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Post by mrpoptop on Dec 15, 2007 8:23:10 GMT -5
The Pop Top Shop has an ever-growing listing of vintage, investment-grade robots for sale...G1 Transformers, Godaikin, Bandai, Gakken, Takara, Macross, Robotech, Dougram, GoBots, Star Trek, Legioss, Gundam, "Super Deformed" items, Star Wars, Dorvack, Power Rangers, robot and sci-fi model kits, and much, much more. Always posting new inventory. HUGE collection begun in the 1960's to be listed one by one. Tantalizing, isn't it? The Pop Top Shop...imagine a toy store being frozen in time for 30+ years and now unearthed for your pleasure!! www.thepoptopshop.com
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Post by dooquie on Dec 18, 2007 13:07:37 GMT -5
I would kill the music for that site. Otherwise very cool I will keep my eyes posted.
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Post by Erik Sjoen on Dec 19, 2007 21:51:30 GMT -5
$275 for a Godaikin Laserion?!?! Wow, man.. What you smokin'?
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Post by Mikey on Dec 19, 2007 22:51:20 GMT -5
Whoever bought the Daltanias got a good deal if it was MIB.
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Post by mrpoptop on Jan 4, 2008 22:12:05 GMT -5
My items are mostly mint-in-box, unopened and never played. Perhaps you should check what these are bringing on e-bay lately...by the way, Mr. Pop Top does not smoke!
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Post by mrpoptop on Jan 4, 2008 22:15:23 GMT -5
The Pop Top Shop currently has a MINT-IN-BOX Godaikin Goggle V, and MINT-IN-BOX Godaikin Laserion in stock with many more to come. Keep checking thepoptopshop.com for updates.
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Post by corellianvette on Jan 5, 2008 0:16:20 GMT -5
With all due respect - I absolutely understand your desire to get top dollar for your pieces. But I think the folks here know what these are worth and are aware that the prices on your site are a tad steep. A Goggle V in great condition, complete, isn't worth much more than $250. Certainly not a brown-box one. I have a mint POPY version, with a slighty rough outer box, with a reserve of $200. cgi.ebay.com/GoDaiKin-Bandai-POPY-GOGGLE-V-CROSS-IN-BOX-US_W0QQitemZ140194597268QQihZ004QQcategoryZ348QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItemHere's a nice one you can get right now, BIN $135. Admittedly not "investment quality" but still quite presentable: cgi.ebay.com/Goggle-V-robot-Bandai-Godaikin_W0QQitemZ260199664465QQihZ016QQcategoryZ19198QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItemHere's a georgeous one for a starting bid of $400 that won't sell: cgi.ebay.com/GOGGLE-V-GODAIKIN-POPY-BANDAI-VINTAGE-SUPER-ROBOT-MIB_W0QQitemZ140194783516QQihZ004QQcategoryZ19198QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItemAnd here is a BEAUTIFUL, original Godaikin box version that is SUPER minty and went for $225. And I'm bummed I missed it. I could have all three of the ones listed (popy, brown box, AND perfect original box) for less than yours. cgi.ebay.com/Goggle-V-Bandai-Godaikin-Transformer-MIB-1980_W0QQitemZ350010345739QQihZ022QQcategoryZ19198QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItemAs for Laserion? $650.00?! C'mon. Not a desireable piece by any stretch. I have a complete one in brown box I paid $50. Again, totally complete. Box has some stains, but *$50*. cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=190168367541&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=009Here's a POPY version that didn't sell for $99 cgi.ebay.com/VIDEO-SENSHI-LESARION-Rezarion-Laserion-GC-17_W0QQitemZ310009963495QQihZ021QQcategoryZ1345QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD4VQQcmdZViewItem?_trksid=p1638.m124Anyway, not my business. Hats off to you if you can get your asking prices. But don't claim that the folks here "should check what these are going for"
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Post by mrpoptop on Jan 5, 2008 6:21:47 GMT -5
Pricing a collectible is always a difficult matter, and is always subject to comment and criticism. As a private collector with 30 years of retail experience in the field of collectibles and objects of art, I have not gone into this without study. Cases in point: random November/December 2007 sales of Godaikin items on ebay: Voltes V $650, Godmarz $455, Combattra $1,176, Daltanias $660, and more. These were mint copies (like those in my collection) all American-market brown-box Bandais. While these prices may not necessarily reflect guidelines set in stone by someones "price list" of the Godaikin line, they nonetheless are proof that someone wanted these beautifully-crafted toys badly enough to have paid these prices for them, backed up with the a certain confidence level that they would be able to in turn, resell these for that much, if need be. Obviously there is some strong recent increase of interest in the Godaikin items; there is an ongoing upward trend in the aftermarket. Selling collectibles is like selling