At 11:47 PM 3/21/99 -0600, you wrote: You left out a few: 5. The fad dies out and the market collapses. 6. The {rubes|investors} begin to bail, selling their {collectibles|investment} for whatever they can get. 7. The poor guys from the beginning buy up the now plentiful supply at rock-bottom prices. In the end, the vultures and poor schmoes are happy, the suckers get fleeced, and all is well with the world. --------------------------------------------------------------------- O- Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know." Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/