Everything you need to know about collecting marquees: UPDATED 4/10!!
LOL i still feel that people were bumping up the prices on all the marquees being sold.. wasn't saying the buyer was fake.. but the people bumping the prices consistently. i still have the auctions on "watch" list and i see the same names.
I understand what you are saying. It is just that they really average $450. People think that the $800 was fishy but you never know. I will add that it recently sold for $800. Thanks for the FYI.
I get what your saying. It's probably not often that people will buy pins for that much, but Tangled has become so ridiculously collectible lately. That listing was also a BIN with OBO option. He had a few offers and I even contemplated making an offer myself. Before I could though it sold...I contacted the seller who verified it actually sold for $800.
Pin trends are unpredictable,
Which two marquees? Someone might be able to help you find them.
I really want the Toy Story one and regret not buying it when I saw it on eBay a couple of months back. I keep checking for it but so far no luck.
Ps: Anyone has one for trade/sale?? =)
4. I do think that this pin forum has a lot of sway on the awareness of pins. If people do not know about some of the great pins that were released years ago then not a lot of people bid on them on ebay. But once posts are made on certain pins that are bumped a lot it reinforces those pins and keeps them in people's minds. For example, the stained glass pins from disneyshopping have been hyped a lot, thus causing their prices to increase recently. Note, I don't think this is a bad thing.
Which toy story one? Two or three. I think there is a two on eBay right now.
Toy Story 3...I loved the movie =)
Can anyone confirm that the $800 Tangled marquee that was on eBay sold?
Looks like it. One sold for 800 on 16 march, and another went for 850 on 25 march according to the recently finished listings.
There is currently one for 1000 bin/Obo.
8. Bridge to Terabithia- People might try to argue this one but it is surprisingly very rare. One of the big reasons I put it in the top ten was because it was one of the last couple pins both Nathan95 AND Catburger (who are some of DPF's marquee completists) needed.
Price Ranges ? (Never seen it sold)
I really don't get why people choose to collect Marquees. As well as all those issues mentioned above in terms of actually obtaining them, the biggest issue for me is how varied they are. Some are gorgeous, like Up, Enchanted and Wall-E. Then some are just crap, like the Narnia one and the Terabithia one shown above. I feel bad for saying that, considering that people are still willing to pay $300+ for the ugly/plain ones, but that's just my opinion.Just another mystery concerning completists I guess.
Someone should list every marquee and the last know sold price or traded value. See what complete set mountain new collectors actually have to climb!
Thanks for the shou tout Erikr! Don't forget who traded you your #7 on that listlol
For me, the appeal of marquees was just because of my love of movies (and having worked in a movie theater for years). I definitely agree that some of them are very un-exciting, but others are for movies I love (like Terabithia), so I don't mind that it's boring. But I've decided to collect 'marquees', so I have to have them all... I don't really _need_ Hannah Montana pins in my life, but I have to have all the marquees... So, there they are.
Some people like Tangled, and want _ALL_ of the Tangled pins, even the less-exciting looking ones... I'm like that with marquees. I suppose that's just the 'character' I've decided to collect. I guess it's more about having the complete collection than just having the nicer looking ones... Definitely just a completist attitude.
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Yeah, I've been trying to do that for a while when I can, although there's a lot of pins that just don't have a recent sale value...
I also remember 2 recent sales of 'nearly complete collections' that sold for $3800 (missing Up, Tangled, Enchanted and Wall-E, among others) and $4500 (missing Tangled and Enchanted, and a few others). That was back in November, so assuming $800 for Tangled and $1000 for Enchanted that's about $6300 for a nearly complete set not counting pins released since Dec of last year, and assuming the prices from last Nov haven't increased (which we know they have...)
Not a cheap set to collect by any means...
I think it's a lot more. Those ones that sold were before Ratatoullie, Meet the Robinsons, Santa Clause, Narnia, etc. were going north of $200/$300 dollars. I mean, Peter Pan with tink just sold for $180, the one with Hook/Croc was $100+. I think a true complete list would be north of $10,000 now. For an entire collection I think even more because you're not doing any leg work and the collection is going to continue, it's not dead. I always thought eventually the people paying those amounts would run out of money but it has never happened. They just go up. Then again with DSF releases like Tangled BT's & PTD's, UP pins, April BT's, $125 China Girls, etc. I can see where the money comes from.
My offer still stands. I've offered for a while now, Bridge to Teribithia for a Tangled marquee. I'd rather have Tangled and is way more prevalent in the trading community than Bridge to Teribithia which next to no one has. I've never seen another in person besides the one I have. When Tangled was $350-$500 I thought I had a chance, but if Tangled is gonna be $1000+ from now on there goes all hope to both Marquee and Tangled completionists. But that pin is 3 years old and was snatched up by collectors and traders so I know there are a lot of Tangled marquees out there. I've seen probably 15-20 different ones pass hands or in books. Up I've seen probably 3 or 4 in person. Teribithia - 0. Cars 1, maybe 1. Wall-E, maybe 5 in person. Funny enough Shaggy Dog was one of the hardest to get not long ago. It seems odd, but it's hard to tell which are really tough to find until you're actually looking. Some of the older ones sat for months and slowly went to tourists and movie goers.
