by darksurtur
Jasiven wrote:
Specifically, maybe someone realized they're not going to have a chance to play the game any time soon and decides they can just wait for the reprint and benefit someone else, like me, instead.
Sure. Let's say someone decided to do that, and sells their copy with zero markup, far below the market asking price. Then the first person to take advantage of whatever the selling mechanism is - of very many interested people - will get a copy. How can you guarantee you'll be that person?
It gets worse. It'd be perfectly rational for someone who wasn't that first person to say, "Wait, I'll pay you $20 more if you sell it to me." And so on, until is nears market price, because it's still a bargain for someone who really wants the game.
And then it gets even worse. Because actually, you don't need to really want the game. If the price is low enough, it's perfectly rational to buy it for the sole reason of reselling it.
Selling an out-in-print, in-demand game for less than market price is therefore, in most circumstances, irrational, pointless, and wasteful.