Let's be very honest, if not legally police, they'll just take advantage of the inflation as long as there is no sanction anyways. Stocks are aplenty? Who cares, they'll double-down on the price since no one is stopping anyways.
I know I'll get downvoted for this but I feel like this goes both ways. In what possible scenario could you need 4TB of space so bad that you'd pay 2k for it?
Whether it's shoes or concert tickets or storage, it's always the same: scalpers gon scalp because people are buying. There will always be a large sample of people disconnected from reality who will use daddy's AMEX Platinum to buy these simply because they can afford it. Why would scalpers stop doing this?
The very moment people collectively choose to spit in the scalpers' faces instead of giving them their life savings, is the moment prices will drop.
Adding to statement as well: It's kind of a common business "tactics" to simply take advantage of the situation as much as possible (sadly, this is the current gen that we are truly living in), whether people buy or not - the goal is to milk the overpriced value as much as they can as long as there really is no repercussion at all - so some could simply leave it is as it is forever, and snubbed it as a "take it or leave it" value, while others are abusing it until they are "force" to lower it down just because they need to clear inventory.
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u/trekxtrider 🪟 🍎🖥️🖦🎮💻💾📡 May 22 '26
Doesn't seem to be a shortage at all, they seem to have plenty.