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Amazon sellers brace for a bleak holiday shopping season as inflation-bitten consumers curb spending. Many fear they’ll have to cut prices.

Rogue sellers order Dum Dums from Sam’s Club and resell them at a markup, undercutting Spangler Candy Co. on price and violating Amazon policy.

Buy Nothing groups are easier to find and join than ever. But there are rules and ethics and etiquette to consider.

Pandemic fueled a hot hustle: By Ronald D. White - Los Angeles Times John Traches, who runs JT’s Merchandise Outlet in Santa Fe Springs, Calif., has created a thriving business reselling items during the pandemic. Photographed at JT’s Merchandise Outlet on April 27 in Santa Fe Springs, CA. It’s a hustle as old as humankind: Get something on the cheap; persuade someone to take it off your hands for more. After the pandemic shut people in and wiped out jobs, the gig got supercharged. One c...

Is this even legal? As long as the merchandise has been legally purchased, retailers can’t prevent you from selling it again to a different buyer. Some retailers require resellers to deface labels, bar codes and QR codes. And there have been instances in which brand owners issued cease-and-desist demands, but those appear to have been rare. Hang on to sales receipts, however, just in case. There is one way folks involved in reselling can get themselves into serious trouble, and that is by no...