[OGTrilogy]

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Originally Posted by DarkToyLord

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.

I get the feeling that some figures never make it out to the shelves at all. I remember seeing listings for the TRU Exclusive Groot where the seller had one Groot figure in front of the photo that was being propped up by a stack of 6 or 8 other Groot figures. I'm glad I didn't pay some scalper $40 or $50 for it because they restocked them in time for the GOTG Vol. 2 Blu-Ray release.