Star wars figures, how to appraise?
 

So first off, I'm not a toy collector.

I'm here because back in 1978-80ish, my mother bought some star wars figures for my brother and me, and for some reason had the foresight to leave them in the packages.

They've been sitting in a box ever since, and I figured I'd see how much they're worth.

You can see the whole collection in the attached picture. About half of them have squashed packages, or slightly bent/warped cards, and the other half are about as close to perfect as I'd imagine you can find.

So what would be the best way to go about getting these appraised and/or sold?

Thanks!

Put em on Ebay with a starting bid of 700 bucks, take really good pics of the cardbacks and any imperfections as well. I can almost guarantee you'll get at least a couple grand for everything there. Whatever you do though, don't take it to a comic shop or pawn shop, they'll just try to lowball the hell out of you and score a sweet profit for themselves.

Out of all the parent stories I've read from the 70s and 80s she's probably the smartest one of them all.

Once you get them sold off you better treat her well!


If you're wanting more precise individual values and information head over to the Rebelscum forums. Their vintage collectors have an insane well of knowledge. I don't think they'd really want to buy them just because you'd be a new member with some amazing stuff and sadly scammers try this all the time but you'd probably make more in the long run selling individually and avoiding eBays 10% fees and ruthless buyer/seller policy. It's so easy for buyers to scam sellers.

Thanks for the tip. I'm not even sure I want to sell them. I just figure I ought to know what they're worth. I've looked at grading standards online, and I would guess a few of them would be near the top of the scale, but it's hard for me to tell what people care about since I'm not knowledgeable. The value near the top seems to be wildly dependent on minor (to my eye at least) defects. Is that a fair statement?

I still have no idea what made her buy/keep them. She got us the same ones to play with (and even managed to keep us from losing the guns), but she also set these aside for some reason.