What is your best ever bargain??

[Darkest_Logic]

hi everyone,

The question is, what is your best ever bargain??

It can be from anytime of collecting, years ago to most recent!!

Thought this would be a good topic to get the forum a bit more active

I'll start this off with a graded UKG 80% Taiwan Boba Fett that I picked up years ago.
I know its not mint but at the total cost of £32 posted I cant really complain

 

[Pomse2001]

hi everyone,

The question is, what is your best ever bargain??

It can be from anytime of collecting, years ago to most recent!!

Thought this would be a good topic to get the forum a bit more active

I'll start this off with a graded UKG 80% Taiwan Boba Fett that I picked up years ago.
I know its not mint but at the total cost of £32 posted I cant really complain

Great idea nice boba. I have no idea about grading and I have never understood it But the figure looks great for the price posted, a very great deal

Now I have to think a lot about my best bargain ever

 

[Snaketibe]

I once picked up an unpainted knee, unpainted dart PBP Boba Fett for about £4 in a second hand shop

 

[lejackal]

One of mine has to be a POTF Yak cardback in with a small bundle of paperwork for about £15

 

[StarWarsFan]

Once picked up an unpainted knee, painted arrow BF, for £1 at a car boot sale, a painted helmet BF for £2 at a car boot. Got a PBP rebel commander for £4 at a Toy fair. A Wing Pilot for £2 at a car boot sale

 

[edd_jedi]

Plenty over the years, but one of the best was this Palitoy Han Bespin for £30 as a Buy It Now on eBay back in 2006. I sold it for £300 a few months later (fool!)

 

[sith-smith]

I got Yak, amanaman (no staff) and Luke stormtrooper (complete with helmet) for 50p each. But this was in my very early days of collecting in 92.

I the 2000's I got a 45a Greedo for £125 Bin. (If I remember correctly). Considering at the time - and possibly still - it was on the 2nd one ever found

 

[Darkest_Logic]

Some great pick ups here, keep them coming!!

 

[scooternick]

R2 Pop up MOC around 2001 £55. Was pretty case fresh but never graded. 80+ I'd say. Loads of 90s car boot pick ups but this long ago probably doesn't count for this type of thread

 

[Dad of Luke]

I suppose I'm cheating a bit when I tell you mine. Only about 3 or so years ago, I found out what a Red Bar R5 D4 is. I went and checked out my own childhood R5 after reading about it and lo and behold, it's a Red Bar!! I suppose my parents paid around £1.49 for it in 1979. Bargain.

 

[Cardbackkid]

Mine would be a boba fett PBP variant 65bk Jedi Palitoy moc for £106 in around 2003.

 

[Cazza]

Around 4 years ago, got a Palitoy 12-bk, large head Han MOC at auction for £225. Bottom left of bubble was lifting (figure couldn't be removed) and someone had drawn around the SW logo. I was chuffed to bits to find the drawing had been done in pencil, so just rubbed it out!

 

[StarWarsFan]

Also got a Luke ST with helmet for £1, Palitoy Death Star cockpit and canopy for £5, got a Blue Snag for 75, 20 years ago, also massive lot of weapons for 2

 

[lejackal]

Around 4 years ago, got a Palitoy 12-bk, large head Han MOC at auction for £225. Bottom left of bubble was lifting (figure couldn't be removed) and someone had drawn around the SW logo. I was chuffed to bits to find the drawing had been done in pencil, so just rubbed it out!

And I nearly had a large head Han palitoy 12 back for £220

 

[sith-smith]

Well, while we are on the subject of the Palitoy LHH... not anywhere near as a bargain as yours, but I put a low bid (by low I mean £1500ish - which at the time was very low as the few sales of one had all been around the £5k mark in previous years) on an AFA 85 unpunched one on eBay.

And won!

 

[lejackal]

This bargain I've actually still got (which is novel for me). November 2018, lovely Vader with lettered saber

 

[Cazza]

And I nearly had a large head Han palitoy 12 back for £220

You snooze...

 

[Cazza]

Well, while we are on the subject of the Palitoy LHH... not anywhere near as a bargain as yours, but I put a low bid (by low I mean £1500ish - which at the time was very low as the few sales of one had all been around the £5k mark in previous years) on an AFA 85 unpunched one on eBay.

