First of all, OP should be commended for learning from the failed war on drugs and not titling his thread "Here's the Deal, Don't Flip a Buy." You've got the right idea attacking the demand side and not the supply side.

But it's still hard to get too excited about Stern LE prices. This kind of opportunism is annoying if you're in the LE market, but it exists in pretty much every collectibles market. And people will eventually stop buying flips, but it will be because the market has cooled back down, not as part of some coordinated plan to stick it to the flippers.