{"id":23800,"date":"2020-04-17T16:29:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T23:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23800"},"modified":"2020-04-17T16:29:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T23:29:51","slug":"amazon-suspends-over-6000-sellers-for-price-gouging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23800","title":{"rendered":"Amazon suspends over 6,000 sellers for price gouging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has suspended more than 6,000 vendors, totaling more than 500,000 listings, from its website for price gouging during the coronavirus pandemic, CEO and founder Jeff Bezos told investors Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Amazon\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/idnzptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqzmbggv_ucghnnwqwshnmphfwymp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/idnzptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqzmbggv_ucghnnwqwshnmphfwymp.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1587250146561000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF9tPcL-5PGUpCT34A1IoP6cvjoNQ\">in a blog post last month<\/a>\u00a0said it had suspended over 3,900 vendors on its U.S. site.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amazon turned over information about sellers we suspect engaged in price gouging of products related to COVID-19 to 42 state attorneys general offices,&#8221; Bezos\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ehppjvdlqrrfcvcrftbqqfppqdfwrdrkkhqlvzwpbtddt_ucghnnwqwshnmphfwymp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ehppjvdlqrrfcvcrftbqqfppqdfwrdrkkhqlvzwpbtddt_ucghnnwqwshnmphfwymp.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1587250146561000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEoIZ3o2W-NTNvUezoWn-O8HO4QkQ\">wrote in the letter<\/a>\u00a0to investors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To accelerate our response to price-gouging incidents, we created a special communication channel for state attorneys general to quickly and easily escalate consumer complaints to us,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Comes after previous criticism:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0The company has received criticism during the pandemic for the lack of availability of essential goods such as hand sanitizer and toilet paper.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the letter, Bezos said that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lnhqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwcqjdzzj_ucghnnwqwshnmphfwymp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lnhqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwcqjdzzj_ucghnnwqwshnmphfwymp.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1587250146561000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEyBG8DTPJ0GQp__uZz4sXp33gS7A\">mass global testing would be needed<\/a>\u00a0to \u201cget the economy back up and running&#8221; after the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If every person could be tested regularly, it would make a huge difference in how we fight this virus,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Those who test positive could be quarantined and cared for, and everyone who tests negative could re-enter the economy with confidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has suspended more than 6,000&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23801,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23800\/revisions\/23801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}