[misterMECHA]

Such a good question. Like everyone else, I have beat myself up over this very question. I have seen it one of two ways: if you collect to make money, you don't open. If you collect for the fun of it, you open. I am more of a model kit person myself, so I have to open, but my finished models go into the old trusty Ikea glass case. My boxed figures that I do get, are still boxed because I am always considering the value of it.