yeager
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posted on January 24, 2003 01:27:13 AM
Any thought on this? What is falling into obscurity today that will be on ebay tomorrow?
I remember in the 60's my grandma said that lighting rods from old barns and houses were going to be very collectible in the future. Today, I see them at some antique shows in the area of 75.00 to 125.00 or more depending on the design and color of the glass on them. Any other ideas?
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Dejapooh
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posted on January 24, 2003 08:26:00 AM
The Collectable of tomorrow will NOT be anything sold as Collectable. It will be something sold as an item to be used. It will have a link to Popular Culture or design. It must be decorative. Personally, I think it will be Hot pads. The things you use to pull hot pots out of an oven...
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Libra63
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posted on January 24, 2003 08:46:07 AM
Collectibles of the future are what you have when you are a child. The 60's love child is collecting the love beads, that fiberglass furniture, plastic christmas ornaments etc., vinil records and anything made in Japan. Todays collectibles for tomorrow will be things made in China, beer items of the brewerys that folded in the 90's, etc. It is all in what you can remember you had as a child, and especially the electronic games of the 90's.
For me it is the Pez, miniature perfume bottles and Post cards of your home town. things I can remember.
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eauctionmgnt
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posted on January 24, 2003 08:55:09 AM
I agree with the above posters on their comments. I'd also add that items with historical interest will also be sought after. For example... 9/11 memorabillia, Bankrupt airline industry merchandise, Worldcom documents, War with Iraq propaganda.... Basically many collectibles will be derived from any BIG news today that will be remembered for decades and will have an impact on are future. People want to have a tangible item to remember their past.
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REAMOND
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posted on January 24, 2003 11:57:05 AM
I couldn't speculate. The "themes" of the last couple of decades haven't been popularly cemented in memory yet.
What is the "theme" of the 90's? Hi-tech? Hi-tech bubble? The emergence of Bass fishing and NASCAR as the fastest growing sports? Gansta rap? Don't know.
The 80's? Death of vinyl records, popularity of CDs? PCs? Software?
Usually, a collectable has a strong identity with a time and place and a popular cultural tide. There were many "things" produced in the 50s and 60s, but only those things that occupy a place in popular memory have a market. As far as value, mass produced "things" have little regardless of age unless it is something that will be discarded and unlikely many survived.
I could speculate on some "sleepers" from the 60s and 70s. Vietnam war collectibles seem to be sleepers. Draft cards, uniforms, personal in-country photos, medals, patches, etc.. The second is album covers from the 60s and 70s. These are picking up as favorites for framing and hanging in game rooms, bars etc.. The vinyl records themselves are becomming secondary- however, hi end record players and the stlysts (needles) for them should grow in value for people who want the novelty of playing vinyl records.
It's too early to call. SAVE EVERYTHING !!!!
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kiara
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posted on January 24, 2003 12:11:01 PM
SAVE EVERYTHING !!!! 
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junquemama
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posted on January 24, 2003 01:10:17 PM
..Dreadlocks..LOL
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yeager
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posted on January 25, 2003 01:34:35 AM
Saving everything isn't bad until you have to move. Then all that stuff has to be moved too. What a pain.
Somestimes, its sort of fun digging into your stuff and saying, "I forgot that I had that"!
I have a small portable Victorla. It it the type that is wound and plays 78 rpm records. Its fun to pull that out once in a while just to play some Big Band music.
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toolhound
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posted on January 25, 2003 03:03:46 AM
The day of expensive collectibles is over. Everything that is coming out now is easy to reproduce so it can never get to the point of being expensive before someone puts out millions more of them. Look at Beany Babies or anything else that was hard to find a few years ago now they are dirt cheap as the market was flooded with them. The materials all the new collectibles are made of are easy to get and finding crooks to reproduce items is even easier.
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amber
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posted on January 25, 2003 04:57:26 AM
With so many more people into collecting these days, therefore saving items, there will be many more of the items, and unless they are hard to find, will not reach high values. I think that the only things for sure that will be collectables of the future are things of quality and beauty, china, pictures, jewelry etc.
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alldings
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posted on January 25, 2003 05:38:46 AM
Things that made in the USA.
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Damariscotta
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posted on January 25, 2003 07:13:09 AM
Don't forget that a lot of things that become collectible do so after they go out of fashion so much that their monetary value is negligible. If you buy new, they will dip in value quite a bit before they may (or may not) go up again.
If you want to play a hunch like this, see if you can find something being sold at distress prices (or being given away) due to its current unsaleability.
And nostalgia alone doesn't necessarily make people buy. Ask any antique dealer - there is a big difference between "Oh, I remember those" and "I'll take it" !
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Libra63
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posted on January 25, 2003 08:13:39 AM
Someone talked about record album covers. Last night my Husband and I went into our newly recorated fast food restaurant. What a blast from the past. Wurlitzer Juke box playing 45 records, tile floor, and yes and 33 1/3 record album covers adorn the walls. Buddy Holly, The four lads, the Everly Brothers, A statue of Elvis. We were in a Rock and Roll McDonalds.
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rarebourbon
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posted on January 26, 2003 06:00:14 PM
I really believe one of the collectibles of tomorrow are "dot-com" (or "dot-bomb" trinkets!
Many dot-coms were started by 20-somethings who burned through their investors' cash as if it would never stop coming in. They loved having their company logos printed on just about anything -- tins of breath mints, tape measures, dog tags, fancy pens, you name it -- and they handed these things out by the thousands at trade shows and other places.
