On Wed, 04 Oct 2023 01:03:56 GMT, gbbgu <
[email protected]> wrote:
On 4 Oct 2023, rdh wrote:
If you search for 9,995, that is what you will find
I didn't start out searching for 9,995, I noticed a lot of "limited edition" >stuff was limited to 9,995 and was trying to work out why spefically that >number and not (eg) 9,999 or a round number like 10,000.
Someone, somewhere picked 9,995 and there must be a reason.
My leading theory at the moment is it's to match the precious metal "0.9995 >pure" that you see on silver etc.
Anyway, this now has nothing to do with dnd and gone off topic :)
More likely, the logic is this:
"We want this to be a 'limited' version in hopes of making it seem
more valuable to collectors. There's a company in China that will
mass-produce these, but you the count is limited to thousands of
units. So let's order 10,000 units. We'll need a handful for promotion
or archival; five should be enough, right?. Everything we don't keep
for ourselves, we sell. So that's 9995 on the market.
TL;DR: manufacturers aren't going to run 10,005 units, and since you
always need a few extra, that leaves slightly less to sell.
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