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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 9844170" data-attributes="member: 725">While certain folks might complain about the secondary market because they are heavily 'invested' in there, I can see the perspective from pure Hasbro investors. But what I read in the short version, it doesn't sound like pure investors, more like folks heavily invested folks in MtG that have some shares in Hasbro, that are now raising a fuss. This has happened before, this will happen again. Note: Some folks have millions if not tens of millions of MtG product, this can be individual cards or unopened boxes.From a pure investor perspective, when you sour the secondary market, certain people that buy heavy into MtG with the intention of not opening what they buy, won't buy (as heavily) anymore. So you have some short term gains while destroying future sales significantly. Add into that that due to those short term gains the Hasbro stock prices increased drastically and Hasbro then bought a bunch of their own stock back at  70% over normal prices, you need to look strongly at which investors sold stock in that period...CEOs and Execs don't stay in those positions forever, so when they only look how to milk the most from their company during that period, that's a BIG problem, especially when you're damaging the company in the long term and are getting a lot out of it (think bonuses due to high stock prices or profit from selling stock).</blockquote>