Pokemon

[Brad De Long]

>Tom, have you tried looking on the web for toystores that sell pokemon
>card sets?  There are lots of toystores with websites. you could order
>and they would deliver pronto.
>
>good luck,
>Katha

Except that they are following the strategy of limiting the supply of 
Pokemon cards--as long as something is *scarce* it has the extra 
value of marking its possessor as a cool insider. Thus lots of 
Pokemon products are hard to get at any reasonable price...

Brad DeLong, who made Pokemon cards for the six-year-old by printing 
pictures out from websites and glueing them onto cardboard...