[zipdog]

Cornering the market in a useless item in order to drive up its price? Reminds me of the time Porsche cornered the market in VW shares and squeezed the short-sellers: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/32...

[baddox]

The player didn't really "drive up the price by cornering the market." This was just an exploit of an edge case in the game's "average market price" algorithm, and didn't really have anything to do with cornering the market.

[CamperBob2]

This didn't end well for Porsche, though, which is now a quavering vassal of Volkswagen AG.

[green7ea]

I wasn't aware of the negative turnout of this until now. I hadn't seen an article since porsche was in a power position. For those who are in that boat:

http://www.automobilemag.com/features/news/0911_porsche_and_...

[nijk]

Amazing that 74.1% is not considered controlling ownership in German law.

[jfb]

And look at how well that turned out.