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[Anonymous No.54925807]

Is collecting really old vintage movie ticket stubs a good investment?

[Anonymous No.54925820]

>>54925807
>really old

[Anonymous No.54925819]

>>54925807
>not PMs
Wew lad.

[Anonymous No.54925853]

>>54925807
I swear to god soibois are so unbelievably retarded they almost are genius in their retardness.
Also grading is a kike scheme.

[Anonymous No.54925859]

>>54925807
I’d pay for one of these for garden state

[Anonymous No.54925960]

>>54925807
probably not but you never really know

[Anonymous No.54926012]

>>54925819
>2008
top kek, no

[Anonymous No.54926032]

>>54925807
>student: $9
poorfag ticket stub

[Anonymous No.54926053]

>all the worthless shit I have laying around my pod is ackually worth something!
kek

[Anonymous No.54926113]

I have one for Get Carter. This was a free pass because the theater was not even open yet. They literally were walking around the mall giving away free passes to somewhat older movies for the workers to practice for real customers before the grand opening. I could still smell the fresh paint on the walls. I'm pretty sure they only did this the one afternoon but I might be wrong.

[Anonymous No.54926188]

>>54926053
Remind me of the silent gen with their stamp collections and boomers with miniature cars they got one of in collectible magazines where the first n° was $2 then the next one was $20.

Stamps really are the perfect demonstration of the collectible's life cycle : a curve bell following the spending capacities of one generation.
Start low, increase slowly at first (generation in their 20s), then rapidly (40s) to spike around 50 (maximum cash), then drop like a rock as they start to die and their kids dump it on ebay with $1 starting auctions.
My gramp was the perfect example. He spent around $70K through his life for his stamp collection. When he died my aunt auctioned it for 20 bux on ebay. 0 buyers.
Same thing will happen to pokemon 30 years from now.

Only eternal things worth collecting to pass down to the next generation are numismatic coins, but it's so full of fakes it's unbearable. Weapons too i guess, but (((legislations))) change so rapidly in judeocracies...

[Anonymous No.54926228]

>>54926188
Yeah the stamps actually made me a bit sad.
My boomer aunt dumped something like $30k into her stamp collection so her kid would have something when she died. My cousin gave it to me to sell and I couldn't get 2k out of it.

for comparison, my aunt could've bought 3 big houses for what she spent on stamps, and they would've been worth well over a million now.

[Anonymous No.54926238]

>>54926228
>Buying gay stamps instead of real estate
This shows how expected and normal it was for people to own a house.

[Anonymous No.54926271]

>>54926238
she had a few houses, but she sold all of them except the one she lived in.

my aunt was fairly rich. She just put her money into stupid shit like stamps.

[Anonymous No.54926362]

>>54926188
>>54926228
These are good lessons. Gonna stop with the collectable and just toss everything into the market. Also if anyone has anymore stamp collecting green texts I'd love to hear them. That stuff was still lingering around when I was a kid and I guess now that no one uses the post office interest is dead. When cbdc are released interest in coins and PMs are probably gonna die too

[Anonymous No.54926373]

>superbad
>mid
Kek

[Anonymous No.54926389]

>>54926362
Interesting. I thought the main dagger for stamps and upcoming to coins, sports cards, and even precious metals is the quality of counterfeits. But it's a great reminder that collecting anything is super retarded compared to simply collecting money.

[Anonymous No.54926392]

>>54926362
ebay killed stamps. Stuff that you couldn't find to buy at your local store you can easily find thousands of online. So stuff that was locally rare was exposed as extremely common.

I saw the same thing happen with antique bottles. Some examples you'd never see in the antique stores turned out to be really common and cheap on ebay. US coins are similar. Lots of key dates were impossible to find before the internets came out and flooded the markets.

[Anonymous No.54926401]

>>54925807
I keep reading his texts in a mega retard voice

[Anonymous No.54926402]

>>54925807
bruh, who the hell cares bout some old ass movie ticket stubs? ain't nobody got time for dat. and even if they were worth something, they'll prolly just get lost or destroyed anyways. i'd rather spend my money on somethin' more useful, like some dank weed or a new pair of kicks. baka, people be trippin' on this collectin shit

[Anonymous No.54926403]

i used to collect my movie tickets. have a ton of them

[Anonymous No.54926417]

>>54926392
Not to be a faggot but runescape GE did similar stuff. Suddenly buying 6 gorillion coal for smelting could be done in a day instead of finding faggots in mining guild to be your perm seller. Resource prices dropped quickly after GE

[Anonymous No.54926439]

>>54926417
Yeah, just a sudden change in the availability.

ebay made some things more valuable, like garbage pail kids cards or antique playing cards. But for common stuff like postage stamps and antique bottles it killed the market.

