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The seller will be laughing all the way to the bank!

Tom
 
It's only money and if you really want it, well money is no object. In past years, I think I paid around $100 each. Once, someone gave it to me as a gift. On the reverse side, I've sold Chicago Show figures for ok money, plus gave away a figure to a friend a couple of years ago.
 
Wayne,
No offense, but this seems to be a recurring post! The PM figures are very low quantities ever made, whether repaints or slight tune ups, whatever. They bring bucks and are usually purchased by the collector who has to have it all. That is just the way it is. While "ridiculous" to you, not to others.

As I have previously stated, I put an extra PM 1 Napoleon figure (by the way, it is a Del Prado figure, but repainted to higher quality by K&C and was the first dealer promo figure) up on ebay about 4 years ago at an opening bid of $74.99. It sold for $555.99 or thereabouts. I thought it was a little nutty, but I enjoyed "cashing the check" so to speak. The collector wrote me when he received it that he was thrilled to death to get it and he would have gladly paid whatever it took to get it. I thought, more power to him, he is enjoying his hobby and I was a fortunate recipient.

I really don't find any price shocking. Collectors of all things will pay what they pay at the time of purchase. The next figure could go for $75 or it could go for $350, you just don't know. If you really want something, you find a way it seems to get it, we just all have different limits on how far we will go!

Again, in my opinion, not that ridiculous.

TD
 
Couldn't have said it better myself. If you want something and have the money, not a big deal. Whatever makes you happy.
 
Wayne mate,
If you want that figure badly, like I do, then you should attend the Brisbane K&C Dinner in July. For the last two years the figure used at the West Coaster Dinner has been the same one given out by Andy and K&C at the Brissy Dinner. Be there cobber.^&grin^&grin
No empty boxes from young Andy.:smile2: Sorry about that little mix up, mate. Figure departing soon.
Cheers Howard
 
tdubel said:
Wayne,
No offense, but this seems to be a recurring post! The PM figures are very low quantities ever made, whether repaints or slight tune ups, whatever. They bring bucks and are usually purchased by the collector who has to have it all. That is just the way it is. While "ridiculous" to you, not to others.

As I have previously stated, I put an extra PM 1 Napoleon figure (by the way, it is a Del Prado figure, but repainted to higher quality by K&C and was the first dealer promo figure) up on ebay about 4 years ago at an opening bid of $74.99. It sold for $555.99 or thereabouts. I thought it was a little nutty, but I enjoyed "cashing the check" so to speak. The collector wrote me when he received it that he was thrilled to death to get it and he would have gladly paid whatever it took to get it. I thought, more power to him, he is enjoying his hobby and I was a fortunate recipient.

I really don't find any price shocking. Collectors of all things will pay what they pay at the time of purchase. The next figure could go for $75 or it could go for $350, you just don't know. If you really want something, you find a way it seems to get it, we just all have different limits on how far we will go!

Again, in my opinion, not that ridiculous.

TD
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No offense taken mate be a boring place if we all saw eye to eye so to speak.
I still find it ridiculous that money for 1 figure but thats just My opinion,good luck to the new owner hope he enjoys it.
(I might just get 1 repainted for 50 bucks instead....................^&grin).
 
I can see both sides, just paid $300 for a new release 3 months ago which sold out at $100 each. Not happy that I paid 3 times it's worth, but I had to have it. I have come to the conclusion I am nuts. Funny hobby this.^&confuse, Robin.
 
Just re-read all contributions - and I find myself in the almost unique position for me, of agreeing with everything said!

The World is indeed a faintly ridiculous place. A gaudy string of polished rocks around someon'es neck can cost millions! A piece of canvas with a few dabs of paint on it - with some figure with a square head and one eye ( with a foreign name squiggle at the bottom) can again cost some rich guy huge amounts of money.

So too - miniature pieces of metal in the shape of a Toy Soldiers - can be worth - well - whatever someone is prepared to pay for them! Some of us are either richer - OR at least are prepared to stump up more cash, than others to have ownership of them - if even for a short while. Others of us find some other way of getting something like it - by buying something that costs a bit less - and either paying for it to be converted/repainted - or making/ and/or casting and converting/repiring/re-painting something that may not be EXACTLY that - at least looks something, (or perhaps even a lot) like it.

I am definitely NOT the best painter on the planet - but if I see something that I like - I usually find SOME method of obtaining something like it that satisfies me, sooner or later, at a price that I am willing to pay.

I think that most of us in this hobby are just like that - and somehow or other- we just find a way that suits us.

And well done - all round, says I. - jb.
 
To me healthy secondary market prices are a win / win / situation for the brand and the hobby as a whole...........................IMO of course :wink2:
 
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