Best figure win ever today, thought I'd share.
Jun 12, 2016 15:59:58 GMT -5
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Post by Blackbird 13 on Jun 12, 2016 15:59:58 GMT -5
So.. I set out early this morning, from my hometown of Virginia Beach, to Richmond, VA (a 2 hour drive). There's a flea market there.. and I took a healthy dose of my trade bait figures, as well as some MOC pickups from the recent run of sales on Elites, with the rest of my car load of junk.
Two hours in, we've made like three sales, so I decide to throw a post on Craigslist. "WWE Figures at the flea market", or something like that. Hey, at least I'm trying to market!
Almost as soon as the ad goes up (before anyone could see it), this guy comes up and says "how much for all of it?", pointing to the wrestling stuff. I chuckle, but he's serious. I figure in my head that $200 is solid. There's about 25 common basics, three common Elites, three MOC Elites, a MOC Summer Rae, and some miscellaneous Jakks stuff. He barters me to $160, and we're good, although it was tough to let it go.
Now then, I log back into CL to take the ad down, searching "WWE" in the process. I see there is only one other ad, so I click it. Looks like a tiny ring and some small figures, maybe Rumblers or Stackdown or something.. but.. is that.. Elite Dusty? I enlarge the picture. Elite Dusty, Elite Vader, Elite Kozlov's leg... the ad says over 100 figures, including Rumblers.. but it says $25?! Surely that's a mistake.. or it's long gone. I email them. They still have it, and want $25 for it.
After we packed up at the flea market around noon.. I decided it was well worth the gamble to take the 45 minute round trip up a bit more north. I go up to Target in their city, and managed to find some harder to get Tsum Tsums for my girlfriend's collection. As I do, I get a reply "Can meet you at Target in 15 minutes". Sweet.
We meet up.. the bag's full of older Elites and older Basics. Elite Finlay, Duggan, Kamala, Steele, Chavo, Kozlov, MVP, all stuff I need to catch up. And the basics.. Hurricane, Carlito, Luke Gallows, Shelton Benjamin.. plus stuff like Elite Steamboat, Vader, Pillman, Defining Moments Macho Man. I stare at her again, she says $25, and that she knows they are worth more, but her nephews have just moved on from wrestling and she wants them gone.
So.. here we are. Two pictures.. the first is my haul, stuff I want for my collection. The second will be my new and improved classifieds trading post here in a bit!
TL:DR: Sold 90% of my trade bait for $150.. managed to replenish it with better trade bait (and pick up like ten+ missing figures for me) for $25. Crazy.
Two hours in, we've made like three sales, so I decide to throw a post on Craigslist. "WWE Figures at the flea market", or something like that. Hey, at least I'm trying to market!
Almost as soon as the ad goes up (before anyone could see it), this guy comes up and says "how much for all of it?", pointing to the wrestling stuff. I chuckle, but he's serious. I figure in my head that $200 is solid. There's about 25 common basics, three common Elites, three MOC Elites, a MOC Summer Rae, and some miscellaneous Jakks stuff. He barters me to $160, and we're good, although it was tough to let it go.
Now then, I log back into CL to take the ad down, searching "WWE" in the process. I see there is only one other ad, so I click it. Looks like a tiny ring and some small figures, maybe Rumblers or Stackdown or something.. but.. is that.. Elite Dusty? I enlarge the picture. Elite Dusty, Elite Vader, Elite Kozlov's leg... the ad says over 100 figures, including Rumblers.. but it says $25?! Surely that's a mistake.. or it's long gone. I email them. They still have it, and want $25 for it.
After we packed up at the flea market around noon.. I decided it was well worth the gamble to take the 45 minute round trip up a bit more north. I go up to Target in their city, and managed to find some harder to get Tsum Tsums for my girlfriend's collection. As I do, I get a reply "Can meet you at Target in 15 minutes". Sweet.
We meet up.. the bag's full of older Elites and older Basics. Elite Finlay, Duggan, Kamala, Steele, Chavo, Kozlov, MVP, all stuff I need to catch up. And the basics.. Hurricane, Carlito, Luke Gallows, Shelton Benjamin.. plus stuff like Elite Steamboat, Vader, Pillman, Defining Moments Macho Man. I stare at her again, she says $25, and that she knows they are worth more, but her nephews have just moved on from wrestling and she wants them gone.
So.. here we are. Two pictures.. the first is my haul, stuff I want for my collection. The second will be my new and improved classifieds trading post here in a bit!
TL:DR: Sold 90% of my trade bait for $150.. managed to replenish it with better trade bait (and pick up like ten+ missing figures for me) for $25. Crazy.
