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Are you buying things just to collect them? Or do you have a collection of stuff you bought when you were younger and are holding on to that for nostalgic reasons?
I don't really actively buy any retro stuff anymore unless I'm wanting to play some particular game or something. It's just too expensive.
But I would have a really really hard time selling things with sentimental value. Maybe that will change someday but for now it's too recent (20-30 years ago for me for most of it).
The other thing is, unless you really need the money (or space) now... Physical video game paraphernalia is not likely to go down in price over time. It necessarily becomes more scarce as time goes on. So that's something to consider even if you're just collecting to gain value.
I disagree on the last point, sure, the supply won't go up, but the demand is likely to go down. Prices have ballooned hard in the past several years. The bubble has to burst at some point
I guess time will tell. I kind of doubt demand is going to drop until the people who are nostalgic for these things start to die, and that is many years off. By that time supply will have dwindled even more.
I think the exponential growth is a bubble that will burst but I'm not sure I can see values actually dropping.