[Augustus_Cole]

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Originally Posted by Ikki

For instance, when you buy a house, and the market value goes up.. guess what? you sell it for more. It's called a free market. Don't like the price, don't buy it.

I hear you, but that's not quite the same. A piece of property is an investment, and while YES you could invest long term with any collectible to have a potential return on your initial investment. ...
By definition itself scalping has to do with depleting quantities (hoarding) of an item/product thus making is scarce, creating an even greater demand so the seller can maximum profits from it.
People don't buy up all the houses/property to make is scarce.

It annoys me to no *&#^-ing end when a new product/figure has been released and we can't find it in any stores or online but it's ALLLLLL OVER ebay. Which means people's purchase of it was solely to profit off of it, thus making is scare and driving up those prices.