14 Jul
2024
14 Jul
'24
11:14 p.m.
Trying to compare a billionaire’s estate collection with people like us is futile. Most of
us collectors will die and our collection wont be of interest to the IRS because it won’t
amount to much. Pauls collection, on the other hand, will be of interest simply because he
called out what to do with it when he dies (sell and proceeds to charity) and he’s a
billionaire so they look very closely at estate where there could be significant tax
revenue.
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On Jul 14, 2024, at 16:04, cz via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
What makes you think that? Some rich guy may buy a whole computer
so he can get another keyboard to hang on the wall with the rest
of his keyboard collection. And scrap the rest.
Always possible. Better chance of being saved than when a recycler buys the rest.
Seriously folks: Paul was a great guy but from the POV of his estate he's just
another hoarder. And unless your "museum" has proper incorporation,
documentation, and a trust or something behind it to survive the owner's death,
it's just another hoard as well.
And when you're cleaning up after a hoarder's death there isn't time to go
through every item and lovingly find a home for it. Especially if it's yor Dad's
collection of used Pinball machine parts. (so to speak)
Nor is there really much of an economic incentive: While $10,000 for an that RS08 on Ebay
may seem like a lot of "value" to us, at a certain wealth point that's not
really worth the time to stop on the street to pick up. So you just junk it to save
time.
That's just life.