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But sports cards have been around forever, and they hold up
much of that is due to rarity of the old ones, chances of them being damaged is high.

These stuffed animals won't be worth anything in 6 months.
some will still be valued if given to children who don't think its an investment.

I don't have a problem with people collecting things they use. Its people like those who buy fashion items thinking its worth anything just because its got a brand name on it - they learned the hard way this year (its not an asmon link this time), or buy things as investments that aren't worth anything... NFT (only .2% of which returned an investment last year), anything mass produced in last 10 years.

I have never bought anything wondering how much I can sell it for. I don't buy things I don't want to use myself**. I am normally only person who uses anything I buy until I have stopped. Most things are used until they don't any more. PC are about things that might live after I stop using them and until my last one, they were all given to a friend to use.

**anymore, for 20 or so years I worked in an Accounts Payable area. In two jobs, I don't know how much money I spent on crap for other people, but none of that was my money.
 
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These toys are crypto for morons. Of course, it's the same thing as buying packs of sports cards, which I used to love to do. It was exciting to think that you could get a valuable card. But sports cards have been around forever, and they hold up. These stuffed animals won't be worth anything in 6 months.

It's gambling, crypto and a status symbol to show off your wealth all in one. But I agree, unless the hype around Labubu is somehow kept up they'll lose their value in a couple of months.
 
Everyone just wants a financial leg up, because everything is just so hard and expensive right now.

Companies have found ways to now run legal lotteries to take advantage of people and they don't even need to post the odds of "winning" given it's so loosely defined in this case.

I only know about these Labubu things from a random YouTube video I stumbled across, but my kids have started mentioning them.

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AtaLtSMIwJY
 

Zed Clampet

Community Contributor
Does this happen to you often? :p



The urge to put someone in a straight jacket? Yes, because I read the comments on posts whenever I watch a video on Tik Tok or Instagram, and if the post was made by a woman, there's usually some weirdo asking them to measure their toes with a ruler, or at least asking them what size shoe they wear.

I figure there are two types of women on Tik Tok. One of them reads the comment about measuring their toes and immediately deletes their account, locks their front door, and carries a baseball bat with them for a week. The other type says, "Yes! My toes are magnificent! Look at them!" and then starts offering foot pictures for sale.
 
I read the comments on posts whenever I watch a video on Tik Tok or Instagram
look, Youtube comments can be brain rot, I hate to imagine the ones on those two. I wouldn't read them for your mental health.
I can't comment on 2nd paragraph as I don't use Tik Tok as it is ruining Youtube by making it think everyone wants to see shorts, I wish it would remember I keep blocking the shelf.
 

Zed Clampet

Community Contributor
look, Youtube comments can be brain rot, I hate to imagine the ones on those two. I wouldn't read them for your mental health.
I can't comment on 2nd paragraph as I don't use Tik Tok as it is ruining Youtube by making it think everyone wants to see shorts, I wish it would remember I keep blocking the shelf.
When I say I read the comments whenever I watch a Tik Tok or Instagram video, I mean once or twice a year.
 
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Frindis

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Are these empty jars? Just curious - or do you have designer buttons you wear there and special shirts that show it at all times?
No empty jars, but look for Skippy and his belly button collection on YouTube :grin:
Another sign I am old and out of touch - wtf are Labubu? They look like loot boxes for consumers as you don't know what you get until you open box. I grew out of lucky dip in Primary School.
Lol, I watched a clip from Asmongold about a couple having financial problems because the wife was spending the husband's money on buying Labubu's. It truly is a miracle that humanity has come so far.
 
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Lol, I watched a clip from Asmongold about a couple having financial problems because the wife was spending the husband's money on buying Labubu's. It truly is a miracle that humanity has come so far.
yeah, I saw that one, she had one around her neck. That was what introduced the things to Asmon.

They both had pokemon things on, either as tattoos or t shirts... both of them need to grow up
 
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No empty jars, but look for Skippy and his belly button collection on YouTube
hmm, I wonder if there is a convention as he can't be the only one...

This is sort of what I think of if I think of Skippy
Sorry about resolution, blame the 1990's

The results of tests show high Iron and High Cholesterol but no indication what caused marks on legs... he gave me a steroid cream to see if that helps, and put me on a vitamin B complex to fix the other two... or try to.

Mum and brother were foreseeing much worse results. They are the ones in family who spend too much time at Doctors, I rarely go unless I have to.
 
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When a person of lower income collects toys, (that are often very intricate, sculpted articulated objects) they are imature morons that need to grow up and living in the past. This person might spend 500-1k a year

When someone collects expensive bobbles from an art antiques dealer, they are diserning collectors with high class and taste... this person could spend 10 grand on a single item.

Both items just sit on shelves and both items can often become worthless when tastes change.

My question is why is one looked down on, and the other is a person with taste and class? Its only been going on since the dawn of civilzation, the rich collect things just to say im rich look how many things i have... you poor with your worthless trinkets,, you'd be rich like me if you had better taste!
 
When someone collects expensive bobbles from an art antiques dealer, they are diserning collectors with high class and taste... this person could spend 10 grand on a single item.
Collecting most modern art items is also a waste of money. Really expensive art is often over inflated in price, but if people are stupid enough to buy it, what can we say?

Its a dangerous conversation for many in here as their steam collection is larger than their ability to play all the games. Its like throwing rocks in a glass house :)

its like collecting steam trophies, you will never hold them...

rich people generally have more of a chance of financially surviving their dumb mistakes. And maybe learning from them... depends how rich they are and if they notice the loss.
 

Frindis

Dominar of The Hynerian Empire
Moderator
Its a dangerous conversation for many in here as their steam collection is larger than their ability to play all the games. Its like throwing rocks in a glass house :)
Yeah, shakes head—these new generations of collectors don't know how hard it was to save up for getting that hardboxed copy of that one game you had to love to death. When I was just a wee dram, I had to work at the construction yard seven days a week to afford a collector's edition.

I still got my first boxed copy nailed to the wall by the first nail I hit on my first day as a construction worker. Every day, I bow to the sealed copy that I never opened because I didn't want to lose money on it. As my great-great-great-grandfather always said: "Never...ever....! He died before he could say the last words, poor man.

*Frindis looks around with his head held high, quite the spectacle, one could say*
*Frindis looks at his Steam library with 1,5K games"
*Frindis seems a bit more uncomfortable than his usual self*
"Frindis hides library from public view"
*Frindis has left the building*
 
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