COMPLETE copies have what matters...oh I don't know...THE GAME maybe??
That's true complete copies have the game. if you don't already own magical chase loose you should not be trying to buy the box. You should try to buy a complete one and unless your very lucky your going to pay $1700+
The idea behind the sale is for one of us to take one of our loose copy and make it complete. Loose copies go for $500-$800 while the complete copies go for $1700-$2000+.
I got called a moron here but its simple economics 101. The box is what drives the price from $500-$800+ to sometimes $2k+ is nothing but the cardboard box.
What sucks for all of us is were all so crazy about MC that the price got driven up to that point. About 10 years ago I passed on a sealed MC that was going for $600 because I thought it was a ripoff. Now I almost give my first born to get that copy for even 3x that amount. I really hate that this game goes for this much but that the market we live in these days.
I'm sorry, what the f*ck is your point?
Say what you want my point is you guys are blowing things out of proportion. Unless you guys start selling off you copies of MC at way below market prices the price will only go up more. So unless your volunteering to sell yours off for cheap you should get off your high horse. My bet is the loudest complainers are those who don't even own the game. If they did they would be happy their investment and value has increased and not try to do things to devalue their collection. If the complainers actually own a copy the sell it off at a what you think is a reasonable price as that the only way the market will go down. Supply / Demand.
I hate price gouging as much as the next so the best thing you can do is vote with you dollars and don't buy things that are grossly overpriced.
You are using custom logic to price a lone cardboard box, based on sales of every combination... except the lone box. If you're got links to regular complete sales of the lone box itself going for $1000+, then your point is valid. But even the figures you stated for the loose game and complete with manual aren't the average, you're only citing the very top end of asking prices which fail to sell more often than they actually do sell.
Unfortunately, too many people like you don't understand how the market works and are blind to low sales or non-sales, instead only focusing on top end sales and asking prices. You recommended voting with our dollars. That's exactly what people are doing each time a gouged item fails to sell and is more of sign of true market value than the rare rich/in-debt person who impulse buys an object simply to plug a whole in a "complete set" collection. If you want an up to date example, just look at this box which failed to sell $1250. If it was fair market value, even if a few people bitched about it, several people would have tried to snatch it up.
