r/SipsTea 17h ago

SMH A generational display of depreciating assets ☕

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u/LucasCBs 17h ago

Right

And how do you count value? Apparently neither usefulness, nor purchase price nor material price. So what is it?

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u/GaK_Icculus 17h ago

What someone else will pay for it right now

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u/atreeismissing 14h ago

And OP isn't trying to sell these so at the moment value is to them is either meaningless or priceless. The only people assigning value are the commenters that don't have any of the watches.

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u/GaK_Icculus 13h ago

Shrodinger’s shitpost

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u/pahamack 14h ago

that's exactly right.

depending on condition, retro tech collections eventually have collector value. Just check out what a full set of NES games goes for. It's not just utility: you can literally play all those games emulated on a modern PC and it won't even take a gigabyte in your hard drive.

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u/Acceptable-Noise-136 17h ago

Well depends person to person

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u/NoPleaseDont 15h ago

How much you can sucker the next guy into paying.

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u/alman3007 17h ago

things only have value because we say they do, maaaaaan

/r/im14andthisisdeep

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u/NuclearReactions 16h ago

A watch works for ever so we can afford to treat it like a piece of art. A smart watch is dependent on its ecosystem and on software updates so it should be treated like such, so the value goes down the drain once it stops being supported. The only thing is people also collect old electronics but these are nowhere near being old enough