Nice auction last night

pizzathehutt

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Did anyone on here win this nice bunch yesterday?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201985893285

Looks like a good collection that's been stored away for a long time.

Way out of my price range in the end though
 

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I was watching that just out of interest.
Did I miss something in the photos to justify that price?
 

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Yeah they sat at £500 with about 20seconds to go and then just flew!

I like the pictures, they say to me 'I've found this in the loft and don't know much about them"
 

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tobedesu said:
I was watching that just out of interest.
Did I miss something in the photos to justify that price?

Not that I know of? Leia blaster? Boba fett right at the bottom might be a rare variant perhaps?
 

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poncho said:
way over priced..... :eek:
I thought that too.
I know everything has gone up, but I sold two Darth Vader cases full of figures with original weapons in mint condition for approx. £200 each (at auction) in 2012.
At the time I wad surprised at how much they went for, but suppose someone got a good deal!
Then again if you break the price of 40 figures and weapons down these days £25 each isn't too much, depending what is lurking in that pile!
What a crazy hobby...
 

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There's a Teebo & Klaatu in there, no wonder it went for so much :wink:

Actual listing quote - "Most have a sticky feel to them, some missing limbs, a lot don't have weapons/accessories, there's at least a couple where the head has come off"

I need to get a carrier bag full of common beaters and pour pop over them and let it dry in sticky, remove some limbs and heads here n there and let my dog play with them for a day or so and i'd be loaded overnight :lol: :lol:
 

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Yeah, watched these go and was somewhat shocked at the price. But then it's a tidy looking Luke FB with his sabre and a Leia blaster so there's £120 odd back straight away. Seeing people sell Bossks for £15 and Jawas for £30 on FB and you can't help but think a full set of loose must be knocking on £4k now.

If it isn't a genuine loft lot then the seller has hit all the right things to say without leaving anyone a leg to stand on in getting their money back if it's not all genuine. I really couldn't be arsed totalling up the weapons at the time but there has to be £500+ there alone. Going to go and do that now, actually, just to shock myself...
 

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Adding the weapons and accessories (all those in the 2nd photo plus the Vader and Luke sabres) I get to around £620 by the "going rate". That means someone paid over £320 for 40 odd loose figures, some headless. Call it 40 figures (so discounting headless ones) that's £8 a figures. If you went down the ebay route to sell this stuff on I think you'd break even after your 15% costs. That takes no account of time and you are bound to have at least one false claim of "fake weapon" from the buyers.

I think someone paid what this would have cost to buy loose. So why do it? I get it: the thrill of hunting through an untouched childhood collection if only in the hope of finding a little gem, or the seller suddenly finding a loose VCJ and chucking it in. And if there are no gems there then the buyer hasn't actually lost money and ended up with what looks to be a remarkably well looked after childhood collection considering some ended up headless. There's no way on earth mine were in this condition when I sold them as a kid. Mine were beaten to death.
 

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I remember an average to beater run of the first 77 selling for £460 on ebay 12 years ago. They were mostly complete.

Any person who has been collecting for some time will have these figures already, and unless they're doing another run I see no reason for them to buy it. I imagine this collection will get flipped and sold on within a week and they'll more or less break even.
 

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To be honest I think it is slightly expensive but certainly I could see my self spending around this price, I don't have a lot in the way of figures, am coming into a bit of money and would be easier than hunting a bunch of stuff down. If you are buying to keep then the collection is probably only going to go up in value
 

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I sold a complete minty set for not much more than that a few years ago :?
That lot never worth anything like that much :eek:
Just a load of cheap beaters and open a few Survival packs
 

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Haha since this auction ended last night iv'e seen 2 sellers so far today already listing up large lots of loose figures.

I wonder why...... :wink:
 

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Dannywhiteley said:
I sold a complete 96 figure set for £750 in 2008.
They must have been in fantastic condition to realise that price back then?!?
 

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Dannywhiteley said:
I sold a complete 96 figure set for £750 in 2008.

Don't know why but I always imagine 2008 as feeling like it was only 2 or 3 years back, I was reading this and thinking wow prices have gone up fast in such a short amount of time, but that is actually a decade ago now.... :? :?:

Time goes too quick :cry:
 
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