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preeny101
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The purpose I started this thread was not the actual reselling but the strongarm tactics flippers use to get you to sell to them or to haggle the price down after the sale. Its unethical. Look, if you're willing to spend $1000 on a HT Pred because it is a Grail, that's fine and its fine for someone who owns it to offer it at that price e if that's what the market dictates. But don't try to threaten me with stop payments and bad feedback because you are trying to renegotiate after the fact and I am firm on the price. Save those bullying tactics for elsewhere. In other words, what I own is mine to sell so don't act like I'm stealing from you because I didn't sell it to you. Me being a curteous seller and answering your inquiries does not mean we closed a sale. And just because you are pressuring me for my paypal info doesn't mean I agreed to anything, either. Its called etiquette and some buyers just don't have it.
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I'm not saying reselling is bad or even selling over retail. I've done it myself. But if someone is offering something for market price (whether that's retail or 10x retail) and then someone uses intimidation to try and get him to sell for less, so he can then turn around and sell at market price - that's wrong and antithetical to the collector community spirit we're trying to engender here.
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We as a collecting community can thumb our noses at "flippers" all we want but the reality is that if it wasn't profitable then they wouldn't do it. I can't tell you how many members on these boards (myself included) tried the flipping game, buying multiples of something at retail to sell once the price inflated and were burned, badly. I still have multiples of stuff that I'm sure I couldn't even sell at retail so they just rot in the box.
eBay is not the marker of what an item could or should be sold for, many sellers once they know they have a hot item inflate the price anyway and others follow suit if not higher. 90% of the folks on these boards check the F/S section for a good deal something that is better than an AD or eBay and a lot of times they are deals and other times there aren't.
Personally I've always thought that selling an item for what you paid for it is the only community/collector friendly way of doing it. If I paid $50 for Patient Zero, then I should sell him at that price that I way I'm regaining my cost in full. If I paid $450 for Patient Zero then I should sell it at that for the same purpose. Let's be honest though, that isn't the case, while it happens from time to time most people will sell it for what they think they can get for it and that's that. The low-balling thing is hilarious but again easily deleted and forgotten about.
eBay is not the marker of what an item could or should be sold for, many sellers once they know they have a hot item inflate the price anyway and others follow suit if not higher. 90% of the folks on these boards check the F/S section for a good deal something that is better than an AD or eBay and a lot of times they are deals and other times there aren't.
Personally I've always thought that selling an item for what you paid for it is the only community/collector friendly way of doing it. If I paid $50 for Patient Zero, then I should sell him at that price that I way I'm regaining my cost in full. If I paid $450 for Patient Zero then I should sell it at that for the same purpose. Let's be honest though, that isn't the case, while it happens from time to time most people will sell it for what they think they can get for it and that's that. The low-balling thing is hilarious but again easily deleted and forgotten about.
This is something I think we all can, or should, agree with. I've not had that happen to me on this board yet, and hopefully never will. Sounds more like blackmail than bartering.
This thread is pure irony and hypocrisy.
I guarantee most of you complaining about people making low ball offers to you have done the exact same thing when buying something. If they act like an entitled douche though, i agree, just tell them to ____ off.
As for flipping...every day i see all of you self proclaimed innocent 'true collectors' selling your hot toys figures or sideshow marvel statues for double retail and calling it market value.
The day any of you sell a highly sought after item for exact retail that you originally purchased it for is when hell freezes over.
PS: You're a FLIPPER too!
I guarantee most of you complaining about people making low ball offers to you have done the exact same thing when buying something. If they act like an entitled douche though, i agree, just tell them to ____ off.
As for flipping...every day i see all of you self proclaimed innocent 'true collectors' selling your hot toys figures or sideshow marvel statues for double retail and calling it market value.
The day any of you sell a highly sought after item for exact retail that you originally purchased it for is when hell freezes over.
PS: You're a FLIPPER too!
Devil_666
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oh hi! new member here. i have lot of hot toy and sidshow item for sale. i asking $8000 + fresh humin kidknee for hot toy predature old one. he very in high demand. my price is fair. please contact me with pm if interesting.
p.s i cant post in the for sell section!?
p.s i cant post in the for sell section!?
I got your PM. Of course, I can pay as a "gift"! Payment sent!
