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Pete The Greek

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« on: February 29, 2004, 04:22:53 PM »
I know everybody collects in there own way but what the hell is the gi joe collecting world coming to.  Look at these two auctions.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... egory=2467

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... egory=2467

Looks like the johnny come latelys have lots of dough to spent or are really stupid in my view. This is insane.  Like Ed told me, the rubber o rings will break eventually due to the physical properties. This is why I will never be a MOC collector.
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« Reply #1 on: February 29, 2004, 04:29:40 PM »
this is madness, MADNESS I say!!! How many neat figures would you get at those price!!

It will be sacrilege to moc collecting community, but the only cool thing I see from a moc is the pleasure of opening a brand new figure.
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« Reply #2 on: February 29, 2004, 05:54:30 PM »
I didn't even click the links......
AFA sucks.

Why should I listen to what someone else thinks my figures are graded at?

Oh wait..... I do that for my job part of the time.....  :?

Still... you get my drift.
Comics (OLD comics) I agree with.....
Toys..... no.
OPENED TOYS..... yes..... to a point.
Still..... stupid.

Ok.... I looked at the links now.....
 :shock:

Mike
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« Reply #3 on: February 29, 2004, 06:24:10 PM »
Yeah, that's what I was talking about.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's someone working for AFA driving them up.
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« Reply #4 on: February 29, 2004, 06:25:27 PM »
the ebayers "type s toys" and "doughboys toys" are notorious for racking up AFA prices.
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« Reply #5 on: February 29, 2004, 06:43:15 PM »
ok ...... :shock:  wow.    

I  do not agree  with the whole AFA  MOC grade thing....  for toys

Like Mike ,  comics.. OLD ones  yeah   that i can undertand....

but for  god sakes  You  could buy a huge collection for the prices those two figs are  going at   individually.
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« Reply #6 on: February 29, 2004, 06:47:07 PM »
There's still 6 more days left for the CC. I wonder what the final bid will be. Anybody want to guess or take bets? I'm guessing around $6000
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« Reply #7 on: February 29, 2004, 07:00:33 PM »
$6000 yeah you're probably right... imagine the cool collection one would build at that price.
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« Reply #8 on: February 29, 2004, 07:47:18 PM »
This what I don't get and I will use Firefly

I got a mint one years ago for 30 US.  So your telling me that the cardboard is worth 3,670.00.  Hogwash.  I bet somebody is running up those auctions on purpose.
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« Reply #9 on: February 29, 2004, 09:40:28 PM »
whoa cardboard rates are growing fast these days ;)
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« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2004, 12:56:32 AM »
I've got some CHERRY CHERRY Cdn carded figs from 84/85 and even i, the mad hater of haters of AFA have been thinking about grading them all, replacing them with non-graded figs and getting a house. ;) The only thing stopping me is that they're Cdn and even though they're rarer, they probably won't go for as much...that and i'd have a hard time replacing nice Cdn examples.
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« Reply #11 on: March 01, 2004, 01:16:47 AM »
I've got nothing MOC and like it that way.   :)

The thing that gets me, is that people still actually have these toys that are unopened from 20 years ago.  How the hell does that happen??
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