Do you buy HT just to resell?

[Doctor Who]

I still have to sell anything I've ever collected in all of my life. I buy because I want it. I want the toy, not the money.

 

[meanstreak]

Some people sell some they wanted before, to fund things they want more now.

 

[wookster]

Never sold a figure from my collection. I admit I have to keep a lot in storage becase of space issues, but I buy to keep. The only reason I'll ever sell is if life goes belly up or the freakin Tories stay in power too long in the UK and my kids need a boost in the college fund!

 

[Gully Foyle]

Hot toys is no different, unlike sideshow and other polystone statues that have intrinsic value , HT is just cheap plastic toys with some cloth

Sideshow and other statues are polystone which will last forever, and more important they are hand painted so there is no time premium loss. Human's ability to paint does not improve over time. Same as a painting, a classic will always be a classic and worth the price, sure there will be other similar paintings in the future but it doesnt matter.

the only "intrinsic" value a statue has is as land fill or a paper weight. They, like toys, are worth something because people want to pay for it. It really doesn't matter what material its made out of. You're also fooling yourself if you think the people hand painting statues are "artists".

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[el81295]

Did Mego or Sideshow figures really look amazing and realistic in their day?

Megos never looked realistic to me as a kid growing up. They looked closer to the comics and Saturday morning cartoons.

At the time I was just ecstatic at having clothed comic figures. Megos were toys meant for kids. We played with and loved them as toys. Thoughts of resale value or collectibility never entered the picture.

Hot Toys caters to a completely different crowd than megos did.

I can't imagine 7 year olds buying Hot Toys to play with.

Since Hot Toys popularity is closely tied with realism, older figures will probably lose resale value as newer figures are re-released by Hot Toys or competitors blow the old ones away.

The slide in resale values wouldn't be so bad if Hot Toys didn't seem so intent on re-releasing previous figures. Still this may be offset if the overall quality (joints, rubber) of the newer figures drops.

It may turn out that the head sculpts are the only things worth keeping from the newer figures and collectors flock to the older figures for higher quality suits/bodies.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

I've got about 15 1/6 figures and sold only 3

 

[RagingBull]

I'm actually selling off anything which isn't 1/6 scale to finance my future HT PO's! I've sold one HT figure, which was my Batman Dx which i had twice & which went on to pay up 3 HT PO's I had close to being due up at the time.

 

[hordeall]

Its hard not to sell when you ask yourself "Would I pay $400 for this plastic figure".

Difficult to pass up easy profit.

No is usually the answer and I just get it again when its cheaper

 

[Kiva]

I don't buy the figures to sell. But i buy the figures only because i know they will sell.

I have spent $k's on many Medicom figures in the past. They usually sold at half what i paid so when i had to make some funds i suffered a major loss. So now i am very very put off from buying them. There is at least 5 figures i really want to own from them but i cannot bring myself to do it because all though i want the figures i will lose out big time on the money i spent some time in the future. And i am not in a financial situation to piss money away.

However, hot toys rarely seem to go down in value so i semi-freely buy them knowing that if i ever so sell them im not looking to make a big loss (or loss at all, some things ive sold ive had about £400 profit on)

But then i buy 1:1 Sideshow Predator replicas and the price doesnt really enter my mind because i want them and do not plan to sell any time soon.

 

[dino76m]

i would love to buy some extras to flip..but im from india and there isnt a bug margin of profit when u include all the customs and shipping , i has bobba fett ex on pre order with the thought of flipping but cancelled , its just not worth fliping for me frm india, all u guys in US and singapore , HK are lucky in that way

 

[a-dev]

i would love to buy some extras to flip..but im from india and there isnt a bug margin of profit when u include all the customs and shipping , i has bobba fett ex on pre order with the thought of flipping but cancelled , its just not worth fliping for me frm india, all u guys in US and singapore , HK are lucky in that way

Yeh I haven't made much if any profit on things I've sold so far because of how much it cost me in the first place with shipping. Plus I've only sold here at SSF where people expect prices lower than ebay.

 

[Jediguy]

I don't buy the figures to sell. But i buy the figures only because i know they will sell.

I have spent $k's on many Medicom figures in the past. They usually sold at half what i paid so when i had to make some funds i suffered a major loss. So now i am very very put off from buying them. There is at least 5 figures i really want to own from them but i cannot bring myself to do it because all though i want the figures i will lose out big time on the money i spent some time in the future. And i am not in a financial situation to piss money away.

However, hot toys rarely seem to go down in value so i semi-freely buy them knowing that if i ever so sell them im not looking to make a big loss (or loss at all, some things ive sold ive had about £400 profit on)

But then i buy 1:1 Sideshow Predator replicas and the price doesnt really enter my mind because i want them and do not plan to sell any time soon.

True story!

