Talk:Unobtainable Land RIMs/@comment-32858922-20180211185236/@comment-35391772-20180211193645

The value of a collector's value is decided by how hard an item is to find and it's literal scarcity. If a certain item suddenly becomes more or less easier to find (Like default Barrel Sponges did) it loses alot of value because it's no longer as uncommon, and these are "uncommon" items with values based on how uncommon and scarce.

But when an item is very hard to find after popularity increases for similar items then that means it's more uncommon, more scarce than the other items, and is seen as a more impressive item for being harder to find and scarcer. This means it's value increases, demand may also increase because of this. An example of this is the rarest ocean den item, Barrel Seats. After tons of ocean den items became popular Barrel Seats remained incredibly hard to find, which is why collectors value them at a minimum of 8 or so Black Longs for good colors of the item.