But all too often, purchasers fail to negotiate lower prices when commodity prices fall again.

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Estate agents mutter darkly about potential purchasers heading elsewhere rather than pushing local house prices even more vertiginously high.

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Indirect purchasers who in many cases actually paid the inflated prices are left to sue in state court, where the class-action attorneys have developed a specialized practice to extract an extra layer of revenue from this litigation.

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