Lord Aykroyd
Super Freak
If the 1/6 SW exclusives ALWAYS sell out in less than an hour, why are they nearly all available on ebay for less than we paid for them?
Discuss.
Discuss.
pixletwin said:I believe it is a natural settling. Eventually the price for these will go up.
jlcmsu said:I think it's because people are just looking to make a quick buck and flooding the market. When you have forty thousand people putting the same item on ebay people can play the waiting game. That's a simple fact. The price something fetches on the secondary market does NOT determine a successful collectible. My Sauron statue does not do nearly as well on ebay as my orignal Balrog but Sauron is right there with him as my top fave pieces. Sauron also ranks ahead of the Cave Troll for that matter. So if price determines a successful collectible then there are a lot of not very successful items out there. A successful collectible is one that sells well and looks good upone being recieved IMO.
The Earl of Dunfield said:I completely agree with the Sauron analogy (I love mine!) - BUT surely price is a measure of "a certain type" of success (see Doom :chew )
Eli26 said:They go up and they go down.
Like a certain something I have!
Okay, that was just bad.
Ok Superfan, I clearly stated my definition of using the term successful collectible. It was in the context of holding it's value, even holding it's retail value.jlcmsu said:I think it's because people are just looking to make a quick buck and flooding the market. When you have forty thousand people putting the same item on ebay people can play the waiting game. That's a simple fact. The price something fetches on the secondary market does NOT determine a successful collectible. My Sauron statue does not do nearly as well on ebay as my orignal Balrog but Sauron is right there with him as my top fave pieces. Sauron also ranks ahead of the Cave Troll for that matter. So if price determines a successful collectible then there are a lot of not very successful items out there. A successful collectible is one that sells well and looks good upone being recieved IMO.
nash said:Ok Superfan, I clearly stated my definition of using the term successful collectible. It was in the context of holding it's value, even holding it's retail value.
There are many definitions of what a "successful collectible" is, and I clearly said "IN TERMS OF HOLDING ITS VALUE".
I would say that yes a collectible that holds its value over time is succsessful. Most of them have lost value right now but does that make a very large % of them unsuccessful? I would say no, I would say that there is a natural drop with things of these nature, but over time you should start to see a steedy raise in value.nash said:Ok Superfan, I clearly stated my definition of using the term successful collectible. It was in the context of holding it's value, even holding it's retail value.
There are many definitions of what a "successful collectible" is, and I clearly said "IN TERMS OF HOLDING ITS VALUE".
nash said:...and I clearly said "IN TERMS OF HOLDING ITS VALUE".
mfoga said:And why do I all of a sudden want to go diving?
The Boot said:I think pixletwin is right on. The true test for most of the collectibles we're discussing here will be in the years to come.
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