aonaran
Skirmisher
48 Posts
    
 | | 01/25/2006 6:51 PM |
| Do you other role players sell minis to finance more minis??
I took a look around the local shops and on e-bay and well, Displacer Beasts are dirt cheap as pewter minis but the plastic ones (made from molds cast from the pewter ones by the look of it) were selling for $30 and up on Ebay (US$) so I sold my Harbinger DB and bought a metal one and a troll and still have money to spare, with the left over money and what I think I'll get for my GOL Huge Red Dragon I can buy a case of underdark... Am I the only one who sees more value in that for roleplay than the so-called "rare" minis?
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wildmage
Sneak
123 Posts
| | 01/25/2006 8:12 PM |
| The collector in me wants to keep what I've got (except for duplicates). But I know what you mean- the prices are ludicrous. The appreciation values are high enough that people could (and I expect do) make money on D&D minis "speculation" - buy low and sell high. Apparently all it takes to sell high is to wait until the set goes out of print, plus maybe 4-6 months or so. The "value" seems to shoot up a good 10-30% (sometimes way more- I bought a huge red for $35 back in the day) from the early trading price when people first cracked boosters. Compared to other forms of investment, if it only takes about 1 year for the value to rise more than 10% you've got a viable investment strategy. Buy the hot minis from Underdark now, sell them next spring.
This is all speculation but I totally see your point. I don't really play much skirmish either so the main value of the minis to me is that they're the right scale and they're painted. But there's that darn collector side too...must...have...them...all...(and he dies. Only to rise again as a minis devouring ghoul 1d4 rounds later). | |
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Ghendar
Warlord
13069 Posts
Mud Lick, Kentucky
| | 01/26/2006 7:04 AM |
| | I'm getting very close to selling off a large portion of my extra figures. I think it's time. Have you seen what a LSD or Drizzt is going for on ebay? Yikes! | |
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I dont mind butting heads every once in a while. It makes thing interesting. Thats why I'd be heartbroken if Ghendar ever left - Posted By Count Dooku on 04/03/2006 11:58 AM
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Master Peon
spikegif
Warlord
5699 Posts
| | 01/26/2006 9:35 AM |
| | I have tried to sell of minis to pay for the ones I keep, I have yet to pay for the ones I keep and keep spending more then I should. I have used ebay to sell them off and it has been a lot of work to do so. | |
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Zenako
Commander
3472 Posts
| | 01/26/2006 12:47 PM |
| Yah, the hobby can pay for itself, if you fail to account for all the time you spend making pay for itself. If spikegif nets $100 profit on selling a bunch of minis (Purchase price+expenses-Sales price) he probably spent a whole bunch of time making the listings, tracking them, packaging them, collecting money, dealing with deadbeats and so on and so forth. Be surprised if he nets more than $10 and hour when all is said and done and that is time not spent doing other things.
I have also been able to defray the cost by reselling minis on occasion and this has let me gradually creep closer to the goal of a net invested cost of $0 at the end of the day. (Recently got my net cost per mini to under $0.25, it was over $0.40 last year at one point.) However, to do this effectively you have to have time, space, money and inclination to acquire thousands of minis and turn them over only when the buy low sell higher points are reached. They are a few notably exceptions like the LSD and Drizzt that have exceptional appreciation now, but to make anything worthwhile, you have to scale up the operation to almost business scale. | |
Built the addition for this addiction, now on to the "gaming table" project....
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PatEllis15
Commander
4463 Posts
| | 01/26/2006 2:14 PM |
| Heh... Zenako could write a book about this stuff....
For me, when the figures first came out, my wife was unemployed, and the family budget was DAMNED tight. So, I went and sold off a bunch of RPG stuff that I no longer had any interest in. That allowed me to complete Harbinger, Dragoneye and Archfiends. It wasn't till GoL that I had enough cash to just go buy what I wanted...
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CarrionCrawler
Underboss
1760 Posts
| | 01/26/2006 3:28 PM |
| Person 1 "I sold my minis to buy you that gold-encrusted comb."
Person 2 "I sold my hair to buy you minis!" | |
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MackeyJ
Underboss
1414 Posts
| | 01/27/2006 3:41 AM |
| | Guilty as charged. I quite often sell to be able to buy more. I just can't seem to justify holding onto that $105.00 mini when I know he could be traded in for a whole hoard of Un/commons and maybe even a couple other rares. Or even finance a good portion of my next case purchase. | |
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Sean-Khan
Commander
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WakeXX
Warlord
10152 Posts
Edinboro PA
| | 01/27/2006 11:50 AM |
| | Yep,I do this as well.Sold off some tradebait and bought 2 cases of Underdark with the proceeds.The collector in me won't let me break up my sets though. | | | |
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Sharn Inquisitor
Underboss
1623 Posts
| | 01/27/2006 1:40 PM |
| | I have been so tempted to sell some of my extra DDM rares at times, but my wife instructs me to hold on to them for purposes of trading so I don't have to lay out cash at a later date. I think it makes sense so I haven't sold any yet, but I'm so tempted. | | | |
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Luisjoey
Underboss
1704 Posts
Caracas Venezuela
| | 01/29/2006 8:09 PM |
| | In my pool of fellow players i usually want to trade miniatures to improve my collections, but as we are few and i don´t use internet trade, i sell my extra minis that i don´t need at decent price, i sell pieces that could payme a lunch in days i go to play with few bucks. | |
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