They tried to grow (maybe not even "too fast", article doesn't talk about options). I wonder, if they had told their customers "we have limited manufacturing c

They tried to grow (maybe not even "too fast", article doesn't talk about options). I wonder, if they had told their customers "we have limited manufacturing capacity, we can't expand that fast" and put the inventory they had out to bid; would they have been stomped for "price gouging" during the pandemic?