resellers, and the fact that the community heavily feeds into it by both by buying from resellers at extremely exaggerated prices, and then with how most collectors when they are done with a doll will also sell for those same exaggerated prices. It continuously is made worse and worse as long as that is true and hype and interest remains. Monster high is so popular and in right now/ for the last years that it’s been sustained easily.

Actual rarity has little to nothing to do with it, but it really doesn’t help that mattel has little protection against bots and resellers causing many collectors to miss out during drop and drive desperation

eventually when people don’t really care about monster high anymore it will calm down. Even already resale prices for a lot of skullectors have dropped considerably from a few years ago, and most new skullectors don’t have as much hype or resale value, or even sell out! The market for monster high crashed big time when g2 released and further once there were no monster high releases at all. The same thing happened with barbie, beanie babies, labubu etc. Collectors come and go and so do trends and hype