The example you give is clearly not a limited edition.
Limiting the edition is a perfectly valid marketing strategy: like it or not.
Yes you are right
But the topic here is about art, not marketing.
Marketing:
"They...brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks' bells. They willingly traded everything they owned...They would make fine servants...With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want. " (C.Columbus)
"...And such was the joy and pleasure that these simple people got from the trifles that they returned the next day loaded with gold jewels, turkeys...and in exchange for everything they took only a few strings of beads and needles and ribbons (Hernan Cortes)."
"and they wanted a signature on the piece of "art" and paid generously for it, and it was promised that there would be not more than 200 copies of it... " (
Rabanito - Life of the Artists)
Isn't that similar what happens to such buyers? Giving dollars for trifles?