I have a pretty good collection since my husband was a dot-commer CEO himself. I'm sure in 20 years these are going to be hot items when the 20-somethings of the 1990s hit their 40s and 50s and remember the good old days of the Gold Rush!
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ahc3
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posted on January 26, 2003 08:24:21 PM
Gotta be those AOL diskettes - That is what people will be paying big bucks for 20 years from now. Seriously though, what usually ends up worth something are things that are not manufactured to be collectibles, and that are pretty disposable. Who knows, maybe 50 years from now a personal computer might be something that is worth something. Maybe I can get a few of the $1400 I spent on my 486 computer back in 1994... 
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sparkz
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posted on January 26, 2003 09:16:25 PM
ahc3...I was kind of thinking the same thing. One of these days an original IBM pc with 64 k memory could pull down a few bucks. Not to mention a Vic-20 or a TRS-80.
Already, there have been a few cases of the Apple Lisa ( I believe it was called) selling for a 4 figure sum.
The light at the end of the tunnel will turn out to be an oncoming train.
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Roadsmith
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posted on January 27, 2003 12:25:11 AM
I know! Democrats! People who vote the right way! Please pick one of us Democrats and save us. The US may need us in the future.
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phawthorne1
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posted on January 27, 2003 08:34:32 AM
Roadsmith....
You mad my day...... LOL
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Dejapooh
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posted on January 27, 2003 08:58:44 AM
I saw a well used Lisa I sell a few months ago . They upgraded to Lisa 2 for free, but this office worker never did hers. She worked on hers until she retired and they gave it to her as a "Gold Watch."
Guess she got the last laugh when it ebayed for 5 figures...
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. B. Franklin
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stopwhining
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posted on January 27, 2003 09:09:54 AM
how about the greenback/
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Dragonmom
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posted on January 27, 2003 10:12:43 AM
A freind of mine got a vintage Cathy doll for her birthday. This doll came in its vinyl carrying case, with a handful of extra outfits- the graphics on the case were pure 1967, mustard yellow with orange, red and magenta swirling psychedelic designs
My first thought was; "I wonder what that would get on ebay?"
The funniest thing about the doll is: You push in her stomach and yank her ponytail and her hair grows out!
I looked for a creepy crawler oven for my kids- becuse I didn't want to pay for a new one- and discovered they are in the three digits- mostly because of their sixties graphics.
There are hip-hop graphics from the 80s that may get big in another ten years.
"And All Shall be Well, and All Shall be Well, and All Manner of Things Shall be Well"
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yeager
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posted on January 27, 2003 09:59:16 PM
I was just thinking. About 50 or so years from now, a 10 year old child will be going through his grandma's attic. He will see all the stuff the grandma put up there for safe keeping. Some of these things will be glassware that was not used and forgotten. This glassware, china, ect. will be wrapped in newspaper. Out of curiousity, this child will read some of them.
He will possibily read stories about the Bush-Gore election and hanging chads, swinging chads and all the controversy in that situation. About a little boy named Elian Gonzales, who came to the U.S. on an inner tube and things like that.
I think one of things that might interest the kid the most, is the issue called Y2K. The headlines will say people buying water to save because water plants will shut down. People buying household generators for electricity because power plants may fail. Canned food hoarded by people.
Why? he will ask. An adult may explain that people thought that computers would fail causing disruption in everything. He may respond, Boy, people must of been stupid back then, and computers must of have been undependable.
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JACKSWEBB
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posted on January 27, 2003 10:58:44 PM
AN IMMATURE MOMENT. 
[ edited by JACKSWEBB on Jan 28, 2003 07:49 AM ]
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JACKSWEBB
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posted on January 27, 2003 11:14:04 PM
DITTO.
[ edited by JACKSWEBB on Jan 28, 2003 07:52 AM ]
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yeager
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posted on January 28, 2003 12:11:15 AM
Jack,
Thanks for your input.
Actually, this thread is ebay related. In the fact ebay has a collectible catagory and people sell collectibles on ebay. It stimulates discussion to that fact.
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shawnb1
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posted on January 29, 2003 10:12:42 AM
Speaking of AOL diskettes--I see them at yard sales and thrift stores for sale all the time. Do people really buy them?
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jensmome
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posted on January 29, 2003 10:58:42 AM
My son is a programmer and in his last job he covered his cube with AOL diskettes. It seems to be a thing with computer geeks as he gave a bunch as a gift to one of his friends. So yeah, I'd save them. Kind of like trading cards.
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yeager
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posted on January 29, 2003 11:19:41 PM
What are AOL diskettes? Are they the large floppy disks? I sometimes see these a thrifts.
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jensmome
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posted on January 30, 2003 04:49:02 AM
THey are those junk mail CDs that offer you 1000 free hours to try AOL. They are in the mail, at the PO, at stores, in magazines ...They are all over. You are probably just tuning them out.
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barbkeith
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posted on February 3, 2003 04:00:34 AM
In response to REAMOND's "Save Everything", I'm getting ready to go through 2 save everything houses. My mom, who is 71, has sold her property and is financing a 2-car garage with an apartment being built next to our house. Well, the property she sold has 2 houses on it. One house is packed full of stuff that my grandparents "Saved". We're going to have an auction after I look over all the Ebayable stuff. I haven't been in a selling mood lately due to construction stuff. Maybe we'll just sell it all. I know that my sister and I don't have the time to go through all of it. Seems too much like a pain in the butt to me right now. I still have a shed packed full of stuff that I need to go through. So, if you live in Delaware, watch for the auction. A little free advertising there. Barbara
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