[HIPPEEDUDE]

If collecting games,consoles etc is or was a "fad" then its lasted along time so far.
To my mind game collecting is in the line of toy collecting,just a collecting of modern
toys,electrical items etc. In that perspective its lasted even longer than most people
even realise. On top of that,if you think about it the average collector that does
collect these things would probably be about 30,youngest would be about 20.
Simply because of the money that is sometimes required to buy some of the items.
Persons of these age groups arent really susecptable to "fads" but buy or get things
for a variety of reasons from simple enjoyment,re-capture ones youth or even just
simply becasue they can. The list could be endless of reasons why,everyone of us
would have in some way a slightly different reason or story as to why they collect.
I think very few would have started to collect for the dollar profit that may or may not
be made. They collected for the enjoyment of a particular game or genre,because it
looked pretty or had cool stuff,was something unique they hadnt seen before or new
werent very many of. The problem is that you get some people thinking its a fad or riding
the gravy train of resellng,buying something for 50 pounds & selling it 300 pounds,
buying a newly released item then getting it VGA graded(wtf?),buying something from
a store like irrational games for $100 then selling it for $150 the list goes on. These sort
of things make somethings more exspensive than they really need to be or should be.
They buy up all the pre-orders with only intending to re-sell at a profit or sell something supposedly rare when they have 150 of them available because they bought up all the pre-orders(wankers).
At the end of the day if you enjoy something,are passionate about something you dont
care if its a "fad" or not,you only care what you think not what anyone else does