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If the spot market for RAM is reasonably efficient, prices should be about as likely to fall as to increase further. Otherwise you could make a surefire profit
by eru 7mo ago
If the spot market for RAM is reasonably efficient, prices should be about as likely to fall as to increase further.
Otherwise you could make a surefire profit by just buying some RAM and waiting a few months to re-sell.
(All of this is modulo interest rates etc to finance this.)
- ffsm8 7mo ago> Otherwise you could make a surefire profit by just buying some RAM and waiting a few months to re-sell. Yes, that's why scalping is so widespread right now, because that's essentially what it is
- eru 7mo agoAnd all morality aside: people will scalp ever harder, until prices are as likely to go down as up. That's not just RAM, but pretty much any commodity or financial instrument.