9 Completely Worthless Collectibles

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Here's another article posted on Yahoo today called "9 Completely Worthless Collectibles." It's way better than the one they posted yesterday called The Most Valuable Toys. What's even more surprising is that I actually agree with the list! Most of this is pure crap you find for nothing at Flea Markets. I've got a few other things I could add when it comes to worthless collectibles. Take a look...
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[Hotfoot]

I collect things that I like. I do not collect to invest! I still like the Hess Trucks! Hard to find anymore since there are not any Hess Dealers in my area.

[boynightwing]

My mom has Hummels. I don't think I'll tell her about this article. She loves them though. I don't think she really cares about the "value" in money but I think she'd be upset to know that nobody wants them.

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Hess Trucks are cool if you like them. I had a teacher in High School that used to ask his students if they had any they didn't want. The first few years after my son was born, my parents would buy a Hess Truck for my son to play with and an exta Hess truck to keep in the box. They were sure it was a good investment because a relative had The Hess Boat from 1966 and sold it for a few grand. They of course didn't realize that the trucks today are massed produced and were clogging up my closet. (They bought me a truck every year before my son was born too.) I begged them to stop buying these things but they, for what ever reason (tradition maybe) kept doing it. Now they only buy the one for my son even though he plays with it all of one day (Thanksgiving) and never looks at it again.

[Nostalgiabuff]

yeah, I worked at Hess in high school and college. people went nuts over those trucks. i hated them. my son has a whole bunch that he also played with the day he got and never touched again except to move out of the way when looking for something else
my mother has a lot of hummels, my wife and I have some as well. it is more of a German thing

[Hector]

9 worthless collectibles

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Place me in the Franklin Mint category...

[johnnystorm]

My wife collected Dreamsicles for awhile, same as the Precious Moments figurines...pay $40 sell for $1.00. Every now & again she mentions putting them on Ebay, and I convince her the listing fees will cost us more than they'll sell for, it's better just to keep them in thye closet until a massive earthquake destroys all the others in existance.

They also forgot to mention in the article all those limited edition Michael Jordan card sets they hawk on QVC, as well as pretty much any Nascar items.

[Brad]

That figures. My MIL has a vast collection of Hummel Figurines, Beanie Babies, and Hess trucks.

[HardyGirl]

Wow, I even had a Hess truck. I also remember the imitations that were sold at hardware and food markets in the 70s. (advertising that store).

[ddgaff1132]

My favorite Worthless Collectables are Palm Pilots and Pocket PC's. The funny thing is, when out at good wills and other thrift stores. If I mention I like them. Everyone thinks they're a big money ebay item. Then I show them on my ANDROID phone (which I got Free with 2 year plan!!! IRONY!!!) That these thing arent selling at all.

[samurainoir]

The founder of comic book industry bible Wizard, Gareb Shamus, said a year ago that the best advice a collector could heed was to buy what they liked and do their homework. Then again, he's also a Spider-Man collector who paid $1,700 for an issue with a cover drawn by artist Todd MacFarlane featuring the villain Sandman. The book's value jumped to between $30,000 and $40,000 when the Sandman appeared in the latest Spider-Man film.

These kind of mistakes always lead to annoying encounters for comic shop owners with folks coming in looking for the big payday for their valuable comic book.

Shamus did not sell an issue... He sold THE ORIGINAL ART for the cover.

One of the most common stories I hear from retailers are phone calls from from people claiming to have action comics #1, or Superman #1, and it Always turns out to be the treasury edition from the seventies.

[thunderbolt]

love the line Comic industry Bible Wizard.

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I remember back in the 90's when the Mcfarlane Spiderman comic series came out and issue #1 had all sorts of variants. The Silver Cover, The Gold Cover, The Regular Cover, The Sealed In Bag Gold Cover, The Sealed In Bag Silver Cover, The Sealed In Bag Regular Addition, the Newsstand Barcode Cover, and The coveted Platinum Cover. As a kid I'd go into the local comic shop and stare at the Platinum cover behind a glass case with a price tag of $300 wishing I could afford it even though I had all of the other cover variants. Twenty or so years later I found the Platinum cover for $5. Also, right up there with Franklin Mint stuff has to be Hamilton Collection items. They used to run marathons on TV selling Star Wars items like tin cards and plates and today most of that stuff is worthless.

[torgospizza]

The Norman Rockwell plates actually sound kind of cool to me, especially if I can grab them cheap.

I always thought it sounded shady that Wizard published a price guide when Shamus owned a chain of comic stores. No conflict of interest there.

[LordMudd]

I had none of those things. I do have a neighbor who has the Norman Rockwell plate of the little redhead girl in the classroom reading by herself while the rest of the class is gathered around the teacher, but then she IS that little girl.

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