To some the dark side of collecting is running out of money before you run out of wants.

As to making money I made more buying real estate, at tax auctions, in the '60' s and early 70's, bought second growth timber or recently cut over timber for back taxes. Forty years later it was old growth or prime timber. Now days tax sales hold few bargains and I don't have that extra 40 years left to me to wait for trees to grow. Anyone who can make lots of money buying and selling guns could make gold out of lead these days.