moonbeams. To some, these robots are no more than glorified Happy Meal toys; a colorful plastic bauble discarded into the sticky floor of a soccer mom's minivan. To others, these Godaikins are Buckminster Fuller and Picasso; the epitome of toymaker engineering...design-meets-art meets fantastic functionality. Some professional collectors are willing to pay for the "concept" of it all, the beauty of it; like a lost love, the memory of it. You see it happen all the time on these "classic car" auctions on TV, where some guy with a lady on each arm who has made it big in investing, pays $750,000 for a mint 1971 Olds "442" just because he used to have one back in his long-lost, freespirited college days. To pursue and purchase a collectible is the attempt to "recapture" something in a person's life, whether it is the thrill of once again polishing an old familiar muscle car, or holding a robot in your hands as if you were seeing an old friend after many years absence. These Godaikins are "rare" items since one can no longer go down to Toys R Us and buy one off of the shelf, like it's still 1984. There is a phrasing known as "what the market will bear", and it is an ever-changing thing in the world of free enterprise. In the long run the shifting sands of valuation vs. pricing vs. actual purchases will augment the "value" of all similar items in your collection and the collections of others on this board. Yes, I once paid 55 cents for a Matchbox car, and now someone is selling the same thing for $95 on ebay. Yes, it happens. Who says that some wind-up metal toy boat from Malcolm Forbes' collection is worth $200,000 when it may be possible to stumble across the exact same thing for 98 cents at a yard sale? That is the beauty of the collecting world. My robot items, by and large, have not even seen sunlight since their original purchases (by me -original owner-), much less assembled and played. If I have groomed and cared for some piece (for a quarter-century) that someone else wants, to fill a hole in their collection, then I hope that I can be of assistance. And you can take that at face value from Mr. Pop Top.
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Post by Dr. Fate on Jan 5, 2008 8:16:09 GMT -5
not gettin into the prices matter...if you want your toys to last on your shelves for another quarter-century that may be the right way IMHO. By the way, referring to yourself in third person is really annoying....
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Post by mrpoptop on Jan 5, 2008 8:43:57 GMT -5
Ah, sweet controversy. Say what you will, but I have a sincere love and respect for collectible robots, as I would suspect, do many of you reading this forum. You cannot deny the actual auction sales figures I have mentioned. They had nothing to do with your humble servant, Mr. Pop Top. I would think that they were the result of major interest from major collectors. Yes, there are some who look to keeping this hobby at the level of yard sales and trading bubble gum cards at the bus stop, and they have that right. I think that it deserves better. As opinions are what forums are all about, may I submit mine...as they say, I may not agree with what you are saying, but I will defend your right to say it. I AM selling for these figures, like it or not, and to some that lurk on this board, too. That is my right, in a world of free enterprise. May we now raise the bar back to the level of discussing the hobby that we so love? Yours, thepoptopshop.com .
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Post by +++KLANG+++ on Jan 5, 2008 15:52:54 GMT -5
Ah, sweet controversy. Say what you will, but I have a sincere love and respect for collectible robots, as I would suspect, do many of you reading this forum. You cannot deny the actual auction sales figures I have mentioned. They had nothing to do with your humble servant, Mr. Pop Top. I would think that they were the result of major interest from major collectors. Yes, there are some who look to keeping this hobby at the level of yard sales and trading bubble gum cards at the bus stop, and they have that right. I think that it deserves better. As opinions are what forums are all about, may I submit mine...as they say, I may not agree with what you are saying, but I will defend your right to say it. I AM selling for these figures, like it or not, and to some that lurk on this board, too. That is my right, in a world of free enterprise. May we now raise the bar back to the level of discussing the hobby that we so love? Yours, thepoptopshop.com . Mr. top poop, there is no controversy. your prices are crazy!
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Post by admin1 aka Ed on Jan 5, 2008 21:21:56 GMT -5
Be nice guys. It only takes one buyer......... I find some of the tf prices great IF the boxes are perfect.
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Post by mrpoptop on Jan 5, 2008 21:28:34 GMT -5
Thank you and God Bless. (By the way, the boxes ARE perfect!!) -Yours, Mr. Pop Top
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