Bidding currently at $30K on a fractional share of a video clip at Heritage Auctions

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Originally Posted by Mark17

It reminds me of Seinfeld: A show about nothing.

GEORGE: See, this should be a collectible. This is the collectible.

JERRY: What?

GEORGE: This. Just a short video clip that is online.

JERRY: (dismissing) Yeah, right.

GEORGE: I'm really serious. I think that's a good idea.

JERRY: A non-existent collectible that no one issues and no one can touch? Well, what's the collector get?

GEORGE: Nothing.

JERRY: No real item?

GEORGE: No, forget the real item.

JERRY: You've got to have something to collect.

GEORGE: Who says you gotta have that?

JERRY: And who supports this item? What does it look like?

GEORGE: Anything. I could be on a clip.

JERRY: You?

GEORGE: Yeah. You could base a clip on me.

JERRY: So, there's a clip showing George Costanza?

GEORGE: Yeah. There's something wrong with that? I'm a character. People are always saying to me, "You know you're a quite a character."

JERRY: And who else is on a clip?

GEORGE: Elaine could be a clip. Kramer...

JERRY: Now he's a character. (Pause) So anybody I know gets to be on a clip?

GEORGE: Right.

JERRY: And it's a collectible that doesn't exist and is backed by no one and nothing?

GEORGE: Absolutely nothing.

JERRY: So you're saying, I go in to Topps, and tell them I got this idea for a collectible that is nothing.

GEORGE: We go into Topps.

JERRY: "We"? Since when are you a writer?

GEORGE: (Scoffs) Writer. We're talking about a baseball card maker.

JERRY: You want to go with me to Topps?

GEORGE: Yeah. I think we really got something here.

JERRY: What do we got?

GEORGE: An idea.

JERRY: What idea?

GEORGE: An idea for a collectible.

JERRY: I still don't know what the idea is.

GEORGE: It's nothing.

JERRY: Right.

GEORGE: Everybody's making something, we'll make nothing.

JERRY: So, we go into Topps, we tell them we've got an idea for a collectible that is nothing.

GEORGE: Exactly.

JERRY: They say, "What's your collectible made of?" I say, "Nothing."

GEORGE: There you go.

(A moment passes)

JERRY: (Nodding) I think you may have something there.