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GI Joe 25th (the rise or fall of value)
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04-10-2009, 10:06 PM
Bionic Commando
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I had a conversation yesterday with several other GI Joe collectors and we all seemed to agree on something that I wanted to share here. I hope this can open up some dialog because I would love to hear what you believe. This is just my opinion and like they say, we all have one. So read mine and share your own.
Do any of you remember the Star Wars Power of the force collection? You know the stuff from the 90’s that came out, which today can be picked up still on card for pennies on the dollar. I saw a few weeks back in a box on a guys table at a flee market being sold for $1.00 per figure still on the card. Well I see the current 25th Joe line going the same way. In 25 years there will still be a huge amount of 25th on cards and in boxes sitting around in storage. There will also be a huge amount of mint opened figures too. There are just so many of us who are getting AFA graded figures, sealing and storing them ourselves or army building them. The 25th stuff will not have a chance to become rare since so many of us are keeping them in pristine condition. I have several friends who bought up every Power of the Force figure they could find. They stored them in mint condition and have kept them safe, yet now they can barely get their money back on many of them. There are a few rare cases where they have made a profit but over all they are saddened by the glut of Star Wars Power or the Force items out there.
The reason why the ARAH stuff is so highly priced is our parents threw them out, sold them in yard sells or we played with them ourselves so much they just fell apart. Now that we have grown and gotten jobs of our own, we are buying back pieces of the childhood we had.
So I hope some of you are not banking on the future resale value of these guys. There is going to be way too much around for the value to increase in such a way that you will get rich off them. The value of the 25th line should be measured in how happy it makes you feel or how many wonderful childhood memories they remind you of. These are toys and are meant to bring joy and happiness. Any monetary value is just an added bonus
Many of us need to take a lesson from the 90’s and remember the crash of the Comic book market, the crash of the Sports card market, the crash of the Collectable Gaming card market, the crash of the Beanie Baby market, or all the other crashes of value that came from the shear volume of products that people picked up like everyone else and stored away. The 25th line will be around for a long time even if Hasbro stops the line.
I agree 100%
I wish I had sold my comic book collection years ago.I remember starting collecting when I was young.I still have like about 20 copies of McFarlanes Spider-Man 1 and almost all 80's-90's comics mint some never even read,now they aren't worth much.Kids just don't read or collect comics anymore,change of the times with the internet and video gaming
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