Arob
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Hi Guys its me Arob here, from Dumpdiggers
I was wondering if anyone on here ever gets depressed after visiting big bottle shows? and seeing the collectibles for sale and realizing just how much or how little your own collection is actually worth? or perhaps even just how little your fav bottles are worth?... In my case its always much less than I thought possible. I used to believe that bottles would age and accrue more value over time... You know they are not making any more of them, but now... I wonder
I wrote about the 2012 Toronto Bottle show on Dumpdiggers blog.
I wrote a huge post, like ten pages and I realize now its because I find the whole thing slightly overwhelming. Here in Toronto the guys who make big bucks are the people who have day jobs digging holes in the ground for a living. Seriously. its the professional excavators and Toronto basement waterproofing contractors who are paid to dig holes all day that sell the most stuff at these shows - they have fistfulls of cash and its all profit cause whatever they find is just gravy on top of a good day job. No doubt they have big collections at home too.
At the show there was a guy selling all his milk bottles for $1 each. And halfway through the day he marked the remainder down to .50 cents each. I looked and as soon as I came across one that I owned already I had to stop looking... I have about 250 ACL Ontario milks in storage - are they all worth 50 cents each?
I guess the only thing more depressing would have been if there was nobody there to buy them...
This jam jar sold for $15 ... and its the nicest jam jar label I have ever seen... why is it not worth $100? or a $1000 ?
I was wondering if anyone on here ever gets depressed after visiting big bottle shows? and seeing the collectibles for sale and realizing just how much or how little your own collection is actually worth? or perhaps even just how little your fav bottles are worth?... In my case its always much less than I thought possible. I used to believe that bottles would age and accrue more value over time... You know they are not making any more of them, but now... I wonder
I wrote about the 2012 Toronto Bottle show on Dumpdiggers blog.
I wrote a huge post, like ten pages and I realize now its because I find the whole thing slightly overwhelming. Here in Toronto the guys who make big bucks are the people who have day jobs digging holes in the ground for a living. Seriously. its the professional excavators and Toronto basement waterproofing contractors who are paid to dig holes all day that sell the most stuff at these shows - they have fistfulls of cash and its all profit cause whatever they find is just gravy on top of a good day job. No doubt they have big collections at home too.
At the show there was a guy selling all his milk bottles for $1 each. And halfway through the day he marked the remainder down to .50 cents each. I looked and as soon as I came across one that I owned already I had to stop looking... I have about 250 ACL Ontario milks in storage - are they all worth 50 cents each?
I guess the only thing more depressing would have been if there was nobody there to buy them...
This jam jar sold for $15 ... and its the nicest jam jar label I have ever seen... why is it not worth $100? or a $1000 ?
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