SublevelStudios
Sith Lord
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Well put Barry 
SWFUK will be the 'last stand'!
SWFUK will be the 'last stand'!
Michael Sith said:x-pack said:I like my own collection a lot. It means the world to me but it's changed very little since 2002 when I had that big damned sell off :roll: The price rises over the last 5 or so years are slightly depressing because the hobby has gotten away from where a lot of us started. The collecting aspect isn't fun anymore. It's just money, money, money :x
There have been a few similar threads lately about established collectors losing interest. 20 years ago no-one would have said that because going out there hunting around in shops or second hand sales was so exciting. That's all gone now and forums like this are the last bastion of enthusiasm for this hobby. We should endeavor to stick together and keep it upCollecting is still cool but in a different way maybe.
:wink: in a nutshell Barry, very well put
The main ethos of this forum, for me, is that it doesn't matter if you have a few old beaters, or an outstanding collection, it's the fact that you love collecting for what it is, yes change is inevitable in all walks of life, but if the love of SW is at the core of why you collect then things may change on the price front in time, and settle.
slim said:i feel the same frank mate, i lost my mojo for the squidhead focus awhile back because of the crazy prices starwars seems to achieve these days and got into collecting action force second series , doing that helped me destress about the worry of spending hundreds of pounds running into a few thousand pounds for the rarer stuff for the focus ! so apart from planning to add a couple of cheaper bits to the focus my attempt at a focus is done
I had / have to learn to be thankful for what i have in my collection as you cant own everything as Joe said , but it tells me something that when i can buy 28 mocs , 15 boxed vehicles , a cracking shop display , 7 shipping cartons from the actionforce second series range for the price of an afa graded squidhead miscard this starwars collecting is not fun anymore thats for sure
Will the prices come down ??? NO chance ESP as when the new movies come out even more people will start collecting , i dont know where it will end guys , most of us on here are around the same age as we grew up with starwars and now have / children / mortgage etc etc and those things are far more important , maybe these new collectors dont have these commitments then add into the mix these auction house sales and all the fees that go with it ....its time for a break away from collecting for me , i am not selling up " no chance "
i am going on a nice holiday with my family soon and will look at the hobby when we return
rant over
shawn_k said:It seems like most of the guys paying these prices are still typical middle class guys that really shouldn't be spending several thousand dollars on toys every week. I recently saw some discussion on this on FB, about some of them mentioning they are continually transferring credit card balances to try and avoid interest on their recent purchases. It's going to take possibly years for these guys to pay that off and they're also still buying. It's going to catch up with them eventually. I've certainly bought stuff on credit, but when I've done it I've made sure it is something I could pay off in a few months and that usually meant no buying until I had done so. It just seems like this current market is all about keeping up or one upping each other.
wrighty said:I think Ove is right, on FB there appears to be 'social media pressure' to have something to show every week. In my opinion if you can't buy something outright then you shouldn't buy it financed on credit cards etc.