And with a financial incentive now in place, people are manipulating the tcgplayer listing with high $100-200+ sales even though the card is ~$30 (still wildly overpriced, not sure who is buying these). This doesn’t really affect the normal user, but still funny to see.
Has TCGPlayer ever reverted these manipulation events in the past? I remember other cards being manipulated before, but afaik it was actual people buying cards by a certain artist, rather than a situation like this.
Polymarket uses a think tank’s website to determine results (for which cities are captured by Ukraine or Russia… note: yes that’s crazy).
Anyways, an employee of the think tank took a bet on polymarket for a particular city getting captured, and then changed the map on their website, taking home some 33,000% profit.
TCGPlayer is notoriously easy to manipulate because who is actually checking whether the sales are real? You can see wild blips in market price when $1 sales go through as it isn’t adjusted to remove such entries.
And those are the obvious ones. You can probably and I’m 100% sure of it get away with incrementally increasing prices by creating fake sale after fake sale. No one was checking Moonbreon sales before, why would they check anything else now?
Darwinian Fitness: Kabuto investors and flippers are going to reproduce in greater numbers and are able to feed more babies, in this environment. Evolution simply selects the most adapted to the 2025 market, with strong pressure towards reducing brain size (it consumes too much glucose). No progress needed sir
