few weeks. Motherfuckers, this is my life! do you not know that I live and breathe germaphobia! How dare you deny me my Clorox, Wet Ones, and Purell!. I am not a stable person, I needs my Isopropyl!!!

And Scene....

r11 has a humongous ass to wipe.

R10, there’s no obvious way, or eBay would shut down the account. One way to do it, though, is to have all your friends and family “bid” on the item to boost the price. If they “win,” you simply shut the listing and repost later.

But it’s quite suspicious to get numerous bids on an item that would ordinarily cost maybe $12-15 going for over a thousand, in spite of the pandemic.

And in reality, all you need is to collaborate with two other friends to bid against each other.

My local Wegmans has been flush with bottled water and paper towels the past week after being completely out of stock. The toilet paper, while still sporadic, is there if you go early in the morning but I’d imagine they’re working on getting more of that, too.

Give it some time. They’re all dealing with unprecedented supply chain issues right now.

Yeah - I don’t understand how people are still buying huge supplies. Don’t they already have like 2 months worth? I haven’t bought any since this started. Now, obscure items like frozen organic blueberries are selling out daily. WTF? Who is buying huge quantities of frozen organic blueberries? Like months worth?

Interesting behavior - curious if this evidences our animalistic behavior of survival or our trained capitalist/materialistic behavior that makes us find safety in possessions.