>Of course the scarcity is artificial! Magic Cards, Pokemon cards, sports trading cards, Supreme merch, yeezy shoes... all of these business models are based on

>Of course the scarcity is artificial! Magic Cards, Pokemon cards, sports trading cards, Supreme merch, yeezy shoes... all of these business models are based on artificial scarcity. However sports cards originally did not have a significantly similar business model, until after natural scarcity had occurred. >There are time honed methods to figure out exactly how many to sell to keep the market thriving without flooding it. So true. >fakes are worthless while the "Authentic" ones are work tens-hundreds of thousands of dollars. Because of this, lots of times the purchase of a _certified_ collectible amounts to a greater value attached to the certificate than the collectible.