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[Malix]

Jahfish mentioned buying up all the combat carts and changing the rarity. This got me to thinking , and this would be a true statement.

If you were to go out and buy all of say a 7 rarity game. This game becomes a 10 to everyone else because there are no more. You have them all.

You could basicly name your price. I admit it would be tough to get all of one game ever made but it is an interesting idea in theory.

[MattyXB]

I think this will not working, because from the games they are not so Rare the most colectors have it already. And I think you can't go around the world (or only your country) to get all games from one.

But I have think the same about Raiders of the Lost Ark (Prototype). If I get all there are out then its a rare game too. I the moment I only know 2 owners of this Prototype. I like to get the second cart too.

[ 02-04-2002: Message edited by: MattyXB ]

[Sylentwulf]

I'm almost positive I remember someone doing this with a much less common cart. It would be impossible to do it with combat, but I'm sure you could make some money if you were to blow $10,000 on buying up lots of quadruns and then re-selling them if you managed to get a high percentage of them (Too much work for the amount of profit though)

[jahfish]

yeah that's a waste of time .... plus you'd rather have enemys full of envy than good trading friends .....

actually having so much then, you should normally lower the price ...

[ubersaurus]

I met a guyu before that was buying up every copy of Mario Bros/Duck Hunt he could find to drive up the price. He had a belt of them that he was wearing!

[Ian Primus]

Someone tried to do the same thing with silver. It did drive up the price, but I don't think they made any money on it. Anyone remember this that could post more details?

Ian Primus
ian_primus@yahoo.com

[slapdash]

I'm not sure about the silver thing, though it sounds familiar...

But think of it this way:

There are 5000 Gerfs in the world. Each one sells for $1 each. Total value? $5000.

Now, you start buying Gerfs, because you know they're going to be collectable. Pretty soon you've spent $2000 and have 2000 Gerfs. But now others start to come into the picture, and the price goes up to $2 each.

Okay, that's still good, so you drop another $2000 on Gerfs, only this time you only get 1000 of them for the money. Price goes up again.

How much are those last few Gerfs going to cost? And how much have you spent in total?

Sure, you've driven the price up, but you've been paying increasing prices the whole time. Now you want to sell them. You'll make peak price on the first 1000 or so that you sell, but then it becomes obvious that Gerfs aren't gone, so the price drops. And drops.

You may profit, you may not. With luck you at least break even. But you no longer control the Gerfs. Every one you sell takes that control from you, but that's why you bought them in the first place, right?

[Malix]

Very good point. I guess there is a major flaw in my theory. It would be cool to own every Gerf and be the Gerf Master.