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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 6654308" data-attributes="member: 2629">Not entirely true for cards and not true for other items that share the key traits with magic items: High value and uniqueness.  Let's say they get a 2015 Pinto and it doesn't sell at cost.  Does a dealer hold it on the lot forever?  Does it fill up valuable real estate on the lot until someone eventually buys the hunk of junk?  No, they sell it at a loss to make room for something they can move at a profit.   The same is true of a House or Expensive Jewelry.  Sometimes you sell it at a profit, sometimes at a loss - it all depends on how much you think you can get and how badly you need to move it.  In the end, these unique high value items are sold for what the sellers believe they can get for them.  The car is a bit more stable in the pricing, but that is because it is a bit more cookie cutter of a product than you see with jewelry or houses.... or magic items.  High value and unique items, like magic items, houses, expensive jewelry and antique furniture have prices determined by what the market will allow.If a standard guideline for prices gives DMs an easy out to just say, "Pay the list price".  DMs don't have to do it, but it is easy to do and I've seen it in the 5 decades I've played this game.  It makes magic items feel more cookie cutter and less special - more Blue Light Special and less Secrets of the Mystic Arcana.  More, "Would you like Fries with that Giantbane Longsword +2?" and less, "You hold in your hands the Blade of Algalorn, last of the Giantslayers and King of the Dead Marshes... a treasure beyond compare."A list of prices is easy.  Easy is not always better.</blockquote>

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