Like I said if they don't have much they can just request more if not they can just go to another seller that offers and considering they're high nobles the og seller is not gonna risk letting them go so most likely they're going to comply with the request

I'm pretty sure this business "problem" is very flawed, first of all, having more demand on your product is the BEST case scenario because your profits will grow even more so naturally you make or buy more of the product as much as you can since the demand is very high but doing the opposite like what the characters did is a VERY bad business tactic and if the demand lowers so will your profits and worst case possible there will be no demand and cause bankruptcy of the company and I get like its supposed to contrast how AMAZING the mc is compared to the very 1dimensional and basic evil character but author please do not think this is a hate comment this is just a criticism