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Cornering the market for rare xyz?
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A market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.merely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
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..and no one has ever thought of this before.'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!Comment
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Originally posted by Jeff Maginty View PostI've often considered trying to corner the market for rare items. For example, there are some books about a subject I've been interested in for a while now, which are quite rare although not prohibitively expensive at the moment. It occured to me that maybe I could buy up a lot of copies in the hope that doing so would make them even more rare and thereby raise their value. I could then introduce them back into the market, one at once, at a higher price and hopefully make a nice fat profit for myself. I don't just mean books, although that is the specific example I have thought about. I suppose the principle could apply to other items.
Of course there is the risk that there could be far more copies of whatever book or item I decide to buy, such that I run out of money before I manage to significantly increase the rareity. There may be other risks that I've not considered.
Has anyone else ever tried this?How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't thinkComment
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Originally posted by Jeff Maginty View PostI've often considered trying to corner the market for rare items. For example, there are some books about a subject I've been interested in for a while now, which are quite rare although not prohibitively expensive at the moment. It occured to me that maybe I could buy up a lot of copies in the hope that doing so would make them even more rare and thereby raise their value. I could then introduce them back into the market, one at once, at a higher price and hopefully make a nice fat profit for myself. I don't just mean books, although that is the specific example I have thought about. I suppose the principle could apply to other items.
Of course there is the risk that there could be far more copies of whatever book or item I decide to buy, such that I run out of money before I manage to significantly increase the rareity. There may be other risks that I've not considered.
Has anyone else ever tried this?
Once you pump your funds in and make it rare and bump up the price, the guys having the other copies will start selling to make a profit and bring the price back down and you will be left holding worthless crap.Vote Corbyn ! Save this country !Comment
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Originally posted by Jeff Maginty View PostI've often considered trying to corner the market for rare items. For example, there are some books about a subject I've been interested in for a while now, which are quite rare although not prohibitively expensive at the moment. It occured to me that maybe I could buy up a lot of copies in the hope that doing so would make them even more rare and thereby raise their value. I could then introduce them back into the market, one at once, at a higher price and hopefully make a nice fat profit for myself. I don't just mean books, although that is the specific example I have thought about. I suppose the principle could apply to other items.
Of course there is the risk that there could be far more copies of whatever book or item I decide to buy, such that I run out of money before I manage to significantly increase the rareity. There may be other risks that I've not considered.
Has anyone else ever tried this?
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Originally posted by fullyautomatix View PostOnce you pump your funds in and make it rare and bump up the price, the guys having the other copies will start selling to make a profit and bring the price back down and you will be left holding worthless crap.
Oh wait, that sounds familiar...Comment
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Originally posted by Bunk View PostUnless you set off a nuclear bomb inside the bookshop, thereby increasing the value of your books many times. Mwahahaha.
Oh wait, that sounds familiar...
I collect a lot of books, the jewel of my collection is a mint first edition of Philip Pullmans "Northern lights", and an advance readers copy of "The girl with the dragon Tattoo" signed by the late Steig Larsons partner Eva Gabrielsson.Comment
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