[Artist77]

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Originally Posted by CookSux

I've been out of the figure selling game for a while, went to ebay on completed auctions for those items and my prices are the same if not less than said completed final auctions. You're not a friend of mine, so I don't owe you any kind of discount... plus I would have taken prices down if bought in a lot. Besides, it's not like you can still find these toys on store pegs. I don't see the problem here... it's not like I'm going to a TRU, picking up a toy, tell a scalper off, brag about it on a toy forum, then post said toys for a markup. My memory could be wrong, but I was mostly talking about the 20/30 dollar Dr. Strange.

EDIT: I have no problem with the OP for buying toys and selling them at a markup. It's just... I thought the story was just in bad taste is all.

It was $20 bucks to people here on the Ark. I was TRYING to sell one at $20, not $30, I BOUGHT ONE AT $30, as added a mock up I thought was fair (seeing how, last time I checked, they were going for avg. $35 shipped before I rechecked) to get a little back since I'm also paying my house bills, cell phone bills, internet bills, electricity bills, food, gas, cable and covering my girlfriend, so yeah, if I want to try to make a few bucks to try and even it out, that's my prerogative, and if you don't like that coupled with my story about the scalper, fine, but don't try and use my story as some example of great hypocrisy. Scalper had 11 goddamn HTF figures, I bought 2 Colored Stranges, a Skaar and a Scarlet Spider and a Falcon for myself, and I gave a Skaar to the kid next door who likes Hulk. I left no less than 6 of each there, so if you want to come to Ames, IA, to the Target on Duff Avenue and buy some figures for cost, then please be my guest. Otherwise, again, don't pick up some torch and fling it in my direction just because I tried to take care of myself (which we ALL do) while trying to be reasonable; thus the massive mark down on the figures I ended up selling to two Arkers. I sold a Strange for 15, and a VARIANT Skaar and another Strange for 27- after cost of figures, ($25), gas (say, 2 bucks, so $27), shipping materials (3 bucks for boxes at PO, so $30) and shipping ($8 more, so $38), I made $4 out of the deal. That's easily less than minimum wage, heck, that's probably less than what I have in all my couch cushions.

So, ignoring how you're defending yourself and your prices the exact way I came to mine (going off ebay, where the avg sold Strange is $26.50 before shipping, btw), and ignoring the fact that you didn't even acknowledge my lowering my prices after people pointed out the dropping prices, I'll rest my rant with this;

I tried to sell a few items to fellow collectors at mark up, yes, but less than the avg price on eBay, and I did so here first so that you all would have a chance.

So forget coming to this forum with finds to try and help people finish their collections at WHAT I BELIEVE to be reasonable prices, since hypocrites will just jump down my throat for my own self interest (which everyone has), going so far as to mock me (quintens thread, anyone?) and try to compare me to the guy who bought every villain from a toy line our town has seen, when I bought less than 25% of new items in a store that has gotten its first new MU product since March.

I know you're not, in your view, trying to jump down my throat, but I can't help but feel attacked here. I over-priced something, sure, that I sold while telling a story about someone far worse than I, but I changed my price accordingly when people pointed out my mistake. But are you honestly telling me that what I did is as bad as the Troll?