Gas is $4 a gallon in NYC right now. I guess I should've also had the foresight to horde gas when it was still $2 a gallon 15 years ago. How about a house? I guess I also should've had the foresight to buy a house 10 years ago when real estate prices nearly half of what they are now.
You really are taking the logic here and over extending it. It is kind of like if I start jogging regularly, and my time for a mile goes down by a minute after two weeks, I don't assume it will continue to drop every two weeks by a minute so long as I keep training, since eventually I'd be jogging at light speed.
Second the increase in the price of fuel as well as the real estate prices are a huge, complex discussion, full of both private individuals, corporations, and government meddling and incompetence. I won't get into the messy details hear because that isn't the point.
While I don't necessarily agree with the perceived attitude of the posts pointing out that smart players learn to think ahead and buy cards before they get expensive,
it is a valid point for any non-new player. I can think of only a few, sad individuals that can legitimately claim they are surprised by these developments and unable to procure the help they need to reasonably speculate, and frankly those who are so strapped for cash that they can't afford
over the course of the previous season to buy and/or trade for currently "meh" cards that show promise next season hopefully aren't going to be focusing on running the most expensive deck in the format anyway.
For the record, my budget is and has been shot for quite some time. I've got none of the "good" cards right now. As such I don't expect to have a good deck unless my financial situation radically improved. So I am speaking from past experience: if you aren't the player who can reasonably anticipate what is going to be good, find the websites or friends who will help you, and budget about $50 (whether cash or in trades) to securing the probable future power cards. It seemed pretty clear that the Primes were going to at least adequate for this format, so any player worth his or her salt should have been obtaining as many as they could.
Given the rarity, when they were about $5 a pop you shouldn't have had a terrible time selling/trading them away for at least $2 of stuff had a Prime ended up being bad. If not now, wait a year or two for the supply to dwindle. Cards mostly valued for collecting tend to go up in value, barring things like the fad phase and its price collapse early in the life of the TCG. It isn't that hard to safely store cards, and I've been surprised when some random rare or reverse holo finally found a buyer/trader looking for it, and gotten a decent return for it. You just might have to wait a few years is all.:lol:
