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Anonymous Thu 10 Dec 2015 10:33:04 No.5329298 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>5329686 >>5330490 >>5330598 >>5330962 >>5333786

>sold neca donnie darko bunny for 20 canadian dollars on kijiji
>check ebay it's 60 dollars used
AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
OH GOD
last time I checked there was an overstock and they were 40 dollars new
WTF
no wonder so many fuckers emailed

Any /toy/ related mistakes?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 10 Dec 2015 10:38:37 No.5329302 Report

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My first real figure-related import purchase was SRC Gurren Lagann from a local anime shop. I spent like $89 on it.

With that said, the figure was so good I didn't really feel too ripped off.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 10 Dec 2015 10:58:17 No.5329322 Report

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Local anime store had a pit shelf warming at 70$ for months after smash 4 came out. Passed on it because not a fan of the character. Not much left to say.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 10 Dec 2015 11:31:49 No.5329344 Report

Quoted By: >>5329353

>getting into toy collecting
>visiting /toy/

The black holes of shame and poverty.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 10 Dec 2015 11:41:34 No.5329353 Report

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>>5329344
Then leave
also post with a trip so I can filter you
>hurr durr I hate this place but I post here because my time is worthless lmao

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 10 Dec 2015 12:18:58 No.5329387 Report

Quoted By: >>5329394 >>5329400 >>5334305

>bought year of the goat mp soundwave for $150
>price was on sale and after a further 10% off
>right now he's on clearance for $99

I'm a special kind of retard

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 10 Dec 2015 12:36:51 No.5329393 Report

Quoted By: >>5329398

Bought my first third party tf.

Transformed it about five times before putting it on display. Now every single solitary joint is loose and floppy.

Whelp learned my lesson I guess.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 10 Dec 2015 12:37:12 No.5329394 Report

Quoted By: >>5329400 >>5329401

>>5329387
>thinking year of the shit would hold its value

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 10 Dec 2015 12:40:47 No.5329398 Report

Quoted By: >>5329682

>>5329393
What did you buy anon
which third party figure was it

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 10 Dec 2015 12:41:00 No.5329400 Report

Quoted By: >>5329401

>>5329387
>>5329394
I keep wondering how far they'll clearance that stuff before they get rid of all the stock.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 10 Dec 2015 12:42:24 No.5329401 Report

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>>5329394
I bought it for half price ($300), I didn't think it'd go any lower, and now I know my lesson.

I have no plans to sell mine and he'll stay to remind me that A I have truly weird, shit taste and B to NEVER buy year of the --- or platinum shit until it hits the clearance bin.

I'm just baffled, the platinum edition 2 pack of evasion mode optimus and grimlock were on clearance for $150 last year...

>>5329400
Beats me, was thinking of scalping a second one but looking on ebay and seeing the same ones sit there for so long +opinions have lead me to believe I simply dun goof'd

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 10 Dec 2015 13:25:22 No.5329422 Report

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> Get stolen version of otfcc Sentinel Maximus
> Hey anon, I have a boxed one coming in that you can preorder
> Cool, sell my loose one on ebay
> Hey anon, I didn't manage to get the toy after all
> Fuck you, shop!

> Go to Mandarake Nakano
> Nendoroid Hakase and Nano at 3000yen
> meh, I'll pick them up online

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 10 Dec 2015 15:12:00 No.5329512 Report

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>preordered Kotobukia statues
>two
They both bargain binned with 50%off due overstock and subpar paint job.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 10 Dec 2015 18:09:49 No.5329682 Report

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>>5329398

MMC Cynicus.

He's actually really nice and I still have fun with him. I put like 10 layers of future to remedy the joints and have no idea why they all went floppy. He was among the first batch that was released and I ordered him directly from planetsteelexpress. It wasn't enough to deter me from getting Anarchus but hopefully he doesn't have the same issue.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 10 Dec 2015 18:12:03 No.5329686 Report

Quoted By: >>5334378

>>5329298
>Bought for 100$ of stuff on TOM right before the Black Friday sales
>Mfw i missed x20 TOM points

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 10 Dec 2015 18:15:24 No.5329691 Report

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When I first started collecting, I pretty much bought exclusively from Ebay and didnt really check around to other sites to do any price checking.

