How to find cheap gadgets that can be worth a lot in the future? Antique expert Knut Knutson has some smart tricks.
Buying and selling products in the secondary market can prove to be very profitable.
At auction, look as closely old, seemingly common items for staggering sums.
Even on sites such as Tradera, everything is sold from Lego and McDonalds to Kent discs and dolls for hundreds of percent higher price than they could once be purchased for.
Who knows, you may be sitting on some old gadget that is worth much more than you think.
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How to find potential expensive items?
It is obvious that you can make proper money from selling exclusive items in the secondary market.
But the question is: how do you find such objects before they actually become interesting and rise in value? How to think about finding expensive items – before they become expensive items?
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KneP: Buy the terrible
Knut Knutsonthe antique expert we all recognize from SVT’s “Antikrundan”, has previously told Svenska Dagbladet about his tips for finding objects that can be worth a lot in the future.
– My rule is to buy things that are questioned today. Much of the design that people thought was terrible when it was manufactured, it will be most typical when you look back. There will also be things that people buy and collect.
For example, if you shop at auction, it is important to buy things that no one is interested in at all because it is so outdated – it may prove to be very valuable in the future, says Knut Knutson.
-When people asked me the same question in the 70s, I said joking that they would buy teak furniture that then did not cost anything. I said: Rent a barn and set them there and the pension is saved. I didn’t know how right I was.
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Keep the item in top condition and buy first edition
When it comes to technology, such as mobiles and computers, it is important to get hold of the first edition of a special product.
For example, an iPhone 4 GB, one of Apple’s first mobile phones, was sold for a staggering SEK 1.4 million at auction, something News24 Previously rewritten.
It is also important that the early edition is still in top condition and has its original packaging – then it can be extra valuable in the future, Knut Knutson has explained for Svenska Dagbladet.
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