The brothers reportedly acquired more than 17,000 bottles of hand sanitizer.
As cleaning supplies and hand sanitizer fly off grocery store shelves in a rush of coronavirus panic shopping,Noah Colvin, of Hixson, Tennessee, took a 1,300-mile road trip in early March across Tennessee and Kentucky, racking up thousands of bottles of hand sanitizer to resell online.
Meanwhile, his brother Matt stayed at home, waiting for pallets of antibacterial wipes and even more sanitizer to be shipped, according to aThe two then sold sanitizer online at a steep markup — $8 to $70 a pop. But Amazon quickly removed their listings amid a larger effort to stop coronavirus-related price gouging.
Now, the brothers reportedly have more than 17,000 bottles of hand sanitizer and nowhere to go — and two attorneys general who demand they stop buying more.On Saturday night, Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery III announced his office had ordered the Colvins to stop buying and selling while they're investigated for price gouging.
“We will not tolerate price gouging in this time of exceptional need, and we will take aggressive action to stop it,” said Slatery in a press release. Tennessee and Kentucky have anti-price gouging laws to prevent necessities from being sold at a mark-up during states of emergency — a status that both states are under to fight the coronavirus.
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