[Anonymous No.54926510]

>>54926188
2,000 years from now all the stamps and funko pops will have rotted away in the dirt.
But coins will remain. And if not the coins then the metal they were once made of.

[Anonymous No.54926630]

>>54926389
Counterfeits are an issue once something has become a collectable. I collect all sorts of junk from whiskey to watches to bicycles and when I think of how much I spent on stupid hobbies and how much I could have had if I put it in the market it makes me sick. Best time to start is now I guess

[Anonymous No.54926846]

>>54925807
it's still more than many others can complain about, I don't know how much you can find something this rare in Dextools, so that's a genuine crap and I hope you're doing well

[Anonymous No.54926978]

>>54926510
Too bad I can buy a Roman coin on eBay for like $30.

I get it tho, I collect stupid shit too. I’m really close to buying a $150 ww2 knife for no reason besides I think it’s neat. I mainly collect stuff I consider prime americana

[Anonymous No.54926986]

>>54926978
Stuff that’s impractical but cool in my eyes

[Anonymous No.54927047]

>>54926986
>>54926978

[Anonymous No.54927061]

>>54926978
I use this as my main suitcase now after I cleaned it up.

[Anonymous No.54927136]

Maga hats are practically printing money. Buy and hold any limited edition Trump hat, 4x in a year

[Anonymous No.54927151]

>>54927136
i threw mine in the trash. i was embarrassed to even have it

[Anonymous No.54927157]

>>54925807
I found a large collection of movie ticket stubs from that era. I can’t sell them.

[Anonymous No.54927160]

>graded ticket stubs instead of graded trading cards or video games or comics or coins
Ya blew it

[Anonymous No.54927167]

>>54926978
>prime Americana
Does that include carpet stains?

[Anonymous No.54927172]

>>54927167
If you’re talking about the floor that’s a concrete garage

[Anonymous No.54927173]

>>54926362
Not to be that guy but this will be NFTs in 10-20 years.

[Anonymous No.54927183]

>>54925807
>graded a 3
>gets 300m views on social media valuing what a prime time network views made in a week

[Anonymous No.54927191]

>>54927173
NFTs will exist but they won't be collectibles, it'll be the backend system on some mortgage broker.

[Anonymous No.54927199]

>>54925807
Wow, collectors grade everything now... I have saved stubs from almost every movie I’ve seen, maybe I can profit

[Anonymous No.54927221]

>>54927191
Cisco has been using blockchains for a while already. All of this stuff makes so much more sense from a cybersec perspective

[Anonymous No.54927227]

>>54927199
I actually think in the next 5 years it’s going to blow up big. I might start buying some. There are some serious scum bags in this market. I had a guy jack up the auction price of a very rare ticket. Didn’t pay. Listed his own the next day and sold it to the guy he outbid.

[Anonymous No.54927248]

>>54927199
the theory is that it's the rating agencies themselves bidding up the prices for many of these collectables in order to drive business for their ratings. Spend $1 million on some 30 year old NES cartridge, make $10 million from idiots trying to get their NES cartridges rated all hoping they can also sell them for $1 million

[Anonymous No.54927263]

>>54927248
It's not even a theory, they absolutely did this with video games and have been sued for market manipulation kek

[Anonymous No.54927289]

>>54927263
i didn't know they'd been sued and exposed. given that the market for collectables is a known fraud gotta wonder why people keep falling for it. now movie tickets are the hot item? what next? vintage toilet paper sheets (previously used)?

[Anonymous No.54927309]

>>54926228
Crypto is the stamps of the current generation.

[Anonymous No.54927325]

>>54926188
>>54926228
Interesting with the stamps...
This just totally triggered some memories of a fairly extensive and through psyop/shill op that was pulled on what I suppose would be older millennials when we were young.
They desperately tried to shill stamp collecting to our generation at some point. It's hard to think of when exactly but I want to say it was somewhere in the 88-92' range.
There was a full length movie even about some kid collecting stamps.
The whole psyop actually very briefly and very mildly worked on me since I can remember wanting to collect stamps for a bit. But I didn't and that definitely went nowhere.
Those mfs tried their hardest to dump their bags on us. Like a serious fucking effort and I'm not even joking.
I wonder if anyone else here is old enough to remember what I'm talking about here.
I can't believe as a child I almost got dumped on AGAIN for what would have added to an extensive lifetime of boomers dumping their bags on me and everyone my age.
Holy fuck...

