A Tennessee man who went viral after stockpiling 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer donated all of the products Sunday after Tennessee officials announced they would investigate him for price gouging amid the coronavirus pandemic that has infected more than 160,000 people worldwide.
A local church took two-thirds of the supply of hand sanitizer and antibacterial wipes from Matt Colvin, an Amazon seller who lives outside Chattanooga, Tenn. The church will distribute the supplies to those who need the products across the state, The New York Times reported.
Amazon and eBay suspended his accounts on the sites Sunday. The Tennessee attorney general’s office also sent him a cease-and-desist letter over the products, the office announced in a Saturday statement.
“We will not tolerate price gouging in this time of exceptional need, and we will take aggressive action to stop it,” Attorney General Herbert Slatery III of Tennessee said in the statement
Under Tennessee law, the attorney general’s office can “put a stop to price gouging and seek refunds for consumers,” according to the release.