Matty is going to be selling these guys again for 60 dollars. I wanted to know if anyone on here would be interested in selling theirs cheaper before I go and drop over 200 dollars on these guys.

I believe 60 was their original price, so you're probably going to be hard pressed to find them any cheaper. Matty's next sale is your best bet.

OptimusFord;171620
Matty is going to be selling these guys again for 60 dollars. I wanted to know if anyone on here would be interested in selling theirs cheaper before I go and drop over 200 dollars on these guys.

I'm not really sure why you think anyone would do that.

The secondary market boomed on these for quite a long time, and they were over $120 each.

They're now going to be available again for $60… so why would anyone sell theirs for less?

Especially when you've already said in another thread that you're concerned with the resale value not going back up, seemingly indicating that you want to profit off of these in the future. Why would anyone want to help you make more money by selling theirs to you for less?

Easy, bad economy. Anything I buy anymore I look at the re-sell value. Where I work I have pretty good job security. But what happens if I get hurt? What happens if the car breaks down and I need money fast. The banks are not giving out loans like they use to. If I'm going to invest 200 in to something that can be re-sold then I want to try and make sure that I can hopefully can at least get a return of my money and then some.

So if someone is in need of money and are willing to sell theirs cheaper then the Matty price why not help them out? People on Ebay have already started to lower their asking prices on these.

OptimusFord;171629
Easy, bad economy. Anything I buy anymore I look at the re-sell value. Where I work I have pretty good job security. But what happens if I get hurt? What happens if the car breaks down and I need money fast. The banks are not giving out loans like they use to. If I'm going to invest 200 in to something that can be re-sold then I want to try and make sure that I can hopefully can at least get a return of my money and then some.

So if someone is in need of money and are willing to sell theirs cheaper then the Matty price why not help them out? People on Ebay have already started to lower their asking prices on these.

Yes, people have lowered the price on them on eBay but still not below what the original cost is, lol. At least not regularly. You'll almost always be able to get your money back on these, especially within this community.

So you're trying to pass this off like you're trying to help someone out, but you're just trying to take advantage. You just said you're looking for someone who is in need of money so that they'll sell them cheaper, yet you're hoping that one day if you're hurt or out of a job and need money, that you can then turn around and sell these exact same figures for more money.

Sorry, that just seems extremely selfish to me.

Doctor Venkman;170752
I'm giving this its own thread, in case people blow by my original sale thread that has tons of other stuff in it, since these weren't originally. (Mods, if this is a problem, please delete this topic).

Dan Liberg
State College, PA, USA
dsl135@comcast.net

Ghostbusters 6" Figures (All are MOC, with a white mailer if they originally came with one)
Slimed Egon (SDCC) - $50
Ray - $70
Winston - $70
Slimed Peter - $40
Egon - $40
Peter (w/ proton stream and base) - $40
Courtroom Peter - $30
Louis - $35
Marshmallow Mess Ray - $50

Preferred payment method is PayPal, but if you are not using it, or prefer another method, I am willing to discuss other options.

Oh I'm sorry are those the orignal selling prices? Sounds like someone is being selfish trying to make money of fellow Ghostbuster fans.

But I believe he probably bought those at the original prices. After they were no longer regularly available, people are willing to pay the price increase.

In your case, it seems you're looking to get the 12" figures for cheaper than their original 60 dollar price tag. While that would be great for your purposes, it's not very realistic. Especially considering the fact that they'll be going back on sale in a few days for the original 60 price tag. That's your best bet. Get them at the original price and if you need to sell them later down the road you can actually make money off them.

If your main concern is to have them as future income rather than collector purposes, you should probably just save your money and don't get them to begin with.

Best of luck with your search, though.

OptimusFord;171634
Oh I'm sorry are those the orignal selling prices? Sounds like someone is being selfish trying to make money of fellow Ghostbuster fans.

mr pecker;171635
But I believe he probably bought those at the original prices. After they were no longer regularly available, people are willing to pay the price increase.

In your case, it seems you're looking to get the 12" figures for cheaper than their original 60 dollar price tag. While that would be great for your purposes, it's not very realistic. Especially considering the fact that they'll be going back on sale in a few days for the original 60 price tag. That's your best bet. Get them at the original price and if you need to sell them later down the road you can actually make money off them.

