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Originally Posted by Mike1888
In collecting, you need to exercise a degree of vigilance: if you don't hear about something in time before it sells out, you have to pay up if you really want it. All of us have been on the side having to pay the inflated price, as well as the side spotting a rare item and profiting. The amount of whining about scalpers, high-priced ebay items, not limit 1 per customer, etc on this forum is tiresome. I am glad that there are a lot of legitimately rare, sought after items that make good investments in this hobby. .
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I agree with you about there being legitimately rare items. But if they release 1000 and allow 1 person to buy all 1000, who's going to even care to try and collect it? Yeah sure, from an "investment" side (ie, scalping and reselling) it's good because you can make a living, but that just kills it for the real collectors. If a person has no intention of collecting it, they shouldn't buy it. It's one thing for someone to buy one and resell it; when you let people buy 10 at a time then there's no chance for real people to obtain things and takes the joy out of it - and when the joy's gone, the collecting is gone.