[brookst]

Yeah your qualifier is important. If I have zyngots and suddenly the price goes through the roof, it is not collusion or illegal for me to raise my prices.

Tacit collusion requires at least signaling. There has to be some intent. Like in the US rental market where Realpage coordinates tacit collusion.

But if there is legitimately demand for far more memory than can be produced, it seems silly to claim collusion to raise prices.

[itopaloglu83]

As George Carlin once said, these people know what’s good for them, they all went to same schools, and hang out at same places, they don’t need to have a secret meeting to collide.

[omgwtfbyobbq]

Does conscious parallelism require signaling?

But yeah, if there's demand a limited supply, price increases from that are legit.