Australian Grocery Store Denies Refund to Toilet Paper Re-Seller
The potential profiteer hoped to be rolling in money, not toilet paper.(ShutterStock)
(IBEXNews) – An Australian man may be wiped out after his plan to re-sell toilet paper and hand sanitizer went down the tubes.
After buying $10,000 of bulk toilet paper and hand sanitizer from a Drakes Supermarket, the man tried and failed to sell the goods, hoping to profit off of coronavirus-fueled panic buying Down Under.
When he called the store to try and get a refund on the 132 packs of toilet paper and 150 liters of hand sanitizers, the store told him to buzz off.
“In that conversation [the shopper said] ‘my eBay site has been shut down, so we couldn’t profiteer off that’,” Drakes Supermarkets director John-Paul Drake told ABC Radio Adelaide.
“The person had a team of people that bought the products, because you’re only allowed to buy one of each at a time,” Drake told 3AW Radio in Australia. “So, you do your sums at 150 separate purchases to buy these. Absolutely disgraceful.”
In a video posted to YouTube, Drake called the potential profiteer “the sort of person that’s causing the problem in the whole country.”
Drake’s video has so far racked up close to 500,000 views since it was posted last week.