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<blockquote data-quote="jgbrowning" data-source="post: 825858" data-attributes="member: 5724">Justifications aside, IMHO the reason for random packaging is to atificially create a perception of &quot;value&quot; based upon &quot;potential rarity.&quot; This leads to creating sales not based upon the real value of a product but upon the &quot;gambling&quot; value of a product. (ie. i could get lucky and get a &quot;rare&quot;).A secondary market would still exist without randomness. Randomness simply makes people buy from the secondary market as opposed tothe primary market if the person wants a particular figurine. Most figures in the secondary market are from a person who didn't get what he wanted, or got copies of what he already had.If anyone wants a sig line.....&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; &quot;WoTC Mini's: Like a Schrodiger's cat you pay for but won't know if its dead until you open the box.&quot; I prefer to buy a live cat when i want a live cat, and a dead one when i want a dead one.joe b.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jgbrowning, post: 825858, member: 5724"] Justifications aside, IMHO the reason for random packaging is to atificially create a perception of "value" based upon "potential rarity." This leads to creating sales not based upon the real value of a product but upon the "gambling" value of a product. (ie. i could get lucky and get a "rare"). A secondary market would still exist without randomness. Randomness simply makes people buy from the secondary market as opposed tothe primary market if the person wants a particular figurine. Most figures in the secondary market are from a person who didn't get what he wanted, or got copies of what he already had. If anyone wants a sig line..... :) "WoTC Mini's: Like a Schrodiger's cat you pay for but won't know if its dead until you open the box." I prefer to buy a live cat when i want a live cat, and a dead one when i want a dead one. joe b. [/QUOTE]

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