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Most of the people who manage to buy the items at the “non-gouging” price go out and sell it at the gouging price anyway.

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RE :”Most of the people who manage to buy the items at the “non-gouging” price go out and sell it at the gouging price anyway.”

And that is probably 100% safe to the sellers because they are not a business.
Although you are not guaranteed a useful product buying them in the shadows from strangers, rather than (if it was ) legal from a business.