How do I know which Collectibles will be worth money in the future
Hey All,
ive been in the process of selling off some of my Collectibles, mainly because my wife and I are looking for houses and I don't want to have to move all of it. I have a ton of stuff from collecting sports memorabilia since I was a kid. I also have a large collection of Funko pops and toys from my favorite tv shows. I've put aside anything that is special to me but my question is how do I know the collectibles wont be worth a small fortune in the years to come? Will funko pops go the way of Beanie Babies? How many collectibles is too much to have? I'm Just curious to see what the consensus is amoungst fellow baldies.
ive been in the process of selling off some of my Collectibles, mainly because my wife and I are looking for houses and I don't want to have to move all of it. I have a ton of stuff from collecting sports memorabilia since I was a kid. I also have a large collection of Funko pops and toys from my favorite tv shows. I've put aside anything that is special to me but my question is how do I know the collectibles wont be worth a small fortune in the years to come? Will funko pops go the way of Beanie Babies? How many collectibles is too much to have? I'm Just curious to see what the consensus is amoungst fellow baldies.
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As for the "how much should you own" question, it kind of comes down to disposable space. I mean, you don't want to live in a hoarder house, but if you've got room for them and you enjoy them, and you're on the same page with your wife, that's where it comes down. It's kind of like my sort of music corner. I don't play nearly as much as I would like, but having about half a room devoted to a couple of guitars and a keyboard makes me feel good. If we had a bigger place (we're in a 1 bedroom + a den apartment) I would love to have a music/fun collectible stuff/hobby stuff room, and I think that kind of thing is just a good thing for a person to have if the resources are there. I guess this is just a really long way of saying that everyone's circumstances are different, but I always default to balance and happiness.
http://www.wisebread.com/10-collectibles-that-almost-always-become-more-valuable
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/09/05/10-items-buy-now-could-make-fortune-future/amp/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/money/5-signs-cheap-toy-worth-5017124.amp
Bunch of my Shadowrun books are worth <$5. The GM's screen is worth $50+.
I have a bunch of RPG dice. Somehow the D100 I bought in the mid 1990s is worth $80+.
I would say anything that you know is some sort of limited edition or many weren't made have potential. Things that aren't going to be remade have potential. Things that are viewed as classics in their time have potential (some of the expansions and adventures for Shadowrun that were viewed as classics are worth $40+ in printed form now, while regular adventures are <$5)
supply and demand
so anything that will be worth money needs to be short on supply and large on demand. Like a rookie ty Cobb card or something where there are literally like 50 left on the planet with no means of recreation.
unforuntately almost everything today is so mass produced that the supply will never cause the demand to drive price high enough. There will be some specific cases such as a recall or a collectible where only 100 are made and certified.
There are examples. Like, con-exclusive POP figures of a hot property or obscure property with a cult following are a good get. But everyone knows that so you have to fight like hell to get one or pay $300 to get into the building to pick one up. So... nice value add if you are going to the con anyway, but sound investment? Not as clear.
All my valuable shit I got just by being involved in a hobby. Who knew the first appearance of Gambit would be worth over a thousand dollars? He was just an unusually goofy mutant dude (which is saying something) in the goofy storm as a young girl plot. Same thing with Cable and Deadpool. Who knew my Nobel Hierarchs from my obscure Bant deck from my glory days of MTG would be worth over 100 dollars while my foiled Nicol Bolas planeswalker that I shit my pants when I opened the pack now wouldn't buy me a big mac value meal? I probably have a $1000 dollars worth of unhinged era basic fucking land cards that were a literal joke at the time I bought them for ten cents each.
I weep when I think of 12 year old me selling my star wars collection to some sweaty fat dude at a garage sale for $100 to finance a Nintendo. The figures alone even unboxed unboxed would be worth several thousand dollars. But, what would that summer have been like with out a Nintendo? Fuck that noise.
I do wish I still had my old box of toys so I could let my kids have and play with them thogh.
Lesser podcasts would have thrown on the brakes and thought "let's get back to the focus of the film", but the folks at Bald Move really leaned into it to consider-- how do you KNOW which bottle of liquor will be valuable? You still have to buy at market price, and storage is an issue. Inflation defeats interest, so it's pure speculation.
Then there was conjecture about the difficulties a typical Immortal would face transferring assets from one identity to the next without drawing the ire of the IRS. Oh and while we're at it, let's sketch-up some ideas for a TV show and video game.
That's why I love Bald Move.
As to Hatorian's question-- definitely consider the density. You are essentially buying futures in whatever collectibles you have and you're paying for it with the space you require to accommodate them for the duration of your investment, times the cost to maintain them, plus transport them.
Also i I have a buddy who has an entire room of collectibles and he said almost anything from the 90s is worthless. Baseball cards, comic books, etc they are so mass produced that they have no value. Obviously they are exemptions but extremely hard to identify.
He said the best chance of making money was just taking risks and buying things with short supply now and hoping in the future it becomes valuable. Like buying a rookie Mike Trout used signed jersey for a couple hundred and hoping in a hundred years he’s the best baseball player ever and there is only so many signed items from him.
Signed by BDW and Lando, no less. Apparently he asked the owner why it was stuck on 5:00, and he responded with "it's always happy hour somewhere, right Mr. Williams?", to which Billy Dee responded "damn right."
I buy stamps for collecting at the post office, it’s a fun hobby and who knows, maybe one day my Wilt Chamberlin or Ray Charles or Charlton Heston stamps will be big money
Now it's worth as much as toilet paper. Woosh! Worst part is I don't even know what happened to it. I can't even wipe my ass! If only I had some more collectible toilet paper...
True story. An unopened roll of this sat around my dad's house for years. $21.59 buy it now price on Ebay. Knowing my pops, he definitely used it. What a waste. Could have made literally tens of dollars.
I also managed to just flat out lose like thousands of baseball cards (had some decent ones too). I literally have no idea what happened to them. They probably just went to the dump in a garage purge at my parent's house at some point. Man, what a waste.
You can bet I got a case for it and it's in a locked unit now. And also I'm never letting that douchebag that tried to lowball me in my home again because I'm pretty sure he'd rob my ass.