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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Plumbata, post: 3212635, member: 96864&quot;]Fair enough, I&#039;m not a &quot;high-end&quot; collector and don&#039;t claim to speak for those of you who are. I may think Beanie-Babies are worthless but many who are heavily invested in them will disagree with that assessment, no big deal, I just won&#039;t participate. Perhaps my perspective is a function of being a merchant myself, and while I have no problem hyping a good story for extra money I have no interest in paying a premium over retail for someone else&#039;s story. That&#039;s what consumers are for, lol.</p><p><br /></p><p>The imposition of external restrictions like you speak of is an inorganic or unnatural factor which creates artificial scarcity, and while I&#039;m certain that prices will become inflated for those artificially scarce items, I&#039;m just as certain that it will incentivize creative schemes to circumvent those restrictions, by inventing entire collections &quot;owned&quot; by professors or doctors dead too long to contradict and whose estates were recorded as having been auctioned off decades ago, from which these &quot;collections&quot; were <i>most assuredly</i> obtained, along with convincing yellowed new-old-stock collection cards written with a few different fountain pens. It&#039;s like the &quot;From an old German collection formed prior to &gt;insert date&lt;&quot; sort of claims for freshly excavated antiquities or &quot;collectible token&quot; being the declared contents of an Umbrian Aes Grave shipped from Italy. Until such workarounds are entirely shut-down, it seems silly from an amoral practical standpoint to pay much more than necessary for fundamentally interchangeable items.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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