Because they're crashing....of course you won't get cash. Junk isn't difficult to sell, and it's better than sitting on a worthless mask, they will continue to fall for quite some time. When you sell it with junk at least you're getting some cash, and you might even get some merchant clan junk which can be sold for a loss later on the g.e. Masks were bought out before the announce of double xp weekend. Half wines are still very, very valuable. As far as why people still want easters and disks: Easters are poison right now, no one wants to be stuck with one. Disks have street, but very little, they can often be seen traded for H'ween masks. Most merchants don't buy rares to "show off" like a normal player, they buy them because they have a constant supply, a constant low supply at that, it's the perfect investment. The same reason why a real life investor invests in bars of gold. He's not going to make all that gold into jewelry and show it off, he's going to keep it locked away in a bank because gold has a constant, limited supply, it's a great investment.