Get them while they're hot!
Now, a can of Lysol for only $30!
And how about $50 or a box of Lysol disinfectant wipes guaranteed to fight salmonella (and COVID-19, too?)?
Can't get enough of these great deals? How about a pair of gloves for $2 each glove?
We didn't see the lines at Arturo Treviño's Los Trevis Store at 2105 Price Road, but at these prices we're sure that the hard-to-get items (labeled in Spanish) probably drew the throngs dying to hand over $84 (plus tax?) for a can of Lysol, wipes and two gloves.
The prices drew some skeptics on Treviño's post on La Pulga.com who were taken aback at the prices for the items made hard to get by the fear speaked by the COVID-19 outbreak that has stuck Brownsville and Matamoros particularly hard.Right now both cities lead neighboring towns in the number of dead and positive cases due to the virus.
Treviño, who knows a captive audience when he sees one, is hawking their availability at his drive-thrus on a first-come, first-served basis.
Where he got those products, apparently manufactured for sale in Mexico, is anyone's guess. But it's a seller's market for the disinfectants and with one born every minute, someone will surely go for the bait.
Another graduate of the St. Joseph Academy School of Cutthroat Business?
Not that we're picking on the Bloodhounds, but after all it wasn't long ago that someone posted as Tanya Nunez during the hand sanitizer shortage posting that as a good business-minded neighbor she has acquired a large batch and was advertising its sale out of her Nuga Diesel and Truck Parts business on 14th Street. She, too, claimed a Bloodhound pedigree.
It wasn't the industry-leading brand Purell but a brand called BaseOne which she would let you have while the demand was high for only $12 for an eight-ounce bottle.
Both offers, we are sure, are guaranteed to clean you out!