[Boatanchors] Got any of these in your basement?

[J. Forster]

This has been going on for 30+ years. In 1979 I saw vintage Leica cameras
on sale in downtown Tokyo for really high prices. In Boston, the PHSNE
shows were always attended by free-spending asians.

No so much any more with cameras now though. IMO, it's a bubble.

FWIW,

-John

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> On 01/20/2011 05:46 PM, David Stinson wrote:
>> Many of the Asian crowd are buying the tubes
>> as a value investment.  They know the dollar is going to inflate
>> out of existance in the next few years and the smart move is
>> to put the de-valuing bucks into hard assets.
>
> I thought I was the only one who saw the Asians taking the long view.
>
> They're hauling vintage guitars out of the country at an impressive rate
> and reselling them at an outrageous premium and/or holding onto them.
>
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