| collectorism [message #366265] |
Thu, 12 April 2018 14:08  |
Wayne Stewart
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I think collectorism has reared it’s ugly head. I always said I’m not a collector, I’m a user or sometimes an Apple II hoarder. However I bought a Bell & Howell floppy drive even though it’s just a rebadged Disk II and I definitely don’t need more Disk IIs. Last time this happened was a few years ago when I traded some 3.5” drives with red LEDs for some with amber LEDs.
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| Re: collectorism [message #366266 is a reply to message #366265] |
Thu, 12 April 2018 15:00  |
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Originally posted by: cb meeks
On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 2:09:00 PM UTC-4, waynej...@gmail.com wrote:
> I think collectorism has reared it’s ugly head. I always said I’m not a collector, I’m a user or sometimes an Apple II hoarder. However I bought a Bell & Howell floppy drive even though it’s just a rebadged Disk II and I definitely don’t need more Disk IIs.. Last time this happened was a few years ago when I traded some 3.5” drives with red LEDs for some with amber LEDs.
I own two Mattel Aquarius computers....I'm most certainly a collector. :-D
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| Re: collectorism [message #366268 is a reply to message #366265] |
Thu, 12 April 2018 17:18 |
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Originally posted by: frank_o_rama
oooooo!! amber!!
On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 11:09:00 AM UTC-7, waynej...@gmail.com wrote:
> I think collectorism has reared it’s ugly head. I always said I’m not a collector, I’m a user or sometimes an Apple II hoarder. However I bought a Bell & Howell floppy drive even though it’s just a rebadged Disk II and I definitely don’t need more Disk IIs.. Last time this happened was a few years ago when I traded some 3.5” drives with red LEDs for some with amber LEDs.
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| Re: collectorism [message #366300 is a reply to message #366265] |
Fri, 13 April 2018 21:12 |
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Originally posted by: James Davis
On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 11:09:00 AM UTC-7, waynej...@gmail.com wrote:
> I think collectorism has reared it’s ugly head. I always said I’m not a collector, I’m a user or sometimes an Apple II hoarder. However I bought a Bell & Howell floppy drive even though it’s just a rebadged Disk II and I definitely don’t need more Disk IIs.. Last time this happened was a few years ago when I traded some 3.5” drives with red LEDs for some with amber LEDs.
"Collectorism" is not a WORD (not listed in the Wiktionary or Merriam-Webster dictionaries)!
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| Re: collectorism [message #366301 is a reply to message #366300] |
Fri, 13 April 2018 21:38 |
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On 2018-04-14 01:12:19 +0000, James Davis said:
> On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 11:09:00 AM UTC-7, waynej...@gmail.com wrote:
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>> I think collectorism has reared itâs ugly head. I always said I'm
>> not a collector, I'm a user or sometimes an Apple II hoarder. However
>> I bought a Bell & Howell floppy drive even though it's just a rebadged
>> Disk II and I definitely don't need more Disk IIs. Last time this
>> happened was a few years ago when I traded some 3.5" drives with red
>> LEDs for some with amber LEDs.
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> "Collectorism" is not a WORD (not listed in the Wiktionary or
> Merriam-Webster dictionaries)!
It is a website though ...
Collectorism.com
Collectorism is a place where you can showcase your collection
and the passion behind it. There's no need to pay a fortune to
have your own website anymore. It's a place to meet fellow
collectors without having the trouble of traveling to distant
conferences or fairs.
:-)
Both Hasbro and Dorling Kindersley are "great" at appeasing
'collecterism' ... they both greedily keep re-re-releasing the same old
stuff in different packaging, and in the case of Dorling Kindersley
they also re-re-release the same old stuff with a only couple of extra
new pages added. :-\
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| Re: collectorism [message #366304 is a reply to message #366301] |
Fri, 13 April 2018 22:02 |
Steve Nickolas
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On Sat, 14 Apr 2018, Your Name wrote:
> Both Hasbro and Dorling Kindersley are "great" at appeasing 'collecterism'
> ... they both greedily keep re-re-releasing the same old stuff in different
> packaging, and in the case of Dorling Kindersley they also re-re-release the
> same old stuff with a only couple of extra new pages added. :-\
To which I can add Disney and Funimation...
-uso.
