tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2000975408141883421.post7068070522372498326..comments2024-03-28T09:13:39.913-04:00Comments on Vintage Pen News: Pen show frictions, Part 4: users vs collectorsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2000975408141883421.post-59163887109149308582016-09-05T23:26:32.126-04:002016-09-05T23:26:32.126-04:00And to clarify, the vintage pen market was and is ...And to clarify, the vintage pen market was and is widely dispersed. Thousands of independent dealer/collectors, hundreds of thousands if not millions of pens in circulation -- controlling such a market simply wasn't possible. Not even regional control, for long before eBay, pen collectors routinely traveled all over the US to buy and sell at pen shows.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14840124542576619486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2000975408141883421.post-41045468369756258242016-09-05T23:11:37.445-04:002016-09-05T23:11:37.445-04:00The ability of dealers to moderate short-term fluc...The ability of dealers to moderate short-term fluctuations in supply and<br />demand was always very limited -- not so much market control as a degree<br />of buffering. Nor was this a matter of collusion, or even necessarily<br />anything conscious. Rather, it was a simple case of dealers (and trading<br />collectors) buying pens when they came available cheap, while not dropping<br />their Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14840124542576619486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2000975408141883421.post-65216620064704767582016-09-05T18:18:09.923-04:002016-09-05T18:18:09.923-04:00It's interesting in your previous post that yo...It's interesting in your previous post that you explored the role of dealer inventory in managing short-term fluctuations in supply and demand. Essentially, this must be a process, in part, whereby dealers withhold items from sale to prevent the market being flooded and prices falling. Yet in this post, you argue that dealers were unreasonably blamed for high prices. <br /><br />There's Dr Jonathon Deanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10759349617576066695noreply@blogger.com