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<p>[QUOTE="ToughCOINS, post: 3418761, member: 20480"]I very strongly believe this to be a fool's errand. </p><p><br /></p><p>Why, you might ask? </p><p><br /></p><p>After acquiring your first few examples, the population depletes, and you are forced to pay ever more for each subsequent purchase you make. Okay, so at this point, you are getting excited because you see the value increasing. The problem is that the increases are contrived instead of being the result of organic demand.</p><p><br /></p><p>When you finally decide to begin liquidating your holdings, the first buyer will be the hungriest for that coin, and willing to pay the most. Following that, the next buyer likely will not surrender as much money for the next available example, and so on. </p><p><br /></p><p>As more of your long held examples enter the marketplace, the prices realized will continue to drop, especially as more of those sold are offered in competition with those you still own.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ultimately, you'll probably gain something, but I don't think cornering the market ever returns nearly as much as those who try it envision at the onset.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ToughCOINS, post: 3418761, member: 20480"]I very strongly believe this to be a fool's errand. Why, you might ask? After acquiring your first few examples, the population depletes, and you are forced to pay ever more for each subsequent purchase you make. Okay, so at this point, you are getting excited because you see the value increasing. The problem is that the increases are contrived instead of being the result of organic demand. When you finally decide to begin liquidating your holdings, the first buyer will be the hungriest for that coin, and willing to pay the most. Following that, the next buyer likely will not surrender as much money for the next available example, and so on. As more of your long held examples enter the marketplace, the prices realized will continue to drop, especially as more of those sold are offered in competition with those you still own. Ultimately, you'll probably gain something, but I don't think cornering the market ever returns nearly as much as those who try it envision at the onset.[/QUOTE]
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