Would You Pay Almost $60,000 For A Cell Phone?
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Hmmm, actually if I was rich and could afford it I might very well spend the money on one.
I think the point being missed here it that it's being developed as a collector's item, as opposed to a toy, which the developer specifies. Something like this is likely to increase in value, especially with a limited run of only 5,000 of them. Ten, Twenty, or even a hundred years down the road something like this could be worth millions.
It's sort of like collecting anything from comic books, to sports memorbilia, or perhaps most relevently to this paticular creation... artwork and jewelery.
As a nerd you might get why someone might pay tens of thousands of dollars for a rare comic book... like an original, first print "Superman #1", this is the same basic thing but it's intended for someone into differant things from you.
Laugh if you want, but if I had millions I would definalty be interested in collecting curios and oddities like this, especially seeing as if something happened to my money I could probably sell them for more than I paid for them on a collector's market. It's stuff I can appreciate for the cool/odd factor, but also comes with a degree of piece of mind.
I very much doubt many people would actually be using these phones to do their business off of. Those that did would actually benefit the people who put theirs into display cases or whatever because the value of the surviving ones increase every time one is broken/lost/wears out.
Of course I'm never likely to have enough money to obtain things like this. At any rate, if anyone on these forums ever DOES come up with that much money, I'd hope they have the wisdom to see where I'm coming from here.
I think the point being missed here it that it's being developed as a collector's item, as opposed to a toy, which the developer specifies. Something like this is likely to increase in value, especially with a limited run of only 5,000 of them. Ten, Twenty, or even a hundred years down the road something like this could be worth millions.
It's sort of like collecting anything from comic books, to sports memorbilia, or perhaps most relevently to this paticular creation... artwork and jewelery.
As a nerd you might get why someone might pay tens of thousands of dollars for a rare comic book... like an original, first print "Superman #1", this is the same basic thing but it's intended for someone into differant things from you.
Laugh if you want, but if I had millions I would definalty be interested in collecting curios and oddities like this, especially seeing as if something happened to my money I could probably sell them for more than I paid for them on a collector's market. It's stuff I can appreciate for the cool/odd factor, but also comes with a degree of piece of mind.
I very much doubt many people would actually be using these phones to do their business off of. Those that did would actually benefit the people who put theirs into display cases or whatever because the value of the surviving ones increase every time one is broken/lost/wears out.
Of course I'm never likely to have enough money to obtain things like this. At any rate, if anyone on these forums ever DOES come up with that much money, I'd hope they have the wisdom to see where I'm coming from here.
If ppl are willing to spend $30k on a watch, i.e. Rolex. Why the fuck not for a phone?
when you make a more than $100 mil a year, its hard to spend all that money XD
when you make a more than $100 mil a year, its hard to spend all that money XD
Solid gold? I see no gold LCD screen... LIES!!!
Sounds gaudy and impracticable, like the gold Wii.
Sounds gaudy and impracticable, like the gold Wii.
That phone isn't solid gold, it's clearly got those plastic(?) black parts and that LCD screen. It's probably stuffed with cheap silicon.
Show me a real solid gold phone and then I'll be interested.
Show me a real solid gold phone and then I'll be interested.
So, you're telling me that if I buy this phone, I am one step closer to becoming Yusuf Amir? Fuck yeah!
60K? Luna shitting moonrocks.
There are so many other things I could do with that kind of money...
There are so many other things I could do with that kind of money...
That sort of thing does not fleat my boat but I am sure someone thinks its a bargin. What I think is expencive may not be what you think is expensive.
Whoever buys it is buying it for the status symbol, bragging rights, or from not understanding at all that this phone is practically worthless should you strip the pretty covering.
That's someone I wouldn't want to hang out with. Ever.
If you have money to burn like that, buy an island.
That's someone I wouldn't want to hang out with. Ever.
If you have money to burn like that, buy an island.
Gold has it's uses in industry and technical fields.IceStar100 said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold#Use_and_applications
Scroll down to industry and electronics.
As for the phone, yes, it's redonculous.
No. Even if I was stupid rich, I would right down the exact price for the phone and how much I would pay for the first month. I would then spend that exact amount on ANYTHING FREAKING ELSE. Shit, for that much I could start and end my PSX collection and probably finish my SNES collection too.