Amazon has come under fire after three of its sellers were charged with price gouging hand sanitiser by New York’s attorney general.
Three third-party sellers have been fined more than $52,000 in penalties and forced to refund customers nearly $23,000 after being found to have sold thousands of units of hand sanitiser at “grossly” inflated prices.
One seller, Northwest-Lux, is understood to have sold 1168 two-litre bottles of Purell hand sanitiser, which usually retail for between $20 and $35, for between $79.99 and $129.99 from March 1 to March 6.
