e25s won’t be worth shit later on. They look worse and offer nothing extra. Stupid marketing crap.
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Mooooooooooody Craig.
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OG Digitakt “Goldeneye” with screen protector still attached.
you do see these occasionally. or recently I saw some unopened System 100’s for sale. they fetch more but it’s not like 10X more or anything. you’re probably better off getting that value via time spent playing with the thing instead.
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As potentially sitting in top of a six track FM gold mine myself I would like to understand better your rationale.
I’ve got an unopened Ableton Live Lite CD. Reckon I’m sitting on a gold mine there.
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Before anyone tries to rob me of it, it was a joke BTW. I opened it and used the discount code years ago.
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From me in another thread…but these people already confirmed it’s NIB, unopened stock
https://www.analoguehaven.com/elektron/analog-keys/
Edit: my original post is over a year old, but heres the OG: Isn't the Analog Four the most incredible and deep instrument from Elektron so far? - #927 by micabeza
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Rationale? That’s making the assumption that I place bets in any rational way 
I just think it’s got a unique sound, unique look, and interesting controls, and it’s been overshadowed by the pricier Elektron boxes. I never said it would be a goldmine, but I could see it being discontinued and then later being a desirable vintage piece 
or maybe I just regret getting rid of mine
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This is some next level cryptobro stuff.
I still cannot understand people who buy instruments they don’t use, for investment-purposes or otherwise.
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It’s a big thing in the guitar world, there are lots of collectors with vaults.
But, that’s a different thing to the original thought, more thinking along the fun lines of Star Wars figures on eBay, and, I guess that leads to lower cost synth/music gear… I think buying a Prophet 5 and putting it away would be relatively stupid. But a Volca Bass, an EP133, stuff in that world, I think is more aligned to the MIP eBay world.
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Get famous for whilst using said item, then you’ll def make more from selling it.
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There’s some irony here in that I know the OP is referring to the millenium falcon toy (mint in package) which has fetched some quite unreasonable prices from collectors, but in the star wars universe, the running joke is how big of a pile of scrap the actual millennium falcon is.
So taken literally, “What’s the current future millennium falcon in the synth world?” would be “what is tomorrows biggest piece of crap synth?”
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Gibson even did that special run of “guitar of the month” or something like that, and it was exactly as you say, targeting the “guitars in a gun safe” type of collector.
This is an older link but illustrates the program I’m talking about:
https://www.premierguitar.com/gibson-announces-full-guitar-of-the-month-lineup
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” The 808 launched in 1980 with a list price of US$1,195 (equivalent to $4,419 in 2023).” - wikipedia
An 808 would probably be worth less than if you bought a global index fund at the same time? :))
There’s also an indirect cost of storing the damn box somewhere safe
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Agreed. Speaking from experience of a bunch of ”fun” trades, that became ”sad” trades…
I also like the idea of great/classic instruments being used by future artists, not kept in a box
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I probably have mint RCA to RCA cables. Meaning they are still tied.
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Yeah I can’t think of many instruments that are worth more as a in box collectable probably the 303 because 303 nuts are crazy… but even then I doubt it would ever be worth more than like an out of box oberhiem TVS or whatever nice vintage synth that is beloved.
A pile of scrap. I heard it did the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.
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That toy was bad ass! We couldn’t afford one but had friends with them!
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