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Pony Talk => Pony Corral => Topic started by: Prince Primbrose on September 11, 2013, 09:42:57 AM
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So, once again I checked Craigslist and found ponies! ...in another city! It's never quite in Missoula, always in another town, or a neighboring state! (At least it's just a G3 lot, not something I'll absolutely die without.)
Anyway, I've yet to have luck on Craigslist. I guess all my pony luck went to thrifting. But I know some of you guys have found fantastic pony lots on there before. Care to share your stories of joy or woe? :awake:
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I've never found ponies in Craigslist actually. Now I'm too afraid to look. Someone in the area has been calling adds, meeting people and then robbing them.
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I have occasionally found ponies on CL. However they've been few and far between the last 2 years...
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I've never found ponies in Craigslist actually. Now I'm too afraid to look. Someone in the area has been calling adds, meeting people and then robbing them.
:shocked: That's awful! Yeesh, I thought the problems with people getting hurt from Craigslist were over.
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I once got like 30 G3s for $20 ^.^ The lady had other large groups of G3s but at the time I didn't have much spending money.
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I lucked out once! I was in TN at the time, but the seller ended up being on the other side of the state. I asked if she would mind mailing them to me instead of meeting and I'd pay extra for the shipping. She was so nice and did mail them to me. I paid $15 for this lot:
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(http://smg.photobucket.com/user/orca5094/media/ArenaPics/Craigslist_zps569107a5.jpg.html)
Very nice original curls on Goldilocks and Sugar Apple, and 4 of those petites are the Glowing Magic ones that are worth about $20 each. Pretty sweet deal!
There was one other lot I found on CL where they had around 100 G1 ponies. I had contacted them and made an offer, which they accepted and I was just waiting to hear back about what day to meet. After a couple more emails, they finally answered and said they'd sold the lot to someone else (most likely to someone who offered more). They sent me a pic of a few fakies that the other person didn't want and asked if I wanted those ones. I was SO angry! They could have at least let me know they'd been offered more and given me the chance to go higher or something, instead they just didn't get back to me until I had sent them several emails about what day/time we were meeting. Jerks. All well, at least I had one good CL experience. ;)
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I've seen some great lots but never had the money.
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I have found some good lots and a few ponies, but none of them have ever got back to me. I do have one person that I waiting to get pictures from. They are taking a while and I hope I do hear back. I did find one pony that I wanted but they would not ship it :(
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Aww, that's a shame Avene. I hope they get back to you soon.
Nice lot Teddy! Shame about the other one though.
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Lots of times! :) I always meet people in a public place, people mostly get robbed while selling/buying electronics, not ponies :P So I dont worry too much.
Most recent, $75
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$200, 170 ponies. All the money went to charity to help buy school supplies :)
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Lots of times! :) I always meet people in a public place, people mostly get robbed while selling/buying electronics, not ponies :P So I dont worry too much.
Most recent, $75
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$15
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$200, 170 ponies. All the money went to charity to help buy school supplies :)
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I'm completely jealous!! Great finds!
I never find anything on Craigslist :(
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I have had SEVERAL HUGE finds on CL ABOUT 10 - 15 G1's several G2's and countless G3's and castles, ballons ECT and when it comes to all the other toys I collect I have KILLED.....I promise anyone on here you should always check it out a few times a day if you can just search for what you want
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Ugh I never find anything on kijiji. The ponies are sooo sparse and if one does show up its Sundance for $10!!
Congrats to everyone who had good luck though, that's awesome :)
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I got my Dream Castle (with most of the accessories) with a few ponies including a lovely FF Snuzzle, and a couple G3s for $25. Actually I gave her an extra $5 because I got a really nice deal.
I also got my G3 Crystal Rainbow Castle plus two of the ponies that came with it, a few other G3s and a couple G1s for $30. Not too bad considering I love the castle for display purposes.
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:( I would love to help out my fellow Calgarians and I have been posting large parts of my collection on Kijiji but so far, very few responses. The people I have met have been really sweet though, even if a bit weirded out by my enthusiasm... :-p
I've also scored a great deal of amazing pony lots myself on the site as well... so maybe it's a good thing there aren't many of us collectors about! :-p We'll have to hold a meet someday...
