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Post by arkboy on Jan 25, 2012 22:10:14 GMT -5
I hope you're not serious about selling! I've been a robot aficionado all my life. About 6 years ago I started to collect again, I wished I had started earlier. Nowadays, it's getting harder and harder to get the rarer vintages pieces and when they do pop up, you need to cough up some serious dough. Our priorities changes, I lost touch with this childhood passion when I started colleague, then when into the working world, chase some girls and got married.
I agree whole heatedly family well being is important, if need to I will sell my collection to support my family but I would not go all the way to liquidate my entire collection, I would let go of the less desirable pieces first, sell "slowly" eventually you may find the kids have grown up, moved away and you still have most of your collection. Once it's gone, it's unlikely you will ever get it at the price you got it. Say a GA-50, if you sell now, you will get some serious cash but you will need to pay just as much or more in the future.
I still have most of the bots from my childhood and I would not sell or trade it for anything in the world! But I would sell off all the newer SOCs in a blink of an eye if I need the money, well maybe all except the GX-36, hahaha!
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Post by joydivision on Jan 26, 2012 5:38:58 GMT -5
I would only sell if it was a question of survival. I think you are just feeling guilty for having a very valuable collection in this economic and social context. Sometimes since i started collectiong i feel guilty too. If your toys are paid and you are not paying credit card debts because of them you just start counting from here on. If you sell your collection for lets say 50000$, even making a profit perhaps (imagine if it was invested in real estate or funds!), what you would you do with it? Spend on a nice car? Keep it in the bank? It is dificult to gather 50000 but it goes away easily faster than you think on unimportant stuff! If you can, start counting from here on and make the needed adjustments to your life and habits. And the past is your story!
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Post by admin1 aka Ed on Jan 27, 2012 0:24:29 GMT -5
arkboy . I hear you on the new toys I bring up the selling thing only with a super open mind, kind of gut check on how others here think as well as a serious re-evaluation on toys vs family. -Agreed on the slowly letting go of average/newer toys. @ joydiision. LOL on the Real Estate thing! I also laugh about the unimportant things and car comments.
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Post by Kidchuckle on Jan 29, 2012 11:03:26 GMT -5
" BTW, I REALLY wanted to get the site to support my overhead for a room, servers, cameras, etc. RJ has turned out to run at a loss, not that that was a big deal, but it does put static toys in opposition with overhead. The site runs over $140 a month for dedicated server costs and I really want to pay some of my helpers. what at a loss..? Aww man that sucks I would have thought with advertising it would help out a lot.
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Post by Erik Sjoen on Jan 30, 2012 2:02:43 GMT -5
Sell it all.
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Post by magengar on Jan 30, 2012 19:09:19 GMT -5
Wow..... I'm gonna have to sit down and read this thread more patiently and thoroughly, because it has put me in a deeEEeep perspective looking at where I've Been and where I Am... Near.(pat..... pat...... pat..... pat) Faaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!;D Okay Okay Okay, all jokes aside. I must admit lately I'm going through a midlife crisis... having regrets about failed quests after pipe-dreams, yeah THOSE kind of regrets. The "trying to reinvent myself" regrets. If I could stop Time so I can look at myself minute by minute and do things carefully so I can make wiser decisions I'd smash my watch right now. I'm taking slower steps, but even That won't slow Time's pace. My collection surely Will out-live me. But while I still have it I'll enjoy it to the fullest. I'll get tired when I say so, and it had better be for a good reason. In Ed's case, it's not that simple. Try slapping yourself in the face with your own eyes closed... you Can't, because you already know what to expect. Ed knows what to expect when he's making these kinds of decisions, but he also has to weigh their properties. The nice thing about it is all the Options that come along. Then you're surrounded with so Many options it starts to get confusing. Well, guess What: Options are not meant to confuse you..... ...Options are meant to Construct you. And the fun in That lies in the Building process. You get to choose your bricks and build yourself a new world, empire, kingdom, life, whatever, just gather your materials and Build it. At your Own pace. zozo-mag
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Post by admin1 aka Ed on Jan 31, 2012 19:45:35 GMT -5
Good one Mag Indeed, I'm moving some building blocks around -Just went about auctioning off some toys (see the F.S. section). Then it will be fun to move the proceeds to different blocks @ Sjoen ... LOL..... easy to say, hard to execute
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Post by KingboyD on Jan 31, 2012 21:48:49 GMT -5
You first!
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Post by sketcher on Feb 1, 2012 21:06:28 GMT -5
... to me
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Post by magengar on Feb 6, 2012 13:57:08 GMT -5
all the sudden now Everyone wants to buy all of Ed's toys. ;D
zozo-mag
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Post by Kidchuckle on Feb 6, 2012 22:19:43 GMT -5
hahahahahaa
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