Money spent on Star Trek when you shouldnt have
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I bought their phaser for $199 IIRC. Fortunately, I promptly returned it.
Back in 2002, despite the fact that I had alread begun buying TNG on DVD, I went out and bought a few episodes on VHS. They were okay episodes, but since I had already planned to have them on DVD by the end of the year anyway, it was a bit of a silly purchase. Especially since if I wanted to see them, I could simply watch them on Spike (or TNN as it was then known as).
OK, so nobody called me on it. No, I wasn't the one who bought the Enterprise-D.
I had bought a bunch of the Micro Machine Star Trek ships, which I won't even let my son play with. (I had to hide them from him.)
I also had to hide them from my wife who wouldn't have understood a 30-something "grown" (or is that groan) man buying toys.
I just got seasons 1-4 of Enterprise on DVD on Yahoo Auctions--got a good deal I think ($55 plus $10 shipping), plus I also bought the TNG Klingon fan edition DVD, that's going to be thirty-something plus shipping. Good deals price-wise, esp. in the long run, but money I really should be saving instead of spending nonetheless.
Definitely a couple of those inaccurate Franklin Mint "replicas", which I stupidly thought would one day increase in value. What was I thinking?
I'd also have to say that my quickest regret (almost instant) was the purchase of the first season of Enterprise on DVD-- way overpriced and all the bad things about the show came back to me in glaring fashion on my beautiful widescreen in even more detail than when they were originally aired. At over a hundred bucks, . . . again, what was I thinking?????
I'd also have to say that my quickest regret (almost instant) was the purchase of the first season of Enterprise on DVD-- way overpriced and all the bad things about the show came back to me in glaring fashion on my beautiful widescreen in even more detail than when they were originally aired. At over a hundred bucks, . . . again, what was I thinking?????
I think I've got you all beat (except the guy who starved himself to buy stuff) . . . and I'm actually going to admit this in public for the first time. When I was a teenager (25 years ago) I became obsessed with—it's still hard to even type it—TOS "collectible" plates. 
I got the whole crew and a special Enterprise plate at the end. Then I got the matching cups.
Now I look at this stuff and think WTF? At least the cups you can use, but the plates?!
I can't for the life of me get back into the head of that teenager to figure out why the hell I wanted these things. Otherwise I bought books and blueprints and action figures, all stuff you can have fun with, but decorative plates? 
If these things actually appreciated in value, that'd be something else. But I've still got them because I don't think anyone actually buys these things second hand. So there they are, in their original boxes in the basement.
Anyone want to buy them?
I got the whole crew and a special Enterprise plate at the end. Then I got the matching cups. Now I look at this stuff and think WTF? At least the cups you can use, but the plates?!
I can't for the life of me get back into the head of that teenager to figure out why the hell I wanted these things. Otherwise I bought books and blueprints and action figures, all stuff you can have fun with, but decorative plates? If these things actually appreciated in value, that'd be something else. But I've still got them because I don't think anyone actually buys these things second hand. So there they are, in their original boxes in the basement.
Anyone want to buy them?
I spent $60 (a lot of money for an adolescent)in 1984 for the most accurate TOS communicator I had ever seen at a convention in NYC (this was in the days of handmade replicas, before the Master Replicas stuff). The next day I broke the bank and spent another $50 for a TOS phaser 1 from the same booth and made by the same guy. My parents went ballistic when they found out I spent $110 on some pieces of resin and metal.
That having been said, I have those two pieces in my office to this day and they still look great-the best communicator and phaser I have come across. I wouldn't trade or sell them for anything.
That having been said, I have those two pieces in my office to this day and they still look great-the best communicator and phaser I have come across. I wouldn't trade or sell them for anything.
I took out a loan for $5000.00 and bought a guy's entire ST collection off of ebay. He packed everything up into 16 huge boxes and drove it to my house where I handed him the money. It was worth it. The funny thing about it all was the loan company thought they were going to screw me with the high interest rate. I paid the loan off the following month.
WOW! Tell us what was in the collection!
Lot of good stories in here.
In addition to my not eating story - The advent of DVD, whilst a blessing in terms of picture and sound quality, has meant that the vast majority of my VHS's have been confined to the bin.
I gave about 5 seasons worth of TNG to my dad (who, frankly I dont think really wanted them but they were taking up too much space), plus a 6 film movie boxset on VHS from around 1993. I also gave an entire 7 seasons of DS9 to my friend for nothing. Which, given how much i actually spent on them originally was a little scarey.
I literally had (and to a degree still have) hundereds of VHS tapes both TREK and otherwise. As I havent bought VOY on DVD I cant risk getting rid of them so they are all in a box (or 2) under the stairs. In addition, whilst I didnt pay actual money for them, I have about 10 years worth of "taped Star Trek" off the TV that I simply cannot bear to part with. I took them home to my mums house as they were taking up too much room (again, not pleased)...
In addition to my not eating story - The advent of DVD, whilst a blessing in terms of picture and sound quality, has meant that the vast majority of my VHS's have been confined to the bin.
I gave about 5 seasons worth of TNG to my dad (who, frankly I dont think really wanted them but they were taking up too much space), plus a 6 film movie boxset on VHS from around 1993. I also gave an entire 7 seasons of DS9 to my friend for nothing. Which, given how much i actually spent on them originally was a little scarey.
I literally had (and to a degree still have) hundereds of VHS tapes both TREK and otherwise. As I havent bought VOY on DVD I cant risk getting rid of them so they are all in a box (or 2) under the stairs. In addition, whilst I didnt pay actual money for them, I have about 10 years worth of "taped Star Trek" off the TV that I simply cannot bear to part with. I took them home to my mums house as they were taking up too much room (again, not pleased)...
$5000 loan to buy a Star Trek collection?
I'm shutting up, now.
I'm shutting up, now.
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