>Yeah, I trade children's toys like stocks. Toys are my currency. Gotta buy and sell. Get 'em graded. Flipping. Muh value. Market speculation.Give me one (1) reason why these people shouldn't be put to death.
>>11802872Without them a lot of vintage wouldn't be available to the rest of us, so they're a necessary evil for the sake of keeping old inventory circulating in the collector's market. However grown-assed adults lining up at 7 AM at all the Walmarts and Targets so they can hoard all the Pokemon cards, LEGO, and everything else they can should be deported along with all the illegals Trump's deporting.
>>11802904>they can should be deported along with all the illegals Trump's deporting.sounds like scalpers and beaners alike are here to stay
>>11802908I'm pretty sure a lot of Pokémon scalpers are wetbacks
>>11802929All the ones I've seen have been White 30-somethings who had them as kids, missed out on that holofoil Charizard, and have since dedicated their lives to hoarding and selling as many Pokemon cards as possible.
>>11802951Fat, balding, middle aged millennials who are obsessed with their childhood franchises, hoarding shit, and obliterating the market for normal people are a scourge on society
>>11802904I want to understand what you're saying but at the same time I absolutely refuse the idea of having to pay $200+ for an old classic jango fett minifig.
>>11803158I just wish we got more bricks in violet, its such a nice color
>>11802965They're a bunch of con artists artifically inflating the value of cards in "pump and dump" scams, and should be jailed.
>>11803158A MISB G1 Megatron with a high grade is worth around $10,000.$200 is nothing.
>>11802965Ironically, the neckbeard hoarder reseller market is making most retired sets more accessible by increasing the supply. I specifically collect Lego from the 90s and early 2000s and lots of the things I want are nearly unobtainable because few people were treating Lego as a collectible at the time. In fact, Lego was going through a near-bankruptcy the early 2000s and production numbers on things were quite low, which is why figures like >>11803158 are harder to come by.It wasn't until the first 10179 UCS Falcon retired and shot up in value that articles about "Lego is better gold", etc started popping up. Then, a bunch of ecelebs started making content about Lego and started drawing mass attention to certain things during covid when everyone was stuck at home. That's when things began to get crazy. It turns out, there was very limited available amounts of certain Lego produced, and getting a small amount of media attention can completely tap out the market almost overnight. With high inflation during covid, people also wanted to get their money out of cash and into something tangible, investments like gold, collectibles, etc are more accessible and typically lower risk than real estate or business startups. One of my favourite things in my collection is my 2002 Clone Building Event Box. I got it back in 2016 for $1200. Mandrproductions made a video on it that got a million views and now it's unobtainable and people have sort of figured out there's less than 50 or so in existence. The hardest to find pieces have skyrocketed, but ordinary stuff has sort of flat-lined in value. If I want a ordinary set that retired years ago, I can usually pick it up for pretty close to retail. But it's really normies and social media trends that push up the values on particular items. Batman I and Ninjago are probably the two fastest growing value wise, just because of the attention they get right now.
>>11803185Anon, it's a fucking lego minifig.200 is outrageous.10.000 is outrageous.There is no difference here, I'm not paying for either.
>>11802872People do that with anything that has a collector's market. Art, ceramics (just look at what old Corningware can go for), books, records. Resellers resell. Estate sales are always crawling with them.
>>11803241You sure about that bubbaroo? Because last I checked the big boys know that owning a few copies put you in the big leagues as Mandr puts it during his weekly streams. And if you ain't playing? That's straight up loser talk
>>11803247>tfw not a big boyI'll buy a never version and strip him of his tacky leg printing and color swap a few pieces, I'll live.
>>11803158Its only a problem when people want a 10-20x what they originally paid for a scratched heavily played with version of Jango Fett just because they can take advantage of the fact it's discontinued
The only lego i remember owning was some non-star wars unrelated spaceship, the box is under my bed probably with (some) of the pieces. I have no desire to get a sealed version of it because it wasn't important to me.>>11802872As for this Yoda dude probably wants someones entire weeks paycheck for top grade
It hurts to know my mother put all our toys including a random assortment of lego men on the curb for annual tip collection. Within one day the plastic tub full of toys was taken by someone who saw their inherent value, we weren't asked if we wanted to keep them or anything (Year 2000)
>>11802872is it hard to fake legos?never got how loose legos go for so much
>>11803306Pretty sure there isn't a /toy/ poster alive that will assist you on your journey to fake legos
>>11802872>Give me one (1) reason why these people shouldn't be put to death.It makes Soi Wars consoomers dilate and shit their pants and that's funny.
>>11803251Jango being expensive isn't new. He was selling for $150-$200 over a decade ago. His value is fairly flatlined since most people who want a Jango can get one in a cheap set off the shelf now that's more movie accurate. The method used to be to buy minifig lots on ebay and keep the ones you want and resell the rest on bricklink as individuals. It's become so competitive now that it's pretty rare to come across decent unsorted lots.I have 3 complete Jangos and several extra jetpacks and torsos from lots I bought a long time ago. Pic rel, one of my minifig drawers.
>>11803241Yeah well you don't have to buy it. Resellers (even scalpers, when they aren't retards falling for a "get rich quick" scheme) keep scarce items available, and because of them the item gets to some of the people who want it most.Honestly most price inflation is the fault of consumers, or possibly lego themselves for exploiting a legal monopoly.
>>11803371You have multiple wattos? Why?
>>11803371Fuck youuuuu.Also nice tusken raiders.
There’s this guy with the body shape of Baby Huey that scalps all the good toys at my local Ross.
>>11803410Buying collections and bulk lots to keep the things that peaked my interest. I have multiples of a lot of things.I would typically keep everything early star wars (1999-2010), western, pirates and castle and sell the rest. Anything that is a odd colour like the old sand colours or a speciality, early mold, I have multiples of. That's what's most interesting to me. I think I actually have like 4 or 5 head pieces of og watto.
>>11803655>>11803371Question why are some of them disassembled?Also do you partially use those bags to prevent scratches and such...?I don't have nearly as many minifigs but I just threw most of them in a few plastic containers together.
>>11803662To keep each individual figure and its accessories separated so you don't have to dig through a bin finding which goes to what.
All of those scamdemic era YouTubers who brainwashed normies into investing in toys should also be lined up against a wall and shot
>>11803316NTA but who says he wants to waste his time going on that "journey?"That's like idiots who buy Black Series or Marvel Legends at Ross for $7.99/$9.99 and try to sell it on eBay for $15.99 or more and think they will get rich that way.
I know /toy/ hates this shit but, since op brought it up (being a faggot and all), have any of you ever had toys “graded”? I have some expensive vintage stuff that I’ve thought about it with.
>>11804741It’s by the same hebrews who tried to do that shit with videogames, professional scammers who have been in business for thousands of years tldr
>>11804741>>11804746It's only worth it if it's something legitimately rare. A lot of people get shit graded just to inflate the price of stuff that isn't really hard to find.
>>11804741Fuck Off
>>11804636What is even the point in flipping shit on ebay, anyway? ebay takes a huge chunk of your profits, you're basically losing money
>>11805044The other thing that makes no sense to me is when people buy from ebay sellers just to turn around and flip the items on the same platform for 2x as much... but after taxes and fees the only money you're making back is the original amount you spent?
