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Hey TNT, I have three questions about the retired items that you have made... retired and all. First, how did you choose at random? After all, certainly you wouldn't have put the newly-released items into the random drawing or whatever method you used because that would be silly. Second, I thought over-buying items and pushing the prices up to make certain items harder to get and more expensive was against the rules (according to an older Editorial), so what about the Mystery Island Aishas Stamp? Is that an exception to the rules since it is newly retired or what? I'm just saying because, should I ever want to get stamps on a side or need that stamp again for any reason, I wouldn't want to pay an outrageous price. You also said in an earlier Editorial that you would be helping out players with those hard-to-get stamps that are already retired and nearly impossible to obtain, but in a few years, this stamp will join their ranks. Please leave my name out. ~username removed

1.) Don't worry, we used the word "randomly" very loosely this time. Basically we just randomly went into shops and looked at the items that we clogging up the shop and put them out of their misery.

2.) Only if people are directly conspiring to purposely inflate an item are they crossing the line into scamming.

With regard to the rest of your concerns, we know retiring items will naturally make them inflate, because "investing" is a popular way of making Neopoints right now. We're sure plenty of you made out like bandits buying the stamps for a couple hundred NPs each and then selling them for more to other investors. We love refreshing the Shop Wizard and watching the prices climb, peak, and drop again as investors sell, hoping they haven't missed the top of the profit bell curve. We're not overly concerned with the Mystery Island Aishas Stamp. There's probably thousands of that particular stamp out there for every single Neopian who actually collects stamps. Therefore, while we're sure there's plenty of people who don't mind hoarding hundreds of them in their Safety Deposit Boxes for the next five years hoping to make a huge profit, we think finding buyers for all those who aren't simply other investors is going to be troublesome. ;)

From Neopian Times, Issue 428 (Modern) · Published January 29, 2010 · JN Editorial ID: 12416