I probably wasted a couple hundred dollars on over priced revoltechs.

Also
>Buying revoltechs......

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 10 Dec 2015 19:01:31 No.5329740 Report

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i think i actually have more success stories than mistake stories. thats actually pretty awesome, thanks for making me notice OP

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 10 Dec 2015 19:51:48 No.5329822 Report

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I think my biggest /toy/ related mistake was posting here.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 10 Dec 2015 21:49:35 No.5329888 Report

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Never buying the IM2 War Machine when it came out and buying FOC Bruticus.
I'm never getting a War Machine, fucking SHF going past the hundred dollars, but at least every FOC headsculpt is great, the only thing holding me from selling that thing before the week ended.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Dec 2015 03:11:13 No.5330490 Report

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>>5329298
you're lucky you got $20 if you sold it for that
I try to sell stuff on kijiji and everyone just expects me to just give it to them for free.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 11 Dec 2015 03:53:58 No.5330598 Report

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>>5329298
I got a Pak once

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 11 Dec 2015 05:46:39 No.5330796 Report

Quoted By: >>5331079

>bought a monster high doll for $130 on ebay when i was in a bad mood to cheer me up
>1 week later, re-release was announced
>$15

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Dec 2015 05:54:07 No.5330806 Report

Quoted By: >>5330895 >>5332673 >>5332679 >>5337688

>hey, maybe I could get into making some customs, that would be fun
>$400+ in shit toys bought for parts and mods
>no 100% complete customs made

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 11 Dec 2015 07:07:51 No.5330895 Report

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>>5330806
Life is a process, not result.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 11 Dec 2015 08:23:34 No.5330962 Report

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>>5329298
>spend 90 bucks on a model kit
>break it because I'm a retard
>immediately afterward, shit I could only dream of owning go up for preorder
>could only afford the cheaper of the two
>the other one will probably disappear forever soon

Please kill me

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 11 Dec 2015 09:13:02 No.5331000 Report

Quoted By: >>5331062

passing up buying multiple army builder packs like this, because i want to be fair to other collectors.
"I'll just come back and buy another set, because they have plenty in stock"
>next week
>nothing
"FUCK!"

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Dec 2015 10:10:53 No.5331062 Report

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>>5331000
You will never benefit in life from not being an asshole

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Dec 2015 10:39:26 No.5331079 Report

Quoted By:

>>5330796
Monster high dolls? Bruh.....

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Dec 2015 07:17:21 No.5332673 Report

Quoted By: >>5332679

>>5330806
Ugh. This is me. Also:
>buy sanding tools, bevels, and parts
>no time to do what I want

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Dec 2015 07:23:40 No.5332679 Report

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>>5330806
>>5332673

yup. then
>finally finish custom
>looks like shit
>dispose of and never try again

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 12 Dec 2015 07:50:37 No.5332698 Report

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>Bought a bootleg nendo for 40 bucks

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Dec 2015 22:53:53 No.5333786 Report

Quoted By:

>>5329298
>buy SHF Kamen Rider Beast off Amazon for 15 bucks
>takes 3 months to arrive
>delivery box is smashed to fuck
>box with the figure is fine though
>the figure itself feels really cheap, thoughts of bootleggery fly in my head
>turns out it's not a bootleg and the figure is just that bad

I got what I paid for I guess

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 12 Dec 2015 23:40:59 No.5333930 Report

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Buying a SDCC 2010 Sage Mode Naruto figure for investment purposes at SDCC 2010.

