I don't know what is going on. Seems like people lost their minds with prices lately. I was looking at a whole bunch of stuff and it has like tripled in asking price since December. I guess that it is why they call it asking price, cause no one is going to pay that price. BTW, I went to completed auctions and he has sold from $50-$80 this month.
I saw someone on another thread/board saying prices always go up this time of year because people start getting their tax refund checks. They also go up leading into christmas in nov/dec. Sorta makes sense to me.
Also....this is the seller asking for this price. It's in no way to judge how much he normally goes for on average. Just to see I've added a few of auctions to my watch list that are being bid on normally and end in a few days to see what he sells for. Transformers Classics Universe RAMJET NIB!!! ROTF - eBay (item 260753557488 end time Mar-21-11 19:11:21 PDT) Transformers Classics Ramjet - eBay (item 330543594278 end time Mar-25-11 05:02:46 PDT) Transformers classic decepticon Ramjet - eBay (item 110662984203 end time Mar-22-11 16:37:53 PDT) C.H.U.G. GENERATIONS/CLASSICS 1.0 RAMJET MOSC - eBay (item 120700525704 end time Mar-26-11 12:57:56 PDT)
Yeah $60 - $70 seems to be the average price for a MOSC Classics Ramjet. $50 - $60 for one with the card. That's going by the completed auctions (that actually sold).
Man... I bought mine on clearance at Target for like $4. I should have bought a bunch and sat on them.
Damn I can't believe this! Henkei Ramjet was one of the first figures I bought when I got back into collecting 2 years ago, I bought him MISB for about $25 all up. I even kept him sealed for awhile until I finally decided to liberate him from his plastic prison. I am thoroughly kicking myself now lol
I bought Ramjet before the other cone heads came out, 2 actually. So i guess i paid less. In fact I have 2 complete sets of all the seekers
One of those days that I'm thankful to own a TF toy before it gets insanely expensive. *Phew!* I remembered I sold 2 of him back in the last 2-3 years & I got back like USD $13 & USD $22 respectively. ('em being loose & complete with instruction sheets even) Look at him now.
BIN price of $100 does not mean it will sell for that much. Some people set ridiculously high prices on items on hopes that some desparate impatient idiot buys it. Final selling price on bidding auctions are more around $50. That's still pretty high for a figure that was warming shelves but also had only 1 release years ago so people late to the party are seeing themselves having to pay high prices if they want to complete their seeker army.
If he doesn't get another release you can expect $100 to be the norm. There are just SO MANY Classics collectors now. I can't even keep up with all the new threads regarding Classics figures.
LMAO! I have 6 complete Ramjets for future combiner projects... plus the one in my seekers display....plus the 4 I have used for other combiners. Guess I'm glad I got them when I did...
Yeah, it's amazing to see how much the line has grown over the years. I watch the cartoon now and I keep thinking, "Hey, I have that toy!" whenever a character shows up on screen. I'm glad I got into Classics when the line started; I've only been stung on Henkei Red Alert so far for not buying him when he was released.
I think some of it depends on if generations does in fact run during the movie line. Last go around during Universe they shot up, and came down a little bit when it went on hiatus. They are scorching hot right now, so people are gonna be paying top dollar. It is pretty crazy though.
I've been stung with Henkei Red Alert also. But I actually bought him retail. Then I sold him when news of the Generations version surfaced. I like Generations Red Alert but I still shouldn't have sold him.. It's kinda fun to see all the excitement for these figures. Just sucks that the excitements drives up prices..
