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christina97 • yesterday at 4:10 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Yeah there is no such thing as selling a commodity below its market price on the open market. Someone else will come and arbitrage that away, or it’s not an open market.


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fmbb • yesterday at 4:15 PM

Supply is severely limited and there is not really any competition making RAM chips, so it is kind of not a commodity and not a market.

But you are right someone will arbitrage the price, like scalpers selling concert tickets.

sdenton4 • yesterday at 4:31 PM

Well, that's blatantly false...

A well-known anticompetitive tactic is for a big player with a vast bank account to move into an area and eat losses while waiting for their competitors to starve. Well observed in the 90's movie rental market, so certainly real.

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