[Peteparker]

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Originally Posted by behindthemask

If you want to have the best of both worlds, buy toys and sell them to arkers who need them, because it sounds to me like you want to be done completely with buying/collecting toys.

Unfortunately, sales don't happen all that often around here, at least not in comparison to trades. Plus, we're all cheap asses trying to hook each other up and expecting incredible deals, it's hard to even cover costs when that's the case. The community is WONDERFUL for trading, with everyone finding and needing different things, but sales are rough. My advice would be to offer them here and then sell on eBay. If you start out with the same price on eBay as you do here, you'll at least cover costs there. Otherwise you're sitting on an inventory of toys...


As far as an addiction goes, I often feel horrible about my spending. I 'sold' the idea of running trades and sales through an independent credit card to my wife, with the notion that I'd be making enough off of finding rares and selling volume that it would pay for the things I couldn't get through trading or sales. So far that's not working out all that well. I use the card as a license to buy anything I need to complete the collection without giving any thought regarding if the money will be paid back, or how many profitable items I would have to sell to pay it off. I used to not pay any attention to the account total, claiming that I had a number of high-priced returns in process that would knock significant chunks off of the total, but that explanation is no longer reasonable, and the debt is looming. Now that I'm getting into the last (and rarest) of the collections to complete them, I'm relying on eBay to find my missing components, which we all know is dreadfully expensive.

I see an item I don't have and want to check the box on the collection list, so I start justifying the price, thinking I'll never see that 'deal' ever again, or I'll never see that figure again (which is true, in some cases, Thanos once at Target, Dark Galactus for $50 at a specialty shop). At that point, I panic a little, debate with myself, and end up closing my eyes and buying it.

I keep telling myself that I'll straighten up, start selling lots of other things to pay down the habit, but it hardly happens.

An addiction? You bet your ass. I just hope the hole I've dug can be filled once there's no more to find for my own collection. They say that if your 'hobby' or 'passion' has a negative effect on the rest of your life, it's an unhealthy addiction, so at least I'm not to that point yet. With my collection account being so separated from everything else, it's easy to keep separate financially. Time-wise though, I'm sure my wife would say my time spent hunting negatively affects the family, so there's that.

Geez my post turned into a downer. Sorry!