I have a cat named Oreo. I do not like to go fishing. I have a pool house. My grandmother lives in my pool house. I live in California. I like to swim. I volunteer at the pet shelter. I shop on ebay. My tea set came from ebay. I collect tea sets. I only use a few of my tea sets regularly. I have a wife. I am a calm person.
I do not like fast food. I started collecting Pokemon cards when I was a kid. I made almost $15,000 last year selling Pokemon cards. I started selling Pokemon cards a year and a half ago. I have student loan debt.
You'll never believe this: I picked up a new tea set this morning at a garage sale for $15. I looked it up online when I got home, and it's a rare variety that can sell for five figures! Whoa that is a great purchase! Are you going to keep it for your collection or sell it to make some money? Well being a collector yourself you and me both know how hard it is to sell a great find haha! I might keep it for a few more years and see how the price fluctuates. How is the Pokemon scene  at the moment? Saw a few PSA10's Charizard's for sale the other day for astronomical amount's. You are so right! It's a catch 22 for sure. I'm currently on more of a sell streak right now, though. I wish I had a Charizard, though - I could make five figures like you! I'm currently trying to seel a 25th anniversary Pikachu, but only for a few hundred bucks Ahh your time will come! It makes me cringe the amount I had when I was a child and that I could have bought a box of packs for $30 thats now worth $30k... I cry a bit inside haha. Have you sent it off to be PSA'd? Definitely.  Any real collector only buys them once they are graded and encapsulated.  Is there something they do similarly for tea sets? Very similar, but instead of PSA grades we just get told if its real or fake, where it came from and how much its worth, which they then print us out a cert for it and then we get rich hahaha! One day I will find a rare Chinese tea set become a millionaire and then we can become famous collectors like Pawn Stars haha.  And start our own television show, just doing what we love! What's the oldest tea set that you have? I assume the older it is (and in a good condition) the more it is worth. Is that right? It is similar to that yes but it matters where it came from too, back in the old days they still had brands and such like Gucci today, but you also had the generic brands that were worthless, so you kind of look for the Gucci of tea sets for that age haha! That is my dream, my own show where people can see my work and awe over it,. Can you tell by the color? I know that those in higher social classes had different colors they could use - purple I think.  You can and cant as obviously like know in the present people try and make things look better but generally, English sets are blue/pink. Chinese is always more blue, reds and gold trim. It does take a keen eye, but we never buy before an evaluation happens. Maybe we should try collecting something new.  Maybe that could be our hobby just to make money off of! Stamps? Beanie babies? haha