In which box do you belong?

[comicdonna]

Mark me down for #5

[DrWatson]

In which box do you belong?

Moot point. It's all pink on the inside.

 

That's why family trees down there are as tangled as dreadlocks.

Tangled hell. You'd have to have branches to be tangled.

[DrWatson]

In which box do you belong?

Moot point. It's all pink on the inside.

 

That's why family trees down there are as tangled as dreadlocks.

Laugh it up, you Buckeye transplant.

[Mr.Diggler]

In which box do you belong?

Moot point. It's all pink on the inside.

 

That's why family trees down there are as tangled as dreadlocks.

Laugh it up, you Buckeye transplant.

[rodan57]

[lizards2]

 

[Cimm]

(iv) Old timer - heart of gold - collectors (romantics who see their books as artworks and not as '$-items')

[Kenglo1]

#4 I just collect what tickles my fancy

[Senormac]

Never heard it called that before

[dupont2005]

It's called a meat train around these parts

[RockMyAmadeus]

iii, wishing I could be iv

[Batty Scrooge]

I would go with II & IV.

 

I think most investor collectors view pricey books as art, especially when slabbed.

[Not*Sure*]

Hmmm *thinking of posting but* hmmm maybe I will just stay out of this one..

[Mr. 10%]

I just wondered: how many collector "types" do we have here on the boards? I can think of a few:

 

(i) Fanboy collectors (those notoriously targeting 'collectors item'-books)

(ii) Investor collectors (the big whales)

(iii) Dealer collectors (their collection and their inventory is basically one and the same thing)

(iv) Old timer - heart of gold - collectors (romantics who see their books as artworks and not as '$-items')

(v) Bonehead collectors (those cheerfully accumulating 40 copies of Spawn 1 in cgc 9.8 SS)

 

 

Just my (thumbs u

 

I can understand from the answers so far:

 

that there is a certain amount of migration taking place between boxes during a collector 'career'. (By migration I do not mean rust migration but movement, ). (i), (ii) and (v) are looked upon as temporary 'places to settle'. (iii) and (iv) are considered a kind of endpoint. (iii) more as a possible way to somehow get your spoon over into the cherished (iv)-category. It seems everybody would like see themselves in that box. Why? Is this board full of romantics or ...?

 

(we all know: that a cynic is just a disappointed romantic let down by lifes circumstances)

 

Has the oldtimer (iv)-box got more integrity than the other boxes or what is the reason that one is so popular?

 

 

[oakman29]

I am certainly a 2 investor collector,but with a little old timer mixed in for good measure.

[Mr. 10%]

 

Thanks to all who have chimed in so far - answers are appreciated (thumbs u

 

 

[joe_collector]

, I just *love* the descriptors - Investor Collectors = Big Whales?

 

More like Beached Whales.

[Senormac]

And some people are Orcas me thinks

[joe_collector]

And some people are Orcas me thinks

 

But those people are NOT purely buying books for the investment aspect.

 

Most of the killer collections are owned by people with some form of attachment to the books, and are just not pure investors. Those type of "investment-only" skinbags always do very poorly because they're buying what the market/dealer is telling them to.

[Lee K]

Well...I guess I'm a former (iii) that has settled down into a (iv). I buy/collect what I like, and if I can turn someone else on to it, cool. So I guess I still have a little bit of (iii) in me - just not in an effort to move my own inventory any more.

 

L