On Oct 5, 2022, at 9:53 AM, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
When bitcoin rained tons of money down on some of those kids they were spending easy and large on stuff. There is also some talk that a bunch of the really high dollar video game sales were shill buyers / buyback schemes to juice the market.
The video game ratings people are accused of that, and supposedly were involved in doing the same thing with collectable coins years ago.
yes- but I would say 'convicted of doing the same thing with collectable coins' rather than just accusations. It's literally the same people running the same scam again! https://screenrant.com/retro-video-game-market-scam-video-expose/ <https://screenrant.com/retro-video-game-market-scam-video-expose/> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvLFEh7V18A <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvLFEh7V18A> Google Jim Halperin.... The funny thing is - at least coins were a precious metal. Not sure what you can do with a MacSE that you paid $200,000 for when it back to being worth $50. Or a boxed Mario Bros for NES. -andy