Gold bars 
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You would think rationing happens when price is low, you know, lower price results in higher demand, but this crowd is opposite of that.
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Costco must have a limited inventory, otherwise they’d just buy and sell more gold bars.
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Dear Bob,
Sounds like buying at the top.
Exactly, it’s getting scarce and has been for all of 2025:
Costco did the same thing twice last year. Because they sell pretty much at/near cost, sometimes they get too much demand, so in order to make it fair to their customers, they limit quantities. They did the same thing with Pokemon cards earlier this year; People were coming in at 10am opening time and buying hundreds of packs of Pokemon cards, basically clearing the entire stock at the store. Then they were reselling them on eBay/etc. So Costco put a limit of 2 per customer on them (and it’s a real limit because they scan your card for each purchase and record all purchases). So it’s not necessarily because of a “shortage” per se, but rather to make it fairer for their customers of those products.
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