All it takes is bringing a friend along to buy a ton of stock or 2 friends.Its my understanding that Buck would limit a quantity that any one person could buy at those sales.
However when a member here observed someone doing exactly what you stated, filling a car, Buck' s moderator here quickly stepped in and said "nothing nefarious was taking place".
There were many discussion threads that were censored and deleted by Buck's own moderator about that.
Hmm.
Lesson:
Be careful.
Fit in.
Shut up and drink your Kool-Aid..
Spotify and Streaming took a lot out of Musical Artists mouths and that's why the tickets to see live bands sky rocketed.
It’s a complex industry for sure.
Indeed, even more sad is that even in that industry companies like Ticketmaster were scalping customers by making them pay stupid fee's, so they had some huge settlement years ago worth 100's of millions if I remember because they were milking customers for years.
Almost seems like a bargain compared to the Vantage that's listed for 8K.
just saw that listing. made me actually chuckle out loud......
not to highjack the thread, but ticketmaster ruined concerts before the internet was a household thing. Basically just took out a monopoly on scalping.
I think FOMO and limited supply runs are equally to blame. With the power of the internet, manufacturers produce less waste, or produce to order. It makes it easier for them to control their margins. A lot of regular production model trains are sold out a year before they are shipped and never see the inside of a hobby shop. It creates an anxiety to keep you looking at their website. I see this as the future. direct to consumer, no waste, max profit, minimum overhead. I think a lot of the turbulence we see in our current economy/ politics is the slow death of old school retail.
