[bmorr]

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigHanksCustoms

When I sold off my G1 collection in 2002-3ish I made like $6000.

The movie hype hadn't taken over yet BUT, the collecting community had more buying power. Values were much better then in my opinion.

Plus now you have the phenomenon of adult collectors, so there will be a much higher ratio of MOC/MOSC figures to buy. In the "80s we just tore open our figures and bashed them around.

Unless you were poor like me then you savored them, carefully opened the package and saved everything, all papaers, decal sheets, etc. Never played rough with them, posed them a bit then back in the box.

See in the '70s and '80s the majority of toy owners were, well us when we were kids. Now there is such a huge industry of action figures/toys geared towards adults that there is a lot more pristine figure collecting going on. Which actually lowers value because there is a lot more inventory for the serious collector to choose from.

I kind of did it backwards, as a kid I treated my figures with the utmost care. Now that I'm all grown up the packaging barely makes it out of the parking lot in one piece!

Im really hoping the values drop in favor of the buyers because of the economy to be honest. Also, i did do something similar to what you did about saving stuff from the box, like the instructions and the tech specs on the back. I cut them out and saved them like trading cards.