What purchases have you made that have unexpectedly increased in value?
For example, for me:
- Chromecast audio
- Logitech
G15G510 keyboard
What Purchases Have You Made That Have Unexpectedly Increased in Value?
ihfree on 26/04/2023 - 12:02
Last edited 26/04/2023 - 12:51
Last edited 26/04/2023 - 12:51
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I remember when the Logitech G15 was considered the best gaming keyboard on the market paired with the Logitech G9 Laser Mouse.
I wouldn't even know where to even start now if someone asked me 'best gaming keyboard' unless it was further category limited - eg best mechanical keyboard, under $200, available from big box retailers only eg JB, full size, with RGB backlight.
Back in my retail days G15 was by far the most expensive keboard stocked at my workplace, under that was the microsoft sidewinder (which I actually really liked with the detachable numpad - but unfortunately died just after 12 months). Then after that I dont really remember anything else really classed as 'gaming' gear.
Haha. Thinking about this a bit more, I think I had a G15v2 and then a G510. Both had keys fail. On one of them it was the F4 key - great fun.
I wasn't impressed with the failure rate of Logitech at the time so when the second board failed, I bought my first mech keyboard.
The warranty replacement sat in a box for a long time until I finally sold it. There were a few that sold between 200-300 dollars which was quite a surprise. Mine sold for about $250, iirc. I paid $90 for it from Logitech shop.
I was rocking an origional G15 right up until last year. Its still working I just upgraded to a wireless mechanical.
Used it so long I wore down the plastic at the wrists.
wireless mechanical
what model?
I had a fully functional G19 (v2) that I sold last year. It was such a good keyboard - but keys feel really mushy compared to the G915 I replaced it with. I miss the LCD though.
Was rocking a G15v2 along with the G9x mouse. I wish they had a wireless G9x.
my g15 crapped out after 9 years hard labour - first the rear USB ports stopped working, then the screen died. Was devo to find there was no real replacement that came anywhere near as good as it.
All my other razor gear crapped out in 18-24 months, same with the Microsoft sidewinders but only 12 months - my g15 had about 5-6 years on it and in the end handed it down to my brother.
Where is TechLead ?
I have a feeling he has another thread to spread the good news :)@techlead
All the crypto I bought in late 2022 has increased in value. But this thread appears to be about electronic goods, not investments.
BTC.
Doge.
He said “unexpectedly”. Why did you buy it if you didn’t expect it to increase in value?
My old man bought 5 bitcoins for 5k to pay ransomware hackers. He realised they had backups and just didn't bother selling them for a few years - they were up to 16k each.
My favourite part was when he was flying on unicorns.
Got my JW blue for 125 after cashbacks and discounts.
living the dream
Haven't opened it, just like I haven't used the shoes and other things lol
cars in general
bought a rough V6 Bora for $1500, I drove it for a year and then parked it. Daughter gets P's so we register it for her, gets rear ended a few months later. We got $3200 and continued to drive it until bought another car
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yeah car for me - I tried to offload my old car for $12K in ~2018, decided to keep it, now I'd get more than double for it!
- 4L V6 4x4
- Rare/limited print PS5 games
FJ cruiser?
Yep can’t believe how much they’ve shot up in price. Get badgered heavy by dealer to get it appraised to sell to them every time goes in for service.
For me it surprised me that a 2020 Tooth Fairy $2 kit has gone to $300 + . I think $25 RRP cost .
A lot of crazy $2 coin collectors out there .
A mate got his hands on rolls of Queens 50th purple $2 coins.
Got a 25-coin roll off him for face value. Rolls worth 2-3k now.This is happening to all the coloured coins now. The Vietnam War Coins this month and the $2 Poppy from last year are selling at incredible values.
where do you even find out about this sort of stuff?
Prius c
Chromecast audio
I have one of these sitting in storage somewhere lol for no other reason that I don't have a need for it currently.
Not sure, have a lego set from when I was a kid that's now worth $800+.
Ikea dining table bought before prices went up?
which lego set?
.aarrrrrrgh
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so you want investment advice? :D
An Ibanez TS10 Tubescreamer Classic MIJ 1986-90 Overdrive Pedal W/ Rare JRC45458D Chip. Admittedly, mine is not in great condition but still works well, after I fixed the footswitch.
