I think its kind of wrong to put everyone selling it into the "flippers" category. I myself sold this for a pretty penny, not because I really wanted to, but because I had to. The dilemma the seller faces ( I sold mine on a local board not Ebay) is that , if people keep offering lots of money for it, why on earth would anyone knock that back? I know I had 3 guys actually all trying to out bid against each other before I even had the statue. So it offers up a crazy scenario, where someone offers to buy your statue at the listed price , then one guy comes over the top, then another over him, then another.....
Then I had guys giving me **** because of this, THEN I had guys wanting to buy it who I 100% knew they were going to re-flip it (Or I knew they already had one). It's a crazy crazy scenario to be in let me tell you. I even had guys from overseas somehow catch wind of it.
I've always been a man of my word, but in this particular case I personally felt I was throwing money out the window. So you could say it's not just the people selling it that are the vultures, it's the people buying it too.
I think this particular type of thing doesn't happen very often and Magneto is a special case. Most of the time things are normal in the collecting business, but this piece opened up my eyes for sure. Funny thing is 3 months before release I had it up for $1700 and no one had a bite, then the madness of the internet brewed everyone up into the perfect storm and it's still happening.
Great piece though, had a sneak at the box art and sculpt before shipping it on. Very impressive. Feels like a high end collectible. Sideshow are not even in the same league.