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<blockquote data-quote="Starrider" data-source="post: 480221" data-attributes="member: 9399"><p>I've never really collected as an investment, but occasionally sell pieces when either a better version comes out or I decide to streamline things. I would say from the selling I have done of my own collection over the years I am marginally in profit, some pieces I have lost on others I have gained on, but overall if I had wanted to invest I am sure there would have been better things I could have done with the money.</p><p>I am not sure investors exist anymore as that side of the market seemed to crash and burn in the 2000's when people realised their mass purchases of Power of the Force and Episode 1 werent going to go up anytime soon if ever.</p><p>The problem at the moment with any investing is that the market is so unpredictable, one can assume that any likely prices jumps on the new movie figures will be a decade or more off due to the huge amount on clearance. The Black Series seems to have been one of the best opportunities for a potential investor in more recent times, but even so its very much case of getting your timing right when you sell. Hasbro only need to resissue some of those early valuable figures or make a new improved version for several years of gains to come tumbling down again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Starrider, post: 480221, member: 9399"] I've never really collected as an investment, but occasionally sell pieces when either a better version comes out or I decide to streamline things. I would say from the selling I have done of my own collection over the years I am marginally in profit, some pieces I have lost on others I have gained on, but overall if I had wanted to invest I am sure there would have been better things I could have done with the money. I am not sure investors exist anymore as that side of the market seemed to crash and burn in the 2000's when people realised their mass purchases of Power of the Force and Episode 1 werent going to go up anytime soon if ever. The problem at the moment with any investing is that the market is so unpredictable, one can assume that any likely prices jumps on the new movie figures will be a decade or more off due to the huge amount on clearance. The Black Series seems to have been one of the best opportunities for a potential investor in more recent times, but even so its very much case of getting your timing right when you sell. Hasbro only need to resissue some of those early valuable figures or make a new improved version for several years of gains to come tumbling down again. [/QUOTE]
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