Frunkstar
Grand Master
Anyone else finding the current price increases deflating?, as you all know I love the hobby & the collecting, but increasingly it is becoming more & more difficult to find anything nice to add to the collection that's not going to fleece you & that 10 others want as well, I don't even collect MOC's for the most part or sealed ships & play sets but the cost of even loose figures/weapons/baggie & especially mailers & multi packs are going right through the roof.
Like a lot of you guys I am on a pretty small budget though I constantly overspend it, but that's just not cutting it these days, I have never expected something for nothing & pay my way like most of you guys but finding even something little to add to the focus (any of them) is proving increasingly difficult & I worry about the future of the collecting side of the hobby, hell just look at those boxed items that came up from the toy shop find through vectis, a few years back I am sure we would all have been in with a fair shout at them considering the combined funds we pooled but there seems to be 2 new breeds of collectors who have joined the hobby in force, buying just to flip with no actual love for it & those who are looking at it as an investment or just have the financial backing to buy anything they like & sit on it, I know they have been in the hobby for years, but not in the way they are now from what I can see, it used to be just a few & now its like a free for all,or is it just me living in the past & looking at the hobby through rose tinted spectacles?
Not really gripping or venting, just wondering if others are feeling the same way & if the current trend is affecting everyone's collecting habits, as I can't see it being a bubble that will burst like I have seen some guys here saying, personally I see it just spiraling further & further out of the financial realm of folks with limited finances in everyday jobs.
No rocket firing fett for me or you :lol:
Like a lot of you guys I am on a pretty small budget though I constantly overspend it, but that's just not cutting it these days, I have never expected something for nothing & pay my way like most of you guys but finding even something little to add to the focus (any of them) is proving increasingly difficult & I worry about the future of the collecting side of the hobby, hell just look at those boxed items that came up from the toy shop find through vectis, a few years back I am sure we would all have been in with a fair shout at them considering the combined funds we pooled but there seems to be 2 new breeds of collectors who have joined the hobby in force, buying just to flip with no actual love for it & those who are looking at it as an investment or just have the financial backing to buy anything they like & sit on it, I know they have been in the hobby for years, but not in the way they are now from what I can see, it used to be just a few & now its like a free for all,or is it just me living in the past & looking at the hobby through rose tinted spectacles?
Not really gripping or venting, just wondering if others are feeling the same way & if the current trend is affecting everyone's collecting habits, as I can't see it being a bubble that will burst like I have seen some guys here saying, personally I see it just spiraling further & further out of the financial realm of folks with limited finances in everyday jobs.
No rocket firing fett for me or you :lol: