Why are marbles so expensive? (discuss.online)

submitted 3 days ago by Zephorah@discuss.online to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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The used market is more interesting so I haunt estate auctions. I would like to make a paper holder for a specific space so I’m casually looking for a handful of marbles to sandwich between some pieces of hardwood to make it so.

Wow. An item I would expect to bid out at $2.50 or $5 goes past $50. Why? They’re just marbles. I’m old. I had a collection as a kid, but I’m not feeling any nostalgia for little glass balls.

Collecting things, knick-knacks and such, are down in price all around. People don’t have space, disposable income, or time for the Boomer hoarding nonsense, they just want the houses the stuff was stored in. And yet. Marbles are somehow an acceptable hoard and take up space item now. In fact, there seems to be a moral imperative to make it so. Why?

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[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago

I can see sets of 100 marbles for £6 on Amazon. Though I would recommend buying elsewhere if possible, just wanted to do a quick search.

[-] sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 0 points 2 days ago

hey, I found these on Amazon.com for £6. Don't shop on Amazon.com though, they treat their workers like shit, are actively anti-union, and their environmental record is abysmal. I just wanted to say that you can get 100 marbles on Amazon.com for £6, but do not buy the £6 marbles from Amazon.com, go out looking for them yourself on some other website.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

What is the point of your comment? Amazon is global and a good way to see an approximate price of something like this, I don't know where OP lives so I can hardly recommend a specific local shop but I can encourage them to look for one instead.

[-] sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 1 points 2 days ago

my point is if you discourage people against using amazon, its probably not the best idea to direct them to a cheap product on amazon.

[-] rbn@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

I completely stopped buying from Amazon ~1.5 years ago, but I also still use it from time to get an overview on prices and available products. If I find something interesting there, I'll search & buy it elsewhere.

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