Agree. This is parallel to every eBay seller claiming whatever game they are selling is “rare” and a “holy grail” and listing things for 100x the actual value. People need to be accountable for not taking something at face value and do the research.
If this was securities and not games this would be a slam dunk market manipulation SEC case. But it’s not. This is why Jim Halperin is involved in hobby items, it’s unregulated territory and he knows it from his run in with coins/comics/video games/trading cards/etc. People are always looking for get rich quick schemes and this was just the next one to take advantage of people. The people who got caught up in this and lost their shirts, well play with fire and get burnt is all I can say there.
Hopefully the civil action has deep penalties, which it probably won’t, and we can all just move on.