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Greetings from Crave, your Transformers marketplace by fans, for fans!

This week we’re bringing you more selection than ever. Now you can buy or sell “Customs” and “Lots” in addition to individual TFs and parts. Everything is still well-organized and easy to find in the Crave Transformers catalog of nearly 4000 TFs. For TF sellers, don’t forget about your chance to win up to $100 in our April Seller Contest. With 3 ways to win, the competition is still open and it’s anyone’s game. Read on to learn about the contest, the newest and best priced items currently on the marketplace, and the latest tools for sellers to promote their listings.

Recent Sales Highlights:

First Charity Listing Sold on Crave
Long time Crave user and seller Jason Carnley sold the first charity listing on Crave on April 15th. His custom cartoon style G1 Optimus Prime with LED lights and lots of other customized additions sold for $300. Jason will donate half of the proceeds to IDES (International Disaster and Emergency Service) to benefit the earthquake disaster in Japan. Here are some great photos of this awesome figure:

To see more TFs for sale by Jason, you can visit his storefront.

New Record Sale Time
A new record was set for the shortest time between listing and purchase on Crave this week. On April 14th a relatively new seller, Clyde Leonard, listed a G1 Astrotrain at 11:17am. Nine minutes later at 11:26am that Astrotrain was purchased, setting a new record for Crave!


The Latest & Greatest for Sellers

10 Days Left for the April Seller Contest:
With just 10 days remaining, the game is still yours for the taking, and you have 3 ways to win! Remember, the seller who sells the most TFs wins $100 to Amazon, the seller who grosses the most dollars wins $50 to Amazon, and the seller who sells the most expensive single item wins $20 to Amazon. No seller can win multiple prizes. There is still time left, for full details and tips on making sales click here. or get started selling here

The Seller Storefront is here:
The seller storefront is a great way for sellers to promote all their listings. On your Crave profile buyers can now view all your listings at once. Share the link to your bio with your friends and other fans in email, on Facebook, in forums, or on your blog. You can check out one of our most prolific seller’s inventory by clicking on the image below!


We are certainly not above shamelessly plugging Crave and its sellers to anyone who will listen, and we want our sellers to get in on the fun. So we will begin giving out forum and email signatures to all interested sellers that will link directly to their storefront! Click here and copy and paste the code into your signature. Forum goers who click on this signature will automatically be linked to your individual store front. You don’t have to change the code at all!


How to list Lots and Custom Figures
If you have a bunch of TF’s to sell but don’t want to list them individually, list a Lot by clicking here.

We have also been getting requests to list customs on the site. Now you can! If you customized an existing TF with a repaint or other modifications, go ahead and list it under the catalog entry for the figure you upgraded and describe the upgrades in the notes section. Alternatively, if you made something new, click here to list it as a custom product.

Customs with Joe:

Crave’s resident customs mad scientist Joe Lewis has posted his 3rd weekly article to our blog. Click here to read about his successful surgery on Classics Ironhide.


The Latest & Greatest for Buyers

Vintage G1!
With over 700 individual listings currently on Crave, there are a lot of fantastic vintage G1 TFs that you may have overlooked. Click here for our recent blog post on vintage G1s currently listed on Crave


New and Good Price Listings:

Fangry w/ Brisko
For sale by Jason Carnley
Series: G1 1988, Series 5
Condition: Loose - Complete
Price: $72.50 (shipping included)


Rodimus Minor
For sale by Johanthon Sylvester
Series: Animated, Deluxe
Condition: Packaged - Sealed
Price: $22.00 (free shipping!)


Dead End
For sale by Alex Hennen
Series: Alternators
Condition: Loose - Complete
Price: $35.00 (shipping included)
Good Price Votes: 4


Air Strike Patrol Tailwind
For sale by Harold Martin Gunabe
Series: G1 1989, Micromasters
Condition: Loose – Complete
Price: $3.00 (shipping included)


Skullgrin
For sale by Craig Chappell
Series: Classics, Generations
Condition: Loose - Complete
Price: $12.96 (shipping included)
Good Price Votes: 6


Superion
For sale by Johanthon Sylvester
Series: Transformers Movie Universe, ROTF
Condition: Packaged - Sealed
Price: $60.00 (free shipping!)
Good Price Votes: 6


Bumblebee
For sale by Cole DesRosiers
Series: Animated, Deluxe
Condition: Loose - Complete
Price: $13.00 (shipping included)


Hot Rod
For sale by Alex Condon
Series: G1 1986, Series 3
Condition: Loose - Complete
Price: $72.00 (shipping included)


Wheeljack
For sale by Hao Yu
Series: Alternators
Condition: Packaged – Opened - Complete
Price: $36.99 (shipping included)
Good Price Votes: 5


Lugnut
For sale by Andrew Huynh
Series: Animated, Voyager
Condition: Packaged - Sealed
Price: $20.00 (shipping included)


Ironhide
For sale by Johanthon Sylvester
Series: Classics 2.0 - Universe
Condition: Packaged - Sealed
Price: $49.00 (free shipping!)


Blitzwing
For sale by Andrew Huynh
Series: Animated, Voyager
Condition: Packaged – Sealed
Price: $25.00 (shipping included)


Rodimus
For sale by Andrew Huynh
Series: Classics, Deluxe
Condition: Packaged - Sealed
Price: $61.00 (shipping included)
Good Price Votes: 7


Ultra Magnus
For sale by William Clifton
Series: Animated, Leaders
Condition: Loose - Complete
Price: $30.00 (shipping included)
Good Price Votes: 8


Blurr
For sale by Prime Magneto
Series: Classics, Generations
Condition: $22.00 (shipping included)
Price: $22.00 (shipping included)
Good Price Votes: 8

As always, we love to hear your feedback on how we can improve Crave. If you haven’t tried it yet, we’d love to hear why not. If you love it, we’d love to hear that too. Visit our Feedback tab on the site or email us (info@crave.com) with your suggestions.

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Erin & Kabe, Crave founders