Dream jobs around the world. America’s is still pilot. Weird, because there is a shortage of pilots. Oh, right, insane licensing requirements and lousy pay. Makes sense.
The methodology of that was rather questionable; they looked at the Google search volume of “how to be a {job}”. Presumably this biases it heavily to jobs where people are curious about the training and/or accreditation process, and not necessarily things people want to be.
Another issue with it is that it’s in English, so outside the UK & USA it’s mostly measuring expats, tourists, and the young/educated people that search for things in English.
A copy of the movie Nukie – only graded at 8.5 out of 10 – sold for $80k after they destroyed over 100 other copies
The people who sold that tape are popular YouTubers, and donated the proceeds to charity. You’d presumably not get anywhere close to that sum if you were just a random collector.
As for the other expensive collectors items like the video tapes and games, I assume they are set up (or even straight up wash trades) by the auction house in collaboration with grading companies; they want the free publicity so people will go and spend money grading their old games in the hopes of making a bunch of money.
That’s why it’s always items that “everybody” had that are sold in those high-profile auctions, like Super Mario and Back to the Future. They want people to go “Hey, I have that video game” and rush to spend hundreds of dollars on grading.
The methodology of that was rather questionable; they looked at the Google search volume of “how to be a {job}”. Presumably this biases it heavily to jobs where people are curious about the training and/or accreditation process, and not necessarily things people want to be.
Another issue with it is that it’s in English, so outside the UK & USA it’s mostly measuring expats, tourists, and the young/educated people that search for things in English.
The people who sold that tape are popular YouTubers, and donated the proceeds to charity. You’d presumably not get anywhere close to that sum if you were just a random collector.
As for the other expensive collectors items like the video tapes and games, I assume they are set up (or even straight up wash trades) by the auction house in collaboration with grading companies; they want the free publicity so people will go and spend money grading their old games in the hopes of making a bunch of money.
That’s why it’s always items that “everybody” had that are sold in those high-profile auctions, like Super Mario and Back to the Future. They want people to go “Hey, I have that video game” and rush to spend hundreds of dollars on grading.