And won!

That's a fantastic price, especially for an 85!!!

 

[Cazza]

This bargain I've actually still got (which is novel for me). November 2018, lovely Vader with lettered saber
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Very nice!

 

[Gadders]

Good question - I'd probably go for my Early Bird mailer I picked up around 2000 for around £200 (possibly less). When it arrived I found it had a DT Luke in there, which wasn't mentioned in the sale post. Since had it verified as genuine.

 

[lejackal]

Good question - I'd probably go for my Early Bird mailer I picked up around 2000 for around £200 (possibly less). When it arrived I found it had a DT Luke in there, which wasn't mentioned in the sale post. Since had it verified as genuine.

Awesome!

 

[Pomse2001]

I once picked up an unpainted knee, unpainted dart PBP Boba Fett for about £4 in a second hand shop

Wow that was a fantastic deal

 

[Pomse2001]

One of mine has to be a POTF Yak cardback in with a small bundle of paperwork for about £15

Nice deal, thanks for sharing it

 

[Pomse2001]

One of my best bargain is one I wrote about on the forum in 2016. A friend of mine offered me to buy about 300 of his figures for about £400. I still think it was a fantastic deal.

Here is the link about the story, that I did in 2016 https://www.starwarsforum.co.uk/threads/big-thanks-to-my-friend-for-a-huge-lot.31298/

 

[db94]

Klaatu MOC
I was down in Edinburgh on a course and saw this advertised locally for £5. Nipped in on the way home, bloke had sold it on eBay but it had been returned as the buyer said it didn't have a waffle seal so must be fake.
I took the time to explain that it was actually a tri logo and they didn't have…….. did I hell, I stuffed a fiver in his hand and smiled all the way home

I should point out, bloke had a huge house and 2 cars. I definitely didn't cost him his next meal.

 

[theforceuk]

For me probably Trilogo Yakface for 99p in 1986. Graded the figure in or around 2007 and it got AFA 85. Annoyingly I lost the card back, can't for the life of me think how I lost it, definitely had it in the early 90's and no way would I have thrown it out. I moved house in 1997 and I've never seen it since along with an Amanaman Trilogo card back. Still have the figure for that card back which also graded 85.

 

[Michael Sith]

For me a bunch of figures in a local antiques centre where they had different stall holders

usual madine, ewoks, etc but a nice Vader with original saber all £8 each, noticed an r2 which I could see was a pop up but no saber, picked it up and at the back of it there was a saber, said to the guy, can you hold on to these whilst I go to a cash machine, turns out it was an original saber, got even cheekier and said if I take the 5 figures can you do £30 ? Yes was the answer …happy days

 

[Frunkstar]

Last year I bought a box of bricabrack at the car boot for 1 pound, when I emptied it out later right at the bottom there was a lando skiff & a Boussh, I was never expecting that.

 

[Cazza]

For me a bunch of figures in a local antiques centre where they had different stall holders

usual madine, ewoks, etc but a nice Vader with original saber all £8 each, noticed an r2 which I could see was a pop up but no saber, picked it up and at the back of it there was a saber, said to the guy, can you hold on to these whilst I go to a cash machine, turns out it was an original saber, got even cheekier and said if I take the 5 figures can you do £30 ? Yes was the answer …happy days

You really got lucky there, Mike! They're usually poor condition and overpriced in places like that. Often repro weapons as well.

 

[bosk70]

Told the story before on here but managed to snag three unopened empire atst and one empire slave one unopened for £5 each(total£20) at the local market shop in about 1993, the same shop where i used to buy figs for for a £1 back in the early 80's, think they had cleared a cupboard out, they had loads of cheap ships and figs back in the 80's in rows of boxes on the floor crammed with carded mostly Jedi back then. I only had a £10 on me at the time so rushed home burning rubber in my vw beetle to get the other £10. Made it back the two other boxes were still there , i casually said to the girl at the counter , don't suppose you have any more of this type of stuff knocking about. She didn't know but never saw anymore in there after that but i always popped in for a quick look till they closed some years later. Arrr the good old days
Course i opened them as soon as i got home, but knew enough not to open the bags etc..... it was 1993