# Your possession that has depreciated the most in value.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-possession-that-has-depreciated-the-most-in-value/517080>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 10, 2009, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-possession-that-has-depreciated-the-most-in-value/517080 "2009-11-10T19:22:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-possession-that-has-depreciated-the-most-in-value/517080/21 "2009-11-12T19:10:03Z")

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I spent a bajillion bucks importing Japanese-language yaoi and shonen-ai manga when it wasn’t available in the US. Now nobody wants it.

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**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-possession-that-has-depreciated-the-most-in-value/517080/22 "2009-11-12T19:39:57Z")

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I bought a gaming book back when I was around 12 that quickly went out of print, and -then- gained a following. About 10-15 years later, I found out that said followers were rampant ebay watchers, and said book, bought for about ten bucks, would go for upwards of a hundred. I toyed with the idea of selling it, but decided I’d rather keep it, just in case I wanted to use it some day.  
About 2 years later, the author of said book, after a long legal wrangle, made the entire thing available online for free to anyone who wanted it. Oddly, I was more happy with the whole arangement than bummed about it.  
(And yes, I realize it only depreciated by ten bucks from the original value, but it appreciated first.)  
(Is appreciated the right word there?)

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**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-possession-that-has-depreciated-the-most-in-value/517080/23 "2009-11-13T20:38:16Z")

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I still have, but haven’t used in an age, a very early laptop, probably one of the first. It’s a Toshiba 8086, dual 3.5" floppy, no hard drive, that went for around $1300 new. I’d imagine I could probably get $15 from a dead tech collector now.

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**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-possession-that-has-depreciated-the-most-in-value/517080/24 "2009-11-13T21:10:01Z")

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An unused airline ticket from Paris to Prague that I paid about $200 and is now worth exactly zero.

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-possession-that-has-depreciated-the-most-in-value/517080/25 "2009-11-15T16:33:14Z")

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I have a working Olympus digital camera that I paid $600 for, circa 1997. Those 2.1 megapixels were about the top of the line at that time. Got great results, used them to help create a website.

Now of course you can get a 10 megapixel digital camera for under $100. I suspect the resale value of my Olympus is somewhat lower.

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