[bluGill]

Manufactures should be aware of this. Selling to real customers as opposed to scalpers is better in the long run because when those scalpers realize the game is up they will flood the market. However us little guys who need just one, or maybe a few hundred are not big enough for the manufactures to talk to individually even though we are significant overall. The manufactures don't really have a way to get us supply that scalpers cannot get into. Big companies generally can get supply if it exists. That is a big if though, as there are real supply problems as well.