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decepticonjon wrote:

TheMuffin wrote:

decepticonjon wrote:how who wants to add up the price of all those g1 figs? that would give you a close estimate. i'm guessing all the figures, sold seperately, is maybe only over 100,000 bucks. maybe 150,000 if the seller worked the buyers for max worth price. but all the other stuff? it's like the movie garbage that's out now.
kinda tempted to get my calculator and tf price guide and start adding.
but then again, maybe i won't.

Aww come on man. Do it for the community.

only if you say that with brock samson's voice

Fair enough. Gimme a minute or two.

EDIT: I just realized that I sound nothing like him when I listen to the playback..

UltraPrimal wrote:Anyone else think it's sad, or evil, that this woman is hocking her dead husbands collection to get rich?

You know, I kinda agree, but I also understand where she's coming from. I mean, if she has kids & hasn't sold them, she's gunna have to either:
- let the kids ruin the legacy her late husband built together with her in a way only children can. (I imagine lots of smashing noises & "Daddy, fix ittt~!!!")
or
- tell her kids that they cant play with the amazing figures they have so readily available, just crying out for playtime...

I think it'd be less evil to sell the collection, it's probably what he would have wanted. I mean, who wants to torment a kid like that???

For her asking price, she could have at least thrown in free shipping.
Then Again if you have a cool $1million to spend on this set, whats another grand?

After looking through the entire collection, including all of the "merch," I'd estimate the current market value at somewhere in the area of 100,000 USD. The packaging is in tremendous shape and that gives a good bump to a lot of them. If you have a million dollars to spend on toys (that is, a million dollars of disposable income) then this is not a terrible buy. Collecting MIMB versions of all of these figures would take a lot of time and effort. If you are looking to assemble one of the best possible collections in the minimum amount of time (perhaps, for example, you want to set up a museum display) then this is the way to do it.

Holy crap...

I mean...

She wouls have been a whole hell of a lot better off offering these individually. A lot better.

Decepticlone Soundwave wrote:The only way I would spend $1,000,000 on TF's like those is if they were AFA graded. Even then, I probably wouldn't spend 1,000,000. I don't care what kind of condition they're in, for the ENTIRE 1984-1991 TF collection, it's not worth over 5 grand. I've spent more than that opn my collection, but then again, I'm re-collecting some of them that are loose, out of box, & 20 years old. I'd never pay $1 mil for ANY TF, even if it is a 200 story Optimus Prime...........

If it transformed I would for sure

I can't believe it. Looks like an amazing collection and would sure be nice to have, but A million bucks!!! Damn!
If I did buy those I would be picking them up personally.

we will be seeing a lot of this in the near future. People trying to cash in on the movie.

That is one excellent collection though. WOW.

haha I like the addition of the F'ed up sob story.

I do believe that the story about how they were her dead husbands collection is in violation of eBays TOS... But damn.. a near complete MIB G1 collection... damn...

I do agree that she should split up the collection and sell it off as individual pieces.. SHe would get ALOT more that way than what ever the highest offer will be

I don't think she is after getting market value for the collection. She is basically asking for charity money. If only one of the actors or producers sees this please give me 1M. so that I can go to vet school.

Great collection, sucky story, but waste of the posting fee for a million dollar auction. I'm sorry, but I'd rather take my million bucks and get me a Ferrari Enzo. TF collection be damned.

Bonger wrote:Great collection, sucky story, but waste of the posting fee for a million dollar auction. I'm sorry, but I'd rather take my million bucks and get me a Ferrari Enzo. TF collection be damned.

Amen brother!

whoa if they were AFA graded, then they'd get that

Justicity wrote:I mean, if she has kids & hasn't sold them

She's selling her children?

Renne wrote:

Justicity wrote:I mean, if she has kids & hasn't sold them

She's selling her children?

Bonger wrote:

Renne wrote:

Justicity wrote:I mean, if she has kids & hasn't sold them

She's selling her children?

Hey, not my fault it's poorly written.

TFBuyer wrote:Check it out....is it worth it?

http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Ultimate-Boxed-G1-Transformers-Collection-1984-1987_W0QQitemZ230150167114QQihZ013QQcategoryZ4696QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Not quite sure...

I say not even close, because when Takara decide this time with the new Re-issue serie encore to bring all the G1 Transformers out again those will lose his price more as in the half. And that's really friendly cause those were maded in Japan not in China.

Blitzwing, Sixshot or Devastator would be the only ones I'm interested in. If it was a good price.

If I had 1million to spend on tf's, the world would not be a good place to live. Dum de dum de dum.

What's the difference between normal Prime and megs, and the movie versions listed at teh bottom of those lists?

I bet another million could be spent on the shippimg and handling.

She's like race car driver Augie Cahnay from the episode Trans Europe Express. She wants her million bucks too. She's got to know very few people have that kind of money. I doubt they would be blowing it in a used Transformers collection. Brand new or other wise.

That collection she has is probably worth 5,000 to 10,000 dollars at the most. She would probably get a bit more than that if she tries selling it separately. Like a poster said here previously.

I have never seen anything like the ebay novel she wrote in the description column, I do believe that only a woman would try and pull on the heart strings of the ebay global marketplace, in an attempt to line her pockets with a million dollars.

The collection is impressive, true, the bots look mostly immaculate, also true, but a million dollars for 3-4 years worth of transformers and the knowledge that they were collected on the dollar of a dead man is ridiculous. A million dollars would be too much if she had every production TF created!

I think I would be less irritated about the auction without the backstory. Or if I knew that she accidentily added too many zeroes to the opening bid.

Bottom line, if this chick gets out of debt and becomes a vet on the back of TF fans, I will laugh long and hard.

The only collection I can think that would come close to a million dollars is Ryan's. People these days are stupid enough. You can make a good amount of money if you have some food that looks like the face of Jesus or watch that segment on Jay Leno with the "Stuff We Found On eBay".

Fireblast wrote:The only collection I can think that would come close to a million dollars is Ryan's. People these days are stupid enough. You can make a good amount of money if you have some food that looks like the face of Jesus or watch that segment on Jay Leno with the "Stuff We Found On eBay".

Yah, no. His are not sealed, so I'd highly doubt its even close.

Every singal TF ever made in a sealed box wouyld not be a million. Maybe like 300k is my guess. Can anyone with some time and a calculater verify that?

Bonger wrote:

Fireblast wrote:The only collection I can think that would come close to a million dollars is Ryan's. People these days are stupid enough. You can make a good amount of money if you have some food that looks like the face of Jesus or watch that segment on Jay Leno with the "Stuff We Found On eBay".

Yah, no. His are not sealed, so I'd highly doubt its even close.

Every singal TF ever made in a sealed box wouyld not be a million. Maybe like 300k is my guess. Can anyone with some time and a calculater verify that?

ehh, i allready asked earlier cuz i didn't wanna..
maybe if we split it in half it would be easier?