• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      69
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      1 month ago

      Considering it’s in the public domain and a paperback, I’m guessing it’s not an expensive book and I’m sure there are plenty of wrestling autograph collectors so, despite Hulk Hogan being a giant piece of shit, it probably gained a massive amount of value.

      • Fermion@feddit.nl
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        1 month ago

        Hulk Hogan autographed photos and t shirts are $15 -$50 on ebay. Wrestling collectors would probably rather have something wrestling related rather than a book. So not much value.

        • TheFriar@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 month ago

          Well, seeing a used book you’d get maybe $4-$6, so…slight increase?

      • hperrin@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        4
        ·
        edit-2
        1 month ago

        Sure, but just because someone will pay $1,000 for Taylor Swift’s shit doesn’t mean it’s valuable.

        This is a simplistic view of value, and basically provides no useful information about anything. There are a lot of people you can trick into paying more for an item than it’s worth, but that doesn’t increase the value of that item.

              • hperrin@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                3
                ·
                edit-2
                1 month ago

                I would say based on consensus. That’s how we determine it in real life (stocks, real estate, market values). If there’s one person in the world who would pay $1,000 for Swift’s shit, then that person just doesn’t know the value of it, because most people wouldn’t pay anything for it. I’d imagine most people would pay not to have it.

                If I trick you into paying money for something by telling you it’s super valuable, I’m ripping you off, I’m not increasing the value of the item.

                • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  5
                  ·
                  1 month ago

                  The consensus of who? Everyone? Because how does society determine the value of, for example, an MRI machine when most people have no idea what it could be worth?

                  The whole concept of the game show The Price is Right is that most people don’t know how much anything costs.

        • luciferofastora@lemmy.zip
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          1 month ago

          Depends on your metric of value. If someone will pay $1,000 for it, it’s worth at least that much to them.

          • hperrin@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            1 month ago

            If I walk into a store and pay them $1,000 for a Snickers bar, I’m not a savvy investor, and that Snickers bar isn’t worth $1,000.

      • Etterra@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 month ago

        Well you could try and sell it to a Republican, but he might get mad if he actually could read out. Something something made the Greeks gay blah blah Achilles “best friend” yada yada

    • Kichae@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 month ago

      Depends on whether the Hulkster is claiming to have written it or not, brother

      • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 month ago

        He did write it, after a bout of inspiration brought on by the first time he power-slammed Andre the Giant. Which just so happened to be in front of a sold out crowd at the Roman Colloseum in 600 CE, because he also invented time travel.

  • blattrules@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    38
    ·
    1 month ago

    “Cause I bumped into him and all I had on me was this samurai sword. And you’re not gonna not get Randy Jackson’s autograph, right?”

  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    19
    ·
    1 month ago

    I’m sure he’ll claim to have given Homer the idea to write it and that the character Achilles is based on him

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    1 month ago

    Also: is this one or two layers of ignorant, considering the poster misspelled the name of the book he took a photo of?

  • kalpol@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 month ago

    That’s Lattimore’s translation, a good one although I think I prefer Fitzgerald. But a win all the way around

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 month ago

    I’m guessing this was at Hogan’s appearance at a Woodman’s grocery store in North Aurora, IL, recently? What an incredibly high profile appearance.