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| Re: collectorism [message #366308 is a reply to message #366304] |
Sat, 14 April 2018 03:00 |
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On 2018-04-14 02:02:27 +0000, Steve Nickolas said:
> On Sat, 14 Apr 2018, Your Name wrote:
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>> Both Hasbro and Dorling Kindersley are "great" at appeasing
>> 'collecterism' ... they both greedily keep re-re-releasing the same old
>> stuff in different packaging, and in the case of Dorling Kindersley
>> they also re-re-release the same old stuff with a only couple of extra
>> new pages added. :-\
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> To which I can add Disney and Funimation...
Then there's those idiotic "blind bag" random-packed toys where you pay
money to get the 15th one of the toys you've already got and never get
the two you're missing from the complete set ... then you have to
resort to eBay and pay an over-inflated priced for them. X-(
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| Re: collectorism [message #366358 is a reply to message #366308] |
Mon, 16 April 2018 15:02 |
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Originally posted by: cb meeks
On Saturday, April 14, 2018 at 3:00:45 AM UTC-4, Your Name wrote:
> Then there's those idiotic "blind bag" random-packed toys where you pay
> money to get the 15th one of the toys you've already got and never get
> the two you're missing from the complete set ... then you have to
> resort to eBay and pay an over-inflated priced for them. X-(
That's all the rage these days. I can't tell you how many I've bought for my kids. But it's really no different than baseball cards when I was a kid. You'd buy a pack of gum/cards in hopes of getting that one player.
Which is why I never really got into those types of toys. When I was a kid, I knew I wanted "Toy X" so I either saved my money or asked Santa. :-)
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| Re: collectorism [message #366360 is a reply to message #366358] |
Mon, 16 April 2018 17:17 |
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On 2018-04-16 19:02:37 +0000, cb meeks said:
> On Saturday, April 14, 2018 at 3:00:45 AM UTC-4, Your Name wrote:
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>> Then there's those idiotic "blind bag" random-packed toys where you pay
>> money to get the 15th one of the toys you've already got and never get
>> the two you're missing from the complete set ... then you have to
>> resort to eBay and pay an over-inflated priced for them. X-(
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> That's all the rage these days. I can't tell you how many I've bought
> for my kids. But it's really no different than baseball cards when I
> was a kid. You'd buy a pack of gum/cards in hopes of getting that one
> player.
Yep, there were also cigarette cards in the UK (I've got some collected
by my grandfather). The difference with many of these though is that it
was possible to send duplicates back to the factory and get them
swapped for the cards you were missing. No chance of doing that these
days.
At one time you could do the same with the collecgtible random toys
inside breakfast cereal packs, but those are almost non-existent these
days (partly due to "Politically Correct" complaints about kids
potentially swallowing and choking on them).
These idiotic "blind bags" simply tell you to swap with your friends to
complete the set ... or just leave it to the buyers to work out.
In the case of the cards, you at least got the gum or cigarettes as
well, and it's the same with the modern equivalents like the "Kinder
Surprise Eggs", so you at least did get something you (perhaps) wanted
for your money, but with the actual toys you don't get anything except
the random toy.
Having said that, there was a set of collectibles called Star Wars
Mighty Beanz that were supposedly random packed, but somone worked out
that the single Beanz character you could see in the packaging told you
exactly what the other hidden Beanz were as well, and thanks to the
internet postings of that information, it was easy and cheaper to
collect the whole set ... well, until they started with equally
ridiculous and greedy "exclusives" which most of us can only get via
over-priced eBay sales.
> Which is why I never really got into those types of toys. When I was a
> kid, I knew I wanted "Toy X" so I either saved my money or asked Santa.
> :-)
The two main supermarkets chains here occasionally do promotions where
they give you a free blind bag collectible with every $30 (or whatever)
you spend, but they also have "Swap Days" outside the supermarkets for
people to swap with each other (I haven't been to one, so I'm not sure
if the supermarket is actually involved other than saying what day it
is and allocating a space outside).
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| collectorism [message #367975 is a reply to message #366265] |
Sat, 19 May 2018 06:56 |
barana
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You are right, it is a thing, and southpark mentioned it once in an episode , the context was pokemon. The advert said:collect them all, or you a loser! It is indeed a drive inside us all to have the complete set. I remember in the 80's it was a thing for old ladies to collect teaspoons.I don't think any of it makes sense, but it is something in us.no different to owning a complete II with all the peripherals etc.
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