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Hobby swap?
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rcs914
·Now what would be an equivalent watch trade for a steam locomotive?
When I found out that live steam scale engines was a hobby, I went looking. Pretty much expect to start at $35K if you aren't building it yourself, and it can quickly go up - a lot - from there.
Another train hobby to be had is buy your own Pullman car, and pay Amtrak to haul you around the country for a couple months a year. Here in Chandler there is a museum where several of the cars are private - literally just parked there in the winter months, and they travel in them in the summer.
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·It is interesting to see what people collect. My wife recently sold some of my old concert tees on eBay for modest money. I just found one I got at a dead show years ago, the shirt is a “Fall out from the Phil Zone” shirt meaning Phil Lesh the bass player for the Grateful Dead. Of course my wife went online and found this shirt for sale from 200-380 dollars. Now that’s what people are asking I don’t what they go for. I had to hide the shirt as I know she will put it on eBay. Even though I didn’t know I had it for the past 10 years I still remember buying that shirt at a three day Grateful Dead show camp out and my buddy who later died in an accident was with me. Bottom line it has some sentimental value to me. I had no idea these had become collectable things. I have a pic I’ll enclose not trying to trade it it’s just funny what people are into. Some of these collectors make us watch collectors look damn near normal, 300 for an old shirt? No thank you
I have several old actual concert shirts I keep meaning to list. Even though they are ratty and have holes, they are worth a ridiculous amount. My worn out Pink Floyd shirt I got at a Division Bell concert in 1994 is worth probably $300, as well as my original Wish Tour shirt from The Cure.
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·I have several old actual concert shirts I keep meaning to list. Even though they are ratty and have holes, they are worth a ridiculous amount. My worn out Pink Floyd shirt I got at a Division Bell concert in 1994 is worth probably $300, as well as my original Wish Tour shirt from The Cure.
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··Ash @ ΩFThe FS section is the biggest admin time sink by far on the site, and we're ok with it because it makes sense and is a great companion for the discussion part of the community but having people spam MTG cards, Star Wars lego, fountain pens, cat nuggets, and whatever else will cause too much unwanted traffic that most people don't want to see in their feed and admining that increase in traffic would be almost impossible for us.
Recently I remember some guy lecturing me on making "bad business decisions for growth" I think related to the 200 post rule and yea we don't want growth for the sake of growth but rather growth in the right direction with the right feel in the community. We want the site to be enjoyable and to serve its purpose not be everything to everyone.
Recently I remember some guy lecturing me on making "bad business decisions for growth" I think related to the 200 post rule and yea we don't want growth for the sake of growth but rather growth in the right direction with the right feel in the community. We want the site to be enjoyable and to serve its purpose not be everything to everyone.
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Stripey
·When I found out that live steam scale engines was a hobby, I went looking. Pretty much expect to start at $35K if you aren't building it yourself, and it can quickly go up - a lot - from there.
Another train hobby to be had is buy your own Pullman car, and pay Amtrak to haul you around the country for a couple months a year. Here in Chandler there is a museum where several of the cars are private - literally just parked there in the winter months, and they travel in them in the summer.
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Walrus
·The FS section is the biggest admin time sink by far on the site, and we're ok with it because it makes sense and is a great companion for the discussion part of the community but having people spam MTG cards, Star Wars lego, fountain pens, cat nuggets, and whatever else will cause too much unwanted traffic that most people don't want to see in their feed and admining that increase in traffic would be almost impossible for us.
Recently I remember some guy lecturing me on making "bad business decisions for growth" I think related to the 200 post rule and yea we don't want growth for the sake of growth but rather growth in the right direction with the right feel in the community. We want the site to be enjoyable and to serve its purpose not be everything to everyone.
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BatDad
·Makes perfect sense. Can’t argue with that logic. It was a fun discussion different collectibles nonetheless
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JwRosenthal
·I enjoyed this thread a lot also, but it makes a lot of sense to keep the majority of the content watch focussed. Can imagine it’d be a massive PITA trying to admin a huge increase in non watch threads.
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··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collectorThe FS section is the biggest admin time sink by far on the site, and we're ok with it because it makes sense and is a great companion for the discussion part of the community but having people spam MTG cards, Star Wars lego, fountain pens, cat nuggets, and whatever else will cause too much unwanted traffic that most people don't want to see in their feed and admining that increase in traffic would be almost impossible for us.
Recently I remember some guy lecturing me on making "bad business decisions for growth" I think related to the 200 post rule and yea we don't want growth for the sake of growth but rather growth in the right direction with the right feel in the community. We want the site to be enjoyable and to serve its purpose not be everything to everyone.
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··Omega Qualified WatchmakerThe FS section is the biggest admin time sink by far on the site, and we're ok with it because it makes sense and is a great companion for the discussion part of the community but having people spam MTG cards, Star Wars lego, fountain pens, cat nuggets, and whatever else will cause too much unwanted traffic that most people don't want to see in their feed and admining that increase in traffic would be almost impossible for us.
Recently I remember some guy lecturing me on making "bad business decisions for growth" I think related to the 200 post rule and yea we don't want growth for the sake of growth but rather growth in the right direction with the right feel in the community. We want the site to be enjoyable and to serve its purpose not be everything to everyone.
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