Collecting Frustration... Advice?

VorpalRyu · April 2015

^^ With the games industry's push to make more cash through DLC, Locked-On-Disc content, etc, I suspect that another video games crash could come about... But I think if it did, it would be the game makers, not so much the console makers that would be going under.

Rsa33 · April 2015

Rofl

VorpalRyu · April 2015

@Rsa33, sorry, couldn't help myself, the way you typed this bit "Corollary: Ive been collecting vinyl for" just screams HK-47. :)

Rsa33 · April 2015

Lol, I can assure you I am not HK-47 bwahahahah

Rsa33 · April 2015

Srsly tho a vinyl addiction is something most AFOLs cannot even fathom....

$10 - 30k for certain records, forget about your misb 10179 lol :)

SumoLego · April 2015

I've got a box of mid-'90's sportscards that had excellent value in 1995, and now would be better used as packing material for my various Lego trades. Shockingly, there's not much of a market for my 1992 Donruss Baseball sets.

I'm sure there is a very extensive Beanie Baby collector exponentially more frustrated with cycle of valuing collectables.

I have a 'Littlest Pet Shop' black Scottie dog in a shadowbox that a family member spent $85.00 in a pre-Christmas eBay frenzy. It reminds me to keep perspective.

madforLEGO · April 2015

SumoLego said:

I've got a box of mid-'90's sportscards that had excellent value in 1995, and now would be better used as packing material for my various Lego trades. Shockingly, there's not much of a market for my 1992 Donruss Baseball sets.

I'm sure there is a very extensive Beanie Baby collector exponentially more frustrated with cycle of valuing collectables.

I have a 'Littlest Pet Shop' black Scottie dog in a shadowbox that a family member spent $85.00 in a pre-Christmas eBay frenzy. It reminds me to keep perspective.

92 Don Russ was not really sought after back then, what really surprised me is what 92 Bowman cards were worth recently, which was near nothing (at least compared to what they were once worth). Back then they were some of the hardest cards to find around as Bowman scaled back their distribution, but seeing those prices tank just speaks to how back the sports card industry screwed themselves.

Though in thinking about it, to be fair to the OP, I desperately wanted a #4999 Vestas Wind Turbine set, and thought it was just silly how LEGO would only sell them to Vestas employees, or their sister companies, and not to the general public when employees and their families were selling them on eBay for 200 USD ( at the time). That I think was the first time I realized Im not getting everything made for LEGO sets (city sets in my case), and I was a bit more at peace with myself after that. Though I wonder if that is why #7747 was made because of all the people complaining that there was not giant wind turbine for the masses

dougts · April 2015

Cue the inevitable comparison of LEGO bubble bursting to sports cards, comic books, and beanie babies, despite the fact that none of those things have an alternate usage of their component parts that is nearly as valuable as the base sets are in most cases

goshe7 · April 2015

madforLEGO said:
That I think was the first time I realized Im not getting everything made for LEGO sets (city sets in my case), and I was a bit more at peace with myself after that.

After enjoying the fun arguments, we have the answer to the original question.

Seize the one thing that over which you have total control (the choice to want something) and exercise your power.

ryjay · April 2015

Just keep in mind, without the secondary collecting market, the primary market suffers in big way.

SumoLego · April 2015

My point was that the secondary collector market is very finicky and arbitrary.

The primary goal of any company is to sell as much of their product as possible at retail prices. Baseball card companies don't care about their secondary markets.

Lego is exactly the same. Sell the product to the consumer move onto the next product to the next consuner.

I do appreciate @dougts point - I personally believe there is an intrinsic value to Lego. Much like gold or other items that actually have their own utility value. (I'm not comparing it to gold in terms of investment value, but as an example of something that has 'other' value.)

I often discuss collectors markets with my wife (who isn't interested in collecting anything - she'd much rather listen to a catchy tune and drive too fast in a pony car on an open highway) and she makes the same observation - 'Does it do anything?'

Lego is in the category with vintage carpentry tools, leaded glassware and quilts.

Baseball cards, beanie babies, shot glasses, spoons, tickle me Elmos, NASCAR die-cast cars and Precious Moments are in the other category...

I don't mean to minimize other collections or put what I happen to collect on a pedistal - but be weary with what your motivations are for purchasing or collecting!

SumoLego · April 2015

(And I'm very happy to have a Wayne Gretzky rookie card - and I could care less if it's worth $1.00 or $10,000.00, and if it's graded a 1 or a 'gem mint 10' - whatever the heck that means.)

Pitfall69 · April 2015

^There it is AGAIN!!! The word "weary" Isn't it "leary" or "wary"?

SumoLego · April 2015

^Correct.

Wary, not weary. Although I may have been weary when writing that post.

Mr. Schoolhouse Rock: @Pitfall69

Pitfall69 · April 2015

^No No No, I wasn't trying to be one of those guys...ya know...like @CCC ;) I have just seen it a lot on here and other forums and I didn't know if I was losing my mind or not 8/

SumoLego · April 2015

^ Nice.

You are probably losing your mind, but that's unrelated to these forums. You give them and us far too much credit for possible mental infirmities.

<WAVING HAND>
These are the Droids you're looking for, and send me three NISB Taj Mahals for my extra Iron Man minifigure and Lego Friends bag charm...

Mesa say yousa kooky-kooky!

Pitfall69 · April 2015

Ahhhh, the irony of my avatar ;)

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