I honestly don't know. I always said I'd trade it for a Tangled which to me is only worth $350 then, $500 now. $800 is just stupid. I'd say it's in the $300-$500 range now because of the number of people who need it and how close they are to completion. $500 is a number I think is more reasonable for the Tangled Marquee considering other Tangled pins and their prices. Although, the cross-genre lower LE pins always tend to be the most valuable because the added number of people from the different genres that want it. Tangled completists only need 58 pins all less than 2 year sold and many not LE while Marquee completists need 100 LE500 or lower pins from 7 years back. So there are MANY Tangled completists that need only a few pins to complete (granted one is R/C Rapunzel.) Still I think that is part of the reason why Tangled is so expensive. But then people incorrectly attribute Tangled & UP marquee values to other marquees. Those marquee's aren't expensive just because they are Marquee's I think everyone knows that. They are expensive because they cross multiple genre's. Even the grail hair scene from the Tangled PODM is less than the marquee and there has to be less than 50 of those scenes out there.What to you value (money) your Bridge to Terabithia?
Im still wondering where you got the impression that I bought all my marquees? Do you really think that a 18 year old kid has that kind of money to blow on pins. I bought Toy Story 3 off eBay for $50 and my mother was appalled that I spent that much on a pin and that was the only time I bought a marquee off eBay. All my marquees were obtained through trading and the overwhelming help that I received from Dan, Catburger, Moe and DonnaM because that was the only way I could get them.I honestly don't know. I always said I'd trade it for a Tangled which to me is only worth $350 then, $500 now. $800 is just stupid. I'd say it's in the $300-$500 range now because of the number of people who need it and how close they are to completion. $500 is a number I think is more reasonable for the Tangled Marquee considering other Tangled pins and their prices. Although, the cross-genre lower LE pins always tend to be the most valuable because the added number of people from the different genres that want it. Tangled completists only need 58 pins all less than 2 year sold and many not LE while Marquee completists need 100 LE500 or lower pins from 7 years back. So there are MANY Tangled completists that need only a few pins to complete (granted one is R/C Rapunzel.) Still I think that is part of the reason why Tangled is so expensive. But then people incorrectly attribute Tangled & UP marquee values to other marquees. Those marquee's aren't expensive just because they are Marquee's I think everyone knows that. They are expensive because they cross multiple genre's. Even the grail hair scene from the Tangled PODM is less than the marquee and there has to be less than 50 of those scenes out there.
Back to Teribithia, I don't know if I'd ever sell it on DPF. I think I'd have to eBay it just to see it sold once. I wanna say one was sold like a year ago and went for only like $90. That was before everyone realized how hard it is to actually find. Like Shaggy Dog before both Nathan and Disney Dan found theirs. I think I got Shaggy Dog for like $60 a couple of months ago after those guys got theirs out fo the way. That pin could have been $300+ when both Nathana and Dan were after it.
I almost got Tangled from Dan. He needed 10 marquees till completion and I had 3 of the ten. He said he'd trade tangled for any 2. I had Meet the Robinsons, Ratatouille, and Bridge to Terabithia. He wouldn't trade me after he told me he would because he said he was holding Tangled in case Echoharmony could get 2 of his 10. I thought if he couldn't find those 2 with marquee traders like LM (the white one,) Beauty & the Beast, and Tangled all for trade, how is she ever gonna get them. So he held it for her, which I didn't like personally. I knew she'd never find 2 of those 10. Eventually he traded, bought, or got zapped for the remaining ones he needed and alas my trade offer went bye bye. Thanks to an impossible dream. It kind of bugs me when people offer a pin to someone and then recind the offer when you come to collect and they tell you it's on hold for someone else who has a snow ball's chance in hell of delivering. So I'm still Tangled-less. Not that I'm mad at Echo for wanting it, or for Dan being friends with Echo and offering it to her. Just that I had an offer given to me which I accepted and then it was turned down. That's frustrating.
Back again to Teribithia, I bought Bridge to Terabithia and Ratatouille both for $16 a piece last April. I think I got Underdog for like a trade for a $35 pin about the same time. Marquee's used to be a fun game for me because there were hard ones yes, but they were usually easy to trade for if you had WDI or DSF stuff. Then with the Up explosion a year ago they took off. The race began. I already had 60 of the 100 laps done when many started the race. I quickly realized the fun was over. I couldn't even trade for a Christmas Carol marquee out of the plastic at a PTN once. That was the beginning of the end. I had tons of pins, the guy just wouldn't budge, he said he'd been asked more about that pin that night than any other pin in his whole book. The pins that most people skipped over were now in the spotlight. Some people rushed their little colletions out to eBay and DPF For Sale threads to move them before the hype died down or before the buyers either got it somewhere else or ran out of money. Some held out for higher prices. Some bought extras of harder ones knowing they'd go up even higher. That's when it went from a cool new collection to an impossible dream for me. I teeter everyday, do I sell em all off or do I just keep accumulating knowing I'll never get the ones I put off getting? We're going to Europe for a whole month in June and selling the collection would go a long way for the trip and the new apartment search when we return. I don't think this craze can go on for long. Eventually they will be priced way beyond what people will pay. New collectors will be scared off by The Wild having a $250 BIN OBO price on eBay. So maybe the time is coming soon. I don't know.
If you couldn't tell I think a lot about this subject! haha.
No need for the defensive posture. I didn't say you bought them all on eBay. I know you traded or were zapped for many of yours. Although, I have heard you in person say how much x marquee "cost" you. Perhaps you were translating pin trade values into dollars.Im still wondering where you got the impression that I bought all my marquees? Do you really think that a 17 year old kid has that kind of money to blow on pins. I bought Toy Story 3 off eBay for $50 and my mother was appalled that I spent that much on a pin and that was the only time I bought a marquee off eBay. All my marquees were obtained through trading and the overwhelming help that I received from Dan, Catburger, Moe and DonnaM because that was the only way I could get them.
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