Apart fro highlighting the bots' desperation to recoup some costs on surplus/garage qualifying stock, the whole parallel market of FLP products being sold cheap on EBay etc. shows up the whole pyramid scheme structure of the 'business', as well as the fallacy that bots are in any way 'independent business owners'.
I remember seeing pages of FLP stuff on EBay for under the wholesale price paid by my (ex)OH (presumably bots trying to recoup some of their losses after buying a qualification or quitting the biznis). When I asked her why she was not jumping on this and therefore raising her profit margins while retailing the stuff at the same price, she was genuinely shocked that I could be so dumb, because there was no point in selling, whatever the marginal profits, if you did not get CCs. So much for being an 'independent business owner, if the model does not even allow you to source the very same product at the best price...
It shows up exactly how the bots are the customers and the whole thing is a pyramid scheme. Once the bots (and only the bots) have paid FLP for the product, it has fallen outside of the pyramid, and FLP do not give a toss whether the bot then sells the product for a profit, at cost or at a loss, nor whether they use it themselves, give it away, store it in their garage, or pour it down the drain.
If a bot has a surplus, they can't even pass any of it on to a fellow bot who might need it for a client, since the second bot would not get CCs and therefore can only resupply from FLP, regardless of any glut on the market.
This is without taking into consideration that any sane 'end user customer' would buy the EBay stock, rather than pay the bots' retail price. I remember a major falling out when I pointed this out to a friend who, for some unfathomable reason, liked the gloop but found the retail price rather steep...