1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: Check your junk drawer. This item from two thousand and 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:08,560 Speaker 1: seven could be worth up to five fifty thousand dollars 3 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 1: from my junk drawer. From your junk drawer. Yeah, it's 4 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 1: an article about the first generation Apple iPhone. You got 5 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 1: one of those still laying around? 6 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:21,119 Speaker 2: I do not know, and if I did, it wouldn't 7 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 2: be new and sealed in the box. 8 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 1: Yeah. It originally sold for four hundred and ninety nine dollars, 9 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 1: and if it is new and sealed and still in 10 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 1: the box, you could get up to twenty thousand dollars 11 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: for it. Or if you have the four G model, 12 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:39,839 Speaker 1: that one sold for one hundred and ninety thousand dollars. 13 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:42,239 Speaker 2: So, I mean, this is kind of what's going on. 14 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 2: This is kind of up my alley, but with collectibles. 15 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 2: But collectibles have really gotten crazy and people are paying 16 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 2: incredible amounts of money for things that we never thought 17 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 2: would be collectible, whether it's you know, you know, some 18 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 2: of the dumbest things like video games, vintage video games. 19 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 1: An unopened Super Mario Brothers from nineteen eighty five sold 20 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 1: for six hundred and sixty thousand dollars. 21 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 2: Over half a million dollars. So old video games, VHS, Pokemon, 22 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 2: old game tickets from old sporting events, magazines, comics, vintage toys. 23 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:21,959 Speaker 2: Now for things like the iPhone and vhs and video games, 24 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 2: for those to be worth you know those kind you know, 25 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 2: tens of thousands of dollars, even hundred thousands of dollars, 26 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 2: they need to be usually specific, rare copies, and they 27 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 2: generally need to be brand new in the original sealed packaging, 28 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 2: so them to command that game. 29 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 1: If you were one of those guys that used to collect, 30 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,320 Speaker 1: like I don't know, Transformers or Star Wars action figures 31 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 1: and you just put them on a shelf and you 32 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 1: never played with them, Wow, you could fund a house 33 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: deposit for some of these toys. Now. 34 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 2: Star Wars action figures from the seventies go for insane amounts, 35 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands of dollars, but it's because nobody kept 36 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 2: them new and everybody played with them. And the same 37 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 2: thing who bought an iPhone in two years and then 38 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 2: never used it. I mean it would be some sort 39 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 2: of like freak accident or you bought this and I 40 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 2: bought seven of them, and I was going to give 41 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:16,640 Speaker 2: them to my employees because I run a business. But 42 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 2: one quit, and so I just put the seventh one 43 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 2: in my drawer and my desk drawer work and forgot 44 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 2: about it. It's gonna be some bizarre confluence of events 45 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 2: that have to stack up like that. But if you're 46 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 2: one of those people that's got one, you can cash 47 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 2: in on some serious bucks with these things. 48 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:34,360 Speaker 1: I think this article is a little misleading because it 49 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:39,639 Speaker 1: said check your junk drawer. Nobody's got an unsealed iPhone 50 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,079 Speaker 1: in the box or a sealed iPhone in the box 51 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: in their junk I'm. 52 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:44,799 Speaker 2: Trying to think our junk drawer, We've got like those 53 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 2: three m command hooks, a ton of like pens and pencils, 54 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:50,359 Speaker 2: and that sort of junk screwdriver. 55 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:54,520 Speaker 1: There's coasters, different cables for different than us. 56 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:59,079 Speaker 2: Credible amount of charging cables for devices probably going back 57 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 2: to the early twoth like my Motorola razor phone charge 58 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 2: probably still sitting in our junk drawer. No, because it's 59 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 2: not new and in the box. 60 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 1: Okay us, So they're saying that even original Harry Potter books. 61 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 2: First edition absolutely first edition Harry Potter books. I think 62 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,239 Speaker 2: there were less than a thousand. I think it was 63 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 2: around five hundred copies of the very first edition of 64 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 2: Harry Potter. They were only sold in the United Kingdom, 65 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 2: absolutely tens of thousands of dollars, you know, depending on 66 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 2: their condition. 67 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:30,799 Speaker 1: Yeah, bought it for twenty bucks now could be worth 68 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: fifty grands. So the US collectibles markets valued it is 69 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: sixty two billion last year, and it's projected to reach 70 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: eighty three billion by twenty thirty, growing at five point 71 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: three percent annually. 72 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 2: Hey, mister Wonderful from Shark Tank is knee deep into it. 73 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 2: He just paid the you know, for the most expensive 74 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 2: sports card in history a few weeks ago. 75 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 1: This is the Hammer and Nigel Show. It's ninety three WIBC.