{"id":142122,"date":"2020-02-25T15:40:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T15:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/online-prices-skyrocket-in-italy-amid-coronavirus-fears\/"},"modified":"2020-02-25T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T15:40:10","slug":"online-prices-skyrocket-in-italy-amid-coronavirus-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/online-prices-skyrocket-in-italy-amid-coronavirus-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Online prices skyrocket in Italy amid coronavirus fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online retailers in Italy have found an easy way to take advantage of widespread coronavirus panic: hawking sold-out products for exorbitant prices.<\/p>\n<p>While pharmacies run out of sanitizing products and masks, the same items appeared online at inflated prices set by individual merchants.<\/p>\n<p>A 250 ml. bottle of Amuchina \u2014 a popular hand sanitizer which normally costs \u20ac7.50 \u2014 was sold for \u20ac50 on eBay Monday. A one-liter bottle of the same product reached a record price of \u20ac799.<\/p>\n<p>Overpriced common products were displayed as specifically conceived to protect against the virus, even if they are not.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians and consumer groups promptly pointed the finger at online merchants and platforms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not free market [but] a shameful speculation that has to be stopped immediately,\u201d reads a parliamentary question submitted Monday by Partito Democratico MP Marianna Madia. The center-left group is part of the governing coalition.<\/p>\n<p>Codacons, a major Italian consumer organization, filed a complaint Monday with 104 public prosecutors offices across the country. It also notified the Italian antitrust watchdog, accusing vendors of fraud and unfair commercial practices.<\/p>\n<p>Even if prices displayed on e-commerce websites such as Amazon or eBay are freely determined by merchants according to supply and demand, the organization believes that platforms should share the blame.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon made clear in a statement that only sellers have the power to determine prices, and promised to delete pages which do not comply with internal rules. Consumer groups, however, see things differently.<\/p>\n<p>Even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/online-prices-skyrocket-in-italy-amid-coronavirus-fears\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More \u2013 Source<\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>[contf] [contfnew]         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/snap.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/politico-logo.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">politico<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc] [contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online retailers in Italy have found an easy way to take adv..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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