Crazy priced items on ebay and Amazon have been around forever
One of the problems on ebay is you can't mark your items as temporarily out-of-stock so sellers would just jack the price right up to save having to take down the item and pay a listing fee when it became available.
Walmart online opened its listings to third parties
https://www.gizmochina.com/2021/03/22/walmart-opens-online-market-platform-sellers-outside-u-s/
Crazy priced items on ebay and Amazon have been around forever
One of the problems on ebay is you can't mark your items as temporarily out-of-stock so sellers would just jack the price right up to save having to take down the item and pay a listing fee when it became available.
https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Archive-Seller-Central/RIDICULOUSLY-HIGH-PRICES/td-p/1798952
Similar explanation given for Amazon
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/why-do-some-sellers-charge-impossibly-high-prices/274968
"Wayfair was caught"
I presume you witnessed that personally then.
Guess you weren't around for that.
Of course I was around for that speculation.