I have a friend that is all into this, mostly as a hobby. There's also a Funko Pop market as well. Really, if there's high value behind it, there's an arbitrage

I have a friend that is all into this, mostly as a hobby. There's also a Funko Pop market as well. Really, if there's high value behind it, there's an arbitrage market that goes along with it. It's pretty big, there's markets for residential IP lists, bots that mock organic web traffic by browsing Google and watching YouTube so they can defeat recaptcha, there's even escrow services so that you don't have to sell out of your house. There's groups that track potential high value product releases and coordinate large buys. It's mutually beneficial for them to work together, because unauthentic demand boosts the resell market. I don't know if I approve of it, because groups work out large fandoms and potential demand, and effectively price out segments of the population to take a cut off of the top. But I do have to sit back and marvel at how much technology and research goes into neutering antibot measures.