They get a fresh shipment every episode

Rule of Acquisition number 77: If you break it, I'll charge you for it.

Oh come on, you'd have to wait about six or seven hundred years for the supply to dry up enough for them to have any value.

...Buy in bulk and keep a few in packaging. Use the rest for display purposes. That way you get to have your fun now, and have investment options left open.

Also as the vintage electronics market has taught me. Things can still go bad in factory sealed packaging. Belts lose their life, oils dry up, rubber degrade... which can be a REAL pain in the ass when it comes to rubberized pinch rollers and other contact points. Don't even get me started on f'ing capacitors going off, and battery leakage.

Thank you, I thought I was going to have to post this…