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As P.T. Barnum used to say...."There is a sucker born every minute". The only way that will sell for $1,100 is if someone will pay it.

I can't imagine in this economy that someone will find the listing worth the asking price, especially with Christmas less than 6 weeks away.

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I don't understand what the problem is, yeah the price is high but when was the last time you saw one of these for sale ??? Nobody is forcing anyone to pay that much, the buyer must decide to pay that much. It's not like these kits are falling from the sky or have been reissued like the Dukes of Hazzard Charger. A hobby shop owner who I know told me to think about it like this: How much are old baseball cards worth ??? That's because they got put in bicycle spokes or got thrown away when the kids grew up. Model kits got built, blown up, thrown away, etc. How many are left ??? Supply and demand. At least with a model kit after you spend your money on it you can build it, a baseball card you can't do anything but look at and read the stats. They made a lot more baseball cards than model kits back then...........What's it worth to ya ???

Posted

Nuthin, I got 5 of them darn 8th scale models I'll NEVER build, Sold about 5 of them already. They just take up TOO much room. Same with my 18th scale, they gotta go too!.:lol:dry.gif:)

Posted

He may as well ask a lot for it. Who knows, maybe he gets a buyer who really, really wants that kit. And even if he doesn't get anything even close to his asking price, well... it doesn't hurt to ask! I don't see any problem here at all. There's the kit, there's the asking price. Now it's up to the buyers.

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I think there's always going to be a collector vs. builder culture clash in this hobby. Many builders unwittingly turn into collectors because we end up buying way more kits than we can ever practically build in a lifetime. Either because of the subject matter, that "Now I have a project for THIS!" idea, or we're just neater versions of the TV show Hoarders.

Collectors on the other hand tend to break into two categories. The "professional" collector is someone who knows his subject material, and knows what it's worth. He/She buys, trades, and sells based on actual, not perceived value. They are also the ones who have the Obi-Wan "millions of voices cried out in terror..." moment when you tell them you're going to build that collectible kit :lol::) The other ones, the "amateur" collectors, are the people who've seen too many episodes of Pawn Stars, American Pickers, Auction Kings, and Antiques Roadshow. They read the stories about people finding things in their attics worth millions of dollars, and by golly they have some of that stuff too. They just know it's old, and that instantly means RARE, which MUST MEAN VALUABLE!!!!! Sadly these people seem to have taken up permanent residence on eBay. I can't tell you the amount of "RARE, HARD TO FIND, ONE OF A KIND" mid-90's AMT/Ertl kits I've seen lately. Almost all of them have been reissued multiple times (some in the past couple of years). Almost all with "Buy It Now"s, universally priced higher than most current Japanese import kits. There is one guy who has, for the past 6 months, been trying to sell a pair of AMT/Ertl Chevy Beretta kits for $50 a pop. My grandfather told me "No matter what it is, from a toy, to a car, to your house, what you think it's worth, and what someone else is willing to pay for it are rarely ever the same price". :D

However I believe this individual with the $1,100 kit falls into the category of "Motivated - Non Seller". He priced it that high not because it's "worth" that much, but rather it's higher than anyone would pay for it, so he's not gonna sell it. Read the description, in there he mentions having to sell his stuff because of another $*#%$ (mods please note, just quoting the auction, not fake cursing). Sounds like he has a wife (or soon to be ex-wife) who is making him liquidate. So he's put everything on eBay (his other auctions are overpriced too) at ridiculously inflated prices so none of it sells, and he can be "Well I tried to sell them, but no one bid, what can I do, the economy sucks"...

Posted

Nice. The old I tried to do it for you but it didn't work out story.

;):)

I think there's always going to be a collector vs. builder culture clash in this hobby. Many builders unwittingly turn into collectors because we end up buying way more kits than we can ever practically build in a lifetime. Either because of the subject matter, that "Now I have a project for THIS!" idea, or we're just neater versions of the TV show Hoarders.

