Flooding the market is an excess amount of inventory for sale causing an undesired drop in price for the product that can, in extreme cases, make the price go negative or make the products impossible to sell at any price.
The same also occurred for Stephen King, who published several books under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
Flooding the market can be done intentionally in an effort to eliminate competition and is then known as dumping.
In the United States in 1956, commodities traders Sam Siegel and Vincent Kosuga bought up large quantities of onions and then flooded the market as part of a scheme to make money on a short position in onion futures.
[3] The incident led to the passing of the Onion Futures Act.