“I saw a demand,' said Matt Colvin, who admitted to buying up nearly 18,000 bottles of hand sanitizer at stores in Tennessee and Kentucky.
fears by buying up thousands of bottles of hand sanitizer and medical masks to resell at inflated prices have been ordered to halt operations amid an investigation by the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office.on Saturday shortly after they showed off their incredible stash of goods to media outlets.Chattanooga station WRCB-TV
“Just because it cost me $2 in the store doesn’t mean it’s not going to cost me $16 to get it to your door,” Colvin told the Times. “From being in a situation where what I’ve got coming and going could potentially put my family in a really good place financially to, ‘What the heck am I going to do with all of this?’” he told the Times.
She said the brothers donated the items voluntarily, but that doing so would not “get them off the hook.”
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