A few weeks ago, I posted that one of my friends picked up a limited edition box set for me that sold out immediately worldwide. Well, we finally met up and we exchanged money for the box!
This is what has all the scalpers online going nuts.
I mean, it's a pretty sweet box to begin with, with some awesome cover art. The whole scarcity thing had the scalpers either selling these for like 200% markup or taking these boxes apart and selling the pieces individually on Ebay for ridiculous prices.
It's a lot of pieces! I'm going to have a lot of fun building them and painting them, rather than selling them off. It's going to take a lot of time and effort to do all that, but hey, I have fun with this.
This box will make a tank, a floating spiky jetski, 10 knife-wielding witches, five winged dudes with guns, a squad of 5 heavy weapon users, and the below two special characters. It also comes with a cool art print, the instructions, and a small campaign book.
These two pieces in particular are interesting. They are exclusive hero characters that are currently only available in this box set. Sold individually, the scalpers are looking to make the price of the whole box (or a good chunk of it; I haven't checked Ebay lately) back on just these two tiny pieces of plastic alone. I, on the other hand, am going to enjoy them as long as I can.
So this is my next big project after I finish all the other ones. All the scalpers out there can suck it, because I got it the way it was intended to be sold! From a locally-owned gaming store, not an online resale site!
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Bro there are so many scalpers on the market rn. Think it’s due to more ppl working from home and being able to camp out eBay or online storefronts more. Bc everything is balls to the walls hard to buy if it has an inkling of collectibility
@NoahB Oh, definitely. Considering it was a limited run box with not enough to fill demand, and also contains two exclusive characters that won't be released by themselves for months at least, this was a big target for them.
@NoahB definitely part of it but economic uncertainty also drives the price up of limited collectables inspite of what one would think.
I'm kinda stoked about it since my baseball card collection from when I was a kid could possibly be worth a fortune right now of I can get some of it graded.
I got unopened upper deck boxes that are selling for over a grand each right now. That's selling not asking.
@MethDozer might want to hold off on grading for now. PSA got a bunch of cards sent to them bc of the hype were all in and now they are being super stingy with the 9's and 10's grades
@NoahB Oh I know. PSA isn't even accepting any for grading until the end of the year.
I'm more excited about the prices of the unopened cellophane boxes because those don't require grading. You might even be able to guess which brand and year I got a horde of if you know cards but I ain't saying it here. But legit I got a stack of the hot card as well that were sleeve the day they were opened. It would mostly depend on the cut and centering.
