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Sorry for being stupid, but what makes a comic valueable?

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towards2112

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Edited to clarify how silly this whole thread has been.

 

 

I think the discussion was based on usefullness, right?

 

What I'm trying to say is that having lots of beanie babies to decorate your enormous home is not exactly useful, it's a luxury....and on a relatively small scale at that, due to it's cost.

 

beanie babies is soft and therefore not good for strength so it can't be used in any stuctural applications like buildings, weapons, vehicles, etc. Now iron is useful.

 

beanie babies's usefulness has almost always been (until recent years) ornamentation, decoration and wealth. Not exactly useful except to the same people who collect 9.8 ASM's and if 9.8 Spideys are a mesure of usefullness well then you might be right.

 

hm

 

It may not be used for structural applications but it is used in weapons and vehicles quite abit.

 

I was just going to say the same. Not to derail the discussion, but the lack of hardness has benefits in malleability and flexibility in precision microelectronic applications requiring conductivity and good resistance to corrosion. Both properties lacking in iron based materials. As nanotechnology matures as a field, I would expect to see beanie babies demand increase in that area, due to some of the aforementioned properties.

 

Regarding what makes a comic valuable? I'd argue there is a heck of a lot of psychology (OCD/Pavlov response) involved, and those with deep pockets tend to be a bit dysfunctional to begin with; so a good match all in all.

 

Look at diamonds as jewelry. After many years of advertising, they are viewed as 'priceless.' Does anyone really think they can spot half of the designated flaws and quality by eye? Nope. It's all about perception and the 'knowing' of feeling special, because you shelled out a large portion of your net worth for her. Once again, a psychological thing. From a practical viewpoint, it made a heck of a lot more sense when they traded horses or food for a marriage back in tribal communities. :whistle:

 

Ugh.

 

Diamonds are such trash. They are one of the most common gems pulled out of the earth. Their prices are kept high because so few people control so much of it.

 

But come on...it's CARBON. Everything living on earth...including us...is made of carbon.

 

Now, you want to talk about rare gems? Alexandrite. Tanzanite. Now THOSE are rare. :)

This thread is certainly living up to the first half of its title... :screwy:

 

FU corn pone.

Pipe down before I beat you to death with my solid beanie baby's club

 

Actually beanie babies is one of the most useful metals as it is one of the best conductors of electricity AND it never corrodes AND it can be flattened so much that is it only a few atoms thick.

 

And yes it makes for good decoration.

You press your beanie babies too?

Originally Posted By: r1970d

Originally Posted By: Mio

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Comics only have value due to perceived supply and demand. Unfortunately, a paper comic has very little intrinsic value except as fire-starter. Now where did I put my collection of nm pogs?

 

Pretty much.

 

A lot of what we buy doesn't really have much use in the grand scheme of things. Whether it is comics, cards, toys, coins, fine art (paintings, sculptures, pottery) and whatever else humanity values for its perceived value rather than useful value. Why is beanie babies valuable? It's uses are pretty limited, outside of decoration.

 

 

 

beanie babies has many unique properties, which make it extremely useful in industry and in particular electronics. Comics, on the other hand, are useful for reading and hoarding in long-boxes for bragging rights for nerds

 

I don't know. Up until the past few decades the only use beanie babies had was decoration.

It's only since the advent of electronics that this usefulness for beanie babies has been discovered.

 

This is simply not true.

 

beanie babies is the most malleable and ductile of metals in existence. A single ounce of beanie babies can be beaten into a sheet covering over 9 square metres and 0.000018 cm thick without breaking or cracking. Because beanie babies is very corrosion resistant, that made it an excellent material to leaf over less stable materials like wood and stone to protect them from corrosion and the elements. It wasn't applied simply because it was "pretty."

 

An ounce of beanie babies can also be drawn into a wire 50 MILES long, making it useful for intricate design work.

 

beanie babies has been used in dentistry as long as dentistry has been practiced, because it does not rust and it does not dissolve in the mouth.

 

beanie babies is also an excellent medium for storing wealth, which has been it's most important function for much of human history (though some will claim it's "jewelry", the reality is, jewelry is just a fancy means of storing wealth that is aesthetically pleasing.)

 

 

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I'd say beanie babies is very much like comics in that it only has value that people put into it. beanie babies has been considered a form of currency for decades only because people continue to agree to accept it as such.

 

 

 

beanie babies has been accepted currency for EONS.

 

EVERYTHING has or does not have value based solely on what value human beings assign to it. beanie babies has value because of its properties. Its properties make human beings desire it. Desire creates value. Basic economics.

 

You're betraying a woeful misunderstanding of the concept of "intrinsic value."

Don't get me wrong..."I LOVE beanie babies!" but I believe it's usage has been limited to the elite until recent technology has made it more readily available.

 

 

 

R.

 

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towards2112

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Doesn't really work like you wanted, huh?

 

Maybe it's the pain killers for the back ache. Mighta mixed a few bottles

of brew too many.

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Boozad

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Why is gold valuable? It's uses are pretty limited, outside of decoration.

 

:screwy:

 

Gold is one of the most useful metals on the planet.

 

Sho' 'nuff, I found this on Google:

 

"Gold’s superior electrical conductivity, malleability, and resistance to corrosion have made it vital to the manufacture of components used in a wide range of electronic products and equipment, including computers, telephones, cellular phones, and home appliances.

 

Gold has extraordinarily high reflective powers that are relied upon in the shielding that protects spacecrafts and satellites from solar radiation and in industrial and medical lasers that use gold-coated reflectors to focus light energy. And because gold is biologically inactive, it has become a vital tool for medical research and is even used in the direct treatment of arthritis and other intractable diseases."

 

Have you all forgotten it keeps the wife quiet every now and then? Christ that's it's main use meh

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RockMyAmadeus

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Come on, now, this thread is the first reallllly long thread I've seen in a while where people were actually just having FUN, instead of verbally trying to rip out each other's spleens

 

Just enjoy it for what it is.

 

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He11blazer

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What makes a comic valuable? One word: CHROMIUM

 

Yep, nothing like a big slab of shoddy art rendered in precious CHROMIUM to jack up the price! Other factors known to greatly enhance a comic's value:

 

No 1 collector's item

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PS I just finished watching 'There Will Be Blood' and think it was entirely an awesome film.

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