To buy a load of Prime drinks?

[Dowhahdiddy]

I’m currently abroad and those Prime drinks that everyone is going gaga over in the UK for, are easily available here and only £1.40 a bottle. AIBU to buy a boatload and sell them all on eBay when I get back to the UK next week? I’ve seen people selling empty bottles for £50 each on eBay!! I think it’s ridiculous that people are paying those prices but, I wouldn’t be forcing anyone to buy them, I’d just stick them into auction and people can pay whatever they’re willing to pay. A fool and their money and all that? Should I cash in whilst I can?

What the hell 😭

Children have been selling it at my son's school for £10. It's caused huge problems and been banned at school as a result. These are primarily marketed at children who are willing to spend their pocket money in this way because they have no awareness of exploitation or value for money. I find the sale of Prime at those prices and profiting from children totally immoral. I can't wait for it to become readily available and for this ridiculous craze to stop. It has a very limited 'shelf life' and Logan Paul doesn't seem like a very good role model.

Yes they are. The reason it's hard to find is because of people like OP scalping and buying in bulk

Got the feeling this is a bit of a one off tbh. In a single bag. OP isn't doing this for a living or in bulk and affecting the entire market. 🙄

I’d never heard of it. It’s just another version of red bull dressed up as a high performance drink? Why is it so popular?

And why would you give it to your kids?

Which is understandable, but then if you begin bidding at £1 eg, per bottle then if it goes high and sells does that make it more ethical due to the public themselves bidding it that high ?

Let’s face it, OP isn’t going to list them at £1 if they cost more than that to buy and she’s got 40+ is she? By the time you’ve factored in PayPal fees and postage, it isn’t worth it.

She knows other sellers are exploiting people and wants a slice of the pie. She’s trying to make herself feel better by declaring that it’ll be an auction but ultimately she’s out to make a silly amount of money off the back of desperate kids, so yeah, it’s unethical.

But any business or company then could be perceived as similar, so then would a fairer system be no individuals can make a profit, only companies ?

Companies already make a profit at their retail prices. Everyone has to make money and live, so I get that, but It’s not then up to the OP to bulk buy all the stock and make even more profit. It is immoral. I know stores inflate prices when things are in demand but it doesn’t make it right.

She knows other sellers are exploiting people and wants a slice of the pie. She’s trying to make herself feel better by declaring that it’ll be an auction but ultimately she’s out to make a silly amount of money off the back of desperate kids, so yeah, it’s unethical.

See

North Face
Carhartt
Nike
Adidas
etc etc

Fidget Spinners
Loom Bands
Trading Cards
etc etc etc

All making money of the backs of desperate kids

We probably all buy into it. Some won't I know. But it's very condescending to be telling OP off for what we willingly/unwillingly already buy into.

You know exactly what I’m getting at. There are already enough people being exploited as it is without adding to it.

You know exactly what I’m getting at. There are already enough people being exploited as it is without adding to it.m

I do.

But many of the posters berating OP will have over bid on Ebay for a sold out goodie and waived their kids off to school in their Nike Airforces etc ( sold at crazy prices for 'desperate' kids ) so I'm just finding it all quite hypocritical over a bag of Prime.

If as PP say, they taste disgusting, all those parents who spent £1000 in Aldi for a tray of 12 are going to be left with open packs of 11 sitting in the bedrooms of kids all over the country.

Soon you won't be able to give them away.

Agreed.

I disagree with the first companies named on your list, they were set up and exist as sport/outdoor brands for all ages and just have phases where they are popular with kids. As an adult in my 30s I’ve bought those brands for years and still do.

Prime is set up by YouTubers to specifically target kids. Completely different.

But most sellers on eBay are selling things second hand, or new that can’t be returned so are listed on there to get their money back (not everyone I know, and I would say the same about them)

This is different, OP is actively trying to profit from a £1.40 drink which she is obviously hoping sells for considerably more to make the costs worthwhile.

’Individuals’ are the CEO’s of the company that makes the drink, so individuals make plenty of profit at the £1.40 retail price.

All making money of the backs of desperate kids

You make it sound like the OP is charging for access to a freshwater well in sub Saharan Africa. If people are dopey enough to pay over the odds for a soft drink then that is on them. Fads and short lived trends in the playground have been around forever and most kids learn a few lessons about not jumping on the hype train with their pocket money. Certainly my parents sat me down and gave me a harsh lecture on household income and where said income came from whenever I pestered them for money to spend on shit.

*I disagree with the first companies named on your list, they were set up and exist as sport/outdoor brands for all ages and just have phases where they are popular with kids. As an adult in my 30s I’ve bought those brands for years and still do.

Prime is set up by YouTubers to specifically target kids. Completely different.*

Those companies make goods at fraction of what they sell them to buyers who have bought into the branding in exactly the same way.

*I disagree with the first companies named on your list, they were set up and exist as sport/outdoor brands for all ages and just have phases where they are popular with kids. As an adult in my 30s I’ve bought those brands for years and still do.

Prime is set up by YouTubers to specifically target kids. Completely different.**

Those companies make goods at fraction of what they sell them to buyers who have bought into the branding in exactly the same way.

This is different, OP is actively trying to profit from a £1.40 drink which she is obviously hoping sells for considerably more to make the costs worthwhile.

Yep like most people who sell stuff.

It’s different though and you know it. Businesses make things or buy them from wholesalers and sell them at similar retail prices generally, not buy them from a shop and then inflate the price even further.

Don’t be deliberately ignorant. It’s wrong.

Of course they do but they aren’t targeting 10-14 yr olds specifically with what they know is a shit product and artificially creating a bubble to build hype.

Of course they do but they aren’t targeting 10-14 yr olds specifically with what they know is a shit product and artificially creating a bubble to build hype.

I'd disagree with you.

Have you seen the price of Nike Airforces? The school shoe.

Of course they do but they aren’t targeting 10-14 yr olds specifically with what they know is a shit product and artificially creating a bubble to build hype.

I'd disagree with you.

Have you seen the price of Nike Airforces? The school shoe.