Scarcity, Real, Artificial, and Imagined

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Posted By: peter chao

Guys and Gals,

It's raining here in the SF-Bay Area, so I suspect there will be a lot of Bay Area people posting today. So this topic will be for intellectual members of Net54. Basically, I'm talking about the two of you out there.

Here it is, there are 3 types of scarcity, which one would you rather focus your collection on: 1) real scarcity, by this I mean, Old Judges, Allen and Ginters etc. These are cards that were produced early, way before there were sophisticated marketing techniques; 2) artificial scarcity, an example of this is '52 Topps high nos., Topps thought there were too many cards out on the market so they dumped some in the ocean; and, 3) imagined, there seems to be a lot of them, but in the future people will demand a lot more.

It's a serious topic...but have fun with it. After all, isn't that what Net54 is all about?

Peter C.