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Re:Amazon sellers marking products as collectible to get aro... by TeMPOraL on Friday May 29, 2020 @06:29PM (#23356326)
> That man bought a good in a place where there was high supply and low demand. He wanted to sell it in a place that had low supply and high demand.

That could've been achieved just with a population density map. No reason to use jacked-up prices as a means of determining demand.

More importantly, that could've been done by the supply chain itself, as the stores in high supply/low demand area would be able to return the unneeded sanitizer back to the suppliers, and it would then be redirected to high demand/low supply areas. There's no need for an extra intermediary to make an absurd profit off it.

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Re:Amazon sellers marking products as collectible to get aro... by ddxxdd on Friday May 29, 2020 @09:34PM (#23357656)
The supply chain makes no distinction between people who buy hand sanitizer for $2 in Tennessee, and people who buy hand sanitizer for $2 in New Jersey, but are desperate enough to pay $20 for it.

The supply chain has no incentive to redirect resources in the absence of a proper price signal.

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