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Originally Posted by Taylor
the thought never crossed my mind to hoard items, select items intending to resell them for profit, or snatch items away from other teams before they had the chance to get them.
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I don't think most teams were "hoarding" to resell or be a detriment. 971 regularly builds robots with 10+ motors that all require speed controllers, and we usually build two robots. If I see no limit posted for items and the price is only 9 credits, I'm going to get as many as I can because I know I will use them all, and it represents a significant monetary savings (both from a team operating standpoint and robot budget). There's nothing malicious about it, just trying to make the best use of resources.
If any teams did hoard with the intent of reselling, then yes, shame on them. But I suspect no one really anticipated just how quickly the high value items were going to sell out (although most of us probably could have told FIRST it would happen if they didn't put a limit and had that low quantities).
Note: 971 wasn't able to get in yesterday at all due to the <1000 bug, so we didn't get any of the hot items.