zd: The other people out in Louisiana or wherever that didn’t get the coins because they sold out, were not entitled to them anymore than the guy who bought it to immediately sell it. There is nothing wrong with buying it to sell it right away. And there is nothing “back door” about a bunch of guys, individually, buying within the specified purchase limits.
Those that bought it may or may not have not known what the market value is, but if not for the buyer’s offer to purchase it from them they would not have even known about the Mint coins or have cared to purchase them and they would not have purchased them to sell on eBay.
Nothing about this offer or sale looks shady in the least. If you want to find things that look shady, read up about all the tax breaks the average American business concocts to technically follow the law as written, even though they are tax loopholes. Despite them being tax loopholes, they are entirely legal, the IRS accepts them and just about every American business takes advantage of every legal tax loophole their tax preparer knows of.