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<blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 8590063" data-attributes="member: 7808">I'm familiar with the similar things happening in the video game collectors market, but its pretty rare.&nbsp; Most of the niche products like this end up with a selling price way lower than you would expect, because the interest/market for them is so small.A related factor is that in order to be collectible, there have to be enough things in the world for people to collect.&nbsp; If there's only 4 of these ever, that's not a collectors market, that's a museum market.&nbsp; People can't compare their collections with others or grow them over time.&nbsp; Maybe if there was a large market of other NuTSR products that people hunted after, these would be the unicorns of the collections.&nbsp; But since NuTSR has so few products to even offer, it's unlikely that would happen either.&nbsp; In the end, it's the same problem; no market = no value.And of course, part of the value in things like guitars, and video games, and RPG books is because there are some people that actually want to use them.&nbsp; There's no chance in that happening here.At this point, I think the most collectible thing to come out of this fiasco will the the 57 copies of Star Frontiers: Not Genuine that people got from Lulu.com before it was removed.&nbsp; At least it's fun to read.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Deset Gled, post: 8590063, member: 7808"] I'm familiar with the similar things happening in the video game collectors market, but its pretty rare. Most of the niche products like this end up with a selling price way lower than you would expect, because the interest/market for them is so small. A related factor is that in order to be collectible, there have to be enough things in the world for people to collect. If there's only 4 of these ever, that's not a collectors market, that's a museum market. People can't compare their collections with others or grow them over time. Maybe if there was a large market of other NuTSR products that people hunted after, these would be the unicorns of the collections. But since NuTSR has so few products to even offer, it's unlikely that would happen either. In the end, it's the same problem; no market = no value. And of course, part of the value in things like guitars, and video games, and RPG books is because there are some people that actually want to use them. There's no chance in that happening here. At this point, I think the most collectible thing to come out of this fiasco will the the 57 copies of Star Frontiers: Not Genuine that people got from Lulu.com before it was removed. At least it's fun to read. [/QUOTE]

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