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Re:Fred Wilson's Investment Themes for 2010 by davidw on Saturday January 02, 2010 @04:44PM (#1027706)
> i said in my etsy/san telmo post the other day that more tractors are sold every day in farmville than are sold in the US every year

The supply of real tractors is limited by a large number of things that cost real money including raw materials, labor, and so on. The supply of virtual tractors is not really limited by anything (marginal cost is pretty much 0), so the cost ought to be 0 or awfully close. Granted, there are costs to 'develop' virtual tractors, but those don't limit the production of them once they've been created.

Re:Fred Wilson's Investment Themes for 2010 by immad on Saturday January 02, 2010 @06:34PM (#1027850)
Virtual tractors in fv only have one supplier. Therefore the pricing will be monopolistic and would not trend to zero.
Re:Fred Wilson's Investment Themes for 2010 by davidw on Saturday January 02, 2010 @06:45PM (#1027861)
They ought to be zero were it in any way a sensible market, but it's not. I think people buying that stuff are a bit batty.