If your main concern is to have them as future income rather than collector purposes, you should probably just save your money and don't get them to begin with.

Best of luck with your search, though.

EXACTLY. LOL. I'm not saying it's a bad thing to sell them at an extra cost, so don't get confused. I'm saying that it's ridiculous of you to sit here saying that you want to be able to resell them for more than you're paying for them WHILE ASKING SOMEONE TO SELL THEM FOR LESS THAN THEY PAID (even while admitting that you're doing so, hoping to take advantage of someone is just in need of money and will sell them for cheap). That's the selfish part, not using a hobby as an investment (there's nothing wrong with that).

There's an enormous difference. Don't try to act like they're the same thing.

I bought extras at the original price as an investment and sold them for a profit to help pay for my honeymoon. I put up the money up front of their original cost, knowing full well that I intended to resell them at a later date. I readily admit that.

You're trying to get a deal on them, and get someone to lose money on owning these figures just so that you can have more profit at a later date “if you get sick.”

Yea, one of us is acting shady… it ain't me though. If you don't like being called out on that, fine, but you're going to have to try way harder to make me look bad than simply bringing up the fact that I (like many others in the community) have profited in the past off of items we have purchased. You know that's not the heart of the issue, so stop trying to act like it is.

So either buy them on Mattycollector.com, or go buy them on eBay since you say they sell for less there now. Don't try to convince members of the community to give you more profit, simply because you feel like being selfish rather than buying them at regular cost in 4 days.

Oh, and thank you mr_pecker for the common sense addition.

I just can't figure out how you think I'm being selfish to ask someone if they would like to sell their figures cheaper than what Matty is selling them when the market has been on a decline. Where you turn around and have bought previous releases and are trying to sell them for double or more.

It is supply and demand, you must have never took a high school business class in your life.

OptimusFord;171645
I just can't figure out how you think I'm being selfish to ask someone if they would like to sell their figures cheaper than what Matty is selling them when the market has been on a decline. Where you turn around and have bought previous releases and are trying to sell them for double or more.

It is supply and demand, you must have never took a high school business class in your life.

LOL, you must never have taken Ethics. I clearly took business, as I'm the one here who had a set business plan for reselling my figures.

This is very simple, even though it's been explained to you several times, I'll try one more.

You are asking someone to sell their figures for less than they paid for them. Figures which have just now started to come back down to what they originally cost, and in very rare cases a little bit less… so rarely in fact that I can't find ONE of the 12“ figures that has ended on eBay for less than $60 while still in the package, and only 1 out of the package. You are also doing so while asking in other threads about the value of these figures, in an effort to protect yourself from only getting back what you paid, and hoping to make much more. You are trying to take advantage of someone who you say ”might need the money“ while establishing that when you ”need the money“ is when you would want to profit off of these figures. Right there, re-read that sentence. You are trying to TAKE ADVANTAGE of someone who ”needs the money“ while hoping that when you ”need the money“ you can make back ”hopefully more."

Buying extra of something with the intention of reselling it at a profit, and admitting that you are doing so, without taking advantage of anyone and paying full price from the beginning, with an intended plan of waiting for the market value to increase and then sell them in order to pay for something specific that you are intentionally, is not shady. That is business. That is the business that you seemingly think you paid such good attention to in high school… newsflash… you didn't. You have no grasp of business, yet you look down your nose at others over your self-hyped understanding of it. Business is buying something that you know will increase in value and selling it when it hits a high point. From a solely business standpoint, what you are doing is fine. You're trying to buy low, in the hopes that the value will increase again, and that you will be able to sell high. Your ethics is the issue, which again you can't seem to grasp. I clearly have no problem with people buying and selling Ghostbusters merchandise for a profit. That's not a problem. The problem is the ethics behind asking someone to sell something to you at a low cost so you can resell it at a higher cost.

Ethics. That's where you fall short. I didn't come in here asking people to help me make more money by selling something of theirs to me at a loss. You did. Frankly, I hope no one bites on this and that you get the white screen and are unable to buy the figures on Friday… but don't worry… since so many people are selling them at a loss on eBay, I'm sure you won't have a problem taking advantage of one of them.