Quitting/putting collecting on pause

yakkotank said:
Some of them are worth a pretty penny, but most aren't worth much. I sold most of my collection about a year ago - this site helped me find which ones were valuable:

www.actionfigure411.com

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It's really going to depend on your market too. When I sold mine, there was just one guy who kept coming back over a month. 'S and the things I thought were rarities he didn't really care about because he had been a collector. He had just missed a couple of the other things that my research says was common.
 
Chooch555 said:
So I created a combined shipping rule, applied it to most of my lots, and 3 sold almost immediately. Great! Some lots were locked for editing (I'm guessing because they were in a cart or some offer messaging shenanigans), but some let me assign the rule, but it won't stick, and other lots won't let me choose a rule at all. Ones I've added in the last few days are in that category. Every lot is auto-calculate shipping by weight so it's not that category. Is there a rhyme or reason to what they let you do? Help has not been helpful.
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If you've sent offers you won't be able to edit anything on the listing except your Buy It Now price for four days - the length of the offer.

I hate that Ebay changed that to four days - most people either buy when they get the offer or never will - giving THEM more time wastes MY time and selling opportunities. And is it common knowledge for Ebayers that they only get one offer on an item they are watching? I assume most don't know this because it's a dumb rule and why they continue watching for months and months and months. Mercari has it right - 24 hour offers, and then whatever new deal I offer, anyone watching gets the notice.

PRLC - I put up some lots the other day and immediately someone asked about one figure in one of them - I said not after all the effort I just put into creating this listing!
 
I've been collecting Star Wars Hot Toys since the first Anakin release in 2017/18. I have about 70ish Star Wars Hot Toys over these years. I only have about 20 on display. I kept buying and hoping that ONE DAY I'll have the space, so keep collecting right?

It just hit me like a freight train last week. "WHAT THE FUCK am I doing??" So much money just to horde things in boxes. I cancelled all my active pre orders on Sideshow, and have started the impossible task of selling off my 1/6th Star Wars stuff.

I am going through all the stages of grief. I guess I am at bargaining right now? I know it needs to be done. Black Series is enough for me. This process hurts my soul. It's going to be catastrophic next year seeing all the 50th anniversary Hot Toy announcements.

It has to be done. I've enjoyed reading other people's similar struggles with this insane addiction (hobby) of ours. Cheers to you all.
 
Mannie_Bothans said:
I've been collecting Star Wars Hot Toys since the first Anakin release in 2017/18. I have about 70ish Star Wars Hot Toys over these years. I only have about 20 on display. I kept buying and hoping that ONE DAY I'll have the space, so keep collecting right?

It just hit me like a freight train last week. "WHAT THE FUCK am I doing??" So much money just to horde things in boxes. I cancelled all my active pre orders on Sideshow, and have started the impossible task of selling off my 1/6th Star Wars stuff.

I am going through all the stages of grief. I guess I am at bargaining right now? I know it needs to be done. Black Series is enough for me. This process hurts my soul. It's going to be catastrophic next year seeing all the 50th anniversary Hot Toy announcements.

It has to be done. I've enjoyed reading other people's similar struggles with this insane addiction (hobby) of ours. Cheers to you all.
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I think it's a separate habit you cultivate after a while where you start to take the real inventory of your things not just in terms of what collection you're building, but the incidental ongoing costs of owning and housing all that stuff.

One of the things that's almost certainly going to happen to my collection in July when I do my next big purge, is evaluating some of the display stuff I've collected over the years now that I have access to the materials and tools to make my own pretty dope displays. I've got a whole footlocker of this stuff that I was putting together a piece at a time and y'know, maybe I don't need all that. Maybe I can design my own in a way that's more functional and space saving.

One really good mindset to cultivate is the idea that it's ok for something to have been right for you at a certain time. We default to thinking the version of ourselves that we are right now is this permanent thing, but we change. We grow. It's cool to look at something and think, y'know, when I got this I had some particular aspiration, but my priorities or circumstances have changed, and enough time has passed that having this isn't worth what I'm giving up for it.
 
JakeEkiss said:
One really good mindset to cultivate is the idea that it's ok for something to have been right for you at a certain time. We default to thinking the version of ourselves that we are right now is this permanent thing, but we change. We grow. It's cool to look at something and think, y'know, when I got this I had some particular aspiration, but my priorities or circumstances have changed, and enough time has passed that having this isn't worth what I'm giving up for it.
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This is crucial. I love rotating things in an out, permanently I mean. There are very few things that I know for certain will ALWAYS make me happy. And those are my Boba Fett helmets, heh. Almost everything else, if it's not bringing me the same joy, that's okay. I can take it off the shelf.
 
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