[Anonymous No.54927358]

>>54926630
I've seen shit you wouldn't beleive.
My ex who I lived with for quite a while, I'm fairely certain could have bought a house or a condo with the total value of all the absolute bullshit she bought. Mainly clothes and purses. But also chap shitty jewellery, beauty products, just an unreal amount of stupid shit.
I mean like her life would be completely different and she'd easily be set for life had that money gone into even the most basic savings account and into RE.
Rather than having this absurd amount of shit and renting.
She was clearly addicted to shopping. Kinda sad actually but I mean really no one to blame but herself.

[Anonymous No.54927394]

>>54927309
Hard to argue with that statement when looking at it all as a whole.
If anything it's too kind of an analogy given how much absolute garbage there is.
However, it's going to be one of those things where a lot of these ideas and tech gets implemented into things that you will use daily like CBDCs, tokeniztion, cryptographic verifiability, zero-knowledge tech, permissionlessness, transparent collateralized lending etc.
It will be easy to point out all the failures, but a lot of the 'success cases' from when I started in crypto have already been smashed beyond most people's wildest expectations.
Really crypto has basically already made it.
And now the next two years, maybe three if it gets ugly, will be the 'final boss' stage to see what happens as it dissipates either back underground, or pivots into some more interesting and unpredictable niches

[Anonymous No.54927626]

>>54926978
You also buy one on eBay for $3, $300, or $3000.
>>54927047
But yes I collect shit like that too like those old radios. I've got a few just like it. Cool guns too, what kind are they?

[Anonymous No.54928331]

>>54926188
not always the case though you could say the same thing for beverages like cocacola that was only drunk by niggers in the 1920s but its still a very popular drink today. also baseball cards from the 1910s era are worth a fuck ton still and nobody gives a shit about baseball now unless you are from new york or a jew or watch 3 seasons of boardwalk empire

[Anonymous No.54928488]

>>54927309
>>54927394
crypto isn't a collectable though, it's just bitcoin, which already won, and 24,000 projects trying to recreate the magic over and over again.

[Anonymous No.54928594]

>>54928488
Depends how you look at it. There was a guy on bitcointalk who used to buy $100 of every shitcoin on there back around 2013, 2014, maybe later or earlier as well. His plan was not definitely not to sell for a few bagger. So I think he probably made it with his shitcoin collection approach.
There are various collectable aspects to crypto(digital obviously, except for the rare thing like Casascius coins), it's a very minor part of it if anything.

[Anonymous No.54928860]

>>54928594
you could have kept that up until today and you would end up in the green because you'd only be 2.4 million in and many alts have turned $100 into more than 2.4 million

but only if you sold
if you didn't, you'd be approximately 2.4 million in the red.

[Anonymous No.54928919]

>>54927309
It's retro videogames.

[Anonymous No.54928940]

>>54926113
>>54927325
Yes I remember that movie the kid can travel on stamps and he is looking for a upside down ship or airplane. I wantes to collect stamps too , but was like 8 and had no money. My parents hated it, i took all our stamps put tgem in a notebook, and my mom beat my ass for wasting them.

[Anonymous No.54929062]

>>54926188
stamps at least look nice. theres nothing pretty on someone elses movie ticket

[Anonymous No.54929177]

I do not collect anything except for memes. My folder has been around since 2007, and it's on the third generation of PC now since I carry it over.
I also collect anime DVDs but that's not a collection it's just because streaming sucks and I like to own my media.

[Anonymous No.54929563]

>>54926978
War memorabilia has value and is much less retarded than pokemon cards or stamps

[Anonymous No.54930914]

>>54925807
>2007 was 30 years ago
Where has the time gone

[Anonymous No.54930966]

>>54925807
maybe if you want to create a propaganda collection for how the west was destroyed

[Anonymous No.54931244]

>>54927325
holy fuck i haven't thought about that dogshit stamp movie in 30 years and that shit worked on me too, i remember wanting to start collecting but my $5/week allowance would buy one retard stamp so i bought gi joes instead.

[Anonymous No.54931320]

>>54925807
Any asset that is not cash is a good investment

[Anonymous No.54931322]

>>54925807
re-selling every piece of junk as vintage and rare with insanely high valuations is some unironically weimar type shit

[Anonymous No.54931360]

>>54929177
Same desu
My 4chan folder is something like a combination of a history of internet shitposting trends and my own awful personal tastes over the years. I've grown quite fond of it desu, it's like an album of memories of me and the family of retards I argue with online.

