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<p>[QUOTE="GoldFinger1969, post: 3868859, member: 73489"]Look, people priced things where they thought they should trade. The market is often wrong: Pets.com, ProPlayer.com, Enron, etc.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie20" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don't know if the retail public really was the victim of false marketing....if the same thing happened today, with the Internet and Social Media, it'd be a different story. You want to see exaggerated marketing, look at the SSCA hype and initial pricing. Gold is up 5-fold since they hit the market and most of the stuff is flat-to-down. Certainly the $50 "restrikes" are, one of the few affordable things to the general public. </p><p><br /></p><p>But back then, aside from stories in the weekly and monthly coin mags, I don't know where someone would have been misled.</p><p><br /></p><p>You guys who were there...<i><span style="color: #b30000"><b>what was CDN saying during the parabolic rise ? What about CoinWorld and CoinWeek ? What were the dealers at Long Beach and FUN and ANA saying ?</b></span></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GoldFinger1969, post: 3868859, member: 73489"]Look, people priced things where they thought they should trade. The market is often wrong: Pets.com, ProPlayer.com, Enron, etc.:banghead: I don't know if the retail public really was the victim of false marketing....if the same thing happened today, with the Internet and Social Media, it'd be a different story. You want to see exaggerated marketing, look at the SSCA hype and initial pricing. Gold is up 5-fold since they hit the market and most of the stuff is flat-to-down. Certainly the $50 "restrikes" are, one of the few affordable things to the general public. But back then, aside from stories in the weekly and monthly coin mags, I don't know where someone would have been misled. You guys who were there...[I][COLOR=#b30000][B]what was CDN saying during the parabolic rise ? What about CoinWorld and CoinWeek ? What were the dealers at Long Beach and FUN and ANA saying ?[/B][/COLOR][/I][/QUOTE]
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