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i have no idea what kijiji is LOL, and almost nothing ever on my local craiglist :(
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I went threw it right now and its all the same things. Some of them are ones that I asked about and never heard back. And they are all G3 ponies and ponyville ones.
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Nothing, sadly. . . I've had much better luck here, eBay and thrift stores.
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I got 5 G1s from Craigslist last week and I just contacted someone tonight about an ad for a G1 tent. There are always tons of G3s in my area but none that are super rare so I typically pass those up.
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nope , nothing here in my home state, meh....
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I've never found ponies in Craigslist actually. Now I'm too afraid to look. Someone in the area has been calling adds, meeting people and then robbing them.
:shocked: That's awful! Yeesh, I thought the problems with people getting hurt from Craigslist were over.
nope still going multiple robberies. I guess I'll stick with thrift stored
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Ok Rhini you seriously win at CL finds! Just wow!
We dont have things like to the same scale as you guys have in the US so I have never ever found anything through any gumtree/preloved/classifieds searching - maybe one day :)
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I have yet to have luck on CL. There was a large lot with several Fairy Tail birds in it as well for 45$ a year ago but someone beat me to it.
For the most part people either overprice their G3's and Ponyville or already know what they have and price them individually .
I did find a huge lot of 200 ponies and the seller was willing to ship them all for 50$ but she took one huge group shot of them and I could barely see them. At the time money was tight and I just couldn't justify buying the group without knowing what condition they were in. All I remember is that Edgar was in there as well as a SS Twilight.
I have yet to find my EPIC find so to say but I keep hunting. Money has been super tight again so I have not been out looking for almost 3 weeks now :(
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I've had two good loots from Gumtree, One from an arena member, and another from a past collector who was giving them up. Both lots turned out to have some real gems, and I'm super glad I bought them! So far there's only been one massive 'one that got away'.. a TP member got it and posted the brag - my gosh I was mad at my hubby for not taking me to pick them up, there were mountain boys with accessories in there!
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I got a lot of about 25 ponies for $20. There were 2 Hollywoods and 4 of the pearly babies, all of whom I sold on here =)
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I am happy in a way to hear that I am not the only one that has not had good luck!
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Nope, none. No CL finds, Goodwill finds, yard sale finds. This area's pony dry, which is weird as it's the state capital. :(
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Nope, none. No CL finds, Goodwill finds, yard sale finds. This area's pony dry, which is weird as it's the state capital. :(
Hey just thought you should know I looked up your area on CL and there is a HUGE G1 lot I hope you take a look
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Never had any luck. :( The only times I found ads that weren't for G3 ponies were gone or fake. >.<
OMGEEE Rhini you have amazing CL luck! :D
Speaking of CL ads, I have a few pony things posted on my local CL and got no offers so I guess it all depends on the area and who's looking >.<
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Hehehe you all are going to hate me but I lucked out again today :P Not CL, but an estate auction site. Pictures tomorrow!
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Nope, none. No CL finds, Goodwill finds, yard sale finds. This area's pony dry, which is weird as it's the state capital. :(
You're in Columbus too?
Yeah.. there's not much here lately. I haven't had a good Craigslist find in at least a year... maybe two. I posted a g1 lot earlier this year, and there wasn't so much as a single nibble on it... and it was like, 30 ponies for $100. Not the super best price.. but not bad. No one was interested.
Post Merge: September 13, 2013, 04:27:58 AM
Nope, none. No CL finds, Goodwill finds, yard sale finds. This area's pony dry, which is weird as it's the state capital. :(
Hey just thought you should know I looked up your area on CL and there is a HUGE G1 lot I hope you take a look
If it's the one I'm looking at, I wouldn't call that huge. If I remember right, he posted it before and wanted WAY too much. He thinks those darn things are coated n gold... (and is all like OMG!! THEY'RE RARE!! When they are commons and fakies..<_<)
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Looked at that lot, and not huge, but that's the first I've ever notice ponies on CL. Plus when the guy is asking for jewelry as payment. O.o so nope, no good finds still.
