Everything you need to know about collecting marquees: UPDATED 4/10!!
IF (and that's one big IF) i ever sell my collection I'd do the same thing.
Anything released after Brave is pretty easy. Even Brave isn't too terribly hard to find. Avengers is kind of tough. Before that there were a lot of LE150's randomly, like John Carter, Arrietty, Chimpanzee. Those aren't super high prices but they aren't all that easy to find either. Then you go back further. Typically if it is just a solid background and words with no Pin-on-Pin feature they were easier. Like College Road Trip, Shopaholic, Eight Below, Greatest Game, The Wild. Those types. Thent he movie flops like Real Steel, WIld Hogs, Valiant. I did a price guide months ago, I need to dig that up. I think the bottom 3 cheapest were always The Wild, Mars Needs Moms, and Greatest Game. Those were almost always under $15 before it was nuts. Then the $25's used to be like Rocketeer, John Carter, Real Steel, Shopaholic, Wild Hogs. Surprisingly one of the bottom ones used to be the LM with Urusula. It was always like $40 or below. The Pirates ones were pretty cheap except the one with the guys pin-on-pin.So, what would you consider the easier to get marquees? We already know which are the harder ones, but which ones are "easier"?
Lol I'm sorry but IF that ever happened, Up and Enchanted are the two I'd keep. I couldn't ever get rid of those
Marquees are now sky rocketing. Valiant which a couple weeks ago would sell for 12 dollars is now BIN for $99...
Enchanted marquee came today!!
Post a pic!
Any thoughts on the Terabithia on eBay right now? Already over $400...
Concerns: The bidder's identities are hidden by the seller. Since eBay obfuscates bidder names now so you can't see who they are, there's generally no reason to do that any more other than hiding shill bidding activity... At least that I can think of (but am welcome to hear other's thoughts on that). The seller has never done that on any of their past auctions (if it was just out of habit, or something they always did, I wouldn't really have thought much of it). I'd be curious to know if at least the _TWO_ highest bidders are legit bids (i.e., members here?) or not...
Actually, kind of curious about that on some of the other high-dollar marquees that have sold recently. Some we've confirmed were legit sales, but did anyone come forward stating they were the under-bidder on any of them (at least, the ones that seemed like they sold higher than they ever had in the past by a large amount)? With so many people seemingly willing to pay $500+ for _any_ marquee not in their collection, there's a lot of potential for abuse...
Any thoughts on the Terabithia on eBay right now? Already over $400...
Concerns: The bidder's identities are hidden by the seller. Since eBay obfuscates bidder names now so you can't see who they are, there's generally no reason to do that any more other than hiding shill bidding activity... At least that I can think of (but am welcome to hear other's thoughts on that). The seller has never done that on any of their past auctions (if it was just out of habit, or something they always did, I wouldn't really have thought much of it). I'd be curious to know if at least the _TWO_ highest bidders are legit bids (i.e., members here?) or not...
Actually, kind of curious about that on some of the other high-dollar marquees that have sold recently. Some we've confirmed were legit sales, but did anyone come forward stating they were the under-bidder on any of them (at least, the ones that seemed like they sold higher than they ever had in the past by a large amount)? With so many people seemingly willing to pay $500+ for _any_ marquee not in their collection, there's a lot of potential for abuse...
Yeah, I clicked the allow buyers to remain anonymous when I was creating the auction without really knowing all the ramifications to that. I usually do buy it now if I sell something, rarely do I use auctions as I generally feel I have a good understanding of what a pin is worth. After the first bid came in I realized what it showed when you clicked on the bid history, but by then ebay will not let you change that, and I felt it was worse to cancel the auction at that point. Hopefully, it won't put off anyone that really wants it, but that will be my fault if it does. I won't be manipulating the price - I'm as curious as others to what it's worth.
Just curious though, why set the auction to private in the first place? No one can see who the bidders are anyway (I really don't see why eBay even leaves that as an option)... You can sometimes figure out who a bidder is, but really, what difference does it make? There's no reason to hide who's bidding on your auctions that I can think of... (The only things people would do with bidder IDs in the past was either offer to sell them the same item as the auction listing (which eBay doesn't like- cuts into their profits, and sometimes might have been a scam), or warn people of a fraudulent item being sold/fraudulent activity in the listing (which eBay doesn't like- cuts into their profits), so they made the IDs hidden all the time.)
The problem still remains that someone could manipulate the price on it. There's a risk they'd be left as a high bidder, but if I had a pin I wanted to sell, and wanted to justify $500 on it (and suspect the people with that kind of money are bidding on it), I could just bid $500 to make sure the price gets that high. With the IDs hidden, we can't check against the bidders of other auctions to see if there's any patterns... I don't know if anyone has been researching that at all or not...
Of course, you can still look into that as you can see the full IDs... And the fact that auction is set to private doesn't seem to be slowing anyone down...But it does usually raise suspicion when an auction is set that way.
And it is of course just possible that there's several people that _REALLY_ want all of these pins, even the ones that seem like they shouldn't be worth that much... You just have to be careful, once things start becoming worth a lot of money (in any hobby), the less-than-desirable types tend to crawl out of the woodwork to try to make a quick buck...
Just curious though, why set the auction to private in the first place?
In general, whenever I'm given the option for privacy I choose it. Don't share my information with third party partners, don't publish my phone number, withhold my race on loan forms. In this case I agree I'd probably have a more successful auction without making it private. I Don't want to hijack erikr's thread, so if anyone wants more information or has a question please pm me.
In general, whenever I'm given the option for privacy I choose it. Don't share my information with third party partners, don't publish my phone number, withhold my race on loan forms. In this case I agree I'd probably have a more successful auction without making it private. I Don't want to hijack erikr's thread, so if anyone wants more information or has a question please pm me.
The thing that really bothers me about an auction like this, is that from now on a bunch of the people who are trading/selling their Bridge To Terabithia will just reference to this sale, and it will be so much harder to get it.
Says the guy who spent over $1,000 for the Enchanted marquee.
Sure, but I did not put in fake bids. I was willing to pay $1,000.
But in your entire history of eBay auctions that I can still access, you have never once set the bidding to private... Why start now? That's what drew my attention to it... If you had always done this, I wouldn't have thought twice about it, some people still always do it out of habit from the 'old days'...
And, as this information does deal with other potential auctions acting in fraudulent ways, I believe the info is relevant to the thread. It's important for people bidding on these pins to be aware of the tactics that some people use to manipulate prices. (Not saying YOU are, just in general. It's one of the things to look out for.)
But do you know if the person you outbid was?
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