Quoted from Rarehero:Starburst blew out NIB WPT & WOF for about $2400 USD. WOF was my first NIB purchase. Part of me wonders if that event helped to lower NIB sales over the next year. I'm sure a lot of collectors were thinking "Why buy full price NIB when I can get the clearance deal later". No clearance of that magnitude ever happened again.
I think you are 100% right that that hurt future sales for awhile. Once you buy something for $2,400 who would come out of pocket later that same year to buy basically the same thing (but different theme) for $4,000...
I wish I would have jumped at one of those deals (particularly WPT).