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A question for the throng. Does spending ridiculous amounts on concert tickets count as consooming?

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Springsteen fans furious as ticket prices skyrocket to $4K on Ticketmaster

As tickets for Springsteen's 2023 tour went on sale Wednesday, seats surged to exorbitant amounts
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Four large to see Springsteen. Yes, the price is being driven by demand, but that’s the same as the retarded scalper prices being paid by collectors and such. A concert is basically a consumable item— it happens, then ends— but people still save the tickets as keepsakes, despite their having no real ‘value’ once the show ends. Or am I just thinking way too far into this?
 
Helium Bubble said:
A question for the throng. Does spending ridiculous amounts on concert tickets count as consooming?

www.nj.com

Springsteen fans furious as ticket prices skyrocket to $4K on Ticketmaster

As tickets for Springsteen's 2023 tour went on sale Wednesday, seats surged to exorbitant amounts
www.nj.com www.nj.com

Four large to see Springsteen. Yes, the price is being driven by demand, but that’s the same as the retarded scalper prices being paid by collectors and such. A concert is basically a consumable item— it happens, then ends— but people still save the tickets as keepsakes, despite their having no real ‘value’ once the show ends. Or am I just thinking way too far into this?
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There's a song by Cake that addresses this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnKXS-W4Lcs
I think it's the same shit, someone can afford "to be better" by having "better experiences" and lording it over other people.
 
Cool kitties club said:
I hate these weeb zoomers which enter comics and expect comic art to be manga/anime coomer garbage. Nothing pisses me off more then when these zoomer weebs say classic comic artists like Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, George Perez, Frank Quitley, ect are ugly because they aren't "attractive" like manga is designed to be. The best modern artists working out of DC right now are like all south americans (esp brazilians) and eastern Europeans my favorite being Bilquis Evely
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To find a good comic book artist or even good cover is like finding needle in a shitty haystack. If you know where to look you won't pozload my neghole. Currently you don't have all these classic comic book artists; it's either diversity hires, dyed ugly bitches, or Zoey Quinn but few good artists if you can find them.
 

FOX News caught up with Kanye West in NYC, as Ye explains the reason as to why he does not like the idea of critics suggesting that he’s selling his YEEZY GAP clothing in trash bags.
 
Well, at least this is meta, I guess:
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Aunt Carol said:
Well, at least this is meta, I guess:
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You'd think it'd label the specific alien it was but no it just says "ALIEN" Sure they all got the same wacky rubber mask face but funko usually gets really fucking anal about the specifics of it's names even for generic background guys or specific poses they make into these fucking funko pop things.
 
albert the programmer said:
Retro gauging pricing still continues

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Whoever did this really dislikes Dreamcast owners or is trying to boost eBay ad sponsors. There’s no excuse for this nonsense.
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Anyone that buys Dreamcast games to play them (instead of just burning some ROMs to discs) is retarded. And the people buying them to collect them are dumb coomers that deserve to get gouged.
 
BlueSpark said:
Anyone that buys Dreamcast games to play them (instead of just burning some ROMs to discs) is retarded. And the people buying them to collect them are dumb coomers that deserve to get gouged.
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If I bought a video game at any point it's to play it. Sure, piracy and emulation arethings that fucking exist but sometimes you want to just have the actual fucking thing. The person selling that sonic game clearly does not intend for it to be played at that price point. What seems to be going on is a combo of attempting to tap into both the "RETRO COLLECTOR!!!" and "signed copy!" consumerism at the same time. Considering like 1 or 2 of the SA2 Voice actors are fucking dead from what I remember that adds "value" by the second one's logic. That combined with it being SEVERAL signatures instead of a singular one and a "valuable game" fuse it into the unholy nightmare price point you see before you. It'd be a cool thing to own but at that price it probably belongs in a fucking museum.
 
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As if there was any doubt that the eBay vault was part of a money laundering scheme… now vaulted items can be sold and traded between any individuals worldwide as a tax free transaction due to a Delaware tax law. Easy to bump values up if there’s minimal taxes on the deal.
 

