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Vehicles. They break down and rust but are priced like a new home when they are new.
Vehicles are durable goods but hard to call them an asset either unless it is a collectible type thing
Calling a consumer product product an "asset" is some gymnastics...
Up there when you are calling primary residence an investment lol
Board games :(
Anything tech. It'll be obsolete before you know it. Some products go "obsolete" before it's actually too old to be usable because the company wants you to buy the new one.
dildos?
Not Bad Dragon, those can be resold for a good percentage of their new price!
Literally how?
You boil them to clean them, put em in a zip lock bag, post online on forums, and find someone to buy them!
DSLR / Mirrorless camera bodies.
Lenses less so, until the manufacturer switches mounts.
Men's underwear.
Gentlemen, there are Facts, and there are Opinions.
you HAVE to know a difference between them for your own goodness sake.
facts are always backed by numbers, while opinions are given based on feelings, word of mouth (which is often NOT based on numbers)
FACT is, and asset lands cash directly into your pockets (after deducting all the bills for operating the asset). If not, that's a liability.
BASED ON ABOVE:
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you can call anything an asset, even your bed; so long as numbers tell you so.
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You can make anything an asset if you are an excellent salesman.
NB: yes, companies like Samsung make the new device obsolete when they launch new lineups. But you don't see BestBuy or Microcenter throwing the just-obsolete devices out of the stores.
facts are always backed by numbers*
9/10 bolded statements are true.
* this fact isn't backed by numbers
Diamonds. Anyone who has tried to sell jewelry will tell you: gold retains value but the money you get for diamonds is abysmal. Which is why I urge everyone to buy synthetic diamonds. In many cases they look purer than natural diamonds, are free of conflict, and hold just as much sentimental value.
The only reason they're expensive is artificial scarcity. De Beers only let a limited supply on the market each year. Diamonds themselves really aren't that rare at all
They don't just look purer, they are purer!
The problem is that rich people have been fleeced by diamond sellers for so long that they over value the "story" of a diamond (IE, carbon forged into a diamond over millennia etc etc. as a symbol for love blah blah).
Which come from extinct volcanoes, super romantic!
Moissanite is also very lovely
A moissanite is an artificial diamond, Lincoln. It's Mickey Mouse, mate. Spurious. Not genuine. And it's worth.. FUCK all.
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Cars. Cars are stupidly called an asset, and I guess they retain some value, but not really. It loses 50% of it's value the second you drive it off a lot and continues depreciating the longer you own it. It requires maintenance and gas, tags, insurance. It's a liability. If you need one, then purchase it knowing that you are purchasing an item. A car is never an investment.
I bought a 2015 Mitsubishi in 2018 for like 12k USD and it’s worth more now than when I got it.
That’s not usual though, it’s because of COVID. And the fact that somehow it’s fully loaded and low mileage for that price—I think that might have been a mistake.
Assets and investments are not the same. End thread
And I argue that they should be considered neither
Is your argument that an asset doesn't (or shouldn't) depreciate?
My argument is that something that only depreciates shouldn't be considered an asset
Bruh I wished cars lost 50% of their value when they drove off the lot. Have you tried to buy a used car recently?
I still wouldn’t call a car an “investment” or anything, but 100% agreed. The whole “cars lose 50% of their value when you drive off the lot” thing might have been true before the Cash for Clunkers program, but it isn’t anymore. Or maybe it’s true if you’re trying to trade-in the vehicle.
If I wanted to buy the (fairly popular) car I’ve been driving for over 6 years with the same mileage, it’d cost me over 2/3rds what it cost new When I bought it, new cars were less expensive than used cars (i.e., like less than two years old with less than 25k miles) thanks to how much better the interest rates were on the loans. A couple years later, I was getting offers for more than I paid for it. And none of that is a unique experience.
I went with a friend to look at used cars at CarMax. They had a 1 year old Subaru that was going for only $1k less than a brand new one.
I know CarMax is shitty and expensive. But that was even more ridiculous than I was expecting.
The trick is to buy a 25 year old car in good condition, and then store it in a dry place under a tarp for at least 10 more years.
I think it's okay to spend money on a card but not to delude yourself into thinking it's an investment. I think you can be right, maximizing your value, I also think you can spend 80k on a car, as long as you know that you're spending 80k to drive, not expecting to ever make any of that money back.
The patern on easy money tends to be - buy something that 15yo boys lusted after when its 15 years old and hold it for 10 years then watch the values climb over the next 10 before they plateau and then drop.
Middle age is a bitch.
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Vegetables. Purchased with all the intent of eating them before they go bad. I don’t eat them quickly enough and they go bad. There’s no in between stage. They were edible and now they are not.
It’s why I buy mostly canned veggies.
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Among vehicles, boats and RVs are notorious
It is wild to me that anyone would call those things assets.
They are toys.
Wonderful toys, but still toys.
A majority stake in Twitter.
He wasn't buying twitter, he was buying the presidency and it worked.
It's looking like that might not have been a great investment for him either.
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