This is on the same subject but different collectible. Baseball cards. When my brother and I decided to start spending couch change on baseball cards and storing them in a basement, we soon realized that we were collecting the wrong era. Late 80’s and 90s probably have the worst value in baseball card history. I guess every kid decided to have the same hobby and card companies overproduced and now you can go to a Goodwill or garage sale and buy a sealed box set of 1991 Score or Topps dirt cheap. The sets I kept I probably can’t even give away.
Ironically, I blame this mindset on a particular Amazing Stories episode starring Mark Hamill, "Gather Ye Acorns". I suspect many a speculator was formed that day.
Remember that BETTER CALL SAUL so with the stolen cards?
This is on the same subject but different collectible. Baseball cards. When my brother and I decided to start spending couch change on baseball cards and storing them in a basement, we soon realized that we were collecting the wrong era. Late 80’s and 90s probably have the worst value in baseball card history. I guess every kid decided to have the same hobby and card companies overproduced and now you can go to a Goodwill or garage sale and buy a sealed box set of 1991 Score or Topps dirt cheap. The sets I kept I probably can’t even give away.
Ironically, I blame this mindset on a particular Amazing Stories episode starring Mark Hamill, "Gather Ye Acorns". I suspect many a speculator was formed that day.
Remember that BETTER CALL SAUL so with the stolen cards?
Ironically, I blame this mindset on a particular Amazing Stories episode starring Mark Hamill, "Gather Ye Acorns". I suspect many a speculator was formed that day.
There's also The 40 Year Old Virgin, where Steve Carell's character keeps his treasured childhood playthings mint in the box and sells them all by the end of the movie and makes half-a-million dollars. This is why, whenever I see a YouTube video of some random asshole reviewing movies, there's always a stack of Funko Pops in the original boxes lined up behind him. Dude, those are NOT going to be worth anything!
Ironically, I blame this mindset on a particular Amazing Stories episode starring Mark Hamill, "Gather Ye Acorns". I suspect many a speculator was formed that day.
There's also The 40 Year Old Virgin, where Steve Carell's character keeps his treasured childhood playthings mint in the box and sells them all by the end of the movie and makes half-a-million dollars. This is why, whenever I see a YouTube video of some random asshole reviewing movies, there's always a stack of Funko Pops in the original boxes lined up behind him. Dude, those are NOT going to be worth anything!
I have a friend whose shelves are lined with NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS dolls in the box.
[startquote I have a friend whose shelves are lined with NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS dolls in the box.
Worthless or goldmine?
The value money wise - who knows? I have a pretty LARGE collection of Godzilla figures. Some have very high price tags on Ebay (which of course means nothing). There's only a few I could do without. And THAT's the real value of my collection: it gives me pleasure each and every day and I couldn't care less what this one or that one is worth in money. So if your friend cherishes his/her collection, it's a goldmine.
[startquote I have a friend whose shelves are lined with NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS dolls in the box.
Worthless or goldmine?
The value money wise - who knows? I have a pretty LARGE collection of Godzilla figures. Some have very high price tags on Ebay (which of course means nothing). There's only a few I could do without. And THAT's the real value of my collection: it gives me pleasure each and every day and I couldn't care less what this one or that one is worth in money. So if your friend cherishes his/her collection, it's a goldmine.
[startquote I have a friend whose shelves are lined with NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS dolls in the box.
Worthless or goldmine?
The value money wise - who knows? I have a pretty LARGE collection of Godzilla figures. Some have very high price tags on Ebay (which of course means nothing). There's only a few I could do without. And THAT's the real value of my collection: it gives me pleasure each and every day and I couldn't care less what this one or that one is worth in money. So if your friend cherishes his/her collection, it's a goldmine.
I took my GODZILLA out of the box! Lol!
Regardless how much Ebayer's think their sh*t is worth, your sh*t is only valuable to you.
That is correct. But there are no Godzilla toys or figures in Swiss stores... the very same is true for any Soundtrack CD coming from a speciality label. Thank "god" for the internet and online stores
[startquote I have a friend whose shelves are lined with NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS dolls in the box.
Worthless or goldmine?
The value money wise - who knows? I have a pretty LARGE collection of Godzilla figures. Some have very high price tags on Ebay (which of course means nothing). There's only a few I could do without. And THAT's the real value of my collection: it gives me pleasure each and every day and I couldn't care less what this one or that one is worth in money. So if your friend cherishes his/her collection, it's a goldmine.
Ironically, I blame this mindset on a particular Amazing Stories episode starring Mark Hamill, "Gather Ye Acorns". I suspect many a speculator was formed that day.
There's also The 40 Year Old Virgin, where Steve Carell's character keeps his treasured childhood playthings mint in the box and sells them all by the end of the movie and makes half-a-million dollars. This is why, whenever I see a YouTube video of some random asshole reviewing movies, there's always a stack of Funko Pops in the original boxes lined up behind him. Dude, those are NOT going to be worth anything!
Too true. I'm a total opener.
(Although I suspect the only ones with any secondary value will be convention exclusives, and that's only in "scalper selling to other scalpers" prices)
Uggh. $1599 (American?) for a two-hilt set of replicas of lightsabers from Rise Of Skywalker.
I salute the couple of hundred people in the world who can flippantly acquire such.
Many many moons ago I somehow (!) acquired a full metal cap gun replica of a German Luger. Though too young to care about/note such things, I guarantee the pricetag was below $50 Can. . Back in the early 1970s.
As with many realms of production/service endeavour, the "charge what the market can bear" schtick has run far amok...