Are the Amiibo & Gamecube adapter shortages strategic?

[Mr.Playstation]

The_Yoda said:

Mr.Playstation said:
Well people can easily buy the amibos on eBay so in all honesty this is not really a planned shortage and in the long run they are only hurting themselves.

How so the people selling them on E-bay didn't get them for free, they still put the expected amount of money into Nintendo's pocket .

 

Let's say a person buys one amibo for $30. He then sees that many people are struggling to buy an amiboo and therefore decides to sell it for $40 since even though he wanted the amiboo he didn't want it that much. Only one direct copy would have been bought from Nintendo. Now if the first person ounce again bought the amiboo for $30 from Nintendo but there was no shortage he wouldn't have sold it. Therefore the person who bought the $40 amiboo from Ebay would have bought a $30 amibo from Nintendo and so Nintendo would have gotten $60 not $30.

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