Yes, that is why it is important to allow businesses to profit from costly overcapacities. Funding overcapacity in a free market through regulation would be ev

Yes, that is why it is important to allow businesses to profit from costly overcapacities. Funding overcapacity in a free market through regulation would be even more prone to abuse than most other regulatory projects. Perhaps the public stockpiling that is done anyways could buy in an artificially erratic pattern to reward manufacturers for readiness? Regarding eBay in particular I think that it is very valuable that they block at least block sellers that haven't routinely sold the product before, to hinder not only opportunistic speculation but also outright theft which is currently an epidemic of its own.