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They could garner good will by setting aside a % of their stock to sell to red-blooded people at a lower price..
If someone walks into a grocery store before a storm and wants to buy 10 pallets of water, the store tells them to fuck off.
That's 1 day. Guaranteed if someone walked in and said "I want to buy all the water you can sell for the next 9 months", they'd be singing a very different tune.
Then scalpers would buy them and jack the price up.
limit to one per customer per day like most tcg sellers do with pokemon and magic.
I’m sure there’s ways around that. Different cards, PO boxes, email addresses, names. Even if they had only 4 ways of buying that’s still almost 30 buys a week times however many scalpers there are.
obviously there will be a handful of people pulling that shit but every system basically assumes that 10% of the people using the system will use it unethically to their advantage. just balance around that, as the vast majority aren't exploitive scumbags.
You’re asking a lot of an already uncaring system. 10% can do plenty of damage.
i'm not asking anything, i'm saying every system assumes 10% scumbaggery. its capitalism, baby!
That's because they're guaranteed to sell all the water when there's a storm anyway. There's a reason there's laws against raising prices in an emergency.
I consider not having access to reasonably-priced hardware an emergency ;(