I have one of these too. Paid $50 second hand in 1996. Can’t believe what they are selling for now.
high yield investment car
The LR Defender is kind-of an investment car right now. The used ones are commanding a 20-30k premium over a new one due to the 12-15 month wait
Only to stupid people who are willing to pay that much.
We're all stupid about some things. For some people, those things include the Defender. If those people are a big enough group, they set the price.
Potato Chips
potatoes are the new 'luxury' food
Toilet paper. Bought it on half price special before COVID. Never been on sale since. Easy 100% return.
That could have been money down the drain.
Don't crap on his savings!
money down the toilet
- Pop Vinyls
- Video games
I wouldn't say it was unexpected though.
I own a rare PS2 game where someone else's copy just sold for $2k on eBay.
which one?
Sengoku Anthology
Rav4
Beat me to it.
Insurance company jacked the price of mine up by about 12K this year.They valued my 2021 Rav4 Cruiser Hybrid at $58100. Only paid $54k two years ago!
Was the price appreciation due to your efforts or something else?
washing & ironing
She upskilled then!
What's the RRP?
Roasted Red Pepper
For the CS GO players, a factory new Blaze deagle which I placed a flammable sticker on.
Bought it for $40 back in 2016 or something and now they seem to be going for $2000+ on the Steam Marketplace.
Would have to sell via some other marketplace to make actual money and not Steam credit though.
I sold my whole inventory in 2017, looking at the prices now makes me wish i kept it.
Just got back into CS:GO, first game with a mate some dude asks to see the sticker my mate applied to his stock usps almost 10 years ago. Can't remeber the exact one but it's a Katowice 2013 or 2014 sticker. The guy was like wtf have you done that for… Turns out its listed on the skin sites for something stupid like $45k…..
I laughed a lot that game.
Wtf lol. Gonna have to see if I have any stickers that are valuable. Skins have gone nuts in the past couple of years I think, haven’t played in ages though.
Hmmm. Last played csgo in like 2016. Wonder what the m4a4 howls are going for these days.
Animation Cels. Bought a few a decade ago for next to nothing from Anime i've enjoyed growing up found out recently some are worth $2k+ each. For those interested in what they were I bought a selection from Cowboy Bebop, Akira, Ghost in the Shell (original movie), Porco Rosso, Evangelion, various Gundam series, Pokemon and a couple of USA shows The Simpsons, Ahhh! Real Monsters, Dilbert, The Jetsons, The Flintstones.
edit: Yes, at the time I was inspired to buy some after re-watching the episode of the Simpsons where Bart bought the Itchy and Scratchy animation cel.
Holy moly you literally hit a gold mine of all the main Animes that have gone classic and aged well. Printing money!
Toilet Paper
Paper towels that I bulk bought 1 year ago
A first gen macbook pro. It was a refurb (it was actually from a batch of broken ones that was going to be tossed from a school, an IT store was fixing them up and selling them off) that cost me about $300 when it was 12 months old.
Fast forward 6 years and I sold it for $500, because Apple had become "cool". I put it online at a high price thinking I'd get lowball offers and had someone reply in an hour offering to take it at the price I had put. Never expected computer hardware to appreciate in value!
Also bought a case of wine once simply because I really liked it. Then it won a bunch of awards, immediately sold out and went from $40 to $300 a bottle in value. Sadly, I left the box at my parents place where my uncle found it, asked if he could try it then was suddenly popping around for lunch every weekend until it was all gone.
That's the great thing about MacBook Pros; a 10 year old model basically looks the same as new ones. They don't start looking dated like many PC laptops.
Sydney Powerhouse Museum (at least before they started gutting it and dropped the word Museum yesterday) has/had an earliest Apple I computer - probably cost $20 - last I looked was valued more like $200,000 - https://collection.maas.museum/object/397247
Yeah, that's never been valued "cheap" even at the beginning.
probably cost $20
Where did you ever see an Apple 1 for $20?
I bought a second hand 50amp battery charger for $150. Sold it 2 years later for $300 so I could buy a lithium compatible one.
Holden motorsport edition.
