Auctions, estate sales, moving sales, and flea markets are held throughout the year, and in many states, garage sale season is now in full swing. There is usually a plethora of collectibles that are for sale, with the hopes they will bring a nice stack of dollar bills. Instead, people are finding that the values placed on collectibles in the past have decreased, sometimes to the point where they can’t even give the items away. What caused this decline in the collectibles market?