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Title: the average price of a collection
Post by: nhal039 on September 16, 2012, 04:35:59 PM
Gees so I was just having a little look at my g1 collection and I was shocked when I came to the conclusion that the average price of each pony must be about $30  :shocked: Of course they all werent that price I have lots of really pricey ponies with very few being under $20  :lookround:


I love my g3 collection thou as they would only be about $3-4 each  :P
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: mlp4me on September 16, 2012, 04:50:41 PM
I haven't priced my entire collection in a loooooong time. Wish I had more that valued over $20 LOL!!
I haven't updated Klect for a good year... I'd have to say it's around $5,000 usd by now... I just wanna roll in them and throw them up in the air.... (Sorry, having a Scrooge McDuck moment....)
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: Sanadaookami on September 16, 2012, 05:01:31 PM
If you go by the Ponydex on average ponies are worth around $10
http://www.ponydex.com/statistics.php
looks like my collection sticks to that- works out to about $9.75per and I have just under 900 right now~
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: nhal039 on September 16, 2012, 05:04:37 PM
oh that looks like fun :  ) I will have to do that. I purposely set out to get all the htf/ expensive ones first so that the rest of my herd will be easy and affordable to obtain  ;)
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: Jadis4742 on September 16, 2012, 05:24:22 PM
I haven't priced my whole collection, but if you're into Nirvanas the value can go up insanely quickly. I've got 4 shelves of ponies on display, and they're probably worth $2k.

(I also have a "go bag" next to them - they were evacuated just last week, when we had that tornado scare.)
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on September 16, 2012, 05:39:25 PM
It's really varied!  Especially when you include G3, G3.5 and G4 because most of those are still around retail. 
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: Tiggums6 on September 17, 2012, 02:03:48 AM
Hmmmm that's an interesting question...let me just say again that i am looking forward to getting home and unpacking my girls 9and boys!)
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: hathorcat on September 17, 2012, 04:47:21 AM
Nope...no way am adding it up and averaging it...I dont need any more grey hairs :P

I would think average per pony price could be all over the place - if someone has lots of rares it will up the average and if someone has lots of G3s it will reduce it!
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: Oneleo1 on September 17, 2012, 06:29:04 AM
Average? That would be an interesting way to look at it. I best mine would be around $15 because half the herd is G3, 1/4 expensive Nirvanas and 1/4 US or UK release.
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: SFlame on September 17, 2012, 06:47:07 AM
The average price of my collection would be insane, as although i used to have a lot of common ponies, i have sold a lot of them and the majority of my collection is uk exclusives and rare nirvanas eep!!
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: SkyCakes on September 17, 2012, 08:20:43 AM
I really don't want to know either what my price is. I know I spent alot on ponies enough as it is. Ignorance is bliss. :)
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: Luxrayx on September 17, 2012, 08:24:13 AM
I don't want to price my ponies... They're priceless to me <3
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: starrypawz on September 17, 2012, 08:27:31 AM
Hmm I'm guessing my collection is probably worth just under 100 GBP mainly since most of my ponies are common and I have a lot of G3s
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: KLECT_MLP on October 08, 2012, 07:43:24 PM
Well, we haven't had much to add in a while, and a complaint that had come in was about values. Values are a hard thing to keep current on (especially as you have 1000's of items to keep up on).
So, some new features are on their way for our users (or new users). The first one this year will be where our users can provide their own input on values by a vote of +/-. that makes an incremental change and users can enter for each item every 24 hours. This way, if you look at a pony that says it is worth $10 and you know it is worth less, then "-" the price. It will go down a few cents then and you can do it again the next day. As more users make their own inputs, values will find their proper average. We are working to pull sales data to make automatic adjustments as an input too. Hope this helps users control this data without having to enter it. Thank you all.
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: Glacia471 on October 08, 2012, 08:13:58 PM
Of the 20 ponies I have prominently displayed in my room alone, there's probably $5350+ worth of plastic. This isn't counting the other ponies fighting for display space in my room, the hallway display, livingroom shelves, or the ponies I have boxed up. :drunk:
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: nhal039 on October 08, 2012, 08:20:48 PM
Of the 20 ponies I have prominently displayed in my room alone, there's probably $5350+ worth of plastic. This isn't counting the other ponies fighting for display space in my room, the hallway display, livingroom shelves, or the ponies I have boxed up. :drunk:

Hehe but I remember you posting some pics of your collection when I was new to the arena so I am not surprised your 20 ponies total that ; ) They are stunning thou
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: StarlightGaze on October 09, 2012, 01:23:21 AM
It's too bad ponies aren't valuable like a lot of action figures are. Transformers are worth a lot!
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: Henpatch on October 09, 2012, 02:58:35 AM
I really don't want to know either what my price is. I know I spent a lot on ponies enough as it is. Ignorance is bliss. :)

Yep - don't want to go there......in all the years I have collected - scary!!!
ESPECIALLY don't let hubby see this thread - what he doesn't know won't hurt him!
ANYWAY.....HE buys REAL horses and each one probably cost more than my whole collection of 1000s!!! 
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: Princess-Sparkles on October 09, 2012, 03:14:09 AM
Well my three ponies on my shelf alone are worth about $800. I haven't looked at my others, though.
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: michelle53 on October 09, 2012, 05:49:37 AM
Hmmm...I'm going with $25 :P  My collection is probably worth more than that, but I try not to think about it too much  :lol:
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: hathorcat on October 09, 2012, 05:50:37 AM
It's too bad ponies aren't valuable like a lot of action figures are. Transformers are worth a lot!

You ll find a lot of ponies which are worth a lot of money - between nirvanas and even some mail order and variants there are a lot of ponies in the high hundreds and even into the thousands of $
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: kakenterprise on October 09, 2012, 06:03:51 AM
It's too bad ponies aren't valuable like a lot of action figures are. Transformers are worth a lot!

I like that I can find Transformers/action figure relativity easier than pony's second hand. 


I have no idea where to start with my pony collection...
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: StarlightGaze on October 09, 2012, 03:48:00 PM
Well my :muffin: Pony alone is worth over $100 according to ebay. I've probably spent about a grand on all the G4 toys I bought.
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: lolaandbean on October 10, 2012, 05:41:10 AM
Almost all of my ponies came from yardsales/ flea markets. I'm also not a very picky condition collector. I'd probably say $3-$4 average. I think I have about 85 ponies. The most I've ever paid for a pony is around $10.
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: DazzleKitty on October 10, 2012, 05:45:53 AM
I have been wanting to catalogue my collection and do this. Hmm....this may give me something to do this weekend. I'm so very curious about how much my collection is worth.
Title: Re: the average price of a collection
Post by: Lorelei Redfern on October 10, 2012, 06:15:18 AM
eh.. not sure whts mine worth.. at the moment. lol  buta few hundred at least  i should figure it out. lol
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