Hi, im very interested in your price. HOwever i hope you don't take this as 'low balling' you....but since im fresh out of kidneys, will you accept a left testicle instead?
ebor
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I collect 1:6 figures, just like I collect comics, boxing cards and art. I do this for pleasure not profit. When I decide to move on in my collecting habits, I hope I can recoup what I paid, but to have something I treasure go to someone that just flips it, o-well.
I like selling and buying face-to-face. Not easy in a global-market (collecting or otherwise) that we live in.
When I sell or purchase some thing face to face, I see the pleasure of doing business and helping someone get something that they obviously appreciate buying or selling.
When you buy and sell on-line its hard to tell. Suffice to say I have never been burned or have burned or swindled others.
I did recently meet a self professed flipper at a local comic shop. I purchased a IM Mark VI. I was happy. He was on his I-phone searching for current values on E-Bay. He bought 6. He could afford this he told me because he would sell 5 for profit. He also bragged that he had 4 HT Tumblers. I said I'll give you $600 for one jokingly, you obviously don't have enough space for them. He snidly replied, Heh, I can get $1500 online to sell. He didn't see the fact that this was something that I valued, but not with the inflated price.
But that is how the cookie crumbles. Some see pleasure in other peoples pleasure, some lord over others and see profit over anything else.
Keep on Flippin' flippers, I will keep on collecting in my own way
I like selling and buying face-to-face. Not easy in a global-market (collecting or otherwise) that we live in.
When I sell or purchase some thing face to face, I see the pleasure of doing business and helping someone get something that they obviously appreciate buying or selling.
When you buy and sell on-line its hard to tell. Suffice to say I have never been burned or have burned or swindled others.
I did recently meet a self professed flipper at a local comic shop. I purchased a IM Mark VI. I was happy. He was on his I-phone searching for current values on E-Bay. He bought 6. He could afford this he told me because he would sell 5 for profit. He also bragged that he had 4 HT Tumblers. I said I'll give you $600 for one jokingly, you obviously don't have enough space for them. He snidly replied, Heh, I can get $1500 online to sell. He didn't see the fact that this was something that I valued, but not with the inflated price.
But that is how the cookie crumbles. Some see pleasure in other peoples pleasure, some lord over others and see profit over anything else.
Keep on Flippin' flippers, I will keep on collecting in my own way
Everything i have ever sold on here , i got PM'ed with a lower price than what i was asking for.
WTF everything i ever sold , i was lowballed a bit
If my asking price is $190.00 - don't ask me if i will sell it for $150.00 shipped
if i wante dto sell it for that low of a price , i would have listed it at a lower price - i love when they include Free shipping to Antartica
When someone lists something I want, I pm them to see if it was a shipped price if they don't list that in their listing. But what they ask, I pay. Sometimes they even drop it on their own accord. I know I have asked once or twice that if they haven't sold it after a while and come down in price a bit, to message me. But I do not make that a habit.
I sold some dead figures last year and a member bought them from me. I gave him a bit of a deal since he took all three together. Another member messaged me and wanted them as well. I didn't break my agreement with the first guy, even though the second guy would have paid my full amount. I'm the one who decided on giving the deal and also doing business with the first buyer. I'm not going to disappoint the person.
preeny101
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This thread is pure irony and hypocrisy.
I guarantee most of you complaining about people making low ball offers to you have done the exact same thing when buying something. If they act like an entitled douche though, i agree, just tell them to ____ off.As for flipping...every day i see all of you self proclaimed innocent 'true collectors' selling your hot toys figures or sideshow marvel statues for double retail and calling it market value.
The day any of you sell a highly sought after item for exact retail that you originally purchased it for is when hell freezes over.
PS: You're a FLIPPER too!
You miss the point of the thread. Except for the highlighted line. My only problem with selling on this board.
I have no problem with anyone flipping to be honest. I've given away free stuff, I've hooked people up at cost + shipping on high end items, and on occassion I scalp the hell out of some ____. A lot of how I sell something depends on what I currently have going on. If I have a lot of ____ coming up or something big going on outside of collecting I'll sell high. If I don't have much on order and things are calm around these parts I usually sell for cost. If I'm cleaning my storage area and come across stuff I've forgotten I even had I usually sell for really cheap. If someone doesn't like my price I just tell them to find it at a better price somewhere else. If they persist, I have no problem being an internet bully.
RUMADMAN
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wow!!! looks like someone had to vent over nothing!!!
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Skiman
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I don't get this problem that often but I'm also not sure why door to door sales men and Jehovah witnesses don't stay and chat it up with me at my doorstep either. 
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