[Anonymous No.54931613]

>>54931360
Exactly bro. That's how I see it too. I don't ever delete anything either, for that reason. So a fair bit of it makes me cringe, but it's still nice to have that history of shit posting. I think it's about 32GB now, kek.

[Anonymous No.54931681]

>>54926188
yeah except those old fucks were buying houses and land at the same time they were dabbling in their hobbies. keep thinking Albert on his paid off mile section horse ranch with his crates of pennies and stamp books has any parallels with some overweight manchild with a poverty apartment full of funko pops

[Anonymous No.54931729]

>>54928919
Digitization destroyed games as collectibles

[Anonymous No.54931754]

>>54925820
>Superbad was 15 years ago
Feels bad man.

[Anonymous No.54931805]

>>54931729
Just like digitalization killed vinyl amirite?

[Anonymous No.54932116]

>>54931805
Yea bro video games that require interaction and constant attention are the same as vinyl you put on in the background
By all means buy a bunch of retro games. If I’m feeling kind I’ll take them off your mother’s hands on the cheap after you rope.

[Anonymous No.54932136]

>>54931805
Do vinyls hold their value such that they’re worth being a collectible? P sure they don’t and it’s because of digitization, retard

[Anonymous No.54932436]

>>54932116
>>54932136
The point is both are holding value (and yes, there are old records worth hundreds) because, despite their being very easy ways to pirate the media online, those were the intended hardware to experience the media AND doubles as a fandom display piece
That doesn’t mean it’s long-term going to hold value long after you’re dead, but hobbies are meant to be hobbies and not long-term investments

[Anonymous No.54932586]

Collect things you really like. Then you won't panic sell.

[Anonymous No.54932703]

>>54926389
>collecting anything is super retarded compared to simply collecting money.
not if its something with genuine artistic, historical, or intrinsic value i.e. art, (historical) coins, artifacts.

but anything designed to be collectable is not worth collecting

[Anonymous No.54932826]

>>54932136
>Do vinyls hold their value such that they’re worth being a collectible?
Depends on the record. You kind of have to be an actual melonhead music nerd type to know what to find and hold on to. There are still cheapo bins at record stores full of stuff no one wants, or isn't valuable because its not popular or sought after, or because there's millions of unites out there. But a lot of stuff, especially 1990s and early 00s releases (pressings were smaller because other formats were more popular) that was $10 when released go for hundreds now, or more. Even brand new vinyl releases are expensive now. Zoomies basically missed the boat on this unless they inherit their Gen X dad's record collection. But the good news is that CDs are up next for being the next piece of trash everyone is going to resell for profit.
>>54932436
>there are old records worth hundreds
There even are records released less than 5-10 years ago that are worth hundreds now. But yes most record collectors do not buy to flip, they hold on to them and then dump the whole collection at once for thousands when a financial hardship or drug addiction happens. The only immediate vinyl flipping that happens now is people stealing boxes of boomer and normie LPs from Walmart and Target and selling them on eBay or to local record stores for cash.

[Anonymous No.54932828]

>>54925807
I had a a bootleg of Superbad I watched with my college friends a week before it came out

[Anonymous No.54932904]

Are those specially minted coins sealed in cards to commemorate an event ever worth anything? You're paying $50 for a $20 dollar coin and a piece of paper is how I see it.

[Anonymous No.54932936]

Next step is grading cum loads

[Anonymous No.54933042]

>>54931729
For users yes. There is no reason to own rotting plastic instead of flashcarts. People buy them as shelf ornaments though.

[Anonymous No.54933101]

>>54925807
Killing myself is a good investment

[Anonymous No.54933445]

>>54927325
Holy shit, you're right. I remember collecting a couple and thought it was cool since the lines were really clear under a magnifying glass. I guess Pic related also falls into that older generation wants the younger generation to baghold their shit

[Anonymous No.54934573]

collect gold, silver, platinum, guns , ammo, high proof liquor, c3h8

i do also think uranium glass is neat

[Anonymous No.54934601]

>>54931729
>>54932136
Music and games have a cetain IP strength that stamps don't so I think they have a better shot at holding value. A lot of people have fond memories of media but nobody has fond memories of a stamp

[Anonymous No.54934800]

>>54927248
That's many markets. NFTs are the most obvious example. Remember that LeBron dunk clip that sold for like half a million? Very authentic.