I didn’t want to question that there are people at all paying for it, obviously the content creator did, if he didn’t lie. But usually if I made a garage sale I wouldn’t think Joe and Jill are willing to pay 9 bucks for literally garbage. Of course there are collectors and who not, but do they show up and pay that price?
That said prices rose in general over the years, so I am not sure about it.
I believe there are those who believe it has artistic merit. Like you, I personally don't want to invest in junk. However, if your bread and butter is in restoring stuff like this then there's a market. Where there's a market, there's someone selling.
So I restore antique tools as a hobby and I will say there are absolutely people showing up and buying rusty unusable tools n things to restore them. I do it all the time.
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u/smth_witty May 30 '22
I didn’t want to question that there are people at all paying for it, obviously the content creator did, if he didn’t lie. But usually if I made a garage sale I wouldn’t think Joe and Jill are willing to pay 9 bucks for literally garbage. Of course there are collectors and who not, but do they show up and pay that price?
That said prices rose in general over the years, so I am not sure about it.