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Jay. I'm based in Bingley.

Thanks for the welcome guys.

As an update, my collections of figures is pretty much all original. The VC Jawa is a repro - I just don't have the cash or the confidence to buy one.
I think I am slowly down to needing about 3 weapons upgrades thanks to unscrupulous sellers passing repro off as original. The Jawas Armoury really helped to enlighten me. The worst thing is that these weren't just ebay purchases either - some were dealers face to face at toy fairs.

I suppose at some point I will ask the inevitable "is this blaster repro?" question. I just wouldn't be a newbie without doing so :wink:

And one last thing for now - what's the policy on discussing current auctions on ebay? - RS have a keep quiet policy on any live auction and wondered what the policy is here. I don't want to upset anybody if I post up about something. (PS and knowing how the Mego collectors are, i would never 'out' a hidden auction 8) )
 
Paul there is no real rule and most of us collect completely different things to actually create any competition (plus this forum is smaller in numbers) but glad you asked.

To be honest I am in two minds about it all I don't really see why anyone would post normal auction links unless to pass on a good deal or to discuss the item, which you can also do once its been sold, I would be pissed if I missed something due to an auction being outed but I guess that's life, whoever is looking will find it one way or the other.

The only time I ever post auctions is if the price is amazingly stupid, the auction is funny or its some kind of rare proto BIN or something, I don't really feel the need to post that many ebay listings just because its a cool item or an item that could go sky high, I tend to sit back and watch it.
 
Joe said:
To be honest I am in two minds about it all I don't really see why anyone would post normal auction links unless to pass on a good deal or to discuss the item, which you can also do once its been sold, I would be pissed if I missed something due to an auction being outed but I guess that's life, whoever is looking will find it one way or the other.
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Joe. Thanks. If it says Star Wars in the title it's hardly been outed is it? I think really I was just checking because I might want to check on what other members thought about an item - original, recard, fake etc, without the fear of a slapping for outing something good :)
 
Welcome Paul, I also like your name. :)

You have a great looking collection.

When you mentioned Bingley I thought it sounded familiar. I lived in Menston for a little while, but were talking over a decade ago now. I don't think I ever made it to Bingley, but might have seen signs for it on trips to Bradford or Keighley.

Anyway welcome to the boards. I'm sure you'll fit right on in. Just don't out any POTF coins or Luke Jedi items and you'll be fine with me. ;)
 
Paul-itoy said:
Joe said:
To be honest I am in two minds about it all I don't really see why anyone would post normal auction links unless to pass on a good deal or to discuss the item, which you can also do once its been sold, I would be pissed if I missed something due to an auction being outed but I guess that's life, whoever is looking will find it one way or the other.
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Joe. Thanks. If it says Star Wars in the title it's hardly been outed is it? I think really I was just checking because I might want to check on what other members thought about an item - original, recard, fake etc, without the fear of a slapping for outing something good :)
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I shouldn't think anyone would say anything to you if you were worried about recards or fakes, and if you mention that you are interested in the first place when linking an item I am sure the guys here are genuine enough to offer advice and not give you any competition :)
 
Paul-itoy said:
Joe said:
To be honest I am in two minds about it all I don't really see why anyone would post normal auction links unless to pass on a good deal or to discuss the item, which you can also do once its been sold, I would be pissed if I missed something due to an auction being outed but I guess that's life, whoever is looking will find it one way or the other.
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Joe. Thanks. If it says Star Wars in the title it's hardly been outed is it? I think really I was just checking because I might want to check on what other members thought about an item - original, recard, fake etc, without the fear of a slapping for outing something good :)
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As Joe said we all collect different things. Once you get to know people you will realize we try and help each other a lot on SWF, i.e passing on leads for people WTB items, or if i know a focus collectors really wants to win a specific MOC on eBay and its more important to them then i wont bid etc etc

The easiest way to avoid any problems is to save the auction picture(s) to your P.C upload them to imageshack, photobucket or similar and a add the image code to your post. That way the eBay auction isn't outed and the picture will remain long after any auction links would. EBay auctions disappear 3 months after they have ended so the above process is much better for thread prosperity 8)
 
Hi Paul
Do you collect carded mego's ?
I have noticed a few on ebay recently going for high prices.
 
Hi Paul,

Welcome to the forum.

As you can see a great set of lads on here.

I've been looking at Carded Pocket Marvel Mego figures recently. You collect these??
Saw them in a Marvel Spiderman book and thought they looked cool
so I'm watching a few at the mo. Plantman loves his collecting of other toy lines aswell.
 
Welcome Mark and Paul - I know Bingley fairly well Paul, i used to go to the odd party there in my student days
 
I have an aunt who lives in bingley, all i remember is that the leeds/liverpool canal (im sure its called that.. i may be wrong as its bradford) runs near her house and ive fished it a few times, and that to get to her house i need to stay in second gear cos the hill is so bloody steep. :)
 
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Hi Paul
Do you collect carded mego's ?
I have noticed a few on ebay recently going for high prices.
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I have the Starsky and Hutch and Star Trek crew carded. The Superheroes are generally expensive (think 12 backs) and some are so rare that only two or three of certain figures are known to exist which then pushes them into the £thousands.
 
burnsy said:
I've been looking at Carded Pocket Marvel Mego figures recently. You collect these??
Saw them in a Marvel Spiderman book and thought they looked cool
so I'm watching a few at the mo. Plantman loves his collecting of other toy lines aswell.
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No. I tend to stick with just the 8" figures. Have look here if you want to know more.....
http://www.megomuseum.com/
and here for the pocket heroes..... http://www.megomuseum.com/heroes/pocket/figures.html Use the expanding boxes on the left to navigate.
 
Welcome Paul. Best intro & newb questions of late. Welcome mate.
Do you collect otters too?
 
Tatsie has more otters than he has yaks !
 
There is a "how to" use photobucket topic in the vintage section, I will go post there so you see it in orange (although it is a sticky)
 
Paintttttt Painttttttttttttt :lol:

http://starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5448
 
microsoft powertoy is far easier mate, you dont even open the image up you just right click and resize :)
 
Joe said:
Paintttttt Painttttttttttttt :lol:

http://starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5448
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I always use paintshop pro for resizing.

Or if you use Google Picasa to email the pictures to photobucket it will resize the pictures automatically to your prefererred size.
 
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