anyone bought anything that later went down in price?

I thought you was talking about at retail because that happens to me all the time at retail. Especially at Smyths here in the UK they often drop their prices when the sets have been out a while but I have usually bought what I want way before then.

I thought you meant on the exact item. For example: you buy an e6 Batista for $80, but then it goes down in price because e30 & e33 are released.

So...no for me because I did buy an e6 Batista moc about a year ago for $60 but I don't count the newer elites of him as the same figure.

ohhh I see what ur saying. I meant any superstar in general OR exact item. my bad

just trying get a discussion going on buying a figure at a high price then having the same superstar (or item) @ a lower price

sorry for the confusion!

With this hobby, you pay what the figure is worth to you at the time you buy it, and you don't look back. In Mask of Truth's example, he paid $25 for Flair and then later on, saw him on clearance for $13. It could have just as easily gone the other way where he paid $25 for Flair and then later on, you couldn't get him for less than $50.

Maybe I'll see Brie Bella at my local Walmart in two months for $9.97. Maybe I won't. All I know is that I'm getting my Brie next Tuesday, and I'm happy. I could care less if I see her for half the price of my preorder later on. That's how you have to roll.

In the spirit of the question though, back in 1999, I paid $50 on eBay for a Famous Covers Black Widow. I then found her at TRU a couple of days later for $10. My $50 eBay Black Widow hadn't even arrived yet. That was an interesting experience.  

My house...... we bought in 2007, right before the housing market declined. From the best I can tell, if I sold my house today at market value, I'd still owe $30,000 on the mortgage.

Everytime I've shelled out big(ger) money for a fig a week later someone else is selling one for a bit cheaper lol It never fails.

I'll tell you what no one has thought about. The basics. Most basics cost less than retail after a year or so. Half the Ortons and Cenas don't even sell. I've seen Cenas as low as $5 with free shipping from some eBay sellers and they still can't sell them. Your average basic seems to sell for $7 with free shipping on eBay meaning a seller only makes about three dollars said and done. Maybe less.

Man, I feel you there.  I had just closed on a new house in March 2007 and put the old one up for sale when the bottom fell out.  When I started the process in January 2007, houses in our neighborhood were selling in less than 30 days.  By April 2007, you couldn't give a house away, so I ended up with both of them.  I did everything I could to make it work for nearly four years before I finally had to short sale the new one and move back into the old one.

Adding insult to injury, I never wanted the damn house in the first place.   I only bought it to shut wifey up after listening to her whine for two years about how all of our friends were moving out of our neighborhood and into the new one.  It was either that or a divorce.  In the long run, it was the right call.  She learned a boatload of life lessons from that experience, my family is still intact, and everyone's happy now, but 2007 through 2011 was a bitch.

I bought Matty DDP for 60 at a toy shop only for it to be sold on ringside for 20 bucks 2 weeks later.