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If you produce only 50 of every product, they will always be low on stock and consumers will always be about to lose the opportunity. This is typical behaviour and retailers are increasingly designing business models around the idea. I am not sure if the German law has anything against producing a large variety of products in small quantities.

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I doubt that this would matter unless you're not planning to produce more than 50 and then decide to add another 50, as you would with book editions - most products aren't produced in parallel, you'll typically get batches shipped. I'm fairly certain that you'd be asked to publish information about expected re-stocking if you publish stock counts.

The same goes for advertising & only having few items. For example, supermarkets that advertise a special offer need to have "reasonable" amounts in stock - you can't say "new iPhone X only 10 Euros" to draw in buyers and then just have two in stock.

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