You are literally describing illegal stock practices.... if one company privately coincides with another company and buys and sells stocks to boost their own prices is literally illegal. So that's done.

As for the people paying until they don't wanna pay... I disagree. Right now people are buying white octanes to sell for profit. Essentially, people don't care if they invest $1 or $100 to buy one because they will sell it for $5 or $105 dollars. It's called investing. So even if the white octane is 5 heats, someone some where will put in 5 heats just so they can sell for 5 heats and a lab. For the common users like myself, 1 heat is the highest I would ever pay. So while we sit around and wait for the price to fall because of more supply and an even amount demand, the price only goes higher because people are investing in them to flip for profit.

Also, supply and demand is a bullshit argument. The white octane has been out for over a month and on day one my one friend got 2 of them via tradeups. Another friends son also got 2 white octanes. If I knew his Reddit name I'd tag him but I have ZERO reason to lie. I don't trade for profit and I literally can't trade for items I want because people want so much profit. Anyways, with that small sample size, it shows that the white octane isn't as rare as it is being shown off to be. Also, you can't prove the demand because right now the demand is inflated. Similar to when the WZ went up everyone wants them to trade and make profit from. If the white octane wasn't worth 2 heats, the demand would be a small fraction of what it is now.