There are several collectors around the entire world who specifically collect Olympic memorabilia. The collectors such as this may be collecting Olympic memorabilia for profit reasons, or to own a piece of collector's history, but you may find that most are collecting out sentimental and habitual reasons.
Li Mi is a retired teacher who is known for collecting an increasing amount of postcards. Students that she had once taught in previous years send her many of these post cards via the postal service around the time of the New Year. Every December she receives many of these post cards.
In December of 2007, it had appeared that now the post cards she was receiving in mass quantities had relation to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, with several containing images of the Fuwa mascot. China's New Year post cards had been authorized by the Beijing Organizing Committee to be changed to the five children who had become the mascots of the XXIX Olympiad. However, these post cards will only be used this one time, making them a very strong collectible item with a soon to come, very high value.
Chinese collectors are making it a point to buy out Olympic items and merchandise, because they have the benefit of living in a hosting city. As it is well known that China has already made an enormous effort to change the look of the Olympics to the entire world, it is less common to think of all the things they have changed in their home country. Little things such as the post cards are going to sell for a much larger lump sum of money, amongst other things.
Presales on items such as this, offered in China, began last December despite the long list of people who had been waiting the releasing of such merchandise since November. Not only are people in Beijing collecting as much Olympic themed items as they see the need for, but as so are other cities nearing Beijing, and thus all around China. Reservation sales, which begin in November, had become solidly filled before the items were even released to the public.
A large hit, and very popular collectible, is the Olympic stamp scroll. This scroll contains, of course, the 2008 Olympic mascots, as well as the Olympic emblem, 128 Olympic stamps, and 38 Olympic pictograms. A very great buy, and wonderful deal, honoring the countdown to the 2008 summer Olympics. Because of the large amount of collectors buying several sets at a time, this BOCOG stamp scroll immediately sold out. However, this could also be due to the fact that this stamp scroll is notably one of the finer stamp products ever to be produced in China.
It should be noted that Olympic stamps are the best way for any collector to make profit, and most of the time this profit can be made immediately. In the case of Zhang Yanhui, in just a matter of days he reached over $12,329, which is 90,000 Yuan. While purchasing the stamps early, and at their original price, you will have the opportunity of reselling these stamps for triple the original price, and the demand for such products will arise almost immediately after the sell out date.
It is also true that many long time collectors have been directing their interests towards Coca Cola bottles and cans. During the 1992 Olympic games in Barcelona, it has been noticed that Coca Cola cans in honor and representation of the Olympic games had soared to a price of over $400 per can. While the Olympic emblem is pressed onto the glass bottles, they are not as expensive as cans, but will still earn quite enough to profit to make up for your time of purchasing. This is a great example of all the very simple ways that any ordinary person can become a collector, as long as they know what products to keep, and pay attention to what is going on in their surroundings and past.
For reasons such as this, it would be a great convenience to anyone of who lives in an Olympic hosting city, such as London during the upcoming and awaited 2012 Olympic games. Prices will stay the same in their native environment for as long as it collectors to buy out the merchandise. After this, the demand will soar as the price rises just as quickly along with it.