This is a great thread! I enjoy posts where everyone seems to take their time to make their point. I've always been on the side of the fence that looks at things as either an investment or an expense. My collection is, was, has been, and will be BOTH depending on timing and the market. However, I prefer the investment angle. If I wanted to collect cute things with high prices and no value I would have gotten into beanie babies. No, I'll go with the military items from historical events of the past, because they have substance and retain value.
Lately we've seen some OUTSTANDING items for sale. The PRICES are outstanding as well. Greg and I have talked about this subject many times and the prices are on a rocket ride. I have to agree with everyone for the most part, but I will take Prospers' course of action. Nine or ten grand, however affordable that may be to the individual, seems to me to be out of line. I hope the seller gets his price. I wish him nothing but the best, but for me that price takes me out of the market. I could, but I won't, because I don't want to. I could trade or give up other things as a trade for the cased lazy 2 but one is not worth 10 pilot badges or some other combination. It's not! Ten years ago a knights cross could be found in the area of $500 to $1500. The triple amounts I see now are not justifiable to me. I see pilots badges for a thousand and I wonder who would ever pay that amount when they can still be found for under half that? As far as the high dollar knight's crosses, I'll be one who passes and I'll wait for one in the $5000 range, which is a fair offer, but I won't add fuel to the high price fires we've seen in this hobby. I don't think a $10 thousand dollar cased RK will stay or hold at that price for long, no more than a $150 thousand VC. Well, it won't for me. I'll just sit back and watch. I'm not interested at those prices, regardless if I can afford it or not. If that's the way of the world and the prices remain high; collectors will be fewer. I'll be happy with what I have and I'll pursue something else instead.
Lately we've seen some OUTSTANDING items for sale. The PRICES are outstanding as well. Greg and I have talked about this subject many times and the prices are on a rocket ride. I have to agree with everyone for the most part, but I will take Prospers' course of action. Nine or ten grand, however affordable that may be to the individual, seems to me to be out of line. I hope the seller gets his price. I wish him nothing but the best, but for me that price takes me out of the market. I could, but I won't, because I don't want to. I could trade or give up other things as a trade for the cased lazy 2 but one is not worth 10 pilot badges or some other combination. It's not! Ten years ago a knights cross could be found in the area of $500 to $1500. The triple amounts I see now are not justifiable to me. I see pilots badges for a thousand and I wonder who would ever pay that amount when they can still be found for under half that? As far as the high dollar knight's crosses, I'll be one who passes and I'll wait for one in the $5000 range, which is a fair offer, but I won't add fuel to the high price fires we've seen in this hobby. I don't think a $10 thousand dollar cased RK will stay or hold at that price for long, no more than a $150 thousand VC. Well, it won't for me. I'll just sit back and watch. I'm not interested at those prices, regardless if I can afford it or not. If that's the way of the world and the prices remain high; collectors will be fewer. I'll be happy with what I have and I'll pursue something else instead.
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