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Quote from: Pierlala on December 01, 2017, 01:19:28 PMThought I make a fun topic to see what people think or feel what value their collection might be. I am not asking what the value is. But more like what you would be willing to let it go for. Quote from: Pierlala on December 02, 2017, 04:43:43 PMI think my topic is misunderstood. I don't mean that someone walks up to you and gives you the money in hand. But more like...if you were to sell your collection, what price would you put on it. This is kind of contradictory...You want to know what price someone would put their collection up for sale for but not it's value? I mean, if I were to sell my collection, I'd put it up for what I believed it's market value to be. I'd estimate mine to be worth maybe $2000 or so but if I were to actually sell my collection I know it's unlikely I'd get that much selling all in one lot. I'd sell ponies individually first then if there were some that didn't sell after a while I'd put those in a lower priced lot.
Thought I make a fun topic to see what people think or feel what value their collection might be. I am not asking what the value is. But more like what you would be willing to let it go for.
I think my topic is misunderstood. I don't mean that someone walks up to you and gives you the money in hand. But more like...if you were to sell your collection, what price would you put on it.
You can pry them out of my cold, dead hands.
No, this is why I said emotional value can add up to the price. So perhaps once you come to a point that you might want to sell them, there will still be some kind of emotional value to them. Which probably makes you add another couple of hundered maybe even thousands of dollers/euros. I don't ask what the market value of your total collection is. But what YOU find it worth and one day are willing to sel it for that price. Not caring about buyers not finding it worth that much. It is litteraly about YOU. Not about factual value.
When I was with my ex...money was very...very thight...due to his gambling problem...So the day came I sold my entire Barbie Collection (no vintage ones, mostly collector edition ones when they came out for the *normal* price Mattel also sold them) in one go for 350 euro....but when I now calculate what the dolls had cost me...I come out on a price between 1000 and 1500 euro....soI practically *gave* them away!!!And some months later... I was unpacking my older Pony collection.... (I just started collecting MLP before I met my ex!), and also because of bills I didn't had enough money for to cover them again due to his gambling!!!And I put a couple of them on Marktplaats (Dutch version of Craigslist) and the bidding begon on some who where more worth then I aspected they where....I start crying.....And then I got so very angry with my ex...that I was ALWAYS the one who had to sell things because HE had a gambling problem and always wiggle his way out off his responsebility to make up HIS debts...no...he ALWAYS relied on ME to do!!!And when he came home...I had told him, via a text that morning, that I decided to sell the ponies that day and when he came home that afternoon... He was flabbergasted to see that I was brushing and grooming those ponies and putting them up for display in the Cabinet where my Barbie collection stood before the sale!!!And when I told him that I wasn't going to pay anymore for HIS debts...all Hell broke loose!! But I had sat crying my eye's out that afternoon in the middle of my Precious Ponies and knew...No Money In The World....could get me to sell those Ponies!!!And that was just the beginning of putting my foot down with him....a couple of months later after another fight about his gambling...I trow him out!!!!And in the autumn of 2013 I *met* my *new* partner (I already was friends with him when I was with my ex, just friends nothing else!!!), everything I told you above was in the autumn of 2012 and in Spring 2013 after my Gastric Bypass I had finally the courage to trow him to the curb!!!And now in 2017 we are still so very happy with each other, and my ponies!!! He was the one who gave me my Pony Room, because he knew how much they mean to me!And he is mostly the one who encourage me to buy More Ponies!!!Sorry for the whole story...but only this way I feel I could explain what my Ponies really mean to me...X Lady Arachnia
You can pry them out of my cold, dead hands.Or for 10,000,000$. Either is acceptable.