We ordered a new Mac laptop yesterday. It is manufactured to order. If Amazon drop shipped stuff, you wouldn’t get it in 6 hours.
I’m surprised they don’t keep lowering prices until the stuff sells out. Maybe the volumes are just too high and they can’t get rid of it until the new season stuff arrives.
I’m sure they have PhDs optimizing sophisticated inventory, pricing, and supply chain models.
Bezos is in business for only one reason: to make money. For every one he sells at a lower price there is likely one of a new and better model that he won't sell. He has likely determined that he can make more profit if he destroys some items than he would make if he sold them at a reduced price.