It is illegal for companies to collude to create an artificial scarcity, but collusion is extremely hard to prove.
Ticket clerks routinely hoarded long-distance tickets to create an artificial scarcity and then sold them at a profit.
"With the 10 viewers, I wanted to create an artificial scarcity around something that's not at all scarce.
| Groupon's strategy in its initial offering, known as "slim to win," involves selling a small portion of the company's shares in order to create an artificial scarcity, Barron's writes.
Rather than allow corporations to use intellectual property rights to create an artificial scarcity of knowledge, or to capture the value generated by other people (such as Google and Facebook), we could move towards a "social knowledge economy" as promoted by the government of Ecuador.
David Bowers alleges that Scott's representative, Wayte Raymond, proposed melting most of the issue to create an artificial scarcity, and that the company "desired to capitalize on the gullibility of collectors and their need to complete sets by having more varieties coined.
Targeting so-called "digital mums", time-limited offers of up to 90% are sent out to its members for products for mums, babies, toddlers, and "growing' kids, in a way that is designed to create a sense of scarcity and "buzz" around a brand.
They're proving it now and finding profits in innovative ways, like moving aluminum around in warehouses to create a sense of scarcity and drive up prices.
But given the reality of modern, egalitarian polyamorous relationship configurations that include one woman with several men, three or more men or women all in a relationship together, quads made up of two men and two women, and many more, it is difficult to imagine how polyamory can create a scarcity of available partners of one gender or the other.
