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Posted By: peter chao

Cmoking,

I agree with you in part, affordability is an important part of the equation. You are not going to try and compete with the registry people unless you have the bucks.

But it's more than that, people are naturally competitive, so there needs to be enough cards in the hobby for a real contest. In other words, if you have only one of two cards in existence I doubt if the price of that card would continue escalating. The reason is other potential collectors wouldn't be interested in competing because it's unlikely that they would complete the set and/or find the card (because the cards may never be sold).

Peter C.