Today on Facebook...

[tiefighterboy]

Variant collectors..............I'm saying nothing. :roll: :lol:

I think that's what drove a couple people away from TIG. :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[mumbo]

You know when there's a variant collector about because they're always asking for close ups of the figures arse :lol:

 

[Jez]

You know when there's a deviant collector about because they're always asking for close ups of the figures arse :lol:

I corrected that for you Stephen

 

[MarkG]

Pack of 5 cardback 6x9 toploaders for £7.50 + postage... ruddy bargain..

Can get 25 for £17.99 posted off ebay..

 

[walkie]

Is it just me or is this variant nonsense getting out of hand? There will be 5,000 different versions of every figure if people continue kidding themselves that every tiny difference in paint, mould, COO etc is a legitimate, deliberate variant.

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I for one would love that figure, which is surrounded with mystery as there are no known carded or baggies examples in collectors hands and most finds have come from the UK, Leicester and surrounding areas

 

[wrighty]

Variant collect has gone mental it used to be vinyl or cloth Jawa. Now there is COO, cloth material, stitch colours etc etc. The other day someone posted a picture of different Jawa hood sizes and try to imply the small hood are transition from vinyl to cloth cape, what a load of BS I told him!! :lol:

 

[Dannywhiteley]

I believe small hood are much later than the larger hood. Not that I care.

 

[edd_jedi]

I for one would love that figure, which is surrounded with mystery as there are no known carded or baggies examples in collectors hands and most finds have come from the UK, Leicester and surrounding areas

This is a classic example of the word "one of a kind" being misused. There are none known because nobody cares enough to check :lol: I could say my one eye brow Luke X-Wing is one of a kind because nobody has ever listed one for sale before. It's silly.

 

[walkie]

I'm with you boys on a lot of stuff.....stitch colour, hood size all that stuff is bonkers as pretty much anything factory made will have batch to batch differences.

Nothing wrong with coo collecting, there's plenty of focus collectors on here collecting all the different MOC's, which is also variant collecting at heart.

As for the DSC, I have £200 sat here if anyone has one sitting in their collection that they don't know about.

 

[Cardbackkid]

I'm with you boys on a lot of stuff.....stitch colour, hood size all that stuff is bonkers as pretty much anything factory made will have batch to batch differences.

Nothing wrong with coo collecting, there's plenty of focus collectors on here collecting all the different MOC's, which is also variant collecting at heart.

As for the DSC, I have £200 sat here if anyone has one sitting in their collection that they don't know about.

What DSC variant are you after ?

 

[Cardbackkid]

Just read a few pages back , so your after family 3 a or b coo?

 

[lejackal]

Tuskan Raider for £32 anyone? When did that go from a £15-22 figure?

 

[theforceuk]

Tuskan Raider for £32 anyone? When did that go from a £15-22 figure?

That's a good deal, first 12 are £50 now without weapons. Anyone else under your rock? :lol:

 

[walkie]

Just read a few pages back , so your after family 3 a or b coo?

Yep, money waiting.....

 

[edd_jedi]

Tuskan Raider for £32 anyone? When did that go from a £15-22 figure?

Yeah I saw that, a queue of buyers too! Looks like it won't be long until the basic figures are all £50 each.

 

[lejackal]

Tuskan Raider for £32 anyone? When did that go from a £15-22 figure?

Yeah I saw that, a queue of buyers too! Looks like it won't be long until the basic figures are all £50 each.

And I was hoping to have a cheap year buying loose bits....MOCs are looking better value by the day, just missed a Palitoy 65 back Vader tonight for about £86

 

[tiefighterboy]

but aren't these only FB prices??? Ebay is so much cheaper.

 

[lejackal]

In the main it is, yes.

 

[theforceuk]

but aren't these only FB prices??? Ebay is so much cheaper.

Not sure now, my post was because I have seen a load of loose incomplete figures listed at £50 today on eBay. :roll:

 

[Dannywhiteley]

Facebook tax is added because new buyers who don't know anything feel safer on there buying genuine items and are prepared to pay 100%+ above market prices as a result.

 

[tiefighterboy]

Facebook tax is added because new buyers who don't know anything feel safer on there buying genuine items and are prepared to pay 100%+ above market prices as a result.

But it's no more safer than eBay. Fools and their money.

 

[spoons]

Tuskan Raider for £32 anyone? When did that go from a £15-22 figure?

Yeah I saw that, a queue of buyers too! Looks like it won't be long until the basic figures are all £50 each.

That's one that has shot up on eBay too. Tough to find complete for less than £25

 

[wrighty]

Is it time to shift this thread back to the main discussion page? :?:

 

[wrighty]

Not sure if the NHS will agree to this!!! :lol:

 

[user 5830]

I love all the X-Rays, when I saw them on FB I scrolled through the pictures a dozen times... An Art form in themselves! 8) The idea of framing/casing them with the mailers is brilliant too.

 

[xbomber]

Is it time to shift this thread back to the main discussion page? :?:

That would get my vote. Rightly or not it's a huge part of collecting now and the fractious exchange of a few weeks ago has passed.

 

[xbomber]

Talking of fractious, a lot of anger on the echo group tonight as a '90 chaser' has opened a moc.

 

[Mr-shifter]

That seems to have spewed out all over jabbas as well. Something happened in the "plastic crack" group but I am not a member as I don't collect anything graded. It seems to be they have caught someone else out opening Mocs for whatever reason they justify it with.

 

[MarkG]

Talking of fractious, a lot of anger on the echo group tonight as a '90 chaser' has opened a moc.

There was something on there or Jabba's yesterday too... could be the same story. Guy bought an MOC pop up R2 end of last year... and is now selling just the cardback !!

Obviously FB is now drawing in the feckwits that don't care about the hobby, and are purely in it for the money... even if it means opening an MOC :evil:

Some people just need to burn...

 

[theforceuk]

All this important second hand information.

I need to get involved with Facebook more, I'm afraid forums are a dying format.