3 More Dying Collecting Categories? Don't Invest in these Collectibles for Long Term Growth! 

Shawn, please do a sequel to this video, with 3 collectible markets that are on the rise in the medium to long term. New Money will always be invested in collectibles, if 3 categories are on the down, then there should be 3 on the way up. Thanks

Shawn's content is the true collectible in this world. Please save your first video on a thumb drive, get it graded, and auction it.

Just because someone buys something, or the item is cool or rare or even valuable, doesn't mean it's worth investing in. There needs to be a big enough potential market willing to eventually buy it from you. And collectibles investors tend to fool themselves into thinking the situation is much more rosy than it may really be, because the same emotion that drives the collectibles market also distorts one's objective judgement.

I remember Hess trucks being sold. Now they are goodwill fodder

Shawn. You don't understand. When they ban gasoline cars, peddle cars will become a must-own item.

Last year, I visited an Estate Sale vending a lot of metal lunch boxes and most people got nuts, taking almost everything and leaving behind 8 of 30 lunch boxes. I thought those things have some value for the future, I didn`t anything because the price too high. After watching your video, I was going to commit a big mistake.

Shawn, you’ve been too level headed recently! Bring back the insults! They are hilarious. My favorite one was “you must have a Pikachu in your anus”

It's interesting on a lot of these categories, I think you will see Boomer probate estates hit auction houses over the next 5-10 years. They will be funneled to other older, still living- hoarder boomers. As time goes on, this cycle will continue and become a literal death spiral as supply increases and demand decreases, continuing to lower the value down to "curiosity" range.

1970 here- I was disappointed when Hess trucks went plastic and stopped caring about getting one for Christmas.

Seems like a really good channel, had to subscribe 👍

If you want to collect/play w/ vintage toys, you do you! But for long term investments, nothing beats low-cost stock market index funds.

This was a long video to repeat what you said in 3 minutes last time: demand is what matters most not supply. Don't buy long term investments for a generation that will be dead in 20 years

I see box lots of Hess trucks at the auction all the time. 5 or6 inthe box from the 90s going for 10 dollars for all

Great points. Let’s us realize that there is a shelf life for everything.

Can you seperate your dying categories videos into its own playlist? Will be most hopeful thank you

I don't understand the collectible market at all. Thank you for giving context to this very difficult market.

Shawn 100% confirmed follows Patrick Bateman's skin care routine. Looking fresh!

Sidebar: Consider showing pics of what you’re talking about. I genuinely don’t know what a pedal car is nor what they look like. Haha. Just a suggestion.

Shawn is the Goat 🐐

I had a paddle car even back in the 90s. It's kinda sentimental to see these analogue, old timey toys being irrelevant today...

V, the mid 80s tv show and mini series. bought a metal lunchbox in near mint shape. couldnt believe it. bought it with 3 other lunchoxes, metal thundercats as well, one other i cant remember and a plastic atari lunchbox...$50 for all 4 of them. the thundercats was near mint as well but did not have the thermos. sold the thundercats a bit too cheap i think as it sold almos instantly as soon as i listed it on ebay. i could have got more because it was near mint shape. i got $60 for it. one of the other ones i sold for $75 and it was beat to chit. the atari one i sold for 30 i think and the V one. i sold for $800, lol. yes, 800. i about pooped. pretty sweet find.

Things that were popular in the past wont always be that way.the generations that like these items die off,while the younger people don't even know that these items exist.

Unless you show your kids the things you grew up with/ they become exposed to them in some kind of way growing up, you can pretty much kiss them goodbye for the most part.

A+ you;re right.

Investing/collecting and the illuminati all seeing eye, well I just have to subscribe now.

I believe in the 1930s Disney licensed Mickey Mouse lunch boxes…not sure if they were metal though.

So.. Growing up in the 60s I watched my father’s generation (people who were teens in the Depression and their parents) collect “Cruise Line Ephemera,” stamps and coins, matchbooks, and toy/real world Rail Road memorabilia. There was always an underlying idea that this stuff would be valuable for ever. Today… 50 years later, nobody wants any of that crap. As a kid during the 60s and early 70s I collected baseball cards. I have virtually all Topps cards from 1965-1980. All collected individually from 10 card packs- even when it became easy to buy a whole series, say after 1976. I’m afraid these are losing value every day, as one generations keepsakes become another generations junk. I’m afraid the passion is gone and The time to sell is NOW (2024!)

Interesting.. this makes me question what the next superman lunchbox is, is it "the first fidget spinner" or some paw patrol figures? Looking forward watching more of your vids expanding my horizon (im a tcg timmy since mid 2021, dont have much, but it adds up)

Suggest you cover the issue of fakes and reproductions in the collectibles world. Saw the damage caused by this in the military collectibles market and left collecting them because of this issue.

Shawn, have you ever thought about starting a patreon or membership? I'm sure quite a few of us would pay a monthly subscription for additional insight and/or limited email questions/answers perk. May be worth looking into on top of the consulting call services.

We just need a Mad Max type scenario and everyone will be begging for a pedal car..

What about glass marbles?

Well there goes my idea for peddle car grading...

Invested in the drip!

Old metal trucks collecting is pretty well dying....Went to a GENERAL toy show recently, saw ONLY a few dealers having a few old metal trucks. Now maybe there are toy truck shows.....I don't know.

What about Darth Vader.. is he forever ? I see 5- year olds still go crazy for him 🤣 I always base stuff off characters .. Characters are timeless . We are lucky Disney, DC care to put characters from the 1940s to current in front of todays kids eyes.

What about rare books? If I remember correctly, you own a first edition of The Great Gatsby, yes? Looking at younger generations, I wonder whether the same love for literature will exist in five, ten, twenty years. As a result, I recently sold 15k worth of collectible poetry books, mostly because I have my doubts that our culture is going to retain a serious interest in print as opposed to visuals, especially once AI starts being more extensively used. Thoughts?

As a timmy and a poindexter, I deny your advice

Capitalism meets nostalgia is just the weirdest corner of the simulation. ;)

Thank you very much

Love the knowledge. Thank you! I’m a new subscriber but now learning that there is not point in paying more than msrp on stuff on the secondary . market.

I feel like sports cards are also a bad investment, very few are going to be worth anything in the future

I disagree about pedal cars. When EV's break the electrical grid and transportation as we know it ceases to exist, pedal cars will be a hot commodity! (only joking of course)

I just wanted th lunchboxes from my childhood for me, but they're always too expensive. I guess I'll start trackin th mkt now. Any forecast of how much cheaper they'll be in say... six months?

All of these things including my favourite (comics) are hobbys. There's money to be made flipping but given all the stock you will hold that will never be worth anything, perhaps just buying shares or gold would be a better option long term than investing in collectables? I don't take my own advice but then I don't buy my comic books for any other reason than I want them.

Can you show pictures of this stuff?

So basically fade boomer and older X gen, calls on millennials nostalgia

I am wondering if the toy line 'Skylanders' might be a good long term investment. I remember playing that series for many years about 12 years ago when it first started. There were lots of chase figures to get. Thoughts?

Seems like everything is down because of the economy and global Turmoiland unfortunately I see it getting worse

To summarize: don't invest in collectibles, period.

Sean, what are your thoughts on investing in Tesla stock? 😅

Will pez ever return to glory? 😂

Out of sight and mind, out of value.

nice video...would be much better if you could include a couple of pictures