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<blockquote data-quote="jedisearcher" data-source="post: 383208" data-attributes="member: 3582"><p>I think you're right Edd, but there may also have been a period between retail sales dropping off and dealers becoming properly engaged.</p><p></p><p>When my Mum and Dads shop closed in 1984 all of the SW stock (about 20 boxes of ROTJ MOCs) went to a discount store. A bit later, I also remember a SW mate telling me at the time of seeing tons of POTF at market stalls in Manchester. It's hard to accept now, but SW stuff was pretty much worthless as retail demand died away, you only have to look at the Woolworths 10 packs to see what retailers were doing to get shut of their stock. You couldn't see the films in the cinema, there were on TV maybe once a year so it's easy to see why demand disappeared, so I guess I'm wondering why dealers would have bothered getting involved at this point, as making a profit would have been tough. I'm talking 1984-86 or so I suppose. So my point really is that as retail demand died away and dealers took interest, it's possible market traders, discount stores, car boots(?) might have been quite heavily involved, along with some of the dealers who thought they could make money.</p><p></p><p>All that said, most retailers would still have cherry picked the good stuff out of boxes for customers (we did), and they'd have been sold over the counter in the normal manner. But peg warmers like Madine, Klaatu etc. would still have gone unsold, particularly as the assortments at that time were mainly ROTJ and the suppliers had massively overestimated how many would sell of those. Klaatu is the best example can think of, you can still get him for 10 a penny. I can remember being really disappointed when I opened box upon box of ROTJ figures when I knew the kids just wanted newer stuff (the Leia Endor, Han Trenchcoat, Emperor type assortment rather than the earlier ROTJ Palitoy 65 back stuff).</p><p></p><p>I also remember a dealer in Manchester running off to Portugal after a warehouse find, probably in 94/95 or so, but he came back with nothing. It goes to show though, that once SW came back into demand in the late 80's and early 90's, the dealers were actively doing everything they could to get hold of stock again.</p><p></p><p>Can anyone remember when the ironer got his stock from Arthur Brown? It looks like a good decision now to buy that stock, but I bet at the time he had no idea that demand would go nuts and it was actually a bit of a risk buying it all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jedisearcher, post: 383208, member: 3582"] I think you're right Edd, but there may also have been a period between retail sales dropping off and dealers becoming properly engaged. When my Mum and Dads shop closed in 1984 all of the SW stock (about 20 boxes of ROTJ MOCs) went to a discount store. A bit later, I also remember a SW mate telling me at the time of seeing tons of POTF at market stalls in Manchester. It's hard to accept now, but SW stuff was pretty much worthless as retail demand died away, you only have to look at the Woolworths 10 packs to see what retailers were doing to get shut of their stock. You couldn't see the films in the cinema, there were on TV maybe once a year so it's easy to see why demand disappeared, so I guess I'm wondering why dealers would have bothered getting involved at this point, as making a profit would have been tough. I'm talking 1984-86 or so I suppose. So my point really is that as retail demand died away and dealers took interest, it's possible market traders, discount stores, car boots(?) might have been quite heavily involved, along with some of the dealers who thought they could make money. All that said, most retailers would still have cherry picked the good stuff out of boxes for customers (we did), and they'd have been sold over the counter in the normal manner. But peg warmers like Madine, Klaatu etc. would still have gone unsold, particularly as the assortments at that time were mainly ROTJ and the suppliers had massively overestimated how many would sell of those. Klaatu is the best example can think of, you can still get him for 10 a penny. I can remember being really disappointed when I opened box upon box of ROTJ figures when I knew the kids just wanted newer stuff (the Leia Endor, Han Trenchcoat, Emperor type assortment rather than the earlier ROTJ Palitoy 65 back stuff). I also remember a dealer in Manchester running off to Portugal after a warehouse find, probably in 94/95 or so, but he came back with nothing. It goes to show though, that once SW came back into demand in the late 80's and early 90's, the dealers were actively doing everything they could to get hold of stock again. Can anyone remember when the ironer got his stock from Arthur Brown? It looks like a good decision now to buy that stock, but I bet at the time he had no idea that demand would go nuts and it was actually a bit of a risk buying it all. [/QUOTE]
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