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You seem to be overlooking a huge thing - collectibles have an (above-the-board) resale value. While perhaps the market crashes someday, for 25 years Magic card
by cdr 11y ago
You seem to be overlooking a huge thing - collectibles have an (above-the-board) resale value. While perhaps the market crashes someday, for 25 years Magic cards have done nothing but go up in value. I'm personally up tens of thousands of dollars lifetime from paper Magic, and some thousands from dabbling in digital. And all of it was purchased for play, not investment.
Non-collectible virtual goods have dubious resale value. You can technically sell game accounts I suppose, but it's inevitably against Terms of Service and commensurately difficult.
- r721 11y agoDid you see this link: https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/37tqqa/how_selling_magic_cards_might_land_me_in_jail/ https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/37tqqa/how_sellin... ?
- cdr 11y agoThat was an entirely bizarre incident with entirely unique circumstances. Nothing similar has ever happened before, or may ever happen again once the troll is shot down in court. Among other things it involves someone who's made 2,200 sales on a marketplace and was dabbling in straight up speculation.
- nosuchthing 11y agoArtificial scarcity is the scam. You have pieces of mass produced paper with ink.