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Dieter Laser said:
As if there was any doubt that the eBay vault was part of a money laundering scheme… now vaulted items can be sold and traded between any individuals worldwide as a tax free transaction due to a Delaware tax law. Easy to bump values up if there’s minimal taxes on the deal.
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With the exception of pokemon cards, aren't most cards actually declining in value? I remember reading a few years ago that baseball cards have lost like half their value
 
Dieter Laser said:
As if there was any doubt that the eBay vault was part of a money laundering scheme… now vaulted items can be sold and traded between any individuals worldwide as a tax free transaction due to a Delaware tax law. Easy to bump values up if there’s minimal taxes on the deal.
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I remember the weird shit whrre ebay had officially promoted pokemon scalper listings a year or so back listed at the starting bid of like over 10 thousand dollars each or some insane shit like that and overnight pokemon cards spiked in "value" tot he point you can't find a single listing under 50 dollars for some of the original ones (but only the US versions Japanese ones are dirt cheap still IIRC) . This seems to becausing a ripple effect of sorts because when I was at a place that soldused cards earlierthis year and later at a game selling convention they had fucking dragonball Z trading cards of all things for 400 dollars each. Barely any niche hobby is affordabe anymore because everyone's chasing the "online value" dragon.
 
The Lawgiver said:
Barely any niche hobby is affordabe anymore because everyone's chasing the "online value" dragon.
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The internet has absolutely ruined collecting anything or trying to find shit at yard sales. There was a time when retro gaming was considered one of the most affordable hobbies. Record collecting was considered a poor man's hobby.
 
Nicest Person on a Honda said:
With the exception of pokemon cards, aren't most cards actually declining in value? I remember reading a few years ago that baseball cards have lost like half their value
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It depends. Some of the all time high cards have come down a bit, but there’s a huge new influx of money coming in from these new “limited run” packs.

They are anywhere from 50-100$ a pack and guarantee X number of autographs or 1:1 cards per box. The “rarest” trade for 5-10k right out is the gate, and then you get into the grading nonsense.

The tl;dr is that older cards took a hit but the hot money is currently going into graded boutique cards, lower cost of entry.

And it’s not just cards, they are vaulting shoes, video games, etc. Anything they can convince you to send to them and pay for storage.
 
Dieter Laser said:
It depends. Some of the all time high cards have come down a bit, but there’s a huge new influx of money coming in from these new “limited run” packs.

They are anywhere from 50-100$ a pack and guarantee X number of autographs or 1:1 cards per box. The “rarest” trade for 5-10k right out is the gate, and then you get into the grading nonsense.

The tl;dr is that older cards took a hit but the hot money is currently going into graded boutique cards, lower cost of entry.

And it’s not just cards, they are vaulting shoes, video games, etc. Anything they can convince you to send to them and pay for storage.
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I am shocked people are going all in on cards, I just looked on eBay vault and you weren't kidding, people are asking $100 for unopened packs of golf cards from the 90s. Who the fuck collects golf cards? I understand some hipster kid collecting Supreme jackets (or whatever they sell, I have never been able to figure it out) or collecting Jordan shoes, but I don't understand people thinking that their shit is worth this much, especially in a recession, and on top of that you have to pay ebay to store your stuff while you wait for it to sell?

The rarest items get listed for $10,000 but it will never fucking sell. The average collector does not have $10,000 to throw around. This is likely not only a tax scam, but a scam to get people to think that their shit is worth paying to store. eBay seems to be going all in with graders, authenticators, etc.

Anything worth vaulting will have an evaluation of thousands of dollars, and there really are not that many cards worth that much. A lot of people think that collectors just knock down the door for a Mickey Mantle baseball card, but the fact of the matter is that most of us have wives/girlfriends, kids, a mortgage/rent, and other responsibilities. Once the value of any collectable goes about ~$1,000 the number of people who are willing to buy it (especially during a recession) drastically decreases. The smaller the community the longer it takes to sell an item. This just seems like another way to charge idiots who will never sell this shit to pay them a monthly storage fee.
 
Oh it’s worse than you think.

You’ve got some cards that start at 250+ a pack new (and that’s at MSRP) and the people “investing” can’t even afford to buy the packs. They form groups on FB and pool their money to buy packs and split them based on teams pulled.

Their whole goal is to pull a rare card and sell it to one of the shady investment firms after grading.
 
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