Greed and Bad Attitudes

[SteveP]

Ditto PA. I've been lucky enough to pull 2 Alph Lithographs in two boxes. Many players/collectors are willing to trade tons for my extra Litho. In a few weeks or so, the Litho probably won't be as attractive. Do I trade it now, or do I speculate and hope it becomes even more attactive?

As illustrated in SLOW DECK's post, trading is sometimes risky business based on constantly-changing and/or subjective values.

Nevertheless, any decent league leader can help educate young kids about the ins-n-outs of trading.

 

[SLOW DECK]

LOL, The first pack I opened at the Pre-Release was had a Litho.... The value in my eyes is would I even play this in a Gengar deck? We really aren't bent much on collections versus playing.

What do I trade for it? Economics have "glitches" of human irrational psycology, thus the subject of finanical/behavior economics. The price for me to let go of my Litho is allot more than the price than I would be willing to trade for one. Thus if I had to buy(trade for) one, I probably wouldn't value it more than $5 dollars for one. But if I had to sell this (trade mine), it would probably be 3x that. This same person buyer versus seller perspective value of the same items is something that is REAL, and is just a list of our human biases in our transactions.