Stranger than not leaking is how much someone paid for them.
If someone is collecting them, why not?
You don’t think its strange to collect old dead batteries.
When anything gets old enough it’s unusual, someone’s going to start collecting them, especially from back in the day there were huge number of brands of near-identical product.
Yes, I do agree but a not all old things are valuable and collectable.
A 1954 Chevrolet may be worthless but a 1955 Chevrolet may be worth a lot of money.
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I don’t think many cars pushing 70 years old are worthless, unless they’re too far gone to even be a parts car.
Not everything old is valuable. Some old purses are valuable some are not. Some old model trains are valuable some are not. Most old flashlights are worthless or worth next to nothing. Age alone has nothing to do with value.
What I was trying to say is sometimes the difference of a particular year something was made means everything.
Maybe, but when things are small, a lot of people collect things that would be thought of as just worthless consumables today just for things there used to be massive brand diversity in just because of so many different labels and visual styles, packaging, etc. Certainly, going by that ebay auction, multiple people willing to pay double digit sums for 4 of them.
This is likely true. Today. But in enough time ceteris paribus that 1954 may be worth a tidy sum.
One could argue that completionism and accumulation-ism are the precursors to a collectors’ market emerging.
For sure. I suspect that most 80s-vintage Maglites are worth no more than garage sale prices - even some of the banner limited-edition models with something screenprinted on the exterior - while certain bog standard but rare models are worth considerably more.
At about peak zombie in 2011, Hornaday sold Z-Max ammunition for a short time span - a play on their longstanding A-Max product, with identical specs. It’s now collectible if it’s NIB, although worth noting that it’s likely not ‘performed’ better than actual investments.
If valuable, these end up being lesser versions of the barn find trope. If not, then it’s just uncelebrated accumulation-ism. Guessing that a huge percentage of such things are discovered upon downsizing or cleanout.
I’ve got a sealed pack of Energizer Lithium AAs I came across some time back with a 2005 expiry. Perhaps worth something in another decade or two despite someone writing on the package, perhaps not.
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Those simply dried out before the can could corrode through.
And value of an item rests with the purchaser.
I once listed a still wrapped "flying bomb"9v on ebay.
Started at $0.99 with $5 shipping.
It sold for over $100!
Ai, that hurts!
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