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12-20-2007, 07:22 PM | #51 |
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I appreciate your thoughts on the subject, CIAD. Duly noted.
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12-23-2007, 08:39 AM | #52 |
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So is 14.99 for a Cobra Air Trooper graded c-9, too expensive?
And just about the whole "scalper" issue, capitalism allows to make the choice to follow our morals and values or not. When I used to collect baseball cards my Dad sat me down and had a long talk with me about how things valued in hobbies. In his opinion, it was what a person is willing to pay for their item and the popularity. Believe me, I want an '83 Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker still carded to finish my Star Wars collection off, but everytime I see them on Ebay and they skyrocket, I think about the baby my wife and I are having in June. Yeah, that figure is diapers and formula or gas to drive to a doctors appointment.... It's all about wants and needs in life and which you value more and when do you have the disposable income for the "wants". |
01-01-2008, 06:22 PM | #53 |
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Originally Posted by C_Spackler
Know what helped me overcome the frustrations of being a collector?
Might sound funny, but I stopped hunting so much. Seemed like the more I hunted for stuff, the more infuriating it was to come up empty handed again and again (since I kept wasting time and gas doing so). It amazes me that people have time/ energy to hit thirty stores a week. That crap was killing me when I did it. Now, I probably only hunt maybe once per week (if that), and I've managed to find everything I'm looking for at some point. And I'm not an extremely lucky person. Not even moderately lucky. Sometimes, I think people just have to let their collecting obsessions go, even if it means not having the "hot" item right now. I haven't even bothered looking for wave 5 yet. Or wave 4. I love my Joes as much as the next guy (my army started in '83 and now stands at 3,000 strong), but I refuse to devote hours of my life to it every week, especially when it only ends in anger. Hey man, I agree with your point. |
01-08-2008, 01:14 AM | #54 |
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Originally Posted by Justanoldfan
So is 14.99 for a Cobra Air Trooper graded c-9, too expensive?
And just about the whole "scalper" issue, capitalism allows to make the choice to follow our morals and values or not. When I used to collect baseball cards my Dad sat me down and had a long talk with me about how things valued in hobbies. In his opinion, it was what a person is willing to pay for their item and the popularity. Believe me, I want an '83 Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker still carded to finish my Star Wars collection off, but everytime I see them on Ebay and they skyrocket, I think about the baby my wife and I are having in June. Yeah, that figure is diapers and formula or gas to drive to a doctors appointment.... It's all about wants and needs in life and which you value more and when do you have the disposable income for the "wants".
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01-08-2008, 02:45 AM | #55 |
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i direct my frustration towards the stores myself. i don't blame scalpers so much. i do wonder how they get what they get when they do, and why i don't know what they know. why do retailers devote so much space to truely dumb products, "agression" wrestling figures, etc? i am still dumbfounded that this popular line is not given more space or distribution and who is more at fault, hasbro or the retailers. i am so sick of this. "america craves mediocrity that doesn't sell, lets stock more and get less that does", i don't get it. i am bout' ready to wave the white flag of surrender myself in the hunt, this shouldn't be a hobby of anger but a quest in happiness. again, finding vintage stuff nowadays is my passion, and sometimes cheaper and more fullfilling.
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01-18-2008, 12:28 AM | #56 |
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Originally Posted by CaptainDinobot
Scalpers do not really bother me, if someone is dedicated enough to get to the store before everyone else and go every morning then that person deserves the product by being the 1st to get to it. The reason they are buying the product is un-important, it doesn't matter.
It may suck that someone cleared the shelves and took every figure but one way to look at it is if you found two 20 dollar bills at the park would you take one and leave the other for someone else, no you'd take both of them. However I do blame the stores for not getting them in often enough. Why on Earth would the stores not want to keep making money on these? They could put 2 cases out everyday and be sold out before they put the new 2 cases out each morning. I'm not too fond of the non-helpful employees either...
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01-18-2008, 12:46 AM | #57 |
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I blame stores too. Example, we all know Target has a policy on limiting purchases on hot colllectibles. But when all the stores don't enforce the policy, that's when things get messed up. Last week, I found wave 5, bought one of each, plus a extra Destro and 5 CG's, 11 figures total. Cashier tells me the limit is 10, which is no biggie, so I put a CG back(there were plenty left). Then I read on another board someone went to Target and bought about 4 cases of wave 5(mostly CG's) and the cashier didn't say nothing.
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01-18-2008, 03:12 AM | #58 |
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Not only that but them not getting things for you when the computer says they are in the back is completely bogus
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01-18-2008, 06:22 AM | #59 |
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I just prefer to trade with other members here.. they get what they want, and I the same. Or if asked to keep an eye out for certain figs (Like some on here have already done) I just ask to be reimbursed for the figure +shipping (And that is actual shipping, not an inflated price.) : )
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01-18-2008, 11:01 AM | #60 |
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Originally Posted by C_Spackler
Know what helped me overcome the frustrations of being a collector?
Might sound funny, but I stopped hunting so much. Seemed like the more I hunted for stuff, the more infuriating it was to come up empty handed again and again (since I kept wasting time and gas doing so). It amazes me that people have time/ energy to hit thirty stores a week. That crap was killing me when I did it. Now, I probably only hunt maybe once per week (if that), and I've managed to find everything I'm looking for at some point. And I'm not an extremely lucky person. Not even moderately lucky. Sometimes, I think people just have to let their collecting obsessions go, even if it means not having the "hot" item right now. I haven't even bothered looking for wave 5 yet. Or wave 4. I love my Joes as much as the next guy (my army started in '83 and now stands at 3,000 strong), but I refuse to devote hours of my life to it every week, especially when it only ends in anger. You make a really good point that letting go of something sometimes brings it to you, whereas holding on so tight you threaten to choke the life out of it sometimes pushes it that much further away. Odd, but true. Thanks for sharing your thoughts... |
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