Jump to content
THIS IS THE TEST SITE OF EUROBRICKS! ×
THIS IS THE TEST SITE OF EUROBRICKS!

eBay madness

gylman

By gylman
in Buy, Sell, Trade and Finds

 Share

Recommended Posts

Brick Miner Mentor

Brick Miner

Posted
Posted
i expect WW to get expensive in Europe. It seems the popularity of the theme is on the rise and it's likely that new US WW fans will try and get the european sets, now that the US versions are pretty hard to find for a reasonable price.
you've noticed this too ??? if you look at BL, even the WW sets offered from NA sellers are European versions (aka... with shooting cannons). some even note it in their descriptions now (a few of them even changed there description after i posed the question a while ago.)

and even here, on EB, there seem to be quite a bit of WW interest, from new(er) members... unexpected, but nice *pirate*

------------------------------------------------

BTW, 80 dollars for an 8891 instruction booklet... that is the craziest one yet gylman !!!

- BrickMiner

  • Replies 568
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

snefroe Grand Master

snefroe

Posted
Posted
you've noticed this too ??? if you look at BL, even the WW sets offered from NA sellers are European versions (aka... with shooting cannons). some even note it in their descriptions now (a few of them even changed there description after i posed the question a while ago.)

and even here, on EB, there seem to be quite a bit of WW interest, from new(er) members... unexpected, but nice *pirate*

------------------------------------------------

BTW, 80 dollars for an 8891 instruction booklet... that is the craziest one yet gylman !!!

- BrickMiner

yeah... it seems WW interest is seriously increasing on the second hand market. according to the shopowners i know, people seem to love the detailed sets, the army building capacity of several smaller sets.

HP on the other hand is less valuable than garbage it seems. The market gets flooded with HP sets and nobody seems to want them. Maybe it's because of the price. the were fairly expensive to begin with, so even half that price is still a lot for a normal second hand set, especially if you realise that HP sets are not what the average collector wants, or probably, he already has those sets MISB. Maybe we'll see a rise after the next film but i doubt it.

81 dollars for an instruction book... that's either a typo or from a very ignorant or rich customer...

gylman Veteran

gylman

Posted
  • Author
Posted

I too have noticed that WW is selling very well for MISB, or even sets with boxes. It's just supply and demand I guess. It didn't go on for very long from what I can tell, although there were a couple of re-releases of the big sets (Rapid River Village and Legoredo), and nothing like it has been released since.

This is why I have always thought that an Adventurers "old west" theme would be good. They can recycle much of the special parts etc from the WW era so there is not much extra cost to starting up a new theme. Plus, there is a demand for Old West stuff.

Potter is reselling like crap probably because 75% of it was crap - all those large tower pieces, freakish animal pieces, reddish brown (instead of real brown), bley etc. It was more like a Belville set than like system Lego, but without the interesting pieces that Belville sets often have. Potter sets were not even good for parts mostly. Diagon Alley, though, is in VERY high demand, usually going for 3x retail for MISB, which is quite impressive for a set from only 3-4 years ago. I guess people want all those bits.

gylman Veteran

gylman

Posted
  • Author
Posted

They look to be in great condition, but the sellers say are "complete", which implies that they are not MISB.

No way they are worth even half of that if they are not MISB.

snefroe Grand Master

snefroe

Posted
Posted
They look to be in great condition, but the sellers say are "complete", which implies that they are not MISB.

No way they are worth even half of that if they are not MISB.

he also says "second hand", but that doesn't say much in this case... i think he's better off splitting this offer. He could easily get a great price for all of them, but asking 2600 from a serious collector without this potential customer having had the opportunity to look at these sets in detail, is kinda naieve...

Jipay Grand Master

Jipay

Posted
Posted

I do hope prices wil lower soon for every theme. Like they did for pirates and space, once every AFOL geek had his collection full and don't even know what to do with their sets anymore, they'll stop buying. Some will eventually even ressell the sets they're not using. We just have to be patient.

