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General => Collector's Corner => Topic started by: playmo1989 on June 19, 2010, 22:18:08
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how many of us collect new (meaning recently produced ) nisb sets?
i wanted to ask for this issew because martin mentiond in an another topic that most of the newer produced playmobil will never be rare because they are a lot of colectors existing today!!!!!
personally i don't like the new boxes at all i would not collect them and my favourite new sets the romans ........ i don't keep the boxes !!!!!! what do you all think for this
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I have many MISB new sets, but mostly because I haven't got round to opening them yet. I'm not deliberately collecting MISB sets, because I have no interest in collecting as a means of making money, either now or in the distant future.
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I have many MISB new sets, but mostly because I haven't got round to opening them yet. I'm not deliberately collecting MISB sets, because I have no interest in collecting as a means of making money, either now or in the distant future.
Same here. :lol: For me, it's not the box that's important; it's the contents.
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I have many MISB new sets, but mostly because I haven't got round to opening them yet. I'm not deliberately collecting MISB sets, because I have no interest in collecting as a means of making money, either now or in the distant future.
yes i don't collect either for making money i like the old boxes how they look !!
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The only new sets I keep NISB, are the blisters for some beknown reason 8}
Plus any limited edition/promotional figures/sets ;)
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The only new sets I keep NISB, are the blisters for some beknown reason 8}
Plus any limited edition/promotional figures/sets ;)
beknown reason ?? ??? ???
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beknown reason ?? ??? ???
Sorry, I meant to write unbeknown :-[
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How much profit it there in trading in MISB? You'll have to keep them for quite a while, if you buy them new. And if they are already some years old, aren't they very hard to find? Couldn't you make more money spending time doing a real job?
Don't get me wrong, I like trading on the net very much. But I trade in items that make a quite some money. 3-10 times what I payed for them.
Some of my playmo is still in the box. Sometimes because I have the set twice, sometimes because I don't need it and I keep it as a gift for a child or for bartering.
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How much profit it there in trading in MISB? You'll have to keep them for quite a while, if you buy them new. And if they are already some years old, aren't they very hard to find? Couldn't you make more money spending time doing a real job?
Don't get me wrong, I like trading on the net very much. But I trade in items that make a quite some money. 3-10 times what I payed for them.
Some of my playmo is still in the box. Sometimes because I have the set twice, sometimes because I don't need it and I keep it as a gift for a child or for bartering.
to say the truth the old set's are the ones that make money if you win a rare wanted item you can sell it for much more . from the new sets i don't think they will be really so much desired even 30 - 20 years after perhaps the romans because they are very well disighned or the egyptians yes !!!!!! most of the new playmobil i believe they are ignored . when you sell on ebay all you win it's your's or they keep from you some amound??
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Hello
I must say I disagree with this thought. I have a large amount of MISB new sets and many of them have tripled in value in a very short time. I do not purchase them with this intent but I am in no way complaining that they have. One set I have 5 or so duplicates was so undesirable Playmobil clearanced it for less than half the original price. Six months later it was all over ebay getting super high prices every time. It still commands high prices and it is a very modern set. This does not happen with every set though. I have many that have only retained their original value. If you keep anything long enough it will become a classic sooner or later and with Playmobil being such a well made expensive toy, it is in a special league. Some dreadful day Mr Bran. will pass and the future of Playmobil will be in question only adding to the toy lines rarity. Who knows, the kids sell the company to Mattel and in classic US fashion, out source all production to the cheapest bid and anything that was produced prior is now more desirable than ever (all of it, even the space sets)
Rasputin "The Mad Monk"
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to say the truth the old set's are the ones that make money if you win a rare wanted item you can sell it for much more.
Really? Then why aren't you doing it?
I think your buy-on-eBay-to-resell-on-eBay theory is fundamentally flawed.
when you sell on ebay all you win it's your's or they keep from you some amound??
eBay keep back a portion of the sale profit, and of course there's a fee for listing in the first place, so if you list a lot of stuff that doesn't sell you will be out of pocket. You can look these fees up on eBay.
Don't forget there's also the cost of postage. I've won several auctions recently where the postage cost was 50-100% of the actual item cost.
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Really? Then why aren't you doing it?
to sell all my misb playmobil no i love them ! if i have a big need i might sell a couple
I think your buy-on-eBay-to-resell-on-eBay theory is fundamentally flawed.
i don't know it's a little silly to do all this trouble to buy something go to receive it then list it then go to post it only for a few money but you never know you might get a lot more
Don't forget there's also the cost of postage. I've won several auctions recently where the postage cost was 50-100% of the actual item cost.
this is bad if the postage is very expensive for the item you are buying you can inform this to ebay when you leave feedback does this have any effect to the seller i don't know!