This is one I guessed right about! I only came across the game once it was established, but it seemed to me to be a fiendishly clever way of selling a lot of cards. Even if you have a lot, you can probably improve your selection by buying even more. And new cards keep coming out so you have to keep buying just to stand still. Once you're over the having-enough-people-who've-bought-some-already barrier to start with, I can quite see how it runs and runs.
Plus the game itself is pretty interesting, but so's backgammon, and few fortunes have been made from selling backgammon sets.
And had I put up the some of the money he was looking for...
All through the worst excesses of the tech bubble I was convinced I'd missed several chances to make a fortune. I suppose I could have if I'd sold at the peak, but I never believed in the rise anyway so timing a sale would've been too difficult. It was the bubble bursting that convinced me that large companies can spend shedloads of money on entirely daft things that were never going to make money!
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Date: 2003-12-04 05:57 am (UTC)This is one I guessed right about! I only came across the game once it was established, but it seemed to me to be a fiendishly clever way of selling a lot of cards. Even if you have a lot, you can probably improve your selection by buying even more. And new cards keep coming out so you have to keep buying just to stand still. Once you're over the having-enough-people-who've-bought-some-already barrier to start with, I can quite see how it runs and runs.
Plus the game itself is pretty interesting, but so's backgammon, and few fortunes have been made from selling backgammon sets.
And had I put up the some of the money he was looking for...
All through the worst excesses of the tech bubble I was convinced I'd missed several chances to make a fortune. I suppose I could have if I'd sold at the peak, but I never believed in the rise anyway so timing a sale would've been too difficult. It was the bubble bursting that convinced me that large companies can spend shedloads of money on entirely daft things that were never going to make money!