And yes, I've never found a buyer that's interested in it.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 13 Dec 2015 00:27:55 No.5334017 Report

Quoted By: >>5334324

> pre order unlicensed d9 prawn
> guy asks if i want it customized
> why not
> takes a little longer to ship
> totally worth it
>company hit with C&D the following week
> all unshipped pre orders cancelled
>mfw

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Dec 2015 00:42:19 No.5334039 Report

Quoted By: >>5334435

participate in Secret Santa expecting competence and trusting anons

never again

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Dec 2015 02:58:40 No.5334305 Report

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>>5329387
from where?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Dec 2015 03:09:49 No.5334324 Report

Quoted By: >>5334375

>>5334017
enjoy three zero's offerings

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Dec 2015 03:44:22 No.5334375 Report

Quoted By:

>>5334324
yeah i saw that. pretty psyched for it

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Dec 2015 03:47:24 No.5334378 Report

Quoted By:

>>5329686
Fuuuuuuuuck, bro. I'm sorry.
I cleaned up on the 20X points, have $160 to spend

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Dec 2015 04:29:38 No.5334435 Report

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>>5334039
It's not even January you probably didn't get Grinched

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 13 Dec 2015 11:17:53 No.5335051 Report

Quoted By: >>5340166

>gave away my life's collection of Legos, Legos given from parent's friend's kid, two 3 cubic foot bins, to cousin when I moved
>cousin sold them for ten a piece at yard sale, dude shows up first customer in the morning for them to buy them
>"Thanks! They paid for the advert"

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Dec 2015 15:16:33 No.5335249 Report

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>be transformer collector
>around 2009 when ROTF came out
>get into customizing
>huge mistake
>customize a shit ton of movie toys and a few classics toys
>a few years later i regret it because they are all shit.
>still replacing toys i customized

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Dec 2015 16:03:15 No.5335300 Report

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>be 17 at the time
>on a band trip to Disney
>go to Epcot and get the 1/144 Unicorn with head stand
>me and a friend built on it at the hotel
>Get it halfway done
>bring it home after a long trip back to Indiana
>realize we left the sticker sheet back at the hotel

RREEEEE

Venkman !kM/YMzVjpI

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Venkman !kM/YMzVjpI Sun 13 Dec 2015 16:23:17 No.5335314 Report

Quoted By: >>5335321

>find pictured for stupid cheap (<$10)
>dont collect Halo figs (yet), so buy just to flip
>sell it off for decent price, nice profit
>few years later start collecting female spartans
>find out one of them is female
>go to look for her online, 3-pack now stupid expensive

WELP. Alice-130 is the last female spartan I need for my collection (until they release more).

Venkman !kM/YMzVjpI

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Venkman !kM/YMzVjpI Sun 13 Dec 2015 16:32:12 No.5335321 Report

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>>5335314
Shit, never mind... make that two. I just found about Veronica Dare.

>inb4 not a spartan

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 13 Dec 2015 17:55:27 No.5335420 Report

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I got this for £25 a few years ago.... probably a mistake future me will regret.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Dec 2015 18:12:43 No.5335445 Report

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>moving
>give a bunch of stuff to my buddy "for his kids"
>six months later, visiting home for Christmas
>collectible shop in the mall has most of my stuff

And yes, I know it was my stuff because it was obscure imports that nobody else in that hick town would have.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Dec 2015 21:43:00 No.5335813 Report

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>Grandmother has a bunch of Kenner JP and MOTU
>My uncle's from when he was a kid
>I put off asking if I could take them
>Find out she tossed the entire box of toys in the dumpster like two days before I asked
>mfw JP Demon was in there

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2015 20:14:01 No.5337688 Report

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>>5330806
Man you gotta just keep working on what you can when you can. Finish something, step back, look at it, is it shit? yes? well you're just starting out, shelve it and move on to the next, use the first one for references and learn from it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 15 Dec 2015 22:11:25 No.5340166 Report

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>>5335051
its like the stories in one of those "hey anon i sold them 50 bucks 50 BUCKS CAN YOU BELIEVE IT" threads .

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