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Originally Posted by plasmab
Wrong. Specialist items dont follow this trend.
1.Yacht prices for example. They go up not down.
2. Classic cars.
3. Antiques
4. Collectable Items like baseball cards, toys etc
Retro computing is now on that list firmly.
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Precisely.
Because it cannot be replaced with new. The companies are out of business and even if they weren't they're not going to re-release a product from 30 years ago unless they can guarantee that their profits will justify their investment.
This is a bit of an aside, but...
Remember that joystick C64 product that came out a while ago? Jeri Ellsworth designed that (look her up, her scene overlaps ours quite a lot. There are some great long interviews with her, Chuck Peddle and Bill Hurd! Like really interesting, check them out on youtube!). Anyway, I believe a toy company invested in the project not because people wanted it but because they could build it cheaply enough. The same with all the other 'mini' consoles you're seeing lately. They're all 8 bit, right? Because 8 bit is cheap right now. As it happens, the company screwed Jeri over as they were in debt (sound familiar?) and I believe she lost all her share of what was promised to her.
The point being that even when it can be dirt cheap to produce (like these mini's popping up),
even then they're either low quality, missing features, or from companies with questionable business practices.
Bottom line - there will never be another new A500, just like there will never be another brand new 1973 Ferrari Daytona - not that I could afford one anyway. Therefore as scarcity increases so does value.
John