Have you invested in collectibles or other items that are liable to gain value over time such as Lego sets?
Have had pic related in my collection for about 6 years, bought for £430 when I was 20. I could now put a mortgage deposit on a small house with the current value of it.
Also in my collection are a bunch of sealed Lego sets from around 2005 which have gained between 500 and 2500% in value. I occasionally still invest in newer items despite saturated markets if I feel there will be a taste for that item in the future. Current examples with Pokemon TCG would be the Shining Legends and Burning Shadows products, I have some of these because I believe unlike the majority of modern Pokemon TCG releases at the moment they will be comparatively more desirable in 5+ years time. Not to the extent of pre-delta species Pokemon sets but enough to be worthy of a long term investment. Of course as with any form of investment, past performance does not guarantee future results.
Nice, I believe they’re about £2.5k each now if they’re in good condition
Easton Flores
You hurting for money user?
Austin Moore
No I just like a diverse portfolio and collectibles are by far the most interesting. It’s nice to have physical assets as well that you can take out and look at every once in a while.
Logan Reyes
into any historical items/antiques?
Owen Nelson
i own some 3rd reich militaria my great grandfather took from the wolfs lair bunker. theres also an 1800s stereoscope in the box and some ww2 era money.(1/2)
I have tons of cash on the side and will probably be loading up on some Yugioh cards when the next recession hits. Should be able to get some good bargains.
>not buying 3rd reich militaria that shit will always be hot and is extremely rare.
Caleb Brown
I buy art.
I bought a Tillmans print, Sterling Ruby print that is in the MoMA collection, 2 Johnathan Meese originals before he had his solo show at the Munich art museum and 6 Gosha Rubinsky photo prints. I also have a couple large 1950's woman expressionist landscape paintings that are probably worth a few k a piece currently.
Aaron Scott
I guess video games too. I have most major Nintendo titles for all consoles. Sold my store kiosks last year to a Saudi lel
Dominic Parker
Cool, but when liquidity dries up collectibles drop in price heavily.
Jayden Campbell
Is the market liquid for the cards? I would sell that shit desu. It's like holding BTC at 20k
Wyatt Sullivan
most recent purchase was a sealed illuminati new world order one with everything set
Josiah Lopez
This is pretty cool, a guy selling a collection of every booster box for $500k
If you're into collectibles & pokemon, check out ecomi.
Digital collectables on the blockchain.
The guy that brought pokemon to the world along with all other big names in this space heads up their licensing department. They are going to be a big presence.
Fucking trading rare collectibles and keeping them in your secure wallet....can't wait
Isaac Gonzalez
are those kiosks like in-store displays?
Christian Bennett
Yeah they were in store displays. Had huge lights on the top with the consoles branding. Auto-reset options, stuff like that.
Mason King
I'll quit spamming the thread but if you find stuff like that list it for whatever you want.
I had people spamming me saying that I was an asshole and asking too much and no one would pay that but there are collectors the world over looking at stuff like that and when there is only one available they jump on it. Like 1k -> 2.5k doesn't matter at all when you have 10m play money for the year. They won't choose to overpay but will if you have the only one for sale.
I think the best story with it and my favorite one was getting the SNES kiosk.
I had a friend in high school that found a DSI that someone left in a classroom and he gave it to me since I collected games. I already had a DS so I went on craigslist and started hitting people up to trade and some guy had this kiosk on there with no price and I offered the DSI and he got back to me with "fuck it I don't want this thing in my house and my daughter can play Nintendogs"
I kept it for a few years and would have parties and everyone would play it. The light was bright enough to light the entire room. Then when I went to move out I sold it for 2k after getting it for free.
Sell that shit now. I sold my Anthony Bourdain everything pretty quickly when he died and got 3x what it's going for now.
Good move. I'm sad that traded all of my PSP stuff. There were a lot of unique games in the catalog which is going to make it a collectors console later.
Caleb Johnson
cool find user the last time i saw one of those was at a funcoland around the time that dreamcast came out. i played mario kart on it for a little while
Daniel Wright
Nice. I couldn't figure out how to turn the auto-reset off because it was soldered into the board for like 6 months. I could play like two MK races before it would reset.
Do you collect games?
Jeremiah Bennett
I used to have a 6 ft hill of consoles. Just about every Nintendo, Sega, Sony, and MS console with some Atari tossed in. I'd scour ebay and craigslist for rare stuff. One of my favorite finds was a set of GC component cables + Twilight Princess & the RE Remake for $10.
That was about 10 years ago. Now I'm down to a small handful - Model 2 Genesis, modded v1.0 Xbox, modded 20 GB PS3, prototype Xbox 360 devkit, modded PSP-2001, and a stock 3DS I bought mostly to play Smash Bros when it came out
