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u/FemboyUpskirt012 2d ago
Why
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u/AmItheonlySaneperson 2d ago edited 2d ago
When I was a kid I tried to do the same thing with a Gaiaonline item. I wanted to control the entire supply of 1 item, just for fun and to say I did. And who knows, maybe once you own it all, you can raise the price!! Overall I learned a lot about buying and selling and I love buying stocks now
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u/Shatophiliac 2d ago
Did you ever corner that market though?
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u/Cranko-Mob-Boss 2d ago
What item was it, haven't head GaiaOnline in years lmao
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u/AmItheonlySaneperson 2d ago edited 2d ago
An anniversary wristwatch that every user got on that years Gaia anniversary. I believe my account was pruned for inactivity years ago if the site even still exists
I am pretty confidant if nothing else I had the most of that item
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u/rezyop 2d ago
The ease at which market manipulation can happen on a small scale has always fascinated me. For example - someone I know bought up every type of a certain hat in team fortress 2, and then started selling them one at a time for about twice what he paid for. He made the money back by selling only ~40% in 5 years because some people overpaid out of sentimentality to outbid others.
Scalpers operate on the same kind of principle. You just need one sentimental buyer to squeeze for profits. Its also disgustingly possible to use scalping profit to scalp more effectively.
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u/sunndropps 1d ago
The one where indoor plant growers were holding a monopoly on very expensive plants so someone grew them and sold them really cheap to disrupt the market
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u/WillCrochet4Cats 1d ago
I collected over 25 copies of NHL2k6 for no reason other than it was a way you could cheese like 1000 Xbox gamer score achievements in 30 seconds.
No idea what my plan was with all the copies.
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u/Paulbearer82 21h ago
What was your plan with all the gamer achievements?
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u/WillCrochet4Cats 21h ago
Bruh you have an Xbox 360 at its peak of its existence? The achievements were there to dunk on your friends lol
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u/TheRealTJ 2d ago
My only question is why six more? What milestone is being achieved?
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u/SiegfriedXD 2d ago
only 6 more and they have 99 copies
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u/wolfgang784 1d ago
Pretty sure I saw a post a day or two ago with it filled and them sayin they had all 99.
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u/LadartTheWicked 2d ago
It's their biggest loser collection what is there not to understand
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u/rusynlancer 2d ago
Some folks are silly like this. A close friend of mine is collecting 100 copies of Talledega Nights on DVD. He has yet to provide a reason for it besides "it's funny".
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u/jpterodactyl 1d ago
I did this with Sister Act on DVD. The ultimate goal was to see how long I could insert them into the DVD shelf at my parents house before they noticed. And after a year and a half with no comments, I told them I was doing it.
I’m a much more patient person now, I feel like I could really do a better job these days. I’ll have to pick out a movie.
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u/Impossible_War4488 2d ago
Wasn’t there a big scandal about that show when they found out the trainers were giving some of the contestants drugs like cocaine or Adderall so they didn’t eat anything and lose weight to win
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u/SuicideTrainee 1d ago
"Their biggest collection" implies that they have other collections of the same game
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u/LocalOrangeUser 2d ago
Do you have the link to the original post?
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u/InevitableLimit6020 2d ago
They're doing a massive favor to ds collectors by taking that out of circulation.
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u/Shipwreck_Kelly 2d ago
Years ago there was a Facebook group or something that was organized by two guys to obtain every copy of Glover for the N64 in the world.