Leboncoin does not want to participate in launching speculation around fuel. So the French purchase-resale platform announces this Friday to block any ad offering to sell gasoline. “It seems important to us – as a responsible company – to completely ban the sale of gasoline until the situation returns to normal. And thus prevent questionable speculative behavior in the current context of inflation and shortages,” explains Marc Brandsma, General Manager of Leboncoin at BFM TV.
300 service stations are dry, and more than 1,000 are in difficulty, since the refiners' strike against the pension reform. The departments most affected are Val-de-Marne (44% of service stations where fuel is missing), Essonne (42.3%), Yvelines (32%) and Paris (30.9%) in Île-de-France, Indre-et-Loire (30.5%), Mayenne (26.8%) and Loire-Atlantique (21.9%). Several refineries have already announced that they are renewing their strike action.
Leboncoin therefore wants at all costs to avoid being the cause "of a price escalation on a good essential to many French people". An early decision: The platform assures the TV channel that only two ads had been posted before their decision. One of the two offered a decreasing offer, ranging from 5 euros per liter for the purchase of 50 liters to 2.50 euros for the purchase of 130 liters, for SP95-E10. A fuel sold on average at 1.92 euros per liter in stations.
A decision also in the wake of that of the prefectures: the Alpes-Maritimes, the Var, or the Bouches-du-Rhône have banned the sale of fuel by jerry can or can.
