[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Falconhood

so, are you selling it to the highest offer?

Wow. If I realized that my offering an extra Black Widow to trade here on the boards was gonna turn into a thinly veiled attack as to whether I am trying to rip off folks here and flip these things for profit, I wouldn't have done it.

Truthfully, cash is the last thing that I'm looking for. I just told two different people in IM that I'm more interested to trade than to sell, and that my selling price would be no more than what I paid plus shipping. It's not as if I grabbed the figure off the peg, walked outside of TRU and started yelling out "Who wants it...70 bucks!" I'm not trying to start a bidding war for the thing, only using it to see if anyone else out there might have something that I'm looking for. Again, if I wanted a bidding war for cash, I would have went straight to Craigslist or Ebay.

I know I'm gonna get skewered no matter how I put this, because there's no real way of saying it without coming off as one of the villainous toy scalpers we all see camping out in front of our local toy stores ten minutes before the store opens, but I'll try, and go down in flames if I have to. If I set my bar low to begin with, and two others decide to fight over who wants it more, am I supposed to simply go with the lower offer simply because they gave me puppy dog eyes and it's the more charitable thing to do, or do I go with the person who has the better offer because I stand to benefit more from it? What would you do in that situation? And if money isn't involved and it's a trade, who's to say what's a better offer? ML Red Variant Deadpool is a much harder to find figure (not to mention more expensive) than say ML Red Hulk Series Black Spider-Man (which still has a pretty price on it, but nowhere near those ML Red Deadpools,) but I'd snag that Spidey in a heartbeat simply because I'm a Spider-Man fan and have little interest in Deadpool variants. What's one man's garbage is another man's gold, and if someone is willing to part with something, it obviously wasn't worth that much to them anymore. Value is always in the eye of the beholder.