With all of this banter about how much people are paying for memorabilia, I thought..

[steve B]

I collect a pretty wide range of stuff. But with all of it I'm on the lower end of things.

What's fun is finding a great item going overlooked at a low price.
The few things I've spent real money on have been pretty special but still somewhat inexpensive.

Racing bike - 1200 for a 1987-88 7-11 team time trail bike. All original which is very uncommon for racing bikes.

stamp - 330 for a 90cent treasury dept with specimen overprint from 1875. Only 72 were sold, making it more rare than the upside down airplane stamp that goes for about as much as a Wagner. There were 100 of those.

Card- I think around 280 for an SGC 80 polar bear Bill Graham. Really incredibly nice for a Polar Bear, and the best of that player and brand by a few grades.

All my other collectible hobbies I don't think I've spent much at all Nearly everything else has been well under 100, usually less than 20. And a lot of it is still really cool.

Steve B