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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The two aren’t even remotely comparable. A timeshare may not be as valuable as you thought it was, but it exists and you can use it. An NFT is basically an entry in a star registry, but the people think (or at least thought) they actually own the stars.

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  • pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    On the other hand, with an NFT you’ve just thrown your money down the toilet, while timeshares will keep charging you fees and are incredibly difficult to get out of (and the services that supposedly help people get out of them are often scams too).

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    • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      True, but while you’re still paying those timeshare fees, you still have access to the place.

      The real difference is that a time share is never thought of as an investment where you buy low and sell high. It’s thought of as getting a good deal on something you plan to use. For it to be similar to an NFT it would have to be something like a dude in Nebraska buys a time share in Australia and then tries to make money from Australians or something. AFAIK almost everybody who buys time shares does it because they plan to use the place as a vacation property and actually do use it that way, at least for a while.

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  • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    timeshares had knockon costs that kept on giving in some cases years

    for those NFTs were better

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    • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      NFTs were bought with crypto, which had various hidden costs, scams and thefts, so it’s basically the same.

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      • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        i mean i’m not really trying to defend nfts because fuck they are a scam but worst case you just lost the money spent on the nfts

        sure i remember people having their wallet stolen but that’s not inherent to nfts so much as stupid people doing risky things following a fad, they could have just as easily used a sketch market (like many of them did)

        for the timeshare i’m talking about you buy a share of a condo in hawaii/florida then there is a 60k repair fee for each person sharing it and it’s not a scam, just part of the possible normal upkeep the person didn’t bother reading about

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well said.

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• roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But you sure don’t own it.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    None of these dipshits own their stupid useless pixel art either. They fell for a scam that doesn’t even have anything of potential use, unlike a timeshare, which you could actually potentially use. Not the burn op thought it was.

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    • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Honestly at least NFTs don’t have recurrent maintenance costs that literally make their value go negative.

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      • neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You bought an NFT, didn’t you?

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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, it’s a one time waste of a large sum of money. Not entirely sure why that’s supposed to be better. Congratulations, you got a jpeg. Bet it was worth $15,000.

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      • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s weird, I’ve met people who are actually happy with their timeshare. And are talking about buying another one! I don’t get it. But maybe it depends on how you vacation I guess.

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      • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hosting fees, plus the computing costs of continuously visiting ownership for how every long people care about them.

        Feels similar and instead of Hurricane trashing the condo, it’s just what happens when you forget to back up the drive you saved it on and lose the key.

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