weird investments

[Anonymous No.51491393]

just bought 30+ disney VHS tapes from an old couple for $20 on offerup. lot similar to pic related. even has the little mermaid with the cock in the background. not sure what to do with them now. i didnt even get them out of the trunk when I got home. you think ill eventually make a profit on them?

[Anonymous No.51491427]

>>51491393
No, VHS isn't like old video games, no one wants that shit.

[Anonymous No.51491435]

Probably. Thats just a lot of space and most likely a decade of storage time to make maaybe $50 to disney/vhs buff. Like my buddy Rick from Pawn Stars would say, it costs money to store goods im condition-stable environments. Depends on if you wanna hoard random shit valuables until they appreciate.

[Anonymous No.51491452]

>>51491427
I disagree, vhs movies/devices have a small but growing cult following. Lots of Zoomers buying the equipment

[Anonymous No.51491477]

>>51491393
honestly yes. I have a collection of old first print vhs from the 80s and some of them are going for 20-80$ depending on what it is. it might take 20yrs but someone will want that little mermaid one and those others will be wanted eventually. hell I have some old dvd's from way back that pop for 20-40 sometimes due to low print or being older hard to find stuff.
people dont care til its 40yrs later and you cant find a copy of it for less than $400

[Anonymous No.51491512]

>>51491427
I don't know about that one chief. odd disney products appreciate in value over time. just type in "vintage disney" on ebay
>>51491435
I'll move them to the garage soon where they'll do nothing for years. I needed to get outside and happened to the the listing brand new. Simply a fuck it moment.

[Anonymous No.51491541]

>>51491393
>no song of the south
>no dumbo
collection incomplete. Probably more im forgetting

[Anonymous No.51491575]

>>51491477
I'm thinking the DVD market is for boomers who simply can't understand the internet or streaming services whereas nostalgia chasers/hipster zoomers are going with the objectively inferior VHS format

[Anonymous No.51491585]

>>51491452
VHS goes to shit after this time tho.

[Anonymous No.51491600]

>>51491541
my lot has homeward bound which is an all time CLASSIC. may thrift a $5 vhs player for this one of these days. has homeward bound 2 which i havent seen

[Anonymous No.51491601]

>>51491575
haa wait til you get into collecting Betamax and betamax players. THATS a frustrating market to work in

[Anonymous No.51491668]

>>51491600
This gives me a warm and fuzzy feiling fren

[Anonymous No.51491694]

>>51491393
>the little mermaid with the cock in the background
hold up, what?

[Anonymous No.51491705]

>>51491694
Yeah, they put an uncircumsized cock on the gates to the kingdom or someshit. Anti-semetic Christian power play or something

[Anonymous No.51491727]

>>51491393
They’re worthless. Should have bought vhs

[Anonymous No.51491741]

>>51491600
That is the only disney remake that has ever been decent. Only the original was called The Incredible Journey and was pretty good, but Homeward Bound is an actual improvement.

[Anonymous No.51491934]

>>51491741
I have gone my entire life not knowing this existed. thanks anon im going to look into it

[Anonymous No.51492016]

>>51491393
I saw tons of these at the thrift stores last week. No mermaid cock cover so that's a good find. Might make your $20 back. Everyone should own a mermaid cock cover Disney VHS for display on the mantel.

[Anonymous No.51492209]

Vhs deteriorate so no money for you anin

[Anonymous No.51492227]

>>51491705
>"anti-semetic"

[Anonymous No.51492714]

[Anonymous No.51492754]

>>51491393
>ITT
Anon collects enough VHS videos to open a blockbuster

[Anonymous No.51492790]

holy fuck gas all boomers and there useless shit

[Anonymous No.51492791]

>>51491393
>be me
>18 yo
>dad died
>recieve state gibs till I'm 24 cuz dad was a state employee
>recieve more money than I could spent
>lots of money sitting in the bank
>don't know what to do with it
>tells my brother that I want to invest in something
>"investment? what? you're gonna take care of money? pff... you're gonna lose all your money doing that"
>let this shit into my heart
>decided fuck it, imma spent that shit
>got tattos, weed, LSD, shrooms, fucked hookers, bought drugs and lots of heavy/black/death whatever metal CDs and t shirts cuz fuck it


I'm 29 now and I had to sell those CDs during hard times, but shit took care of me. I'm unable to forgive my brother because of that tho. Hope I make it with crypto, but this motherfucker made my journey way harder. He could've at least encourged me to look for this on my own, but no...

[Anonymous No.51492966]

VHS tapes have a lifespan, OP. They don't last forever, eventually the tape will degrade and be unwatchable. You start to see degradation after 10-25 years (depending on storage conditions, time watched, etc)

[Anonymous No.51493118]

>>51491427
>he doesn't know about black diamond
ngmi

[Fatburg No.51494132]

>>51492791
>Make decisions
>Blame others
I'm going keyed

[Anonymous No.51494707]

>>51491600
Bro I taped this from Saturday night movies in the 90s and I think my parents still have it on vhs.

[Anonymous No.51494725]

>>51493118
Literally worthless lmao

You can buy any VHS on eBay for $3 from a 70 year old grandma hoarder in rural Ohio, these are worthless

[Anonymous No.51494741]

>>51491393
You fucked up. But it's a good learning opportunity.
Could you sell them individually and make a profit? Sure but it'll be less than the trouble it's worth. And if you sold them wholesale you're probably breaking even on fees, shipping, etc.
Did you watch a gary v video or something and get convinced the road to riches is paved in buying garage sale junk? Be honest

[Anonymous No.51494819]

>>51492791
Fucking white trash trailer park faggot

[Anonymous No.51495028]

>>51492790
their*
fag

[Anonymous No.51495041]

>>51491393
Post the cock

[Anonymous No.51495051]

>>51491393
are people buying VHS now?

