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Nice auction last night
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<blockquote data-quote="ScruffyLookingNH" data-source="post: 454116" data-attributes="member: 6563"><p>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. </p><p></p><p>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.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ScruffyLookingNH, post: 454116, member: 6563"] 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. [/QUOTE]
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