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Hobby collectors of the OT - who are the worst group of collectors?

Posted on 12/24/23 at 6:58 am
Posted by theantiquetiger
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Posted on 12/24/23 at 6:58 am
When I say hobby collectors, I’m talking sports cards, comics, toys, Hot Wheels, sports memorabilia, etc.
Which group is the worst?
I deal with many of the groups with my eBay, and use to collect sports cards, vintage toys, Hot Wheels, and LSU.
As a former Hot Wheel collector, I find these guys the worst (when it comes to modern Hot Wheels). They are obsessed with finding the latest and greatest release.
Posted by jmarto1
Houma, LA/ Las Vegas, NV
Member since Mar 2008
34322 posts
Posted on 12/24/23 at 6:59 am to
Most people don't collect a wide array of things so they won't get the cultures. Sports card collectors can be a bit odd but the scammers are the real poblem
Posted by LSUtoBOOT
Member since Aug 2012
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Posted on 12/24/23 at 7:00 am to
Posted by tigerfan84
Member since Dec 2003
20570 posts
Posted on 12/24/23 at 7:06 am to
White women who collect beanie babies.
Posted by Havoc
Member since Nov 2015
29059 posts
Posted on 12/24/23 at 7:11 am to
My ex wife was apparently a semen collector, and she was pretty bad. That’s my vote.
Posted by Motorboat
At the camp
Member since Oct 2007
22766 posts
Posted on 12/24/23 at 7:17 am to
Bourbon nerds and wine snobs.
Posted by Porter Osborne Jr
Member since Sep 2012
40223 posts
Posted on 12/24/23 at 8:25 am to
I collect vintage toys and those guys can smell the worst at their shows
Posted by chinhoyang
Member since Jun 2011
23816 posts
Posted on 12/24/23 at 8:36 am to
There are some insufferable vintage toy train collectors. One collector is from California and he pays absurd prices for stuff, then brags about how much he paid online.

There are also some great guys. Most of my train collector friends are Italians who live on the East Coast.
Posted by Maytheporkbewithyou
Member since Aug 2016
12683 posts
Posted on 12/24/23 at 8:44 am to
25 years ago, I was a store manager for Fred's. It was the Hot Wheels collectors. There was 2 of them and they would show up every time we got a freight truck wanting to go through the Hot Wheels boxes before we stocked them.

They were annoying. I would always tell them no so they would walk around and start asking my employees. They would really put the pressure on the teenagers.

Grown arse men obsessed over toys.
Posted by Sun God
Member since Jul 2009
44874 posts
Posted on 12/24/23 at 8:48 am to
Lego collectors are fricking psychotic
Posted by meeple
Carcassonne
Member since May 2011
9462 posts
Posted on 12/24/23 at 8:48 am to
Board games. Not to the extent that some do (some acquire a thousand or more). My collection is around 175 and I haven’t purchased as many in recent years.
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
66304 posts
Posted on 12/24/23 at 9:00 am to
The only sub genre of collecting that I have experience with is rare coins.

Not too bad in general of folks. A few strongly Type A but generally not bad.

Obviously there is a wide range of morality, caveat emptor.
Posted by Porpus
Covington, LA
Member since Aug 2022
1719 posts
Posted on 12/24/23 at 9:10 am to
Any kind of car collector / motorsports enthusiast, but there's something about Ducatti motorcycles in particular that attracts the biggest douchetards on the planet. To a man, people who own those things act like this weird combination of 1) guy who just had his first three beers since graduating basic training; and 2) entitled fast food franchisee who fricks his employees.
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
63942 posts
Posted on 12/24/23 at 9:28 am to
quote:

who are the worst group of collectors?


Those who collect bodies in their crawlspaces.
Posted by WWII Collector
Member since Oct 2018
7194 posts
Posted on 12/24/23 at 9:44 am to
I will say that WWII Collectors and Militaria collectors are a great bunch of baws. They work together and just an all around good bunch.. BBQ and everything...

But the down side is the collection it self... So many fakes have hit the market. Prices are going through the roof on items.. Like German Helmets, uniforms etc.

Then you have kids that are inheriting all the things that Grandpa had in the attic. And instead of trying to keep items together that belong together, they are breaking these things up just for the money without care for the historical aspects of the items, or it's meanings or lessons.
Posted by SECSolomonGrundy
Slaughter Swamp
Member since Jun 2012
16065 posts
Posted on 12/24/23 at 9:52 am to
I have one friend with a decent collection of Ford Mustangs. He is a good dude.

But he is the exception in that group. Mustang guys just usually have some sort of malfunction. Its like their parents didnt love them enough.
Posted by Tiger Vision
Mandeville
Member since Jan 2005
3720 posts
Posted on 12/24/23 at 9:54 am to
Definitely Bourbon collectors. Cutthroat and dirty game they play.
Posted by SquatchDawg
Cohutta Wilderness
Member since Sep 2012
14356 posts
Posted on 12/24/23 at 9:55 am to
Bourbon snobs.

I was at a company outing where a guy from KY basically told us all we were drinking horse piss because we didn’t know anything about bourbon. It’s been a running joke joke for years.
Posted by MeridianDog
Home on the range
Member since Nov 2010
14275 posts
Posted on 12/24/23 at 10:21 am to
I collected guns. Sadly I suffered a tragic boating accident.



Collected Aggies and cat’s eyes. The I lost my marbles.
Posted by Sus-Scrofa
Member since Feb 2013
8260 posts
Posted on 12/24/23 at 11:05 am to
Book collectors are nice to each other, but generally treat non collectors like crap.

Walk in an antique book store and they’re going to assume you were looking for Barns and Noble and be insufferable assholes unless and until they decide you’re one of them.
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