Agreed...they don't create or trade off true misery....it's not like Busse make bandages and some "scalper" is buying all of them up and selling them in the Sandpit for gross profit....because as you say "the market supports it".....it's not that bad....there are always other knives and no soldier or derserving user who is on a modest income will be deprived of a knife entirely...it's just a shame the guys out there pedalling for profit don't go to the Sandpit and see how welcome their 20 knives bought in bulk might be received by people out there if they were available at Store prices those guys could afford and more importantly because of that guy's journey ...these people now had access to them...maybe then they would have a different view?

Ultimately.....if the "only" customers being screwed by "high prices and scarcity" were other collectors....I would'nt have a view on this issue at all.