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Originally Posted by Ayiu
My third reason and probably the oddest one is that I like the feeling to know that all those lovely things inside the ce's never got touched by anyone after they were sealed. I like to think that they stay there forever and no sun and no dust can harm them inside their boxes.  |
This is basically the general reason for sealed collecting.
You are in essence buying an unused, more complete copy of whatever it is you're buying as it has the original seals and everything inside it has been untouched. I'm not really much of a sealed collector myself aside from a few sealed steelbooks but I can understand the mentality.
For example if you take old games, let's say Ocarina of Time. A sealed copy is worth maybe a dozen times or more what an unsealed copy is. Obviously this is supply and demand at work as there are far fewer copies of it sealed but that is supply of it, there must also be demand for it. That demand is likely due mostly to individuals who want to know they have a truly complete copy of the game. That they have what you would've bought day one back in 1998. I remember reading about a sealed N64 collector who had to sell some of his collection. He did it through craigslist to some fairly well-off guy. Guy in question was buying it for his kid apparently. At the exchange guy gave over $600 for 4 or so sealed games, then proceeded to hand games over to his 10 year oldish son who opened them in front of the collector. Suffice to say the collector started tearing his hair out lol