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Now, thanks to Internet auctions (eBay being my personal favorite) I can do most of my game shopping online.
Here's a brief sordid history of toys-of-the-year: Fisticuffs have erupted over Cabbage Patch Kids; Tickle-Me-Elmos have been stockpiled and scalped for bank-breaking prices; Beanie Baby counterfeiters have taken rubes to the cleaners; and this year's toy-of-the-year--Furby--is already sold out of several chains and is being auctioned off on eBay for up to $200 apiece
For me, though, the resale market is irrelevant; I never resell anything, thanks to the same obsessive traits that keep me on eBay in the first place.
eBay's real strength, though, is that it is the quintessential example of the so-called network effect, which says that the value of any network to its users increases sharply--perhaps even geometrically--as the number of users of that network increases.
Given the mountain of data being generated by eBay, I suspect those theories will be the stuff of doctoral theses for a long time to come.