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Leopards Ate My Face

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The Sotheby's auction house has been named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by investors who regret buying Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs that sold for highly inflated prices during the NFT craze in 2021.

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[–] [email protected] 124 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Should've invested in beanie babies like the rest of the smart people.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Nah man, pogs are where it's at. Pogs!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Joking aside, I miss my Pogs. Those need to come back.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I actually looked this up recently. You can buy pog makers!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

You can blame it all on me

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Everything’s coming up Milhouse!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I don’t think pogs were ever expected to make anyone a millionaire. The most expensive slammer I ever saw back in the day was $20 and pog $5. My mom wouldn’t buy me that fancy $20 slammer. :(

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Back in the mid-90s I had a friend who inherited $40,000 from her grandmother and spent all of it on $75 Fossil watches, the kind that were based on old cartoons like Popeye etc. And it took her a while to do it since she would drive to malls within a few hours of her and clean out the department stores that carried them. That's over 500 watches, a few at a time.

She was adamant that this was an excellent investment, but these are on eBay now for $50 to $60. At parties she would pull out the collection and start showing them to people (no touchy, of course) as if there was something intrinsically interesting about a cartoon Fossil watch. The sad thing is, with $40,000 in hand she probably could have bought two or three times as many from a wholesaler and maybe eventually actually have made some money.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

At least with beanie babies there was a physical object.