Hey @tobi, I'm a big fan of yours and Shopify, but I think the recent Shopify suppression of alleged "price-gouging" products is wrongheaded.
Without getting into the economic debate of whether or not higher prices spur greater supply, let's take a look.
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Molson Hart Retweeted Undaunted Brands
First of all, my man Rick is right. Air shipping prices are skyrocketing because there are no passenger flights from China to USA/Canada right now. Those passenger flights carry cargo. Less supply with skyrocketing demand means higher prices for imports.https://twitter.com/UndauntedBrands/status/1243574943704547330 …
Molson Hart added,
Undaunted Brands @UndauntedBrands@tobi@Shopify Unpublishing sellers products from their store because you say it's price gouging is OUTRAGEOUS. Prices slightly above pre-pandemic prices due to production/inbound shipping costs SKYROCKETING is NOT gouging. I sacrificed margin to keep prices low.#ByeShopify1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
Second, I'm in a group of about 375 Amazon sellers. In aggregate we do well over a billion dollars on the platform. We all hate it and we love Shopify? Why? Because Shopify doesn't usually do what was done here. They don't incorrectly interfere. I understand that
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to do the right thing by stopping people from taking selfish advantage of the crisis we have in mask equipment right now, but a lot of innocent people get caught up in that when Shopify gets it wrong, as has happened here.
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Can you have a member of your team take a look at @undauntedbrand's store and see what caused the misunderstanding? Thanks very much! Molson
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P.S. here's their (currently) suspended store http://carebonne.com/ pic.twitter.com/N1u3uMXfiY
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Replying to @Molson_Hart
When
@Shopify and@tobi raise prices due to increased business costs, will that also be price gouging? Hypocrites.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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