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Bonsai_Tree_Ent said:

When I sell on Ebay auction I have taken to adding 'This auction will run to the end" at the bottom of the listing. I can understand the temptation to end early as a seller in cases where you are not clued up on the value. A few years back I sold a whole bunch of odds and ends including a pair of vintage golf balls that were wrapped in a shiny cellophane type material and in their original box, started everything at 99p. I got a message offering £50 for the golf balls and I thought that sounded really good, but I let the auction run because I figured if the buyer is offering me £50 then he is at least going to bid £50 so let's see what happens. They sold for over £300!

So the whole point of a buyer try to instigate a backroom 'buy it now' is so that they secure the item cheaper than they think they would if the auction was left to run. I guarantee that anyone offering you £50 to end early is going to be prepared to max bid more than £50 when the auction timer ticks down to zero.

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Many a time I have offered an amount to end the auction early only for it to be rejected and in the end selling far lower than I offered. Swings and roundabouts. It's very easy for a seller to say "no". We can be saving them 15% in Paypal and eBay fees so it can be advantageous. I've certainly rejected offers on eBay only for it to sell much less. It's all a gamble and whether you are prepared to hold your nerve.

Andy, I agree, and as long as the seller is happy with the amount that is the main thing - ultimately they can always say 'no'! And I am of course not directing any of this personally at yourself. There are some sleazy opportunists who might have messaged her offering a tiny fraction of what they are worth with the intention of flipping it for a huge profit, but it sounds like in this instance she has been paid a far price and I am really chuffed that this has gone to a SWFUK member who will cherish it (just jealous it wasn't me! ) It's worth saying again - absolutely beautiful condition Special Offer Cantina, perhaps the best one left in existence even. Congrats mate!

Bonsai_Tree_Ent said:

Andy, I agree, and as long as the seller is happy with the amount that is the main thing - ultimately they can always say 'no'! And I am of course not directing any of this personally at yourself. There are some sleazy opportunists who might have messaged her offering a tiny fraction of what they are worth with the intention of flipping it for a huge profit, but it sounds like in this instance she has been paid a far price and I am really chuffed that this has gone to a SWFUK member who will cherish it (just jealous it wasn't me! ) It's worth saying again - absolutely beautiful condition Special Offer Cantina, perhaps the best one left in existence even. Congrats mate!

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No I knew you weren't directing at me. In many ways I wish all auctions would run to the end but sometimes you have to be in it to win it and you have to play the game as unfair as it seems sometimes. What I can tell you is I wasn't the top bidder of the auction (off eBay). There was someone who bid higher but they just wanted to flip on eBay and the seller liked and trusted me more so for once the good guy won!!!
Rest assured I will love and cherish it. Plus it gets me half of the 20 backs in one fell swoop. Trouble is now I want a mint Droid factory!! :wink: Thanks btw they are lovely.

Decided in the end to start a Rebel Commando focus...always liked this figure. Remember playing with it in my Grans house one Christmas morning
Latest additions in over the last few days....more to come.
Palitoy 65 back, Made in Hong Kong MOC
65 Back French GDE Card back (Delighted with this addition)
Palitoy 65 back China cardback with mint complete painted face China COO figure.

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I am going to do a post soon about a little discovery with the Palitoy 65 MOC figure....

Some nice cards Jeff

Great focus !

Andyclarke said:

palitoyjunky said:

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Missed this one, what a beaut and thanks for taking pics of all the Star Wars pages. People can be a bit guarded about showing contents of catalogues.

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Pleasure mate, might as well show it in all its glory.
What I didn't show was the contents of the price list.
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Very interesting...thanks for posting the images.

dianoga77 said:

:wink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2IUDF-p2Ug :wink:

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This little beauty arrived today and is, for me, one of my top grail items. Yeah, that's right, a 77-back Klaatu Skiff Guard MOC is one of my grails. Don't call the nurse just yet because actually it's not. See that price sticker at the top-left? That's my grail.

This MOC is from the main toy shop where I used to buy my SW figures - Carter's of Bradford, which housed three floors of toys back in the day. It actually came from the collection of the shop owner's son, which went to auction after his death 5 years ago. That small price sticker holds so many memories that I can't stop looking at it and smiling. (Yeah, just typing that I realise how stupid it sounds!!). I've been after a MOC from one of my childhood toy shops for a long time now, but deep down I never expected to find one.

Thanks to Joe for posting his 8D8 with the same price sticker about 10 pages or so back, and pointing me towards Andy Davies who was selling these. By the time I got to him he only had two left - this and Prune Face - which were on eBay and finishing the very next day. Well, there was no way I was going to miss out.

Managed to pick up a couple of cheeky little Palitoys out here - the TFP comes with Kaybee sticker so interesting how that made it over. The AT At Driver is a beauty

Absolutely stunning pair of Palitoys

Sweet moc's Iain :shock:

that AT-AT driver is a peach Iain !

Surely you won't want to keep him and will obviously offer him up on your next sale thread ?......

Right?......

Oh go on......

Nice pair, Iain

Wow love the AT-AT Driver. Great score there Iain.

Some more awesome Palitoy goodness! 8)

V kool Ian 8)

Paul your nostalgia fuelled post was upstaged by a bit of red, white and blue!! :lol: I'm really glad you picked up that figure from Andy, it's great to have something in your collection that means so much to you and brings back YOUR childhood memories! Glad it all worked out and I hope you find a few more "Carters" stickered figures!

Iain - Nice Pali's haha!

Some absolutely amazing stuff recently congrats to all, to many to mention I will leave that to JEZ.. :lol: :lol:

Love the Palitoy goodness and that catalog is something I would love.

Joe said:

Paul your nostalgia fuelled post was upstaged by a bit of red, white and blue!! :lol: I'm really glad you picked up that figure from Andy, it's great to have something in your collection that means so much to you and brings back YOUR childhood memories! Glad it all worked out and I hope you find a few more "Carters" stickered figures!

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Cheers Joe :lol: Yeah, I think everyone's going a bit over the t.... ooooh, nice Palitoys Iain!

To paraphrase 'Airplane': "Looks like I picked the wrong day to pick up a MOC-with-a-childhood-toyshop-price-sticker"