AIBU to ask if you have two minutes, then please report the private sales of Calpol/medicines on eBay

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As part of eBay‘s cooperation with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) there will be a new enforcement of an eBay Medicine and Healthcare products policy. This means that from the 21st of January 2019, if you sell over the counter medicine on eBay you’ll have to be registered with the MHRA (which you already should be anyway) **

I hope you all agree that in these times the last thing that should be happening is people profiteering from those in need.

With medicines not vastly available on the shelves and not accessable to those that need them there are selfish people trying to gain for themselves and make quick money. It's also dangerous to buy medicines from an online source especially eBay as the condition of the items is unknown.

I am asking if you have a spare two minutes to report any listings you see for the sale of Calpol or other medicines, so they are removed from the site, this will hopefully begin to send a message that the resale of these items will not be profitable and keep some bottles on shelves.

In the last few days I have managed to end auctions of open packaged medications and a box of Calpol about to sell for £155.

I'm hoping the more that report, the more they will listen.

Thank you

I’m noticing a lot of these sellers have either zero or extremely low feedback. So they’ve blatantly joined eBay to con people with over priced goods. I’m now looking at the ‘sellers other items’ and reporting those too, maybe this will get the seller banned? Mind you they’d just open a new account in a different name.

Just went into eBay to do some reporting and the price gouging category looks like it has disappeared from the list in the second drop down box- anyone know where it is now?

I've no idea. I did see something on eBay that said they're clamping down on price gouging and closing accounts so maybe they've got people internally monitoring.

I've lost the price gouging option too - fingers crossed it's back soon.

It's back! Price gouging is now in both dropdown lists 1 and 2

They're getting a bit cleverer - this one mentions the MHRA guidelines but doesn't actually comply by including their registration number and approved link to the MHRA website in the post.

I've seen a few that do so it's not impossible, they're either too lazy to post it or they're not registered. Hmmm I wonder which it could be...

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/223957782155

Little bump onto active