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Re:Amazon sellers marking products as collectible to get aro... by WalterBright on Friday May 29, 2020 @08:59PM (#23357449)
> I'd assume you'd get your allotment in form of a token, which you could trade for something else if you didn't need it.

Black market gasoline was illegal, but of course that didn't stop a black market from happening, and at much higher prices than the market price would have been.

> Speculators profit best when they make it available at the point when they can command the highest price, not at the point where it could do most good to mitigate the crisis that's driving the prices up.

Those two points are the same.

Re:Amazon sellers marking products as collectible to get aro... by jgwil2 on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:33AM (#23358500)
Surely you can imagine a situation where those two points are not the same.