Tag: collectibles
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A 100-year-old railroad dining car sandwich bag? A 100-year-old Halloween napkin? Again, artifacts of history, who cares if they were used, right? They do turn up if you know where to look, and they were intended for the trash. Who knows why they survived, but let’s be glad that they did, and not just to…
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This Auction Professor video about rubber duck bath toys got the Rubber Ducky song from Sesame Street stuck in my head. You know, “Rubber ducky, you’re the one who makes bath time so much fun. Oh rubber ducky, I’m awfully fond of you, doo doo dee doo.” Apparently, there are collectors of these shameless marketing…
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Labubu isn’t just the next blind box toy collectible. It serves as a perfect specimen of a broken economy — where the only game most people can play is speculation, and everything is for sale. Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky figured out the psychology behind why people do such bizarre things with their money decades…