If elite had decent market force mechanics, I'd buy 500 T9's to manipulate the market, if the Fednex do take over Lakon, I'd see scarcity drive up T9 Prices and profit by selling them into the market. But sadly Elite doesn't have such economics so you can't profit from ship sales, you always lose 10% of purchase price.
That being said, if Elite had the economic complexity outlined above, I'd have bought a hundred cutters at a LYR system during the discount period arising from Crown Prince Harald's funeral. Come to think of it, if the ship market was that dynanic, I could have made a mint just ferrying ships from LYR territory to elsewhere in the bubble.