Whiskyhalf the price of a phase 3 though
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I got a ranger Ute from auctions before COVID.
Sold it recently for $10k more then what I paid and I’ve driven it for 3 and bit years.PS5 and XSX. They aren't increased anymore, but for a long time they were worth $200+ premium. I sold my XSX for $250 more when I was hard up for cash, then later got another from Target during a drop. Apparently getting in on console drops early was worth $200+. I wouldn't consider it scalping because I never owned more than one at a time and I did miss not having it after selling it. But to me not selling something for the price it is selling for is the same as buying it for that same price, mathematically it's the exact same thing. If I would never pay $950 for an xbox then logically I should sell my xbox for $950 because it's the same difference.
I grabbed a busted waterski off someone's council pickup junk pile. The blade was fine, just the rubber boot was all perished & crappy so I bought a new boot and fitted it. $45.
Skied on it maybe 3 times then it sat in my garage for maybe 10 years.
Chucked it on Gumtree for $50 and had barely been up for 3 or 4 hours when I got a call "Hey mate, if I give you $200 this weekend will you take the ad down." For sure buddy, no probs.
So I took the ad down, he lobbed up the next weekend and hands over $200 cash.Find out later it was a pretty whizz bang ski. $200 was a fair price 2nd hand.
Well this is hardly unexpected but even as a long-time collector, it still surprised me… Lego sets.
I recently did a "spring clean" of my Lego pile of shame and sold about a dozen or so unopened, BNIB sets that had been gathering dust in my closet for anywhere from 2-5 years.
Even the non-desirable, pedestrian sets that I thought would be hard sells managed to fetch at least twice their original purchase cost and some of the sets that had appreciated particularly well I resold for 3-6 times their original value.
It's also speaks to how much demand there is in the Lego resale market on FB Marketplace/Scumtree, as the desirable sets sold within a week or less typically.
I've never bought Lego as an investment previously and these sets I sold off because of the inevitable lack of space/time issue that plagues all AFOLs but it does make me think twice about hoarding desirable sets to flip them for a profit later.
And these sets I sold weren't even carefully-selected purchases that I thought had a chance at becoming really valuable in the future, most of them were just impulse buys of stuff that was on clearance or heavily discounted.
I've got Taj Mahal 10256 sitting in my bedroom.
Otherwise, I actually opened my Titanic set and got it sitting on my Billy bookshelves in my room.
I find Lego sets, or at least the Creator ones, are kinda too big to store.
First version of Taj went crazy to like 9K and drop to below 1K on release of 10256 ( 1 piece different . The rest the same ).
Lego are greedy and be careful with rereleases.Billy bookshelves got me laughing. Do we all now live in the same rooms, eating the same food and playing with the same toys?!?
It's also speaks to how much demand there is in the Lego resale market on FB Marketplace/Scumtree, as the desirable sets sold within a week or less typically.
Would you say a lot of your buyers were actual collectors or builders, or just all part of the speculators market like Bitcoin and houses?
Would you say a lot of your buyers were actual collectors or builders
An equal amount of fellow AFOLs and mums/dads buying sets for their kids, I seriously doubt any of them were buying Lego for investment purposes or planning to flip them later.
Some of my luxury handbags are worth more now than when I bought them. If I was to sell them pre-love I would recoup what I paid + more.
My wife has a few goyard bags. Pain in the arse to get but apparently retain their value well.
Why would handbags go up in value?
Doesn't make sense?
Limited supply, waiting lists, certain models go out of production.
Pretty much like luxury watches.
First gen Nintendo Switch, because you can hack them.
Sell your First gen Switch, before the current firmware becomes hacked!
Several ages of Hibiki's when they still unknown and only ranged between 3k - 30k yen a bottle
This, I bought a 17yo LE at the airport for maybe 120ish and sold it years later for 3500.
Some trading cards
Toyota Yaris
LOL, my wife bought hers in 2012 for $18-19K, sold it for $15.5k last year. TBF she only put 15000ks on it in all that time.
No you didn't
Yooooo this takes me back! The perfect keyboard and practically unkillable. I still have ex workmates still running g15 practically over 12 years later haha. The g19 that I replaced it with although yes had a colour screen, crapped out in 18 months.