Prevent the use of bots to purchase online items.

Rejected 10 signatures

What the petition asks

Since stock and manufacturing has becoming restricted during the pandemic, the use of bots and similar programs has increased to the point where actual consumers cannot purchase the products they want at rrp. The people who purchase through bots tend to then sell them way about retail price.

I think the government should introduce some measure to stop the use of bots and programs when purchasing goods online. The use of these mean that average people cannot find items they want in stock at retail prices and have to buy them from sites like ebay at ramped up prices because they are the only ones available. This has become an increasingly common problem with electrical goods like computer components and game consoles.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

The Government is not responsible for the means by which individuals purchase goods, but we have published the following petition calling for a related action, which you might like to sign:

Prevent/deter the buying and reselling of goods/services at inflated prices: Prevent/deter the buying and reselling of goods/services at inflated prices.

Timeline

11 Jan 2021	Petition opened for signatures
21 Jan 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 10

Status Rejected

Rejected 21 Jan 2021

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