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12-15-2008, 10:46 PM | #31 |
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Well I gues I am in agreement with most people, everyone has multipules of these figures and driving up the demand because like everyone said "we buy them all up" Sometime soon, and I see it happening fast we will be flooded with even more revision waves and all the hard to find figs will be peg warming. This line will never be worth what vintage figs are worth. I collect because I enjoy having some of the stuff when I was a kid and it brings back lots of memories. I hope some of you arent planning on retiring off of these lol.
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12-15-2008, 10:48 PM | #32 |
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I dont even understand the whole AFA thing, sounds like a money making scheme to me and is kinda contrary to the spirit of what this Joe line has become seems to me.
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12-15-2008, 11:00 PM | #33 |
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I think this is all a ruse to get people to quit buying figures so they can troop build.
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12-15-2008, 11:20 PM | #34 |
U and ur friends r dead.
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If you are collecting because these things are going to be valuable, then you are collecting the wrong thing.
In this day and age, I would seriously doubt that any toy currently collected by anyone will never be worth much more than what you paid for it. I collect all kinds of things, and by far the items that I collect that are valuable are wanted by a wider range of people than just toy collectors or more specifically, GI Joe collectors. I collect vintage Christmas ornaments and have over 500 from the 30's through the 70's. I used to collect Christopher Radko ornaments, but they are way too expensive and their secondary market value is for shite. I also collect comic books, and the newer comic values are in the short term. So I buy cheap, and sell high, knowing that when the trend is finished, I can buy the ones I want back for less money. When my comic/toy shop was open, people would ask me which toys they should collect. The first thing I told them was to ONLY buy toys that they liked. DON'T specifically buy toys that everyone is collecting, because there will be too many that are in mint condition and no one will need to buy them. I gave the advice that if you want something to collect for value, find out what kids are playing with, and buy those. Buy the ones that kids open, break, play with, etc. That way when they are 25 to 40 years old, and they have the most disposable incomes of their lives, they will want the toys back that they played with. There are NO EXCEPTIONS to this rule until Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers came around. Those are some of the first toys that kids played with AND the most collectors saved. The rare piece from those collections are valuable, but for the most part, there are too many still mint in package. Besides, unless it's MOC.....GI Joe, Star Wars, MOTU, and many others aren't as valuable as people think. The exception to that rule WAS Transformers until the reissues and the updated versions of those made the old collectibles virtually undetectable as new to the untrained eye. Even myself, a seasoned collector won't buy vintage Transformers unless I know the person that owned them as a child. Finally, collect because you like them, not because they are going to be valuable. Right or wrong, those are my two cents.
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12-15-2008, 11:27 PM | #35 |
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Ya'll are gonna make me run out to my shed and start opening vehicles and other figures! And I am gonna have a SH*T-Eating Grin when I do it too!!
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12-15-2008, 11:30 PM | #36 |
U and ur friends r dead.
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Well, it's a good thing you live in Texas. If they were kept in a "shed" anywhere near where I live, you might as well open them.
Cold and heat is not good for them.
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12-15-2008, 11:44 PM | #37 |
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Well, I will get the last laugh! I have hundreds of cases of the red card 1995 Star Wars figures. I'm gonna be RICH!
As an addendum to my previous post, I don't collect them for future value. I like the way they look. That is why I also collect them loose. There are way too many people collecting MOC things these days to the point they have no chance of being worth anything. Some may due to variants or whatnot, but not in general. |
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12-15-2008, 11:50 PM | #38 |
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Does anyone here really truly believe that they will be selling their MOCs and unopened vehicles years later?
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12-15-2008, 11:58 PM | #39 |
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I just buy what I think is cool and what I liked as a kid. I keep very few figs MOC. I don't think this stuff will be worth much in the future. Maybe I'm wrong, but it's so hard to tell. When it comes down to it, what's anything worth? Only what someone is willing to pay for it.
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12-16-2008, 12:33 AM | #40 |
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i dont think theyll top tha vintage stuff. we all have our luv of tha new stuff, but it cant compare to tha feeling we got when those tha vintage stuff hit. but hey, if tha 25th gets to that level, more power to it, but i guess we'll just have to wait and see. and u had a good point, we are older and know how to take better care of everything now.
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