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Big day tomorrow at Vectis
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<blockquote data-quote="sith-smith" data-source="post: 329292" data-attributes="member: 43"><p>I could debate all day about he concept of rarity. It is one of the most over used terms in collecting and as far as I can see there is no set understanding of what it means in terms of toy numbers.</p><p></p><p>There is however a big difference between people who collect because something is few in number and people who struggle to find something because it is few in number.</p><p></p><p>Most people who collect Palitoy don't do so just to know they have one of kind pieces, they more often than not are tyring to complete a run (12, 30 45a etc) When you have many people doing this pieces get snapped up very quickly, often they don't show up publically for sale and when one does it's all systems go. </p><p></p><p>Like I said, a piece being rare in the sense that there is only one confirmed is not going to get the money if people don't want it. An item that has many examples but has high desirability is going to get a very high price.</p><p></p><p>There's a enough of the majority of Palitoy figures that hit a high price to make the term rare seem little misused. 'Rare' in the sense of availability as people buy and they get locked away never to be seen again, but not in terms of examples in existence. And yes more are discovered all the time. Makes me laugh when people say 'these are becoming rarer'</p><p></p><p>No they aren't...far more are known than there were 5-10 years ago.</p><p></p><p>Unless the person saying it is secretly U grading them!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sith-smith, post: 329292, member: 43"] I could debate all day about he concept of rarity. It is one of the most over used terms in collecting and as far as I can see there is no set understanding of what it means in terms of toy numbers. There is however a big difference between people who collect because something is few in number and people who struggle to find something because it is few in number. Most people who collect Palitoy don't do so just to know they have one of kind pieces, they more often than not are tyring to complete a run (12, 30 45a etc) When you have many people doing this pieces get snapped up very quickly, often they don't show up publically for sale and when one does it's all systems go. Like I said, a piece being rare in the sense that there is only one confirmed is not going to get the money if people don't want it. An item that has many examples but has high desirability is going to get a very high price. There's a enough of the majority of Palitoy figures that hit a high price to make the term rare seem little misused. 'Rare' in the sense of availability as people buy and they get locked away never to be seen again, but not in terms of examples in existence. And yes more are discovered all the time. Makes me laugh when people say 'these are becoming rarer' No they aren't...far more are known than there were 5-10 years ago. Unless the person saying it is secretly U grading them!! [/QUOTE]
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