Do you still have games for sale? Like Dragonball Z games? Gimme a link to your ebay or whatever you use if you're selling.
Buy what you need and sell what you have no attachment to anymore. And most importantly-study, try to get a respectable job and work smart.
1) I have a fantastic, very-well paying job 2) I know how to plan & budget 3) I'm not an impulse buyer... So over time I've managed to put together a humble, little collection. Everytime I look at it, I still can't wipe this smile off my face.
Well, it looked like the OP was spamming. Not to mention as other people have said, it's a little hard to take him seriously when he has a certain Internet meme for an avatar.
I know I've already responded, but I would like to add that if you can find me a woman who'll love me for me, and my collection, I'd gladly find ways to spend money on her. I'm am Silverbolt in need of my Blackarachnia. Yes, it was to emphasize that obtaining toys is easier to get than women. Sidenote: some of the comments in this thread are great/hilarious.
it looks like, for your benefit, i'm going to have to repeat myself...... it's not against the law to use that particular aforementioned avatar regardless of it's subject matter.(with that said, it's clear that if some ppl on this website can be affected by something so trivial as an Avatar (regardless of it's wording) to the point that it changes their attitude towards someone! then maybe they need to develop a thicker skin).
I think you're dead on with the last part. Being a completist will ruin you financially. The biggest change in my collecting habits happened about 7-8 years ago, when I decided to no longer approach collecting with the "completist" mentality. You'll be absolutely amazed at how much money you save, and the cool items you can score at great prices, if you remove the concept of being a completist from your collecting habits.
Not many expenses, no wife or children, 80 percent of the time I don't have to pay for my drinks, 100 percent of the time I don't have to pay for coffee, no gas or motorcycle to use up gas, little to no interest over vintage toys [a large expense], little to no interest on completing casts or shows if the toys are crap, and selling whatever I don't display very often\at all.
I keep it real G1 related or I don't buy it. It does include G1, Uni/RTS/Gen(that fit the bill), Masterpiece. I also do not care if it is a reissue or not as well, that helps because going pure vintage gets expensive. I am also not a MIB guy as long as I have nice clean complete loose examples I am fine with it. Know prices, make connections on here or anywhere else u can. If u find a real deal, move on it. Bulk purchase if u got the cash helps to, you can get a better deal buying more. U find a collection to part out u can make good side money to use for your collection doing it as well as fill a few more holes in your own collection. I also sell at toy shows when things add up one "to be sold" pile. Lastly, I am a normal guy with a normal decent job, have a mortgage, my gf and 2 yr old along with another one falling out in Feb(dont tell her I said that lol). They all come first as well as the bills. I live within my means(lots of people have no clue what this is) and we have enough money to go do fun stuff when we want to usually
In the past, I've collected 100's of Transformers while unemployed, it's not that difficult. Like everyone else said, its called budgeting, and playing it smart, finding deals, saving for more expensive figures. Personally I make about $20k a year, after rent and bills, I have around $5k a year to spend on whatever. I don't spend that on Transformers though, just a few here and there, I have a girlfriend and other interests such as writing/recording music. I plopped a $1000 bucks down on a Marshall half stack back in May.. how? budgeting and planning. First I saved up about a quarter of the money, put $250 on the cab, paid the other couple hundred here and there untill I owned the cab and brought it home. Then I did the same with the head, put $200 bucks down, and followed with around $100 - $150 every week or two until I paid it off. My mom put $100 towards it for my birthday, and I used a government check of $100 towards it as well, so that helped. Next thing ya know I've spent $1000 dollars on an awesome guitar amp! Sure that could have gone to Transformers just as easily to complete a Hercules or Fort Max or something.
me and my b/f used to have decent jobs. I didnt have CC debt at the time and college loans were paid off. Steve didnt have loans yet. Basically, we had money to spare. For xmas, we'd spend like 3-5oo on each other. I'd buy him the expensive TFs or a bunch of smaller ones, and naturally, i'd get an expensive snake. Times have changed now! the market for the snakes pretty much crashed ( a snake i paid 900 for- goes for 200 even after being a proven breeder and 3 years older) Luckily the TF collection is complete, but for the heman crap he collects- he looks at flea markets ( they arent nearly as expensive as TF are) I wont be getting any new snakes any time soon unless I can trade babies for it.
Well, i may just have to look for that one at the toy con.... just as long as it aint expensive ( got my eye set on something that can cost 175 bucks- hoping i place for the art copntest to help with the cost...LOL)
maybe they'll be a transformers snake in the Transformers Prime Beast Hunters tv show next year? who knows
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