How Much Collectors Are Spending On Retro Tech | WIRED

fix ur teeth my guy. you are hoarding these and artificially inflaitng the price for everyone

NEVER trust auxtion houses and/or grading companies. They are all scams.

All these sour comments about scams and scam artists only seem to prove one thing - jealousy. If you were to have one of these sealed products and someone was willing to give you the amount shown in the video, I bet you wouldn't complain one bit! 😂 it's just like those hating on millionaires until the day they win the lottery and finally being a millionaire isn't so bad! Hypocrites

yeah very good for the environment and not totally a scam

THIS CHANNEL IS STRAIGHT TRASH AND UNAMERICAN!

Pete Davidson must have seen this before he went on The Late Show 😂

A suggestion for the chanel: a levels of complexity video about judo.

Why are you legitimizing these scam artists, this is pathetic clickbait

Is WIRED not going to address the obvious mistake they made by giving these scam artists a platform? Honestly, a rare L by them.

How do you even sure these sealed iPhone & iPod still working? Battery degrades over years

I have always found it funny that rarity is less important than demand. I have a few things in my collection where there might be a handful of them on earth but weren’t super expensive.

Why is this scammer here!? Do your research Wired!

There is an iphone on ebay someone is ASKING a ridiculous prie for. there is no sold listing for that price so you cannot claim it's worth as much as someones asking price. im going to ask $1B for my car, does not mean thats what it's worth ffs.

scammers and schill bidders

Guys look for the RARE MONKEY STAMPS OF CHINA you guys will be FLABBERGASTED the offering price is more than US$90,000/= just a BLOODY POSTAL STAMPS

It should be MINT not used or played… that’s called RARE COLLECTION just like Postal Stamps… you guys need stop talking rubbish..if you don’t know anything about RARE PRODUCTS… If you still have the 1st APPLE MAC YOU WILL BE PAID WELL..find where you can sell for AUCTION… don’t know how much do you guys knows about AUCTION? Not what you touched played and mom give it away or Dad dump it away… that’s not CALLED RARE😊

That Game Gear is going to be DOA with those cheap blown caps SEGA used.

anyways hes cute ok bye lol

Graded games and graded consoles are a scam. Stop promoting scammers.

So bored with this worthless unopened box bollocks worth something only to collectors. Beanie Baby level of scam

Buying these items for your kids would have been the ideal retirement plans for them. Only problem would have been making them not open the packages.

I had a Game Gear and my mom gave it away when I was at University. I still have an old Duck Tales cartridge. I was devastated.

Bill Burr wants the signed iPhone

the sega mega mini classic console is 290 dollars in turkey is it same in usa or england and other countries

Translation "We specialize in separating fools and their money"

Absolute bs. Its not worth based on the item itself just what ppl willing to pay which makes its volatile and unstable. Not smart and not accurate

“Today I’m gonna lie to you and the editing will make me look slightly more knowledgeable than a eBay conman”

I wouldn't consider paying the Manufacturer's retail Price for any of them, let alone auctioning it. Vintage technology has a distinct appeal compared to vintage cars that you can drive or paintings that you can display. The only tangible interaction with a "mint" sealed-condition vintage item is the outer box and "rating', which holds little significance.

Don't give these scam artists a platform

Money Laundering

Scam prices

Garbage.

This guy 👦 was baby when these were new

😂rip off.

All of this stuff is a scam and should be avoided. There is well-documented collusion between the grading companies and auction houses. Not to mention it ruins the retro collecting hobby for those who take actual joy in it.

Oh cool, a video about a pump & dump company.

Mrs KIANA is legit and her method works like magic I keep on earning every single week with her new strategy

Wired shouldn't give a platform to such an obvious scam like tech rating for collectables. Collectables are worth whatever fools are willing to pay for them, but the rating system is literally a scam that inflates value artificially.

Please don't contribute to the wildly out-of-control speculation in the gaming collectibles market.

So like do these collectors just put it on a shelf look at it and starts jerking off to it?

You think that old technology is worth thousands of dollars? Are you out of your mind? It's not even compatible with anything.

His arms 😍

That 9.8 Mario Bros for $2M is incredibly disingenuous. It warrants mentioning that it was purchased by people involved in the grading company that gave it a 9.8 and the auction house that sold it, in what many suspect was simply a move to hype up the market and to fool people into believing that people would actually pay that much for a video game, thus increasing the profitability of grading games AND auctioning games since both take a percentage of the estimated value of products they grade.

Have a look at Karl Jobst's video "Exposing FRAUD And DECEPTION In The Retro Video Game Market."
The details behind the sale are incredibly suspicious.

I thought you were better than this, Wired. Don't give these auction grifters a platform. The games are absolutely not worth that much. This bubble burst years ago, but they're trying to regain a foothold. Don't let them by believing this nonsense. Grading is a scam.

Imagine having to replace 6 double A batteries everytime you finish gaming. The gamegear was brutal on the pocket, and the enviornment.

Um, actually Mario was known as Jumpman NOT Mr. Video...?

I had a GameGear and first generation iPod. Sold tbr Gamegear for $15 and gave the iPod away. I understand they were not factory sealed mind you.

Issa Scam

The Iphone one price is gonna age poorly lol