As for WW and adventurer, that is a real concern, especially since they're not themes likely to be re released by TLC.

snefroe Grand Master

snefroe

Posted
Posted
I do hope prices wil lower soon for every theme. Like they did for pirates and space, once every AFOL geek had his collection full and don't even know what to do with their sets anymore, they'll stop buying. Some will eventually even ressell the sets they're not using. We just have to be patient.

As for WW and adventurer, that is a real concern, especially since they're not themes likely to be re released by TLC.

you're right, even sw sets will become cheap at some point, when the hype is gone and sets will overflow the second hand market, but MISB sets will always be expensive because the number of MISB copies of any given set will decrease. still, it's the hype that has to calm down.

gylman Veteran

gylman

Posted
  • Author
Posted
As for WW and adventurer, that is a real concern, especially since they're not themes likely to be re released by TLC.

EXCUSE ME?

Adventurers not coming back?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Seriously, I think they will come back. It woudl not even surprise me if they Egypt series would be re-released. More likely though, they will come back with a new story. And I stick with my predict that it will an Old West theme. A Greece or Rome them with the Adventurers woudl also be possible.

BUT THEY ARE DEFINITELY COMING BACK ONE WAY OR ANOTHER!

  • 2 weeks later...
snefroe Grand Master

snefroe

Posted
Posted

true but it's MISB + the extra tracks package... it's too high for me, but MISB sets of this category will always do well i guess

here's another thing that makes me "mad":

200 euro for this lot is incredibly cheap, he once offered it for 250 as a "buy now" offer...

unfortunately, i'm not a millionnaire, so no money to buy everything at once X-O :-X otherwise i would have bought this for 250, no doubt

Brick Miner Mentor

Brick Miner

Posted
Posted
true but it's MISB + the extra tracks package... it's too high for me, but MISB sets of this category will always do well i guess
it does seem like the monorails always realize steep prices.
here's another thing that makes me "mad":

200 euro for this lot is incredibly cheap, he once offered it for 250 as a "buy now" offer...

unfortunately, i'm not a millionnaire, so no money to buy everything at once X-O :-X otherwise i would have bought this for 250, no doubt

wow, this is the other end of "crazy"... that's a great deal, and a great group of vintage sets... those type of collections are hard to come by... as the boxes even look pristine 8-
SupaaSayajin Collaborator

SupaaSayajin

Posted
Posted (edited)
true but it's MISB + the extra tracks package... it's too high for me, but MISB sets of this category will always do well i guess

here's another thing that makes me "mad":

200 euro for this lot is incredibly cheap, he once offered it for 250 as a "buy now" offer...

unfortunately, i'm not a millionnaire, so no money to buy everything at once X-O :-X otherwise i would have bought this for 250, no doubt

Dont tell me those are MISB!!!??? If those thats really very cheap.. I cant speak dutch/belgish , can someone translate it?

Edited by SupaaSayajin
Holodoc Grand Master

Holodoc

Posted
Posted
Dont tell me those are MISB!!!??? If those thats really very cheap.. I cant speak dutch/belgish , can someone translate it?

Er is altijd met zorg meegespeeld er kunnen wel blokjes van doos verwisseld zijn.

In zeer mooie propere staat

3004p03.png

The bricks were played with care, some pieces from the box can be mixed up with others.

In very nice and clean condition.

Your welcome. ;-)

Wout Mentor

Wout

Posted
Posted (edited)

Er is altijd met zorg meegespeeld er kunnen wel blokjes van doos verwisseld zijn.

In zeer mooie propere staat

3004p03.png

The bricks were played with care, some pieces from the box can be mixed up with others.

In very nice and clean condition.

Your welcome. ;-)

Well translated *y*

I didn't know germans could read so good Dutch, or live you at the border. :-)

Edited by Wout
Holodoc Grand Master

Holodoc

Posted
Posted
Well translated *y*

I didn't know germans could read so good Dutch, or live you at the border. :-)

Surprise, surprise: I

 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.

Announcements

  • THIS IS THE TEST SITE OF EUROBRICKS!
×
×
  • Create New...