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If you think it is dodgy complain about it. By the way, even tho I love the Star War films the memoriblia is ****. Bits of plastic people with no sense pay hundreds of thousands of pounds for, George Lucas should be ashamed of himselves for exploiting guilable people!
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Again another irrelevant and misplaced example.
The bits of plastic you talk about sell for 5 pounds, a good rare one, maybe 50 quid. But generally around 10 pounds. And they don't go to George Lucas. It goes to the owner of the toy.
George sold the toys for about a couple of quid each so people could play with them and now they're about 5 pounds so you're wrong there as well.
The expensive star wars stuff is based upon movies that made billions around the world and are props from the show but nothing has gone for hundreds of thousands of pounds.
So again - you really are having difficulty finding an analogy or an example that is irrelevant or matches this as exploitation...
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Not at the start, when there was only one film who knew what it would then become, people buy TV stuff as memoribilla all the time, its a gamble, just like any other investment.
That is what bansheewails point is, not about the TV show itself, but that its all originally a gamble.
And people gamble.