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Quoted from Nate1979:

Look man. I am the furthest person from a conspiracy theorist. How you jumped to that haha. Calm down.
I am also not saying this is a bubble. I am saying if you don’t think this is sterns strategy then I don’t know what to tell you. Some don’t believe that.
They could choose to produce the back log. But if they did, prices would fall on the secondary market. High secondary market prices is good for them. Scarcity is good for them.
The beanie baby thing talks about how they started “retiring” units. How they posted secondary market price list on their own site. There are comparisons.
Long term strategy can be debated but that is their strategy and their choice. I am not even saying they are wrong by the way.
I am also in a line of manufacturing that uses many, many of the same off the shelf parts as stern. You act like a pinball machine uses rare unobtainium and flux capacitors.
Stern and pinball is assembly. They can choose what they assemble. They all use 95% of the same parts. That Elvira Limited run for sure did. That was a choice to keep prices high.
Either way, it was just for an interesting discussion. Some obviously see that. Why every thread here has to be an argument I don’t understand. Not here to argue or say I am right. Just wanted to discuss a different angle that some seem to understand and some still can’t grasp why it is this way.