[ehnto]

I would put this in the luxury goods category, which has been doing really well. Photography has a lot of gear horders too, so I wouldn't be surprised if on that alone it sells out. Then people who actually want to use it will stay priced out.

It's my biggest peeve with artificial scarcity markets, speculators or collectors buy everything and people who actually want to use the item can't afford it.

[whstl]

Same. When hobby/professional products become luxury/category goods, prices of everything go up because they're now Veblen Goods.

The craziest thing is seeing companies closing because of saturation, and prices of discontinued products shooting up immediately.