The used market is more interesting so I haunt estate auctions. I would like to make a paper holder for a specific space so I’m casually looking for a handful of marbles to sandwich between some pieces of hardwood to make it so.
Wow. An item I would expect to bid out at $2.50 or $5 goes past $50. Why? They’re just marbles. I’m old. I had a collection as a kid, but I’m not feeling any nostalgia for little glass balls.
Collecting things, knick-knacks and such, are down in price all around. People don’t have space, disposable income, or time for the Boomer hoarding nonsense, they just want the houses the stuff was stored in. And yet. Marbles are somehow an acceptable hoard and take up space item now. In fact, there seems to be a moral imperative to make it so. Why?
What is the point of your comment? Amazon is global and a good way to see an approximate price of something like this, I don’t know where OP lives so I can hardly recommend a specific local shop but I can encourage them to look for one instead.
my point is if you discourage people against using amazon, its probably not the best idea to direct them to a cheap product on amazon.
I completely stopped buying from Amazon ~1.5 years ago, but I also still use it from time to get an overview on prices and available products. If I find something interesting there, I’ll search & buy it elsewhere.