Talk:Udyr/@comment-7006769-20130724143557/@comment-5955640-20130726183006

Collecting things just to have it seems to be a behaviour trait that is interestingly consisent for humans to have. Springs to mind the pirates who steal things just to have a bunch of stolen stuff they do nothing with.

Or more realistically. Hoarders. That's not to be confused with hobbyist. Who while spend time collecting certain items to develop a theme that they prefer. That's actually pretty healthy as it takes your mind off things to focus on less important but amusing stuff. It only becomes a concern when you collect to fill something that the item cannot do for you.

Like for a loss of family or the inability to own animals (which springs to mind the often tragic people who become obessed by exotic animals and get one and then get killed by said animal) or desiring the company of a nice lady but not having the social skills to really make that work/happen.

That's sort of when you jump head first and turn a hobby into an obsession where you just buy and collect everything almost regardless of theme or even to the detriment of important things. Funny that you mention collecting to sell it off later. The speculator boom really damaged the comic book industry. It was very simple. People were buying things to fill the void of the past now gone. And were paying out the nose to get it.

So buisness people in fancy clothing thought to themselves "People sure like collecting things don't they? We should just make collectable items so they can collect them!". So they did. And that caused a fallout when no one was really buying the collectable things because they weren't nostalgic and they weren't very good. And because they were in high supply they were worthless.

Collecting things to cash in later is risky because if it sells itself as valuable to sell it's worthless. But if it's valuable because it's rare and hard to find it very much priceless (even if it's not actually good or even in nice condition) and you will have to be crazy to buy something at top dollar to sell it or extremely lucky to find it hiding in a locker there supsciously.

And anyone with a worthwhile collection to sell. Isn't going to sell it for anything less than it's emotional worth. Which is incalcuable or unreasonable.