[Crazy Jetty]

I'm pretty confident that the majority of the collectors on this site don't collect as an investment, but instead to enjoy their toys (in whatever way that may be, whether it's to display, play with, give to children, or what not).
To most of us most likely, we don't think that this toy is/will be worth this much, or that won't. We likely take joy from just having our toys.

I got started thinking about this after watching Toy Collectors this week (I'm not labeling the guy as a scalper. Based on the episode, I don't think of him as that. It just put me down this line of thought, is all.), And I've come to think that there are two primary types of "Anti-Collectors," I will call them for the sake of this commentary. Two types who collect only so they can turn around and profit on the toys.

There are Scalpers: people who go out, troll the toy isles and buy every rare figure they can find, so they can turn around and put it on ebay for as absolute much as they can get, thus artificially driving up the prices of certain toys, and sometimes creating shortages where none would exist if they didn't.

And Hoarders: Casual people who mistakenly have the idea that every single toy is going to be worth large amounts of cash, 20 years down the road. They'll aquire toys, put them in a box in storage somewhere never to be seen or enjoyed by anyone until they happen to remember they have it, and want to know if it's worth anything yet. Sometime, there are toy hoarders who actually do have enough knowledge to find toys that may genuinely be rare at the time of their aquiring it.

So, of these two, which do you think is the most damaging to the collecting community?

For me this is a bit hard, because on one hand, Scalpers are an immidiate cancer. But they're not always a threat/danger in the long term. A hoarder however may lack a scalper's knowledge, but anything they aquire will be out of circulation for years, if not perminantly.


EDIT:
PLEASE NOTE that my usage of the term Hoarding for these purposes, I am not referring to people that have the general mental inability to ever throw anything out.
Again, I'm assigning it to people who have no interest in toy collecting as we do, and buy toys just in case it might be valuable years down the line, if they sit on it for years.
Just clairifying.