Submitted on Sunday 22nd March 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 31st March 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Ban the sale of essential goods above RRP price during COVID19
Ban the sale of goods such as medicines, household essentials, sanitising, food, etc. on all online marketplaces, and other markets as necessary, above the Recommended Retail Price (RRP) to restrict profiteering whilst COVID19 is present in the UK.
Online marketplaces have been flooded by malicious sellers looking to profiteer from the panic buying, and no doubt many contributed to the shortages by bulk buying retail stock to resell.
To help people receive goods they need, a ban of sale above RRP on certain goods will allow that stock to be sold at a fair price and stop people from buying further stock to profiteer with price gouging.
For example, Calpol for babies is unfairly being sold at £10+ a bottle on eBay. Normally sold at £3.50
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/303070
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