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I've never really purchased anything off of craigslist but I have looked up to see if anyone had advertised ponies on there. When I looked yeah there was listing for ponies, but the prices they were asking for them was out of site.
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found several cheap g1 lots in my city over kijiji and even had some shipped. the best are never called "ponys" so you gotta be clever when searching
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I have found a few lots on CL. Only one got me any ponies though. I managed to get near mint with accessories Princess Serena, Tex, Rattles and Tattles and a few others. The lady selling was asking collectors prices so I didn't get everything she had. She had a bunch of baby Sea Ponies with floats that I would have loved but she had them on eBay and wanted more than I could pay. She also had Mimic that I think she would have sold for $20 but I didn't want to rip her off. She managed to sell it close to $100 to a member on here through eBay if I remember correctly.
The other few I found had some nice ponies but the first one, the lady was emailing me and then all of a sudden stopped responding. She had posted the same lot twice and just quit responding both times, really irritating.
The second lot actually went to a member on here. It had a lavender dream castle and some other nice gems. I was emailing the lady that had them and she agreed to ship and we were working on a price when she quit emailing me back and then I saw the brag with the same lot from someone else on here. I was glad to see a collector got them but was irritated that they can't email you to say someone else bought them, especially since I was first to get ahold of her but I have a feeling part of it was that she would have had to mail them to me whereas the other person had been able to pick them up.
That was all when I lived in CO, now that I live in ND-zip, nada. People don't use CL up here like they do more populated places.
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Yes! Once. I got a ton of g1s from years 2-6 and they were all in great condition. The flutters with their wings even! She had given many of the ponies new hairstyles/80s hair lol! But a lot of my customers on Etsy loved their looks.
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New brag! Overpaid a little, but certainly got some nice stuff :) I found them on an estate sale website and bought it at their auction. First time going to one, kind of fun!
Brag here: http://mlparena.com/index.php/topic,340921.0.html
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OMG YOU HAVE MEGANS PLACE ACCESSORIES *tackles Rhini for that little curry comb* :P
What an awesome find - congrats honey!
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Congrats on finding some more good deals :)
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OMG YOU HAVE MEGANS PLACE ACCESSORIES *tackles Rhini for that little curry comb* :P
What an awesome find - congrats honey!
Buahaha! :P *combs pony hair with itty bitty comb* They actually had the playsets for all these as well WITH the boxes, but the sets themselves were in shabby shape and I have most of them anyways so I just bought all their accessories to complete my playset shells instead! :devious:
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I got a nice set on kijiji tht had babies with accessories and tex with hat and scaf. $20
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OMG YOU HAVE MEGANS PLACE ACCESSORIES *tackles Rhini for that little curry comb* :P
What an awesome find - congrats honey!
Buahaha! :P *combs pony hair with itty bitty comb* They actually had the playsets for all these as well WITH the boxes, but the sets themselves were in shabby shape and I have most of them anyways so I just bought all their accessories to complete my playset shells instead! :devious:
Oooooh....cunning....I like!
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New brag! Overpaid a little, but certainly got some nice stuff :) I found them on an estate sale website and bought it at their auction. First time going to one, kind of fun!
Brag here: http://mlparena.com/index.php/topic,340921.0.html
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Drooling over your Brandy from Home Sweet Home!!! Congrats!
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I had found 3 ponies and 1 pony friend for 15$. It included Merry Treats, Buzzer complete with wings, Baby Countdown and Creamsicle.
There IS a listing on Craigslist for a nearby town, a bunch of accessories and ponies for 150$. I wish I could get it. T_T
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Posted my collection on Kijiji AGAIN this weekend... since June! :( Calgarians, come and find me!
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Nope... Craigslist brings out ALL kinds of crazies here. I understand it isn't that way everywhere but I don't even need fingers to count my good experiences with craigslist...
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I put up a wanted post on Missoula's craigslist. Someone in Helena emailed me with "Cotton Candy Cafe, accessories and 5 ponies for $40" Looking at the picture, I... don't think it's worth it. v__v