You have to be very patient and have an awful lot of storage space - and bet that the junk you’re storing will be worth something some day - to even bother keeping crappy stuff in any large quantity to turn a profit when the stuff is still crappy and not worth a damn.
The reason 386s are getting rare is because nobody in their right mind made that bet when they were still around and completely deprecated.
The only person I met who made a similar bet and won big money was a Brit who bought 6 Jaguar E-Types sight-unseen when they came out, and put them in storage for 30 years (prepared professionally for long-term storage too). When those cars came on the market, brand new with no mile on the clock, they sold for millions, the guy bought a nice house in Hampshire and retired in comfort.
He told me he just knew that model would be highly desirable classic the minute he saw a picture, and almost bankrupted his family to buy them as an investment. Ballsy.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 3 days ago
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You have to be very patient and have an awful lot of storage space - and bet that the junk you’re storing will be worth something some day - to even bother keeping crappy stuff in any large quantity to turn a profit when the stuff is still crappy and not worth a damn.
The reason 386s are getting rare is because nobody in their right mind made that bet when they were still around and completely deprecated.
The only person I met who made a similar bet and won big money was a Brit who bought 6 Jaguar E-Types sight-unseen when they came out, and put them in storage for 30 years (prepared professionally for long-term storage too). When those cars came on the market, brand new with no mile on the clock, they sold for millions, the guy bought a nice house in Hampshire and retired in comfort.
He told me he just knew that model would be highly desirable classic the minute he saw a picture, and almost bankrupted his family to buy them as an investment. Ballsy.