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I heard somewhere that a fool and his money are soon parted. This is Exhibit A.

 

There was a game called Furry Pawz (it might still exist Idk) but you had a kennel of dogs and you could show them and win stuff (all in game crap). Well I had a very low number account (16 I think) that had been given to me. I needed money and someone said I should sell it, which I though was absurd, but okay whatever. I wasn't playing I'd take the 5 bucks.

3k is what somebody paid - three thousand dollars - for a logon for a game so they could have the 'status' of a low number account when accounts numbered in the tens of thousands. People are crazy. (I mean, I took his money, but I didn't respect him in the morning)

 

And? That doesn't change the fact of how irresponsible it is to make blanket statements about something you have no clue about. How much did it cost to make a 1910 Honus Wagner baseball card? An item that came FREE with tobacco? How much is it worth today?

Then you made the logical fallacy leap from what I mentioned to a digital item.

Let me break something down for you, right now the smartest financial investors in the world have gone on record as saying that it is a better long term investment to buy rare collectible sports cards and comic books than stocks. Even Legos... a simple piece of plastic as you would put it, are now a good investment.

 

The only problem I have with your argument is that you take your opinions that aren't based on facts and state them as facts. What you are doing right now is one of my biggest pet peeves about people, when they make negative comments about something they don't know anything about, and take their time to expend energy making those negative comments rather than actually taking the time to learn about the subject before commenting on it.

Also, just to prove you don't even know what they are, yet you are making statements about them, Funko Pops cover a wide arrange of things and are not "Japanese figures."

https://money.usnews.com/investing/articles/2016-10-31/consider-collectibles-in-your-portfolio

 

It does? Man... just stop. You have NO CLUE what you are talking about.

"The card ultimately sold for $2,105,770.50, including the buyer's premium, a record price for a baseball card in a public auction.[80]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T206_Honus_Wagner

 

There is no point to this conversation and it is diverting the thread from its initial intention.

I actually DO have a clue as to what I'm talking about. I worked in the antiques and collectibles trade for a number of years while attending U.F., as stated, at Turkey Creek Auction. It's a speculative market at best. What sells for a mint today can't be given away tomorrow, and vice versa. When I first got into the trade, New York Empire furniture was all the rage. Before the year was out, Dave, the auctioneer, started refusing New York Empire because it just wasn't selling anymore. The market had moved on to all things Stickley and Van Erp, and Prairie School was the hot new thing. Little old ladies would come in with their Hummel figurine collections and price guides clutched to their chests and we had turn them away because Dave didn't want to deal - emotionally - with watching these ladies get no better than $10 to $15 dollars for figurines they thought would sell for hundreds of dollars apiece because that's what it said in the books. Goebel, the company that makes Hummels to this day, watched their figurines amass value in the market as collectibles, and then the company itself started buying collections of vintage pieces and hoarding them. When the market hit a peak, they unloaded their hoarded collections, flooding the market and value took a total nosedive, never to recover.

The entire trade is called speculative for a reason.

And that is the end of this conversation in this thread. I will delete any further posts that are not on-venue without warning.

 

I got me a pretty new oilslick/peacock underlayer at the hair salon tonight!

 

Ah, the coloring options you have these days. When I was of an age to color my hair unnaturally, we had Halloween spray can stuff, and some goopy junk the consistency of toothpaste, both of which washed out on the first use.

Jealous I am....

 

This ad appeared where I'm used to seeing members' Amazon books advertised. For a moment, I was very interested:

 

Silly photo from Ripley's Believe It Or Not.

 

I don't think we're in Dorothy anymore, Toto.

 

No, no, never. I've only every been a friend of Dorothy. People always assume we're dating because we're joined at the hip, but... no.

 

Joined at the hip= close friends.

Joined at the hips, well...

 

More silly pics from Ripley's. It's rare for people to take photos of me. Not really sure why it's a thing, but it is. My niece and her mom in these photos.

 

A mural from Sunflower Fest



Speaks for itself.


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Singer toasts the memory of her sister before launching into their seminal, festival classic, 'I Don't Want to Die in Big Knickers.' ​

 

This popped up in my feed again. It's just sooo cute.

Until you think it through.

 

@Iain Aschendale That is positively disturbing...

@Wreybies Someone's been lifting weights. Do you bench trucks on the regular?

 

I've been taking it easy lately. Just sedans and coupes.

 

KID: But Muum... Why can't I have the Minion bed for Xmas? I've been really good."

MOTHER: Beat your fists off that floor one more time and you might just get your wish."

Sorry, sorry, in bad taste, I know, but if I don't find humour in it somehow, I'm likely to break down crying.

 

So yah... my dog hates thunder.

 

So does one of mine. If I say "kaboom", even quietly, she freaks out.

I sit with them in thunder storms, on the 4th and on New Years.