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This is what happens when your bored on a saturday afternoon and you visit your local model shop. Owner said look what i just got in.....I had to have one gonna put it away as xmas present for myself






Purchased this with the cash raised from my wooden boat turned out it was a 1949 Aerokit model and a collector bought it from me off ebay for a great price paid for this with some change

Both very cool cars!

Cheers Edou i had planned on going to the Tamiyaclub meet this weekend but my car decided to split its cv boot yesterday and spilt the grease out all over the road so its in the garage bieng replaced Glad i never now though

Cool Mine arrived on Thursday & i have the same plans for it ... it hasn't quite made it to the cupboard yet - I need to admire it for a bit longer

I have put mine away now its just too much temptation having it in view. One thing i noted was how teeny the box is. Should look fantastic when built up

You do realise that everybody & his pet monkey are putting kits (& other stuff) away to "Be worth lots of money on Ebay in years to come" don't you, & with so many lurking about they won't be desireable.... You've seen what happens on Ebay when 1x super-rare car appears - mental bidding, mental money, then everyone else wants in on the action & list theirs, flooding the market place & these listings rarely make anything like the first one.
My mate & I were discussing this the other day, & we came to the conclusion that what is collectible/making money right now is a once in a lifetime event where it's only happening because the advent of t'internet, Ebay & this generation being at a point in their lives where they have money to spend, all being coincidental.

I've said it before, but the stuff that's gonna make serious money in years to come is the stuff we think is worthless today

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I've said it before, but the stuff that's gonna make serious money in years to come is the stuff we think is worthless today

Street Rover? Jun Watenabe Hornet?

I think that argument is flawed - look at the the most & least popular old Tamiyas: the Sand Scorcher & Striker. "Collectible" value comes from something being popular at the time, but used as inteneded - built, thrashed to peices, thrown away - so only comparively few survive, fewer still as NIBs, as in the 1970's/80's you would have to have a pretty strong social/mental deficiency to buy a toy & never use it

Even then, collectibles are a poor investment - I'm sure putting the purchase price of a Sand Scorcher in the bank back then would give you a better return than buying the Scorcher. The only people making money on retro toys are the manufacturers.

That said, they are ways of making money on collctibles. Prices follow a complex, if predictable curve. Imagine a hypothetical collectible ... well actually let's make it a Star Wars figure, as they are a good example - old ones are percieved as "worth loads!", and there are more current "collectible"s than you can shake a stick at, thanks to the perception that they will be valuable in the future.

Picking an arbitrary normal selling price of 5 GBP, it would probably have been introduced at 4, so the curve is climbing a little, but not something you could make money off. Over the next year or so, the price will drop, to something like 0.50 to 1 GBP as interest drops of & the retailers (think Asda rather than eBay) want to clear their shelves.

The value will stay depressed for 18 months, when people will suddenly "realise" it's become "rare" and therefore desirable - for a very brief period, value will increase to up to half as much again as the base price, so 7.50 in this example. Value will then drop again to practically nothing, blip again to base value after 3 years, then drop, then, based on past experience of such toys, slowly climb again - but not at the same rate as if you'd invested the cash.

You'll see that if you buy at the lowest point (1 year from release/ 0.50 - 1 GBP) and keep it until the first blip (2.5Y / 7.50GBP) it's possible to make money - but not very much, and just like finding a "system" that works for betting on horses, it sucks the fun right out of it





ps I got distracted - how is buying something in summer to build at Christmas the same as putting kits (& other stuff) away to "Be worth lots of money on Ebay in years to come"?

Im not putting any of my kits away for future resale im just putting it away until xmas then ill build it myself

I'm pretty sure that if you keep a Black Special Avante as a perfect NIB for a while, it's worth will increase significantly...
Same would go for a Top Force Evo, if it ever got rereleased.
I'd only do something like that myself 'cause I love the cars, not for calculated profit.
But it isn't really on topic since this turkey here won't be surviving Xmas.

Same here, i also have quite some nib cars, which i did not buy too keep for future profit.
I will build them all when i can find the time. First i have soo many other things needing to finish first, then i want to spend time building the tanks i have and when that's all done i will do some nib builds

Cheers, Bram