re: Hobby collectors of the OT - who are the worst group of collectors?

ammo hoarders are the worst

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Definitely Bourbon collectors. Cutthroat and dirty game they play.

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I was in a Save a Lot grocery store on a location scout for a movie I was working on. I found some really sought after bourbons and got bottle for my brother. Then I posted about it on Facebook because I don’t drink bourbon, but know a lot of people who are really into it. I got literal death threats for exposing a honey hole.

When I worked at Toys r Us in the late 90s Hot Wheels guys were pretty bad. They always wanted to look at stuff before we stocked. I used to bend the cards on the treasure hunt cars on purpose just to frick those guys over.

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Bourbon nerds and wine snobs.

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I would say any people that collect this stuff and never open it.

It’s been said already but I’ll say it again…

Bourbon collectors and wine snobs

They are beyond irritating because they think people actually care about their collection and knowledge and it somehow makes them better than everyone.

You usually dont get this sort of asinine cockiness with stamp, coin, toy, lego, and train nerds.

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rare coins

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I’ve been involved in this for decades and concur that these folks are pretty normal. The one exception is a guy at a coin shop in Old Metairie (or thereabouts) in the 1990’s. The guy was a real jerk and didn’t seem interested in doing business.

Anyway, do you have any thoughts on the U.S. Mint’s 2024 issue of a Flowing Hair commemorative? I will probably get the silver medal to gift to a brother and buy the gold one depending on the amount they produce.

Funko Pop collectors - they're not even "action" figures, just cheap plastic things that barely resemble the intended character. For some reason this sent millenials haywaire a decade ago and are some seriously insufferable people.
I've never had any issues with book collectors, but there is a new trend on IG of people getting super snotty about reading hardcovers and cheap paperbacks. Who cares when its the same words?

Eta - some of the coolest folks are the guys who kept their wrestling action figures from the 80s and 90s. There's a self-awareness of how odd a hobby it is but there's very little snobbiness about it.

I had a boss that gave me two wine bottles for a Christmas bonus once.

Acoustic guitar collectors/snobs. I have a smattering and have even built one. The acousticguitarforum.com banned me. I made nothing but positive comments about guitars. Never chimed in to crap on guys guitars. The mods here are saints compared to those twats.

The sports card collecting community is loaded with scammers and drunks who bid on shite at the last minute and blame it on their son when it comes time to pay.