OT: Panic Buying. When Will it End?

C_Money · Post #41 » by **C_Money** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:30 am

RaptorsJunkie wrote:It's stupid not to stock up. A real man will spend at least a few hundred dollars to protect his family. My worst case scenario is I'm down a grand or so while others worst case scenario is hunger/death. I'm also prepped for any social unrest. IMO, I'd rather be prepped to ensure the survival of my family even if the possibility were low for it to come to that.

Lol so you are one of the crazy f*ckers we keep hearing about on the news. Here he is guys :lol:

Raps in 4 · Post #42 » by **Raps in 4** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:31 am

RaptorsJunkie wrote:
Basketball_Jones wrote:Give it a few more days. Stores will re-up and all the people that had their share likely wont do it again. Well, they better friggin not...anyways, I’m not hoarding nothing. Just go out every morning for my usual drive through coffee and hit up shoppers/rexall/sobeys until it calms down and I have what I need. BTW baby wipes is better then toilet paper man oh man grabbed ONE pack of that to hold me over. Didn’t hoard it like an ass.

You can't flush a wipe though, so if you like keeping that around the house until garbage day then I'd agree.

Some brands are flushable.

Raps in 4 · Post #43 » by **Raps in 4** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:35 am

For anyone buying inordinate amounts of hand sanitizer/wipes, remember that soap and water are much more effective at dislodging viruses than hand sanitizer (the latter is only useful when you're out and about without soap + water nearby). All you are doing is drying out your skin when you keep lathering alcohol-based sanitizer on it every 15 minutes.

Johnny Bball · Post #44 » by **Johnny Bball** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:37 am

I went at 8 PM and it was nearly empty. I have no clue why anyone would fight the crowds. They will re-stock and the people holding 8 years of food, toilet paper, purrell, pasta and tampons won't come back. It won't take long.

And yeah, hoarding this stuff is pure **** stupid.

YelloC · Post #45 » by **YelloC** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:37 am

If you see someone with a cart full of toilet paper just make a loud observation about how gigantic their turds must be or how bad a case of diarrhea they must have.

Raps in 4 · Post #46 » by **Raps in 4** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:39 am

VancouverRaps · Post #47 » by **VancouverRaps** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:41 am

Johnny Bball wrote:I went at 8 PM and it was nearly empty. I have no clue why anyone would fight the crowds. They will re-stock and the people holding 8 years of food, toilet paper, purrell, pasta and tampons won't come back. It won't take long.

And yeah, hoarding this stuff is pure **** stupid.

There's a couple in Vancouver that's made thousands of dollars in profit just by reselling Lysol wipes for 2.5x or 3x the sale price

I'm not sure who I'm more disappointed in, the opportunists or the idiots paying them when there's alternatives available in stores lol

My faith in humanity is definitely lower today than it was a couple of months ago.

Johnny Bball · Post #48 » by **Johnny Bball** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:44 am

NUCKER101 wrote:
Johnny Bball wrote:I went at 8 PM and it was nearly empty. I have no clue why anyone would fight the crowds. They will re-stock and the people holding 8 years of food, toilet paper, purrell, pasta and tampons won't come back. It won't take long.

And yeah, hoarding this stuff is pure **** stupid.

There's a couple in Vancouver that's made thousands of dollars in profit just by reselling Lysol wipes for 2.5x or 3x the sale price

I'm not sure who I'm more disappointed in, the opportunists or the idiots paying them when there's alternatives available in stores lol

My faith in humanity is definitely lower today than it was a couple of months ago.

The easy solution to hit them is wait until they don;t claim it on their taxes. Then hit them where it hurts, the wallet. Because I'm damn sure they aren't paying and submitting the HST.

Basketball_Jones · Post #49 » by **Basketball_Jones** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:47 am

RaptorsJunkie wrote:
Basketball_Jones wrote:Give it a few more days. Stores will re-up and all the people that had their share likely wont do it again. Well, they better friggin not...anyways, I’m not hoarding nothing. Just go out every morning for my usual drive through coffee and hit up shoppers/rexall/sobeys until it calms down and I have what I need. BTW baby wipes is better then toilet paper man oh man grabbed ONE pack of that to hold me over. Didn’t hoard it like an ass.

You can't flush a wipe though, so if you like keeping that around the house until garbage day then I'd agree.

Oh damn I didn’t realize they weren’t flushable. I know other people have been doing it for years though no problems.

Lord_Zedd · Post #50 » by **Lord_Zedd** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:49 am

NUCKER101 wrote:
Johnny Bball wrote:I went at 8 PM and it was nearly empty. I have no clue why anyone would fight the crowds. They will re-stock and the people holding 8 years of food, toilet paper, purrell, pasta and tampons won't come back. It won't take long.

And yeah, hoarding this stuff is pure **** stupid.

There's a couple in Vancouver that's made thousands of dollars in profit just by reselling Lysol wipes for 2.5x or 3x the sale price

I'm not sure who I'm more disappointed in, the opportunists or the idiots paying them when there's alternatives available in stores lol

My faith in humanity is definitely lower today than it was a couple of months ago.

The couple they featured on the news is a piece of work. Drug hustlers and construction scam artists.

