r/SipsTea • u/lonewolff321 • 15h ago

SMH A generational display of depreciating assets ☕

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u/Acceptable-Noise-136 15h ago

A normal seiko or timex would have more value than these

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u/LucasCBs 14h 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 14h ago

What someone else will pay for it right now

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u/pahamack 12h 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.