 

[CollectorNC]

I see a lot of people on here post sale threads with stuff that just came out. Some are people with personal issues that need the dough and I understand, but others it's like, what...did you bother to enjoy it for even a week before you have it up for sale and some times it's at retail which makes me really wonder why they bought it.

 

[a-dev]

I see a lot of people on here post sale threads with stuff that just came out. Some are people with personal issues that need the dough and I understand, but others it's like, what...did you bother to enjoy it for even a week before you have it up for sale and some times it's at retail which makes me really wonder why they bought it.

I notice that aswell and have much the same reaction about it as you. Some of these guys must be absolutely loaded that they can just buy any figure on a whim, get it, decide they don't want it and move it on so quickly with little or no profit. If I think theres any possibility that a given figure is likely to be something I will end up selling, at all - let alone after so short a time, then I will stop and ask myself if I should bother buying it in the first place. I just cancelled an order for a second Keaton Batman partially for that reason and am considering cancelling the Batman/Bruce Wayne too since I would likely sell the bulk of that immediately and possibly don't really need any of the new parts that come with it.

 

[CollectorNC]

I notice that aswell and have much the same reaction about it as you. Some of these guys must be absolutely loaded that they can just buy any figure on a whim, get it, decide they don't want it and move it on so quickly with little or no profit. If I think theres any possibility that a given figure is likely to be something I will end up selling, at all - let alone after so short a time, then I will stop and ask myself if I should bother buying it in the first place. I just cancelled an order for a second Keaton Batman partially for that reason and am considering cancelling the Batman/Bruce Wayne too since I would likely sell the bulk of that immediately and possibly don't really need any of the new parts that come with it.

It boggles the mind man. I saw one the other day which included the new Rogue, the new Jason PF, and many new HT figures. Just odd.

 

[jkno]

the only "intrinsic" value a statue has is as land fill or a paper weight. They, like toys, are worth something because people want to pay for it. It really doesn't matter what material its made out of. Human man hours can be spent digging a hole and then filling it back up 1000 times. That doesn't make the hole worth more.

You're also fooling yourself if you think the people hand painting statues are "artists". They are no different than employees adding eyelets to a pair of Nikes. They get told what to paint, how to paint it. Paint by numbers. Thats not art.

Totally agree!! Look at some of the custom paintings made by the customizers themselves and see the high quality there and then look at some regular releases. I've seen this in the 1:1 props and helmets domain too. The fan made props are many times way better than licensed ones for the same reason: the creator of the unlicensed ones is putting a part of this soul in sculpting/assembling them and then painting them, compared to the unaware/uninterested/underpaid Chinese factory worker.

 

[ali032373]

Yeh I haven't made much if any profit on things I've sold so far because of how much it cost me in the first place with shipping. Plus I've only sold here at SSF where people expect prices lower than ebay.

I've never been successful selling anything here. I appreciate wanting prices lower than ebay. Totally understandable- buy from the cheapest source. But I think people here want prices below reasonable market value. Some super, mega discount.

In my mind the benefit of selling outside of ebay is that the buyer pays less and the seller keeps more of his/her money. So the two parties are basically splitting the ebay cost. But just like buyers go to the cheapest place, sellers go where they can maximize the sale price. Often, that is not here.

 

[CollectorNC]

I don't think anyone should really ever be forced to sale below retail frankly, particularly on here. We all know the retail and then what is marked up on Ebay, so retail is fine in my mind. Now if it's like Cap PF and 2000k on Ebay, I really wouldn't expect it to be 2k on here, maybe 1500.

 

[a-dev]

I've yet to sell anything on ebay. I'd really love to get an ebayesque amount for my Batpod if I decide to sell it since I'd actually rather not have to part with it but could really do with that amount of money right now. Of course if that were to be the first thing I ever attempt to sell on ebay, at the kind of price the Batpod typically goes for there, I might have trouble getting a buyer for trust reasons, I dunno. I could link people to my feedback here I suppose? The other thing of course is paypal might put a hold on my money if I do sell it until a certain amount of time has passed without complaint from the buyer which I've heard they've been doing lately on some transactions.

 

[CollectorNC]

I've yet to sell anything on ebay. I'd really love to get an ebayesque amount for my Batpod if I decide to sell it since I'd actually rather not have to part with it but could really do with that amount of money right now. Of course if that were to be the first thing I ever attempt to sell on ebay, at the kind of price the Batpod typically goes for there, I might have trouble getting a buyer for trust reasons, I dunno. I could link people to my feedback here I suppose? The other thing of course is paypal might put a hold on my money if I do sell it until a certain amount of time has passed without complaint from the buyer which I've heard they've been doing lately on some transactions.

I hate ebay. I won't use them. I'll meet other collectors through local comic/collectible shops or perhaps post on here.