I love that movie.
What Is Your Most Valuable Playmates Item?
#41
Posted 22 August 2008 - 03:27 PM
I love that movie.
#42
Posted 22 August 2008 - 04:30 PM
The rare one. Oddly though, I do have the DS9 Thomas Riker as well, but have noooooo memory of when I got it.
#43
Posted 22 August 2008 - 06:28 PM
#44
Posted 22 August 2008 - 06:31 PM
The one in red uniform?
#45
#46
Posted 22 August 2008 - 07:26 PM
Well if we're gonna get that specific, it's a US, brown accessory toting, beard wielding, gold shirt wearing, odd pose striking TNG Thomas Riker.
#47
Posted 22 August 2008 - 07:55 PM
Trifold Borgs....a Paramount promo...they are really "rare" if you have one with the letter and the mailer box as they were mailed out (Examples of merchandising)...back in 1997, I was paying $1000+ to get one, and selling for 10-20% more... then, a friend from Paramount sold me a sealed case of 24 of them he found in a storage room at Paramount (I think for like $100-$125 each, I seem to recall paying $2500 for the case)...I sold them for next to nothing ($150 if I remember), and effectively (though temp) killed the market value on them...but, i was and am always about making a small/fair profit, and helping collectors get a cool figure...
Dathon With pog... I have owned 11 of them through the years... most I ever paid was $1700 to get one for a customer (sold it to him for $2000, but it cost me darn near $100 to get it shipped fedex from Au to the US, so I made a fair 10%)... least I got one for , was actually on ebay (FHC never saw one, but I bought 3 of them on ebay in the old days)...got it for $40...that was my personal copy for a long time, till I sold it to a friend (again, for like $50)...
the most valuable Playmates items I had were the unproduced prototypes resin pieces...the Rightful Heir Worf statue, the Ultra (resin) Kirk and Data and 7 of 9 and I believe Khan (I have old pictures somewhere)... sold the lot (and a few other protos), to a private collector in DE for $20,000 back in 2001, I believe... I had NO intention of selling ,as they were one of kind pieces I got from Playmates' Mara H a long time ago, and were in my personal collection... but, one day a certified check showed up (after having had exhausting conversations with the collector, telling him I probably wouldn't even sell the lot for $10K) and so I sent him the statues...ah, memories
rick
#48
Posted 22 August 2008 - 08:03 PM
#49
Posted 23 August 2008 - 06:16 AM
hello all...
I have always been a "friend" to those that need me LOL
I pretty much base secondary market resell on my cost... if I pay $600, I'll sell for $650...if I pay $100, I'll sell for $120, etc..
I went through my archived ebay bids, I bid on 2 dathon with pogs in 2005 and 2006, just for kicks...so there have been a few recently (usually, you have to goto ebay.au or ebay.uk, as those were the 2 countries the pogs were primarilly released in)...though, they occasionally show up on ebay in the US... in 2005, there was a $500 BIN on a dathon with pog...but, we pretty much sold out all our Playmates in 2001, so I really hadn't followed the market too closelly since then
rick
#50
Posted 23 August 2008 - 06:22 AM
Why, exactly, in that specific case, would it have been right? So that said store owner/dealer could over-charge someone 100 times over for it rather than it going to a fan who truly appreciates it? I don't see that being right, not by far. It would be one thing of the dealer had a heart, was a guy like Rick from New Force, who only makes a fair profit for what he sells. But most dealers are not good guys like that, they take people for every last penny they can get. The fact of the guys attitude from the phone call leads me to believe he likely falls into such.
#51
Posted 23 August 2008 - 07:12 AM
To sort of get back on topic, this shows why I consider my Dathon right there with my Trifold Borg as my most valued pieces. Well I might add my loose m
#52
Posted 23 August 2008 - 10:50 PM
The fact is, I would have returned it. I guess if you put it that way, what you did wasn't right or wrong.
#53
Posted 13 December 2008 - 11:56 AM
There is a Dathon w/POG currently on eBay right now.
#54
Posted 13 December 2008 - 11:58 AM
#55
Posted 13 December 2008 - 03:10 PM
I currently have the Dathon POG which is an extra from my collection, on eBay if anyone is interested in this figure.
I have it paired up with a few other hard-to-fund POGs - L. Troi (Canadian) and Sarek (Canadian) and Vorgon.
Glenn
#56
Posted 22 December 2008 - 05:26 PM
Sallah
#57
Posted 28 December 2008 - 01:04 PM
Found in a load of Nikko RC stuff from Irwin Toy (Canada). It appears the cube is painted over green plastic. Probably was used for the marketing round table discussion and possibly a photo shoot.
#58
Posted 24 January 2009 - 11:22 PM
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