Quitting/putting collecting on pause

I'm feeling pretty good about it.
Damien said:
If you do it, they can do it. But they can't do it - so you shouldn't be able to either. That's the full extent of it. They NEED you to know that you just haven't really thought this through like they have, so that you can come to the same conclusion that they did and keep it all.
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Damn. This hits on other things I got going on, too.

Thanks.
 
Alt said:
None of these people are buyers. But they sure are invested in what I'm doing with my property and time.

It's the weirdest f****** thing, and I think this level of projection has to be another recession indicator.
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Unfortunately it isn't. I used to get this ALL the time when I was playing Warframe of all things. I'd get rare loot drops I didn't need and then put them up for prices on the market that were way lower than most folks. I'd get this exact same shit.

It's people who cannot fathom that you just don't care that much about "value" in the way they do. It's like Damien says, if you could do it, so could they, but they've locked themselves into a way of thinking they cannot reason themselves out of.
 
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It seems to me they feel like your crashing the market... on paper they probably feel "toy rich"?

At one point with Toy biz ML, I collected one to open and display and a set of MOC... but at some point I decided that was silly and liquidated almost anything MoC... I liked to open them and play with them... dont know why I thought I was a MoC collector. which isn't to say I dont have a few carded figs, but they are things that I got autographed or seemed very special... like I just thought the Backwards Carded Marvel Girl figure to show off her tattoo was too cool to quit. Anyway I sold them all pretty much for what I paid and they went pretty quickly... but that was always my style back in the day... if I saw a rare figure that I knew people would want Id pick it up and offer it for cost + shipping... I wanna say I found a whole slew of TB Dragon man figures that I did that with and a lot of people couldn't understand why I wasn't cashing in... Ive just never been in the hobby to make money, and some folks dont get that,
 
JakeEkiss said:
Unfortunately it isn't. I used to get this ALL the time when I was playing Warframe of all things. I'd get rare loot drops I didn't need and then put them up for prices on the market that were way lower than most folks. I'd get this exact same shit.

It's people who cannot fathom that you just don't care that much about "value" in the way they do. It's like Damien says, if you could do it, so could they, but they've locked themselves into a way of thinking they cannot reason themselves out of.
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It's interesting because I am the sole source of much of what I'm listing, but even using eBay and checking groups, I just don't agree with a lot of the pricing. Yes, eBay Sold is factual data, but a global market (and fees) is not reflective of a local Pick Up preferred scene.

Like my dad always said with Wizard guides, it's only worth it if someone is paying it.
 
Gothneo said:
It seems to me they feel like your crashing the market... on paper they probably feel "toy rich"?

Ive just never been in the hobby to make money, and some folks dont get that,
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Good point. If I wanted to have assets, I'd play the portfolio.
 
Yep, it's the classic "I don't need you to lose, but I don't want you to win". They've probably had a lot of the same feelings we've all been having but have been unable to get themselves over the hump. They're all stuck in the cycle and feeling shitty about it- overwhelmed, overburdened, etc. And the last thing they want to see is someone else successful in the thing they're trying to do.

One of my old acting teachers always said that success defies gravity. The higher you get, the more things (mostly people) will try and drag you back down. All you gotta do is keep rising. If they ain't paying your bills, pay the bitches no mind. You got this, Alt!
 
Alt said:
It's interesting because I am the sole source of much of what I'm listing, but even using eBay and checking groups, I just don't agree with a lot of the pricing. Yes, eBay Sold is factual data, but a global market (and fees) is not reflective of a local Pick Up preferred scene.

Like my dad always said with Wizard guides, it's only worth it if someone is paying it.
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eBay is still the largest, and most objective, market for finding out "sold" prices, but I don't really view it as a global market anymore. Not since they changed their policies and made selling outside of your home country site much more difficult. The old days of Overstreet and Wizard price guides where some people make prices up and publish it are gone (thankfully). Really the most comparable holdover today is the grading companies but they usually only go on the perceived quality of the product and not the price.

eBay still heavily favours US sellers selling in the US or outside the US versus other countries selling outside their countries.

