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In response to "A Tennessee man who stockpiled 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer donated all of the supplies on Sunday. -- (link)" by budice

I can’t read the article, so this may be mentioned, but wasn’t he shut down/forced to donate it? It wasn’t out of the goodness of his heart. -- nm

Posted by kelly Mar 15 '20, 16:55

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His intent was to gouge, but on-line retailers shut him down. Then the news story ran and the public backlash force him to donate. -- nm - TWuG Mar 15, 17:15
I am not 100% sure, he might have made some overture about donating and then the AG stepped in and made sure it really happened. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 15, 16:59 1
- I think he was trying to make a deal after the AG stepped-in, saving face re: donations. That he said he didn’t intend to keep it out of the hands of - i.b.! Mar 15, 17:29

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