Despite the initial popularity of Custom Maps stocks, issued for the first time at the end of last year, their index has since been plummeting. Shares of all companies manufacturing custom maps, like ChanChan Enterprises and even companies normally producing food like RAVIOLI Inc., were skyrocketing in late December. But since then, the market has been in sharp decline.
Experts have contributed the fiasco to many different reasons. "You could never be certain what you would get when buying custom maps," said The Guardians financial expert. "Some were really well done. However, there were also unimaginative maps, trying to mimic the originals or maps that simply didn’t work. Quality of some maps was also highly questionable. It was evident that the manufacturer simply wanted to make a lot of money for as little input as possible."
The market has been stabilizing recently, but with only a small number of businesses still producing maps.
