2. Because they planned this well in advance to make money and no one even realized it. See, they told everyone to get their Bitcoin off of exchanges to stop anyone from being able to dump when said exchanges started offering BTC/BCH trading. They then proceeded to dump all their own BCH, getting top dollar while everyone else waited up to 24 hours to get their BCH back onto exchanges.
my only question is who were the buyers buying them?
My guess is the people who believe BCH is the next big thing.