Phantoms...I'm with you on collecting as a great hobby but often not a good investment. I like collecting the shiny gold things I find while scrapping, but like you I only keep them because I've already made money on the rest of the scrap. I like to think how much value there is in my stack of CPU's but I'm glad I don't have to rely on the income they could bring in. Most everything else, I have to keep turning over and have always been on the sell it as it comes in train with my copper and aluminum. (There's that dollar cost averaging.)