The phrase "a scarce item" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an object or product that is in limited supply or hard to find.
Example: "Due to high demand and low production, the new gaming console has become a scarce item in stores."
Alternatives: "a rare item" or "a limited item".
"But now, suddenly, it's a scarce item".
If you limit the amount of housing that can be created, you create windfall profits for the developers, who now own a scarce item, and high costs for those who need the housing.
In the seven crofting counties where the rural population practiced self-sufficiency, meat was also a scarce item, eaten sparingly.
The second disc featured the original version of The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited, which had become a scarce collectors' item.
The company is marketing the scarce item at low-key events for 30 to 50 luxury-car owners.
So it's just as important for you to be buying as it is for you to be selling, we often think of pitching but it's also important to think about -- that $20 bill is the widely available item, you as the entrepreneur with the neat idea is the scarce item.
Many stores allow customers to buy only a limited number of scarce items like corn flour and cooking oil.
Their significance is in enabling a decentralized way of maintaining the value of distinct, digitally scarce items.
They vary in price from $100 for a signed presentation copy of Philip Jose Farmer's "The Alley God" to a collection of Robert A. Heinlein first editions and other scarce items for $18,500.
Adenauer had an ingenious mind - an inventive mind - and researched ways of substituting available materials for scarce items, such as meat.
My mother, who used to write school textbooks, was prohibited from even mentioning those scarce items.
