While I don’t feel comfortable saying prices are 
going down overall, I do feel that it is a bit 
depressed and very much a buyers-market.  This is 
especially true right now (as it usually is) 
during the holiday season when people are feeling 
tapped leading to selling leading to more people 
buying those and then feeling tapped themselves.

Part of the cause of the depressed prices over 
the last year has been the economy and 
unemployment problems that many are facing.  
However, I think that generally greater cel 
availability may have caused this too.  People 
gain more and more access to YJ over time and 
there have been some very consistently updating 
dealers, new dealers popping up, lots of sales 
and big releases for some series.  It all adds up 
to quite a snowball ^_^

As for some particular series going down in 
price, I feel that is due to the ‘natural’ ebb 
and flow of most series.  This can be due to 
greater availability or waning interest as some 
people ‘complete’ their collection and others 
watch something new and get excited about that 
instead.  The effects of just a small handful of 
collectors on one series is quite strong so 
should one of the major driving forces in pricing 
slow down or move to other series, the price of 
that series will appear to go down.

Keys