Well luckily the guy buying it thought differently. 
And I really just wanted an excuse to use that emoticon ( 
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But objectively, right now it looks like the average is $150, which I donāt think is too outrageous.
The average is of a disgustingly short time frame. Jason just found one for me within the last year on eBay under $80 that I donāt see in completed for some reason. For some reason some I know I saw because I bid or watched arenāt appearing easily.
they are worth what ever people are willing to pay
Right, but while true thatās actually completely worthless conversationally because itās inherently counterproductive to anything concerning averages, value estimations, or a practical expectation moving forward.
Maybe Iām just angsty tonight. But I do really think itās unhelpful at some point to always toss around generic wisdom and Econ 101 knowledge that we all have. Iām as guilty of it as any other! So donāt think I believe Iām free of the indictment. But at some point weāre here to speculate and contribute something interesting. Even if that means sucking it up and talking about exceptions or admitting that not everything in Pokemon is going up in value at an alarming rate.
its not really worthless, people are saying they think its worth $80-100, im putting my opinion up and saying its worth what people are willing to pay for it
these are all opinions and i dont think you should call anyones opinion worthless
At the end of the day, the best general answer is: something is worth what someone is willing to pay. I couldnāt care less about the demo pack value, but the objective answer is what it is selling for on ebay. If there are multiple examples of it selling at a certain price, that is the most reasonable answer.
We can all flex about what econ classes we took or didnāt take, but that doesnāt help anyone come to a better answer.
If we arenāt considering the most reasonable evidence, the actual sales prices, then there is no point in having a discussion. I really donāt understand why people are saying this is worth significantly less than what it is actually selling for on ebay. Sure maybe another copy didnāt sell for the same amount, which would make sense as it doesnāt show up in completed listings probably because it didnāt have important key terms, but there are multiple examples of it earning $150-250 and even one at $299.
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I wanted to revive this topic because I have been trying to get this pack for a bit.
I disagree with saying something is worth what someone is willing to pay in certain situations where the source of their will to pay that amount is a fraudulent trend in the way that sold eBay auctions can be conveyed. The lack of current auctions may be viewed as a true rarity of the item in question when in reality people are just not selling the stock that they have at that point in time. As one of you said they listed theirs when there was no others on the market so they could sell it for a lot higher for one of two reasons. Either the item is indeed hard to come by or there is some sort of circumstantial reason no one else had one for sale. Now, possibly, there is eBay history of something selling higher than it should with no other examples(since eBay doesnāt allow active auction history for very long). This will create a false worth and allow others to jump in and sell theirs at said price propagating this false āworthā. In reality, I have seen at least two or three listed continuously over the past 6 months to a year so it wouldnāt be too much to speculate the availability is still comparatively high and disregard the unwarranted price jump. So the question is: Will demand outlast the false price effectively creating a true price, or will packs stop selling and allow the price to recede?
Then again, I better by this junk before I have to shell out over 400 like the hoppip/pichu pack.