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The packaging isn't the most important part - it's just his value-add. The packaging makes that stuff viable as a collectable, but the real draw is the nostalgi
by shib71 17y ago
The packaging isn't the most important part - it's just his value-add. The packaging makes that stuff viable as a collectable, but the real draw is the nostalgia value. For example he's selling "Opening Day at New Yankee Stadium" garbage, which could potentially mean a lot to a baseball fan.
- patio11 17y agopackaging makes that stuff viable as a collectable I think the story that "I paid $50 for garbage: ask me about it" makes the stuff viable as a collectible. Are you familiar with fugu? Its a species of pufferfish, and considered something of a delicacy in Japan. Fugu is a fishy fish, distinguished by other fishy fish by one property: its incredibly lethal nerve toxin. Fugu sells because of the nerve toxin, not in spite of it. You get to say "Hey, I ate fugu, and it didn't kill me!" (Ironically, fugu is probably the safest meal available in Japan, because everyone pulls out all the stops like "clean your utensils before preparing the food" when failing to do it means your hands get bathed in nerve toxin.)