Snaketibe said:Yes, but you're forgetting that the one priced at £600 has been graded, and therefore is worth much more than the £170 one because Billy Expert has stuck a sticker inside a perspex case declaring his opinion about it! :lol:
subzero said:Plus don't forget that the graded one has had it's picture taken at a nice angle, that's time & money right there. :lol:
Darth Bobby said:Think of a number innit
Cazza said:There are shed loads of these ROTJ Stormies around at the mo, after the auction last month. Can't remember exactly how many were sold, but must've been a couple of shipping cases.
Cazza said:It was Hanson's https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/hansons/catalogue-id-hanson10126/lot-99e67cd5-7b93-475a-af20-a88100e11db1
Pomse2001 said:I will never understand why graded stuff is more expensive :?
theforceuk said:Pomse2001 said:I will never understand why graded stuff is more expensive :?
It's because grading is so expensive, a dealer will look for ungraded stuff, spend £50 getting it grading and then demand an extra £100 - £200 for the item depending on the grade it gets. Even more for the high ticket price stuff like Boba Fett and 12 backs. The collectors that only collect graded stuff will spend what they have to as well.
There is no doubt grading has played a part in the huge price increase in the last 10 years. But like I said before, it's what collectors want, otherwise the grading company's wouldn't still be thriving.
AFA are increasing prices soon as well.
subzero said:You know you're getting a **** ton of orders flowing in when you have to increase prices. :shock:
Just think though, once day grading vintage Star Wars will cease pretty much all together anyway when all the good quality stuff has already been graded, there's only so much to circulate through flippers and graded collectors really, in 10 or even 20 years grading could be over, then the only thing left to grade would be low quality figures and beaters. :lol:
Pomse2001 said:I will never understand why graded stuff is more expensive :?
TK-7785 said:subzero said:You know you're getting a **** ton of orders flowing in when you have to increase prices. :shock:
Just think though, once day grading vintage Star Wars will cease pretty much all together anyway when all the good quality stuff has already been graded, there's only so much to circulate through flippers and graded collectors really, in 10 or even 20 years grading could be over, then the only thing left to grade would be low quality figures and beaters. :lol:
It's a fair point. With only a finite number of MOCs left in the world, and presumably fresh MOCs are being graded on a daily basis, we might see a situation in the coming years where for those of us who don't wish to pay the graded tax are forced to do so. Kinda sucks balls really.
It's a very hard thing to judge and quantify but any quick scan through vintage collecting related YouTube videos, Instagram accounts etc you'll easily find numerous comments, whether from the author or viewers, with suggestions or intentions of "getting it graded". More so in the US it seems. Just take a look at any of Dallas Vintage Toys' YouTube videos, for example, where they gloat over their latest hauls. Without fail they talk about sending all but the beaters off for grading, and of course they can't do a video without talking about their in house graded collection. But then I suppose you get collectors of all types who like to get involved in dick swinging contests.
Chris