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It reminds me of the time I was at a toy fair and this vendor had a bunch of really common ponies lined up on the table at something like £10-£15 apiece. We're going back 15 years and these were lSunlight and Peachy and such. Under the table was a box of 'damaged' ones they were selling for 30p each. One of which was Spanish Strawberry Fair/Sugarberry...I guess it's not as bad as being told rubbish by a stallholder about pony rarity, but let's just say it was a well spent 30p that day.
Quote from: Taffeta on January 27, 2022, 12:44:48 PMIt reminds me of the time I was at a toy fair and this vendor had a bunch of really common ponies lined up on the table at something like £10-£15 apiece. We're going back 15 years and these were lSunlight and Peachy and such. Under the table was a box of 'damaged' ones they were selling for 30p each. One of which was Spanish Strawberry Fair/Sugarberry...I guess it's not as bad as being told rubbish by a stallholder about pony rarity, but let's just say it was a well spent 30p that day.omg. My head's a little slow today so my American brain was trying to remember if 30p indicates pounds or pence, but you said they were damaged, so I'm guessing that's...pence?Like, either way, hell of a story. Good purchase. VERY good purchase.
I said it on the other thread about the rarest ponies, but the sad thing is that we talk about these cases of people outside of MLP high pricing ponies, actually as pony collectors we're mostly the ones who jack up the prices for each other. We don't do it on purpose, it just kind of happens over time. And the more it happens, the more people see collectors selling x pony for x price, the more that pony becomes cemented in at a higher price. I've been thinking about this especially with some of the crazy Mimic prices over the last couple of years...and the way that some Nirvana prices have remained jawdroppingly high.We complain about and laugh at the people at markets or on websites who have silly prices and wrong information. But some ID websites still have wrong information and we still pay silly prices among ourselves...both of which are more trusted than the outside people. At the end of the day, we don't buy those silly priced market stall ponies. But we do buy stuff from one another. I'm getting philosophical but it feels like what we should really be examining is how much collectors have inflated pony prices simply by getting caught in bidding wars with one another and creating sudden demand as certain ponies go in and out of fashion...Because Rapunzel DOES sell for 1k$ quite a lot. And even giving time and inflation, she was never selling for anywhere close to that amount when I started collecting. I know 10k is ludicrous. But I've always thought that 900-1k$ for any pony is also crazy :/
True, but you're missing my point I'm not saying that it's ok that ridiculous prices happen from people who don't have a clue. I just think it's interesting that the prices within the community have gradually gone up and up over the years and that's more likely where collectors will actually spend the money.Thinking particularly of the Glowing Magic/GnS set, whose prices have gone insane now for literally no reason except that collectors kept paying and charging more for them over a period of time...
Quote from: KarentheUnicorn on January 25, 2022, 03:36:03 PMThis feels kind of that time a lady at a flea market was trying to insist and then argume with me that Baby Chucky Cheese Pony was worth more if it was signed. Or trying to tell me how much other ponies she had to sell were worth. And this was hummm, probably 20 years ago.Signed???? By who? Charles Entertainment Cheese??????
This feels kind of that time a lady at a flea market was trying to insist and then argume with me that Baby Chucky Cheese Pony was worth more if it was signed. Or trying to tell me how much other ponies she had to sell were worth. And this was hummm, probably 20 years ago.
maybe they just needed money and were a little too aggressive about it
it irritates me when people treat collectibles like pure money making opportunities
a lot of people collect because they just like ponies
this story is reminding me of that time my old landlord saw my pony collection and asked me if that was my retirement plan