Collections vs. accumulations, was Re: How many collectors? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

15 Oct 2001

...
  Well, I still go for a variation of Murphey's law,
which I found
 to fit at least my experiance:

 As soon as you aquired someting you belive to be truly rate and
 unique, A second incarnation will popup close thereafter.

 And as a bylaw it's stated:

 The price asked for the second item is as lower as more you did
 spend on the first.

I always refer to it as the Law of Affinity;
I saw it printed in a WWII collectors catalogue in the 80's and it
stuck

Objects have an affinity for each other equivalent to 
(5/number you have seen)^(price)

The corrolary runs;

After the first object, all subsequent objects have a maximum price of
(price you last paid/(number you own +1))