Forum - View topic

INTEREST: Break-Up Goes South After Girlfriend Steals Over US$800 of Anime DVDs

if anyone is wondering a bout the thumbnail, it is from Jogen's Gravestone.

Always lock your doors to any room big value collections, you never know when a scornful, jealous, or flat out deranged partner or spouse will go insane then steal or destroy your stuff. It's also not the first publicized case in Japan this year either.

Now you know why they prefer 2d women.

Lets get some perspective here. Silverware is precious, jewels are precious, first print editions of old books of rare/precious. Rare stamps are precious. Anime dvds ? Lol, it's like bitcoin. No intrinsic value whatsoever just speculation.

Cptn_Taylor wrote:

Lets get some perspective here. Silverware is precious, jewels are precious, first print editions of old books of rare/precious. Rare stamps are precious. Anime dvds ? Lol, it's like bitcoin. No intrinsic value whatsoever just speculation.

Depending on your definition of intrinsic value... None of those things have any intrinsic value either.

On the side note, a friend of mine got himself a couple of storage cabinet so that he can lock his anime DVDs, toys, and books away from his two little kids. Kids are cute, but they're destructive when it comes to stuffs.

And he was storing those as long term investment. Since I guess these collections are so rare in Japan than over time they will become rare to items so accumulating those is almost like buying paintings.

I mean, how hard would you need to look to find a drive that can read a floppy disk? And it's been less than 20 years since THAT was considered a viable format.

DerekL1963 wrote:

Cptn_Taylor wrote: Lets get some perspective here. Silverware is precious, jewels are precious, first print editions of old books of rare/precious. Rare stamps are precious. Anime dvds ? Lol, it's like bitcoin. No intrinsic value whatsoever just speculation. Depending on your definition of intrinsic value... None of those things have any intrinsic value either.

Exactly. The most amusing comparison is "first print editions of old books", the only difference between a first print of a DVD today and a a first print of say a copy of "Poor Richard's Almanac" from the 1750s is 250 years.

Always lock your doors to any room big value collections, you never know when a scornful, jealous, or flat out deranged partner or spouse will go insane then steal or destroy your stuff. It's also not the first publicized case in Japan this year either.

I see a ungrateful person taking advantage of kindness of her boyfriend. Sure, people in relationship fight over various issues, but selling boyfriend's stuffs for money is just wrong. If the girlfriend simply destroys her boyfriend's stuffs out of anger, then her problem is somewhat understandable. However such isn't the case.

On the side note, a friend of mine got himself a couple of storage cabinet so that he can lock his anime DVDs, toys, and books away from his two little kids. Kids are cute, but they're destructive when it comes to stuffs.

And he was storing those as long term investment. Since I guess these collections are so rare in Japan than over time they will become rare to items so accumulating those is almost like buying paintings.

And what most people don't realize, not having been in the used and rare book trade (as I have), is that "first edition" and "old" don't automatically equate to "valuable" - scarcity and demand play a role too. A copy of "Poor Richard" is in demand because of it's association with Benjamin Franklin. A copy of "Poor Randomguy" wouldn't fetch even as much as few percent of what "Poor Richard" would sell for.

You can still buy drives to read floppy disks... well the 3.5 floppy disks anyway; the drive costs like $20-$30 on Newegg and other sites.

It was always something I had wondered about: In Japan, anime DVDs and Blu-Rays are rather expensive, in limited quantities, and are physically small. That means they must be easy targets, and thus frequent targets, for thieves. When they're sold in stores, are they typically behind a secure case so shoplifters and burglars don't just come in and take them?

Given Japanese prices, I imagine it isn't difficult to steal 800 dollars' worth of DVDs. They'd fit into a handbag.

Exactly. The most amusing comparison is "first print editions of old books", the only difference between a first print of a DVD today and a a first print of say a copy of "Poor Richard's Almanac" from the 1750s is 250 years. The biggest questions for DVDs or any other media items are 1) Will people get to a point where they'll STOP thinking every consumable media item may one day be Action Comics #1, and 2) for things like DVDs/BDs, will we still have the means to PLAY them 100+ years from now? I mean, how hard would you need to look to find a drive that can read a floppy disk? And it's been less than 20 years since THAT was considered a viable format.