For the black crown i meant the surprise brick release, the price of them went up from the initial release.
From your post my theory is quit right, the reseller market is quite tamed because of the rerelease and direct release. Black crown were once $50 and i sold my gold crown for $60 when they were going for $80 because i knew ill have more chances to get them.
Snow Owl is not a solid example but my point was that TBC does a good job deliver their rare decks to as much costumers as possible. better than the whole white monarch server crash and
Ah, now I see what you're pointing at - not the stabilized market value, but the initial offering value. Initial offerings of rare decks are always outrageously inflated and volatile in pricing; you can't really use them for comparison purposes. At that stage, the market is still trying to determine what the value of that deck will be, so you'll see it offered and sold at prices all over the map. You have to look at what that same deck is going for perhaps a month or two after release, when it's no longer super-freshly released, but still new enough to have not begun having any rarity creep.
As far as TBC pricing the Black Crowns any higher, by that point it was a sold-out deck, in essence - it was no longer available in singles, so besides getting the brick, the only other way to get them would have been by winning a contest/getting a premium or trading in the open market for it. They did price it a bit higher, but on a per-deck basis it was still far below market value, just as with the Gold Crown. That was something like $18, and these days a decent price would be in the ballpark of $40 - and that's the stabilized price. The Snow Owls are too new to even have a stabilized price yet, but it's certainly not going to be as high as the one eBay listing I saw for it earlier this morning.
