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Re:Amazon sellers marking products as collectible to get aro... by goodside on Friday May 29, 2020 @05:37PM (#23355844)
Of course they do. People hoard any time they expect the price to go up — even the most unregulated markets have speculators.

You also hoard whenever goods have storage costs associated with them and you have excess capacity. Hoarding is how you collect rent on your grain silos, warehouses, freezers, oil tanks, etc. You either hoard yourself, or you contract out the capacity to others who want to speculate without the capital expense of building their own storage.

Re:Amazon sellers marking products as collectible to get aro... by WalterBright on Friday May 29, 2020 @09:18PM (#23357561)
You're right about the futures markets, but people don't normally consider that hoarding.