>>58407357Vintage and quasi-vintage cards have been already allocated into real collections for years, and the ones still circulating the market are few, and can't be manipulated as easily as modernslop.
On the other hand modernslop chases such as the DR Mewtwo are still being printed, can still be scalped, hoarded, hyped and manipulated by 1000000 investrots and youtubers at the same time, so if 10000000 people say that mewtwo costs $500, then 1000000000000000 retarded cattle redditors will blindly say yes, because they only trust the green numbers on videos and graphs.
Look at the amount of listings for any pre-SM and post-SM era card. It's not only about scalping and hoarding the sealed boxes to cause scarciy, it's really about making a cartel and deciding the market price based purely on hype.