[Anonymous No.51495056]

>>51491600
quintessential 90's kids movie. take me back, bros.

[Anonymous No.51495063]

>>51491741
>>51491934
i had no idea about this either

[Anonymous No.51495834]

>>51491393
You messed up. Retro games were great for nostalgia content channels. Peiple made money playing the games for viewers. That shit is played out now. The only reason people were buying games for thousands of dollars was to write off the expense as a cost of business for their channels.

[Anonymous No.51496039]

>>51491393
I think they need to be unopened and have the (gold?) sticker on the case opening intact to be valuable for collectors

[Anonymous No.51496176]

Here you go, faggots. You should all take your Googleboxes to the Googlebox repair store so you don't have to be spoonfed golden dicks.

[Anonymous No.51496309]

>>51495834
Makes me kinda sad because I grew up in the 70's and 80's and was actually interested in those games for the sake of themselves. I'd buy them if the prices weren't all jacked up all across the board. So yeah fuck that, I'm doing emulators and roms instead. Plus now the media (floppy diskettes and tapes) are probably in bad shape at this point. Even the computer systems have problems, notably the capacitors and batteries leaking, but also various other things that aren't always easy to fix unless you're a nerd who's really into that shit. So I'd wager a lot of these things are just going to end up in people's closets and collect dust.

[Anonymous No.51496339]

Thanks for buying my bags faggot

- Grandma

[Anonymous No.51496345]

>>51495834
Also I don't fucking get those youtube channels. People are watching other people play games, instead of just playing them themselves? What's the fucking point, mate? The best part about getting a new game back in the day was that I didn't know a fucking thing about it, because it was usually a copy some other kid at school gave me on a blank floppy disk. So it was like Christmas every time, never knew what I was going into, and there weren't any game manuals or anything, so I was like a voyage of discovery every time. I did sometimes get sneak peaks of some games in magazines, but I was a poorfag and didn't have subscriptions, so usually that wasn't the case. And quite frankly it was a lot better that way, without all the industry noise and bullshit.

[Anonymous No.51496348]

>>51491427
>he doesn't have a cabin in the woods with an old box TV and a VHS player for peak comfiness

[Anonymous No.51496542]

>>51491600
>the scene where the golden retriever is stuck in the mud pit
Fuck

[Anonymous No.51496796]

>>51491393
They'll probably be worth like $5 a piece maybe in 10-20 years, they have more value as a Disney collection as well. Also you need to store them at room temperature, if stored in a shed, or loft or garage they'll oxidize and be unplayable.

They're worth like $1 each now.

[Anonymous No.51496817]

>>51491393
VHS literally decompose, wtf you idiot dont buy those

[Anonymous No.51497258]

>>51492791
>unable to forgive my brother for that
You did all of this to yourself you unaccountable retard

[Anonymous No.51497274]

As someone who collects VHS I can say that those black diamond disney ones are worth jack shit and will likely never be worth shit because no one cares about VHS and even if they did the black diamond disney movies were printed so much they have no value
collect them for fun and because you enjoy the medium, not as an investment

[Anonymous No.51497354]

>>51491393
Considering they have changed most of the movies since then (for political correctness reasons), the original movies might be a good investment because you can't buy them anymore.
Not sure about the whole VHS thing..

[Anonymous No.51497385]

>>51492791
what an absolute monumental faggot loser you are

[Anonymous No.51497394]

>>51491393
>30+ disney VHS tapes
that's some heavy dope marine

[Anonymous No.51497420]

>>51491393
Not bad, old disneys will definitly increase in value, especially when disney starts banning the old movies because they arent woke enough, you should also digitize them

[Anonymous No.51497694]

>>51494132
>>51494819
>>51497385
>>51497258
wow, calm down, faggots... I was young, didn't know shit. Glad I had that experience, you jelly retards. Now I know what not to do with money at least. But yes, but brother still retard.

[Anonymous No.51497894]

>>51496796
A 5x is a 5x. I'll consider them shitcoins

[Anonymous No.51498070]

>>51497894
The thing is at the moment they are near worthless, for all but rare stuff, so they have probably bottomed. Like in most cities if you went on Freecycle or whatever and offered to take VHS cassettes for free you'd probably still get offers.

More people are starting to collect VHS now, and the whole gay retro-youtuber thing converts people into collecting vintage stuff they never grew up with, which I find in many respects is silly. They can absolutely meme more value into VHS over the next decade whilst a bunch of them are improperly stored and become useless.

This isn't investment advise, as that would be retarded, I'm just trying to paint a picture as to how they might ascertain some value.

[Anonymous No.51498096]

>>51491393
Pretty shit investment in my opinion. VHS tapes degrade pretty rapidly and then they will be worth nothing.

[Anonymous No.51498209]

>>51496348
>having a vhs player when you can have everything on a hard drive

[Anonymous No.51498494]

Well it's not much to lose at $20. It's guaranteed profit if you sell now. Depends whether you want to risk them degrading if selling later.

[Anonymous No.51498602]

>>51498209
If you're using a modern TV, you have a point. Although, if you were to utilize a crt tv id imagine itd feel bretty good