I hope this isn't going to set the new price!
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Probably go for Best Offer, close to the BIN. :roll:
Mr-shifter
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Nope. That would be a high price for a moc. Anyone who pays anywhere near this for this piece wants their head examined.
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Mr-shifter said:
Or buys from that seller :evil:
Mr-shifter
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ScruffyLookingNH said:
To be fair, before your experience I had purchased a moc from them. Not a bad price in the end and no drama but if I was to buy from them again I would have to really want it and it to be at a good price.
The moc I got was a potf Luke stormy. Another figure that can go for silly money at the moment.
Frunkstar
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Is it just me or what?? WTF is with the prices these are going for, seems like an insane sum to me
Mr-shifter
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r2isamale said:
Wow. A year/18 months ago you could buy a moc for £120, there was a loose graded 85 that sold on here for £100 and a good loose example could be had for around £70 - £80. People where moaning then about the price being too high.
There are thousands of these out there. It is not rare. £250 is not a fair price for one. The grade it might get is irrelevant for so many reasons as it is not graded.
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r2isamale said:
Not sure I could ever be satisfied with owning a U graded figure
Ben, agree with you on price. £250 is insane. Re my comments on buying from this seller, I don't doubt the R2 is as good as it looks at 100% genuine. I just can't see why anyone would deal with these people given their previous form in a handful of cases where they have shown themselves to fall far short of a reasonable standard of honesty.
Mr-shifter
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r2isamale said:
Ok. That post pretty much sums it all up.
U grade collecting is incredibly selfish and destructive. I shan't attempt to educate you but it's safe to say I doubt we will agree on anything. In my humble opinion if you are willing to pay huge amounts of money for u graded figures then you are part of the problem.
Just to be clear. I never sent anything away for u-grading. But someone has to own the figures that are already u-graded, right!? Or should the be destructed as the eork of the devil!?
UKG have stopped U-grading. Who knows when AFA will too.
There are plenty of U-grade threads. Lets not make this in to another.
Peace,
Christian
UKG have stopped U-grading. Who knows when AFA will too.
There are plenty of U-grade threads. Lets not make this in to another.
Peace,
Christian
Mr-shifter
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r2isamale said:
Just want to answer this point if I may. You didn't do it yourself so that's ok? The answer is no, because the bloke you got it off probably did. By paying him $350 for what was probably a $100 moc he sent in to be destroyed, what do you think is going to happen?
He's probably $200 up, easy money right? So he's going to go and buy another 3 $100 Mocs to destroy, because some fool is going to pay him $350 bucks each if afa put the correct little sticker in the box. So by buying them, yes, you are contributing to the issue.
Look at it like the fur trade. If you buy a fur coat it wasn't you that actually shot and killed the animal, but it doesn't mean that an animal was not shot and skinned to make the coat? Demand feeds supply and that is exactly what you are doing by buying u graded figures, especially by paying silly prices for them.
Being a vegetarian and animal rights fighter I can appreciate your comparison. Thank you!
Still think that people should be able to decide for themselves what they do with and to the suff they own, though.
What if a person had 100 MOCs' and wanted to take the figures out to play with and display - would that be ok with you?
Still think that people should be able to decide for themselves what they do with and to the suff they own, though.
What if a person had 100 MOCs' and wanted to take the figures out to play with and display - would that be ok with you?
r2isamale said:
With all due respect, the "it's my stuff I can do what I want with it" line is something I think we are all tired of reading and the comparison between opening figures for a loose display and U grading them for profit is a really bad one, they aren't the same at all. U grading is not something you do because of a personal choice/preference on how something displays or because it's your property and that's just what you want to do with your figures..it's a selfish, destructive and greed driven practice.
The worst thing about U grading though is that it's a complete fallacy. The company behind it relied on the fact that condition sensitive collectors would buy into the fact that a U grade was somehow superior to a normal graded figure of equal grade. They also used a designation on the label which gave collectors the false impression that somehow..a mass produced figure made in the far east, touched by multiple people was "uncirculated" and therefore somehow better.
Boils my piss that people actually got behind the U grade in the first place, if there wasn't a market for it from idiotic collectors who couldn't see the bigger picture and long term effects of opening sealed figures then there wouldn't have ever been a problem.
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r2isamale said:
So I have a pet dog. It's mine, I own it. I really want a pair of dog skin shoes. I think they will look great. The dog belongs to me so I'm going to beat it to death with a claw hammer and have a go at making my shoes. It's my dog right? I can do what I want with it. I'm only going to wear my shoes around the house and there just for me so that's ok, isn't it?
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