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<blockquote data-quote="Bonsai_Tree_Ent" data-source="post: 400991" data-attributes="member: 3845"><p>Max's original point is about selling one item to fund another.</p><p></p><p>There are two ways of doing this, and the first way is the modus operandi I used to build my collection. Buy big job lots on Ebay, badly photographed, ending at a bad time of day, and filled with all sorts - figures, weapons, half broken mini rigs, maybe even a few figures from other toy lines in there. Get them for a good price, clean them all up, and keep whatever choice pieces I needed for my collection, then sell the rest individually. What you keep pays for itself and if you're lucky sometimes even more.</p><p></p><p>The second way, is the one that Max identifies as a bit more of a concern. That is selling a choice item - something you had always intended to keep - but you <em>need</em> to sell it to fund another purchase. That to me is a bit more of an issue, as it shows you are skating a fine line with your finances, and also that you might regret one day parting with that piece. Sometimes even selling on the piece after owning it for less than a year, suggests that maybe the collector shouldn't have bought it in the first place.*</p><p></p><p>*Although sometimes a w**ker seller will start a sales pitch with words to the effect of "I really don't want to let this piece go but..." and whenever you read that you smell the bullshit. It's just a sales tactic to try and hold more power in the sellers hands. Of course the knobjockey wants to sell it, he just wants to get top dollar.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bonsai_Tree_Ent, post: 400991, member: 3845"] Max's original point is about selling one item to fund another. There are two ways of doing this, and the first way is the modus operandi I used to build my collection. Buy big job lots on Ebay, badly photographed, ending at a bad time of day, and filled with all sorts - figures, weapons, half broken mini rigs, maybe even a few figures from other toy lines in there. Get them for a good price, clean them all up, and keep whatever choice pieces I needed for my collection, then sell the rest individually. What you keep pays for itself and if you're lucky sometimes even more. The second way, is the one that Max identifies as a bit more of a concern. That is selling a choice item - something you had always intended to keep - but you [i]need[/i] to sell it to fund another purchase. That to me is a bit more of an issue, as it shows you are skating a fine line with your finances, and also that you might regret one day parting with that piece. Sometimes even selling on the piece after owning it for less than a year, suggests that maybe the collector shouldn't have bought it in the first place.* *Although sometimes a w**ker seller will start a sales pitch with words to the effect of "I really don't want to let this piece go but..." and whenever you read that you smell the bullshit. It's just a sales tactic to try and hold more power in the sellers hands. Of course the knobjockey wants to sell it, he just wants to get top dollar. [/QUOTE]
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