Also I completely agree that trying to sell locally isn't even apples versus oranges. More like apples vs being injected with Covid and getting run over by a car. Outside of popular/rare items I don't see sellers getting Ebay prices too often in local deals. Maybe at toy shows where there is a more motivated market, but personal dealings and on fan sites is much more difficult.
 
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Also I completely agree that trying to sell locally isn't even apples versus oranges. More like apples vs being injected with Covid and getting run over by a car. Outside of popular/rare items I don't see sellers getting Ebay prices too often in local deals. Maybe at toy shows where there is a more motivated market, but personal dealings and on fan sites is much more difficult.
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The last show I just went to in Mississauga, I could not believe that the average price was about $80. Most people were trying to get between 60 to 120. God help you if you want Mezco.

It feels very out of touch, or at least, they want to give you 20 but they want you to pay $80.
 
A lot of times I find that just donating used toys and taking a tax write off is easier and will net as much as selling them on something like eBay. Especially if its something I just took a BaF out of and still has the packaging... Salvation Army or toy drives will gladly take those. All the fees, time, effort and cost of trying to sell things that are not in huge demand isn't going to yield a big return.
 
Alt said:
The last show I just went to in Mississauga, I could not believe that the average price was about $80. Most people were trying to get between 60 to 120. God help you if you want Mezco.

It feels very out of touch, or at least, they want to give you 20 but they want you to pay $80.
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Yeah I'm going to be selling at the Ajax show on the 26th and I have my expectations set to what I believe is a realistic range. I mean I am driving a good distance and don't want to have to drag back a bunch of stuff. So I like to say that my pricing will range from "why not just give it away" to "SCALPER!!!" :ROFLMAO:

Basically I'll be pricing most stuff to move, some things will be middle range price-wise, but there will be a few pretty rare items that I will sell but only for a good (high) price because I don't want to part with them unless I can get a good price, and the show will be a chance to test the waters a bit for possible future sales of other rare items.

I always find it kind of funny when I see sales threads, or posts where the person says in the title "Must sell" or something similar. Then when you see their prices you realize they aren't serious about "must sell" but rather they have their expectations way too high.
 
I'm trying to work up the mental energy to pull out the bins and see if it's time for another purge. I do this every few months - just go look and see what I have put away and if I actually still want it. Which is probably a weird thing to do since I could probably sit here and name every figure in there. But I do find it helps to look at them, mess around with them, etc. And 'purge' probably isn't the right word because I don't even have that much stuff anymore, so it would be more like 'get rid of these three figures I don't really want anymore.'

I have been a lot happier with my collection(s) since I started rotating out displays, though. Only having a small percentage of my collection out at a time lets me appreciate them more and keeps more from getting that overwhelmed-by-clutter feeling of just having the whole place covered in toy shelves. But that means my immediate answer to maybe getting rid of stuff can't be "well, what was I okay putting in storage?" - which is how I used to do purges back when I displayed everything.


Right now the only things I have on display are a half-dozen Savage Crucible figures, my new MOTU Chronicles figures, maybe a dozen Classified figures, the sole BBWS figure I have, a few MLs with the Sentinel... and my son and I have a shared JoyToy Warhammer 40k collection that is displayed in his room - about 30 figures in total. Plus I have 4 figures displayed downstairs on our big book shelves (the Spawn KS figures, one of my Mezco Conans, and a HACKS figure.

So maybe 70 figures or less are displayed in total. Less if you consider that only about half of the JoyToy figures are 'mine' and the rest are my son's. But I've got at least 3-5 times that amount stored away. Hell, I must have at least 70 figures just in my MOTU Origins bin, not to mention two castles.

I feel like something else has to go still. I'm just struggling to figure out what. I have a feeling it's going to be some more SWB figures and some more Classified figures.
 
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