I entered Crypto market for 2 months and usually see the term "pump and dump", and some P&D groups. But i wonder they pump by selling and buying themself, so when price go up, who will buy it for them and they sell that for who???
With Blue-chip coins, someone could buy when it've pumped already because of good news. So with trash coins, who'll buy this pumped coin and why many PP&D group still live until now
The only ones that buy obvios pump and dump coins are: the cryptocurrency newcomers (they fall for the hype and the "x100 gains soon" meme), the people that are buying purely by emotion (FOMO), or those who are looking to make some quick money (these people know that they're taking a big risk but it's probably not the first time they're buying pump and dump coins so they know what they're doing).
Most of the times it is pretty obvious when a shitcoin is playing 'pump and dump' games. First, you'll start reading about X or Y coin pretty much everywhere, then all of a sudden the coin gets a huge spike in the price, then you'll see people talking about rumours and quoting the dev team's tweets that says something on the lines of "big annoucement coming soon" or "parnetships with X company, more news to come", then comes the FOMO kicks in, but then after a few weeks of hype and uptrend in the price, and the next thing you'll see is the downfall.
Those P&D groups will probably sell when they feel like the price has reached the set target, once they sell their big share of coins, they price will go down, denial will be the number one thing you'll read in social media, but after a week or two, the hype will go down and people will start cashing out their profits for BTC just so they can buy the next 'pump and dump' shitcoin.