Collectables that are still cheap

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Most people like to collect stuff. However, the price of many collectables, such as video games, trading cards, and vinyls, have been jacked up by newfags that are fucking retarded with their wallet and the scalpers that follow them. This thread is for discussing collectables that are still somewhat cheap.
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  • Old Phones and computers are still somewhat cheap. While some old computers, such as anything made by Apple, have increased in price, most other old phones and computers are dirt cheap.
  • Early VR and AR headsets have decreased in value heavily. While they will likely continue to decrease in value for at least a few more years, and while these devices may become bulky paperweights because their functionality is linked to servers that will likely shut down soon, it is crazy seeing headsets that sold for thousands of dollars just a few years ago sell for less than one hundred.
  • DVDs and Blu-rays are still somewhat cheap, but because everyone is dissatisfied with streaming services newfags and scalpers may shit up the market. Hopefully the iso files will be available on somewhere that isn't some obscure private torrent network.
 
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I'd say if you had an Xbox 360/PS3 with some obscure games, congrats, you're a collector.
 
Modern hot wheels are pretty affordable as long as you don't try to buy the rare treasure hunt cars from scalpers or the overpriced red line collectibles.
If you enjoy building models gundam model kits have thousands of affordable kits. Sure they can get up in the hundreds but if you stick to regular high grades most are under 25 bucks and stay that price thanks to them being regularly reprinted.
 
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Old safety razors are still cheap. They we're made to last and everyone's grandpa had a few sitting in a drawer. Some people see them as collectibles, but they are definitely still valuable as tools. Will they ever go up in value? Maybe in another 50 years, but safety razor popularity will most likely decline again. I will still use them as I can get years worth of blades for $10. They also give a good shave if you don't treat it as some 7 blade razor.
 
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Collector plates.
99% of vintage plates are mail away or from catalogs like AVON or Hallmark. They are worth next to nothing (unless its a 1/100 collector plate or one made with rare metals)
Source: I used to work in antiques. Literally PILES of plates worth nothing. Most were smashed to bits because charging $0.50 a plate means they weren't worth hauling to auction.
 
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I would say video games aren’t that bad to collect it depends on the time period/console. Xbox360 and alot of ds games are abundant and inexpensive. People on eBay are basiclly giving those games away for like 0.30 each, you can buy a whole Library for cheap.

Antiques you could collect, if there's a certain time period that your interested in you could buy little trinkets and memorabilia.

Yeah I collect old phones, aswell as old mp3/iPods CDs and CD players. But there's been numerous times i’ve looked for an old phone and found it being sold for like $300+ because old flip phones/nokias/blackberry and old tech in general are popular with the y2k/troonslop demographic. It’s ok because you can just buy them dirt cheap from flea markets/thriftshops but still that’s kinda ruined too I’m afraid.
 
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If you’re a movie collector, DVDs and VHS cassettes are still pretty cheap.
 
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Modern hot wheels are pretty affordable as long as you don't try to buy the rare treasure hunt cars from scalpers or the overpriced red line collectibles.
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They have gone up in price since the pandemic, but not by much. Matchbox is cheaper and has more realistic cars (though less of a selection). I also like the Disney Cars diecasts, but they're plagued by lack of variety -- I'd like to get the NASCAR versions sometime, but I've never been able to find them.
 
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BootlegPopeye said:
I collect old typewriters, telephones and radios (in addition to other antiques). While all 3 of these have their fans, none of them hit idiotic YT meme-tier level and are affordable for a few hundred dollars for working examples.
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Are you trans? On youtube, reddit, forums, etc. pretty much all people interested in collecting those things are elderly autistic men or nerdy trannies.


Speaking of autism, film cameras tend to be a relatively inexpensive thing to collect, especially if you go in person like at garage sales, outdoor flea markets, certain thrift stores (some places research what they list on eBay and ask retarded prices and won't haggle). Granted, there are really expensive cameras that will never foreseeably go down in price like anything Hasselblad or Leica, but you can find some quality cameras and lenses that people just want to get rid of because they're "old". I'll also point put that shooting and developing film really is not as expensive as some people make it out to be, especially if you develop the film yourself. The chemicals are inexpensive and last for dozens of rolls and the equipment is quality and dirt cheap currently. I've seen Craigslist ads where people are no joke trying to unload almost a whole film lab's worth of developing tanks, beakers, spools, rotary drums, etc for pennies on the dollar.
 
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Came to post VHS, its a debate between me and another old stuff hoarder whether VHS tapes will ever get expensive. I say no, not when the majority of VHS tapes are the equivalent of vinyls "20 Classic Christmas Gospel Tunes by the Literally Who Band" that have been sitting in the corner of Goodwill for four years now for 99 cents.
 
Museums and tourist attractions have these machines that stretch a penny and stamp a given logo on it for.. last one I got a few years ago was 51 cents total.
Great for an autist like me, ymmv.
 
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Are you trans? On youtube, reddit, forums, etc. pretty much all people interested in collecting those things are elderly autistic men or nerdy trannies.
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Never noticed this, and if so, hasn't moved the market any. I seriously doubt trannies are into any of that in any appreciable numbers. Probably an attempt to colonize hobbyist forums by a few of them, they are starting to try and do it with less popular hobbies for clout.
 
Books probably. Go to a college campus or their library and you'll find boxes of books thrown out. I have books from the 20s (I know they are because the earliest library stamp says 1921) and a copy of the godfather before the movie (says in the back to watch the new feature length adaptation)
 
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