Talk:Alcina the Ego/@comment-173.18.187.63-20130908170358/@comment-60.241.16.230-20130910134509

Those pots, despite not costing money, were accumulated over a long period of time and have value because time is worth money. Bazaar camping is very time consuming.

I doubt you got "thousands" of tradable pots playing free. You would have to make a profit of 10/10 per bazaar ticket to reach a pot count that high given the limited number of tickets. Bazaar prices has been consistently plunging only until recently so highly unlikely you would profit from a downwards trending market.

But even if someone does manage to accumulate that many pots free, it means they are pretty damn shrewd. Very very shrewd. Essentially you're telling everyone that an extremely shrewd person would end up on the wrong end of a bargain. Sorry but unplausible. I doubt someone of that level of shrewdness would spend their hard earned pots this recklessly by paying 900/900 or 1100/1100 for a SINGLE copy of a UR which is only worth about $400 when those pots are worth in excess of $2000. They would wait for the card to fall to about $400 worth of pots before buying it. Shrewd people will be shrewd.

Now let's consider if the player wasn't free. Only a fool would spend $2000 on pots to trade for a card when he could have gotten it directly for $400. So yes, if what you say happened was true, you managed to trick a complete fool into paying nearly 6 times more than what he should have paid.