Collectors on the other hand tend to break into two categories. The "professional" collector is someone who knows his subject material, and knows what it's worth. He/She buys, trades, and sells based on actual, not perceived value. They are also the ones who have the Obi-Wan "millions of voices cried out in terror..." moment when you tell them you're going to build that collectible kit :D:lol: The other ones, the "amateur" collectors, are the people who've seen too many episodes of Pawn Stars, American Pickers, Auction Kings, and Antiques Roadshow. They read the stories about people finding things in their attics worth millions of dollars, and by golly they have some of that stuff too. They just know it's old, and that instantly means RARE, which MUST MEAN VALUABLE!!!!! Sadly these people seem to have taken up permanent residence on eBay. I can't tell you the amount of "RARE, HARD TO FIND, ONE OF A KIND" mid-90's AMT/Ertl kits I've seen lately. Almost all of them have been reissued multiple times (some in the past couple of years). Almost all with "Buy It Now"s, universally priced higher than most current Japanese import kits. There is one guy who has, for the past 6 months, been trying to sell a pair of AMT/Ertl Chevy Beretta kits for $50 a pop. My grandfather told me "No matter what it is, from a toy, to a car, to your house, what you think it's worth, and what someone else is willing to pay for it are rarely ever the same price". ;)

However I believe this individual with the $1,100 kit falls into the category of "Motivated - Non Seller". He priced it that high not because it's "worth" that much, but rather it's higher than anyone would pay for it, so he's not gonna sell it. Read the description, in there he mentions having to sell his stuff because of another $*#%$ (mods please note, just quoting the auction, not fake cursing). Sounds like he has a wife (or soon to be ex-wife) who is making him liquidate. So he's put everything on eBay (his other auctions are overpriced too) at ridiculously inflated prices so none of it sells, and he can be "Well I tried to sell them, but no one bid, what can I do, the economy sucks"...

Posted

Ya know,James, as weird as it might sound, it does make sense. He WAS cryin about how were WE gonna make him sell his FAVORITE kit, or some such weirdness. But like it's been said already, "there's one born........:lol: :lol: B)

Posted

OMG the price of some kits are completely ridiculous, you can get a real car for the price of some of 'em. The thing with that kit is that you could never really do anything with it besides pack it safely away to let it gain value. You build it and it loses value. But yeah, some people have more money than brains.... who knows.

Posted

Correct me if I am wrong. I believe you could build a replica with the Monogram parts packs a lot cheaper if you just want to build a Big Drag. That is what I am doing. The turtle deck was included in one of the Big T releases I have and I bought the Drag Pack parts pack for the headers and roll bar with some other parts in it. I still need the chrome reversed wheels that run a little more than the rest of the packs along with the blower pack I usually brings around 75-100 bucks. Maybe not a lot cheaper but reasonable considering you do not see a lot of them on ebay.

Posted

Models are supposed to be built.

And wine is supposed to be drunk, and stamps are supposed to go on an envelope, etc. You get the point. Some people build models, some collect them. Personally, an unbuilt model in a box has no value to me. I buy "rare" Pocher kits and build them... I couldn't care less that I may have "ruined" the value of an old, rare kit by building it, but to a collector, the whole point is having that model unbuilt in a box, and a serious collector will pay serious money for a model he wants.

Builder, collector... to each his own.

Posted

I,like most of us,have models then I can build.I've run across sellers or collecters that charge more then I'll pay.I don't care what it is or how much its worth....I'm going to build it! unbuilt models don't mean anything to me other then what it is after its built.what we can make out of it is the value.....to me.I've spent money on kits cause I want to built it.then I would run across it some were for less.I stopped doing that and in time I've found what I wanted.I know some day when I going to the big shop in heaven or the other place.I will leave kits here....oh well,I only hope that those who get them build um.Thanks,Chris

Posted

I'm afraid if I had an extra $1100.00, I would end up blowing it on something foolish like food or clothing.

X2

I think the funny thing is he has the stones to charge $21.00 shipping after he has just stroked you for $1100.00!

Posted

<_< I can still remember clearly the guy begging my friend to sell a kit back to him when he found out it was going to be built. He offered him 3 times what he paid trying to get it back!

Then there was that look of horror on the guys face as my friend cut the little pieces of tape the factory used to seal the boxes! Thought the guy was going to have a coronary right there! I can still hear him repeating "you ruined it" over and over as we walked away from his table!B)

Some people just take this stuff way too serious!:lol:

Hey! if this guy can get that for it more power to him. But it does sound like he is trying real hard "not" to sell!

Had a friend tried that with his Vette during his divorce. The Judge caught on to it (along with other things he had to sell) and made him have it appraised and sell at the appraised price. He got lucky as it still didn't sell but he had to come up with half the value in cash any way!

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