If the gaming/collectors market tanked...IF...
Hypothetically, if it was like the stock market, and you woke up tomorrow and all of your games, including the expensive ones ie Samson, F2, NWC, were only worth a buck or two a piece, what would you do? With this hypothetical question, I want to rule out the possibility of hoarding others collections for pennies on the dollar because of the mass hysteria nobody all of the gaming stores, Gamestop and retro stores have just disappeared. Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Target, and everywhere else stopped selling games overnight and you cant possibly get your hands on any of their stock because nobody knows where it went, kinda like an apocalypse situation. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO MARKET FOR GAMES ANYMORE.
Would you start unloading them as fast as possible to try and get any money back that you could?
Would you file a false insurance claim and say they were all stolen and go off of the previous days values to get all your money back?
Would you sit back and assume that it will slowly work its way back up and just ride it out?
Would you still be proud as hell of your collection of toys with absolutely no worth and your spouse leaves you because of what she considers stupidity over what turned into a bad investment?
I will pry get burned for such a dumb concept, but Im curious what kind of serious answers might come out of this when you really have to think about the situation.
Would you start unloading them as fast as possible to try and get any money back that you could?
Would you file a false insurance claim and say they were all stolen and go off of the previous days values to get all your money back?
Would you sit back and assume that it will slowly work its way back up and just ride it out?
Would you still be proud as hell of your collection of toys with absolutely no worth and your spouse leaves you because of what she considers stupidity over what turned into a bad investment?
I will pry get burned for such a dumb concept, but Im curious what kind of serious answers might come out of this when you really have to think about the situation.
Comments
FULL SET FOR CHEAP, HERE I COME!
I have a small collection.
FULL SET FOR CHEAP, HERE I COME!
My thoughts exactly!
Would you still be proud as hell of your collection of toys with absolutely no worth and your spouse leaves you because of what she considers stupidity over what turned into a bad investment?
yeah that one.
At one point, most of this shit wasnt worth shit. People still collected then too
I have a small collection.
FULL SET FOR CHEAP, HERE I COME!
My thoughts exactly!
Not an option in this world I presented to you tho. That would obviously be everybodys answer.
I have a small collection.
FULL SET FOR CHEAP, HERE I COME!
My thoughts exactly!
Not an option in this world I presented to you tho. That would obviously be everybodys answer.
Your situation allows for a person to unload games, but others cannot? This stock has to go somewhere. I know this is a silly hypothetical situation, but if you have the option to unload your collection then stock exists somewhere since you sold yours. Unless it just goes to show how people failed to read that they would be the only ones allowed to sell while others hang onto their collection.
I have a small collection.
FULL SET FOR CHEAP, HERE I COME!
My thoughts exactly!
Not an option in this world I presented to you tho. That would obviously be everybodys answer.
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
Buuuuuttttt, if we're all playing along here and if everything was a dollar, then everything that I didn't own yet would be too, so then I'd buy it all up. Cuz I just like having stuff and I didn't really get into gaming and collecting with the intent of it being some sort of stock market thing.
Not any different then what i have been doing since i started this in 2006, minus buying new game's.
They're intrinsically worthless anyways. Nothing would have changed, especially considering I wasn't about to sell them anyways.
Oh, I'd go buy Samson for $1, too.
Note: I wouldn't be happy, not because I think of my games as an "investement", but because stuff I owned just dropped in value.
No matter what it is, it's stupid to say "I wish my stuff was worthless". Doesn't matter what it is... car, house, anything. You don't WANT it to drop in value.
Most of here probably got our collections at dirt cheap prices anyways, so them being worth less won't make a difference. I'd probably STILL have spent less on buying the games than they would be worth.
Go shopping, I don't collect to get rich. I made that mistake with comic books when I ignored the advice of the guy who ran the comic shop.
On top of that, these threads... please... stop...
The way I look at it, the people that benifit are the people who don't have as much money, so now they can potentially get more of the stuff that they are collecting. The other side are the people that are heavy into the resale market. As a result of a drop, the resellers like play and trade tank because they would bleed money causing some people to lose their jobs. Same goes for indviduals on sites like ebay. Then you get the people who straight up don't care and just go on with their day. These are the three scenarios that I can see happen based on the individual.