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Well, since VendTrends isn't online (I was soooo close, stupid MySQL update evil ), I thought I'd make a thread that will sorta/kinda/not really take it's place, temporarily. Let the fun begin!

This month we're blessed with the September'05 Donation Letter, which contains the Pandy Pack or Hard Shell Backpack:


As with most months, the pre-release letter price averaged around 6-6.5k, which honestly is not too bad (though higher than the 5k that I'm used to). Since the release, unopened letters are now at 7k, with the items averaging 6.8-7.2k. This isn't a great sign, as the majority of items pique soon after release and then drop about 1-2k in value. That would leave us with the Sept'05 items at around 5-5.5k in the next few days. All in all, nothing spectacular, but nothing horrible. No real short term boon here.

As for long term, I think that these items are trying to piggy-back on the popularity of the Kiki-Kitties and Robo-Puppies. Those items though were the first of their kind, and well, second best isn't exactly going to work out well for this bunch. I think the popularity of these items will be average, but they won't see a significant gain in value (10k+) for many months, possibly at least 5-6. If you bought them via monitary donation, hold on to them, as selling them now will only get you a small profit above 5k. In time they'll mature enough to be worth at least twice as much.

Nah, I encourage discussion. Hell, I'm wrong sometimes, so if you disagree with what I say, go for it.

The turtle shell is such a rip off of Mario Bros.

It probably won't reach 20k for at least 10-12 months. Hell, the Oct'04 items are amost a year old, and they just went past 25k. The Nov'04 items are still at 10k xd

It anything, this is yet another dud item. I was disappointed (as I have been for the last many months, sans KiKi). This is what we term a "long term investment."

On the other hand, we're still in the buy period, so prices may slightly go up soon after Oct. 1st. Hardly a bump in the longrun, but if you have 40 letters, it would probably be okay to dump quite a few then and buy something with a higher profit margin.

Letters to me signify the actual inflation level of Gaia. Since people physically buy each letter for $2.50, the value you can get for each letter translates to a dollar amount. Today, an average sealed letter sells for roughly 6,500g. That puts the gold standard here $0.00038462. Compare that to a year ago, when letters were (at the high end) selling for 5,000g, or a value of $0.0005. Basically, without going into too much detail, it means we're experiencing roughly a 30% inflation rate, which is incredibly high for an economy. That's just with sealed letters.

Judging by this rough number, Sept'06 sealed letters should be selling for roughly 8,500g.

It's actually a tad higher. At my calculations, it's about $1 = 2.6k. That's using the 6.5/2.5 method.

You know, I was going to boast by putting it on, but I think I'll refrain from doing that. I'm rich though!

O_O; What would that put a halo at?