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Accused+Vancouver+ecstasy+smuggler+loses+extradition+appeal/6187359/story.html
https://www.nsnews.com/news/man-in-custody-after-alleged-north-vancouver-condo-rampage-1.1773959
https://canada-complaints.com/construction-repair/25413-mandeep-kumar-ranga-cdoesnt-pay-trades-in-full-bad-service-rip-off-drug-dealer-headaches-owner-has-to-pay-off-leans.html
https://www.bchousing.org/licensing-consumer-services/legal/enforcement-registry?enforcementId=1479152672708

Jay240 · Post #51 » by **Jay240** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:50 am

I think if people were smart and think of others. Think about your own situation... how long does a roll of toilet paper last in your household? People are buying way too much and not thinking it through. Even if you run out just hop in the shower or disgusting as it sounds find an old cloth, dish rag, t-shirt whatever. Use it and toss it in the trash or washer.

Toilet paper isnt a necessity of life... its a convenience.

Bottled water.... buy a water filter. My fridge has a filtered water dispenser built-in.

Bread? I've got flour, yeast and a bread maker.

Milk and eggs, unfortunately I don't own a chicken or a cow. So I'm stuck going to the store.

But heres the thing. Unless you're ordered to stay in isolation by a doctor or health official then you can leave your house to buy groceries.

Italy left their grocery stores and pharmacies open for that reason. People that don't need to stay inside don't have to, they're just being asked to spend more time indoors for now.

Like what they say when we get a bad snow storm here. If you don't need to leave the house then stay in.

steamed hams · Post #52 » by **steamed hams** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:51 am

if you're home and need toilet paper, you can easily just wash your ass. Toilet paper is probably like the least of my worries. Food >>>>>>>>>>>> toilet paper. It's not like an earthquake where the water and electric lines are off

Basketball_Jones · Post #53 » by **Basketball_Jones** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:52 am

C_Money wrote:
RaptorsJunkie wrote:It's stupid not to stock up. A real man will spend at least a few hundred dollars to protect his family. My worst case scenario is I'm down a grand or so while others worst case scenario is hunger/death. I'm also prepped for any social unrest. IMO, I'd rather be prepped to ensure the survival of my family even if the possibility were low for it to come to that.

Lol so you are one of the crazy f*ckers we keep hearing about on the news. Here he is guys

I get there’s special circumstances, but you can’t tell me all these freakin people are single parents or have young kids or are elderly. Those people it makes sense to stock, but only to a point (10 of everything is ridiculous). It’s the paranoids that are following suit in panic that are pissing me off.

VancouverRaps · Post #54 » by **VancouverRaps** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:53 am

Johnny Bball wrote:
NUCKER101 wrote:
Johnny Bball wrote:I went at 8 PM and it was nearly empty. I have no clue why anyone would fight the crowds. They will re-stock and the people holding 8 years of food, toilet paper, purrell, pasta and tampons won't come back. It won't take long.

And yeah, hoarding this stuff is pure **** stupid.

There's a couple in Vancouver that's made thousands of dollars in profit just by reselling Lysol wipes for 2.5x or 3x the sale price

I'm not sure who I'm more disappointed in, the opportunists or the idiots paying them when there's alternatives available in stores lol

My faith in humanity is definitely lower today than it was a couple of months ago.

The easy solution to hit them is wait until they don;t claim it on their taxes. Then hit them where it hurts, the wallet. Because I'm damn sure they aren't paying and submitting the HST.

Their full names have been exposed in the local media here, even the local sports radio shows talked about them, the husband is a scumbag and he's known to authorities, it'll be hard for them to escape getting some justice served to them. See Lord Zedd's post above.

VancouverRaps · Post #55 » by **VancouverRaps** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:54 am

steamed hams wrote:if you're home and need toilet paper, you can easily just wash your ass. Toilet paper is probably like the least of my worries. Food >>>>>>>>>>>> toilet paper. It's not like an earthquake where the water and electric lines are off

and even the European countries in lockdown are still letting people go out and buy food/supplies.

xAIRNESSx · Post #56 » by **xAIRNESSx** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:56 am

The toilet paper hysteria is one of the funnier things. Canada's largest producer even said there won't be a shortage but people are still losing their minds.

Humans are so interesting.

RaptorsJunkie · Post #57 » by **RaptorsJunkie** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:57 am

Kevin Willis wrote:
RaptorsJunkie wrote:It's stupid not to stock up. A real man will spend at least a few hundred dollars to protect his family. My worst case scenario is I'm down a grand or so while others worst case scenario is hunger/death. I'm also prepped for any social unrest. IMO, I'd rather be prepped to ensure the survival of my family even if the possibility were low for it to come to that.

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Panic Buying - Prepping

Johnny Bball · Post #58 » by **Johnny Bball** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:59 am

Oh I almost forgot... it's not just the people doing this, it's **** Loblaws. The Gaylea butter was 7.19/lb. It's never been that much. I have also never seen a day where there was zero on sale. Well all of a sudden... nothing is on sale.

Loblaws, if they think I'm not going to remember that and I'm not going to recover my pound of flesh back later, they are really **** mistaken. I left that place pretty disgusted by even higher prices for a fair bit of items and flat out profiteering.

RaptorsJunkie · Post #59 » by **RaptorsJunkie** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 3:00 am

C_Money wrote:
RaptorsJunkie wrote:It's stupid not to stock up. A real man will spend at least a few hundred dollars to protect his family. My worst case scenario is I'm down a grand or so while others worst case scenario is hunger/death. I'm also prepped for any social unrest. IMO, I'd rather be prepped to ensure the survival of my family even if the possibility were low for it to come to that.

Lol so you are one of the crazy f*ckers we keep hearing about on the news. Here he is guys

You think it's crazy to do whatever it takes to protect your family?

It means I'm an alpha male. I will walk over betas and not think twice.

Chandan · Post #60 » by **Chandan** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 3:00 am

In hong Kong it went back to normal within three days.