All EA has to do is allow you to buy an item you see in the Global HQ even if it has already been sold to someone first, maybe one time out of 5 attempts. The software just needs to conjure up the item for you as if no one else bought it. You wouldn't even know if you bought it from the gamer or the game. There are an infinite number of everything available, they aren't tangible items, they're really just zeros and ones in cyberspace. The seller is not harmed because another gamer did buy the item they sold the nanosecond before you got there. EA likely will never do this because they care more about their profits than your fun; they hope you will buy game cash with your real cash so you can pay for the needed item immediately without searching endlessly in the HQ.
