Why is there a tax...
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Why is there a tax on selling cards?
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To control inflation, players continuously earn free stubs by completing programs, playing the game, working the market etc. without a stub sink, prices for top-tier cards would skyrocket uncontrollably.
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I don't want to think about what the marketplace would be like without a tax this year.
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Always been that way. Without them prices would just be lower. Not a big deal.
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To control inflation, players continuously earn free stubs by completing programs, playing the game, working the market etc. without a stub sink, prices for top-tier cards would skyrocket uncontrollably.
Applies economic principles opposite of their reality. The tax inflates prices because it makes it unprofitable to sell cards at lower prices. Here is the reality of it.
You have a card that has a minimum price established by SDS (another economic falsehood in the market) of 20 stubs. If you try to sell the card for 21 stubs, then the ten percent tax takes away 2 stubs, making the net profit a loss of two stubs -- the seller receives just 18 stubs, vice 20. Since there is no actual value in stubs, the gimmick is nothing more than an artificial price inflator. You have to sell the card at 22 stubs just to break even on the minimum price.
The second falsity in your statement is that increased stub supply inflates prices. This is not true. Prices are set by supply of cards measured against demand for cards. There could be billions of stubs in the community market, but if there is no demand for cards, they they won't sell. You see, supply and demand factor the material supply and the demand for that supply.
The reality is that taxes exist to fund a government. Since the stubs have no real value, then the existence of a tax is a false concept, devoid of any actual need. In real life, taxes inflate prices since the minimum return a business must earn to remain in business exists with or without the tax. So, in both real life and the fake SDS community market the tax inflates prices.
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More SDs market manipulation
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More SDs market manipulation
Taxes on in game market boards are the norm even when there is no real life money potentially involved
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More SDs market manipulation
It's not like they invented it or something. There is evidence of 10% taxes going back to games like Final Fantasy XI in 2002 or 2003
Guild Wars 2 apparently had a 5% listing fee and a 10% sales tax.
