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My guess is, players who use items as investments were looking at the Greatsaw skin from Halloween and acted upon it. It went from 50 while the update was available to 200.
http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/36340
(stretch the timeline below to show the item’s history since it was released.)
Not picking on FourthVariety in particular, but just something to consider that seems to be overlooked by most posters in this thread:
Sure, you can make a big profit on rare weapon skins if you hold on to them for a long time. But your investment is, shall we say, dormant until you actually sell out. (And subject to the risk of lower/stagnant demand.) It’s the whole ‘opportunity cost’ thing. In the example cited, if someone were to sell their Greatsaw skin at the end of October for 50g, then use that money as capital to flip items with even moderate success, then they would have WAY more than 200g by now (5+ months later). Ahhh, the miracle of compound interest…
Of course, it’s much less work to just buy and hold the skins. There’s really merits to both courses of action.