On Thursday, April 24, 2003, Mike wrote:
--- Mike
<ipscone(a)msdsite.com> wrote:
On items were there is a fixed supply, like
antiques and collectibles,
the only side of the equation that can increase is demand.
Wrong, the "available" supply has also increased on many fixed supply
collectibles.
Only by an insignificant amount. If only 10,000 of an item was ever
produced, the supply can't exceed that
The significance really depends. If the total produced is a low number,
say, below 1K, you are very correct. But if the total produced is more like
10K or 100K, there's a lot of room for that availability figure to vary. If
everyone but a few people are holding on to their items, it doesn't really
matter how many were produced at all; the items are still hard to acquire
and thus the value goes up.
--
Jeffrey Sharp