Having watched two episodes, I find that their estimates of profit on the items are not unreasonable - they tend to go with 'doubling our cost'... no insane, 'Oooh, that's worth megabucks'. Not being a big toy aficionado, I'm not sure about the demand for some of the items, but there's a lot of oddball stuff that they present, which makes it more interesting than the typical "someone's trash is someone else's treasure" show.
From: "cctalk" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> To: a...@alanlee.org, "cctalk" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 8:03:26 AM Subject: Re: Did anyone see Vintage Tech Hunters on Discovery Canada yet? > On 2018-11-08 05:23, Santo Nucifora via cctalk wrote: >> I am sure this is not authorized in any way but here's a link to the first >> episode on Youtube. >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iroAInAMfYo Going to watch this tonight! Excited! More TV shows to drive speculation on flipping old stuff versus producing new good stuff. But hey, at least it's a subject I like this time :-) After American Pickers mentioned some pinball playfield could be turned into a coffee table tons of normies with pinball machines thought their old crap machines were worth thousands because people turned them into expensive coffee tables. Uhm, no. Some of the gaming console stuff goes for crazy money right now. I've heard China makes "reproductions" of carts but I've never figured out how to buy them. I would. Many of my collector friends now would rather buy a flash cart and download ROMs versus dealing with the speculative pricing on old games. It will be interesting to see what happens to the collectibles markets when/if the housing bubble pops. -- : Ethan O'Toole
