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Hobbies rarely die. There are still tons of people out there with their
baseball cards, matchbox cars and beenie babies. There will still be people
collecting/selling/trading video games for many years to come. I work part
time for an operator who sells plenty of stuff to homebuyers. He has to
have the largest showroom on the East Coast if not in the country. The
summers are slow but as Xmas closes in, it really starts to pick up. Of
course he's located in Fairfield County, Connecticut which has alot of money
floating around in it too.
I used to sell alot of games, probably close to 200 over the past 4 or 5
years, but I've cut way back and am working on my collection slowly instead.
I got tired of not having a garage and bought a new car recently so I scaled
back to having the car and two or three games in the garage instead of 12 or
13 projects in there at any given time. At one point I had about 25 games
in my garage and would have to pull 4 out just to get into the garage.
I think the multigames and mame also reduce the demand for the classics
because it's so much easier to have one machine that plays 9 or 39 or 3000
games. Not everyone has a game room or basement to keep these in. If you
live in an apartment I would think a multigame or Mame machine would be
ideal. I also think that the people who grew up in arcades, much like
myself, are starting to get to the age where their young ones are taking up
much more time and they find themselves with alot less time to toy with
hobbies. Driving here and there, soccer games, baseball games, school
stuff.. it all adds up.
Some interesting reading in the group these past couple of weeks.
just my 2¢
Scott
"prOk" <bsonej@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> This hobby is going nowhere. For those truly in it for the hobby and not
> the money it's more exciting now than ever as you can finally get that
> rare game or oddball title for a decent price. This IS a hobby, not a
> business.. hobbies ebb and flow.. prices go up and then back down but the
> true hobbiests will always be there. Those that walk through their
> gamerooms and look at their collections only to see dollar signs will be
> gone soon and the prices will get back to what they were in the early days
> of collecting. The only difference between then and now is that the
> majority of the warehouses have been found, the rare stuff's been located.
> The silly prices of the late 90's were a blip and good while they lasted
> and helped many people build their collections, but just like Beanie
> Babies the bubble eventually burst and reality came back into the picture.
> Just because things are not selling for stupid amounts of money don't
> equate that to a hobby dying. If you want to collect do it for yourself
> and the enjoyment of the hobby, if you want to invest in something talk to
> a bank.
>
> /b
>
>
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> "Plisskin" <scorpiokings@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1126915061.917223.133350@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> Lately there has not been much going on here on the group. With all
>> the rants and spam ,most off topic, there does not seem like this group
>> and hobby is what it used to be years ago. Now with the possible loss
>> of marketplace (which is only because people can't use the groups
>> properly) and the possible loss of Bob Roberts, I personally do not see
>> the future of this hobby being good. Also, some collectors have sold
>> their collection and moved on with their lives. Are we getting too old
>> for this stuff now? What is the future of this hobby?
>>
>
>
HhahahahahahahaMade myself laugh.
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