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« Reply #80 on: July 30, 2010, 03:05:52 PM » |
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not sure where to post this question, but i hope someone knows the answer.
has artbox indicated how many neville longbotton autos they printed?
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kbmum
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« Reply #81 on: July 30, 2010, 03:07:22 PM » |
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How would you prevent someone from buying more than one bag per day? Per transaction, yes, but the logistics of keeping track of who bought a bag that day would be too difficult for the staff manning the booth.
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« Reply #82 on: July 30, 2010, 03:23:39 PM » |
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Not difficult at all actually. Have a stamp made up for each day, and stamp the persons attendee badge. Lots of companies actually do exactly that.
I would guess there are 150-200 Neville autos.
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Marlon
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« Reply #83 on: July 30, 2010, 05:00:13 PM » |
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Hi, I've got two of the Potter Stinks on ebay at the moment. If either of them takes your fancy, get in touch and let's see if we can work out a private deal at a better price. the staff card is horrible lol  the rest look good Always wanted a Potter Stinks badge /33 |
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Tower
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« Reply #84 on: July 31, 2010, 08:17:14 PM » |
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I notice he lowered his price. He also declined an offer, which was probably really reasonable considering what he paid. Say the person offered $1000, and he got that much for all 8 cards ($8000), he would still make a ton of money on the deal. But still, I wouldn't buy from him since I know what he paid for the full set. He really is trying to make a ton of money.....which makes me wonder. I think he must have known someone.
Maybe you are talking about me, "just for fun" I placed a bid of exactly $1000, being sure to be declined. And so it was a few seconds later, it happened automatically. I think, he requires a lot more. |
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« Reply #85 on: August 01, 2010, 12:12:55 PM » |
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I think you've hit a system to get cheaper cards, Thomas. You offered $1000 and got turned down, and hey presto, the BIN price has dropped by $1000. Keep doing that and they may drop to a price us mere mortals can afford.
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If Artbox could give birth, it would be a redemption with the real one arriving 9 months later
The Artbox website is so old, Indiana Jones has started looking for it
Tutankhamun went on the Artbox website and saw it was out of date
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« Reply #86 on: August 01, 2010, 11:36:45 PM » |
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If the seller had listed the cards one by one, and spread them out he would have done so much better selling them.
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« Reply #87 on: August 02, 2010, 12:54:29 AM » |
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Thomas, I didn't realize it was you who made the offer and I only guessed the price. LOL. I can't belive he would not take $1000 on the card when he knows he is making a profit by selling it for that price. Ridiculous. Bogleg - I love how you think. I agree with Bryan. If you have all 8 cards, list one and wait for it to sell....then, list another and so on. Having them all up at one time qwill make someone want to own them all, but not want to pay $20,000+ for them. I think it also distracts others from bidding on them. They appear more "rare" if you list them further a part. Of course, maybe he should have listed them as a set with a BIN of $10,000. He would still make a ton of money and someone might be willing to pay that kind of money for them together. Not me, but maybe someone. |
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« Reply #89 on: August 02, 2010, 06:01:34 AM » |
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There were two different sets, one set of 8, one with 7.
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« Reply #90 on: August 02, 2010, 10:20:38 AM » |
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Yes, that's true, these are two different sets, so no reason not to trust the seller.
But it's still way too expensive for me. The first card (letter D) has been sold now for $2000, the first offer he accepted. But I can't imagine he can sell all the rest for the same price. The prices must drop more, if he wants to sell every card (but maybe he is very patient and can wait a long time until someone pays that much, we'll see).
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« Reply #91 on: August 03, 2010, 12:52:09 PM » |
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Yeah, this guy can afford to be patient since $2000 is more than half of what he paid for the set to begin with. Too bad the full set has been broken up now though  |
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« Reply #92 on: August 03, 2010, 08:16:27 PM » |
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Has anyone looked at all the stuff hes selling? He has a couple exclusives for ridiculous prices and tons of other auto/costume/prop cards for 3 times the amount you can normally get them for on eBay.  I wouldn't be surprised if this guy worked for Artbox and this is the way they make extra profit. |
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« Reply #93 on: August 03, 2010, 09:50:31 PM » |
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Does anyone know who the seller is?
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Bryanjs14
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« Reply #94 on: August 04, 2010, 02:00:57 AM » |
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Yes I met him at comic con.
According to Artbox he is a regular and a big collector. I'm not going to accuse anyone of anything, but him bidding the MINIMUM one night, and then bidding the exact maximum the second night is fishy. We bid higher than this guy. It makes NO sense to put a max on your auctions. We wanted to pay a company more for their items than someone else and they refused to sell it because we wanted to pay TOO much lol.
The set sells for $3000 at the vconvention. Artbox knows these cards sell for $2000-$2500 on eBay. They also know on one at the convention will pay that much. Just saying...
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« Reply #95 on: August 05, 2010, 02:25:41 AM » |
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I'll point something else out.
On the last day they did the "bingo" for the claw button cards. There were a total of 7 (or was it 9?). The two freebies you COULD win were the fleur leather glove card (with an instant win card in the bag) or the claw button card by spinning the bingo thing and getting numbers 1-7 (or 9?) The people that just so happened to win the TWO 8 card sets pulled one of the instant win cards in their bag, Kay walked over, congratulated them and went in the back to get their Fleur leather glove card. Only thing is... she gave them one of the Claw buttons. Two of us noticed this and said something, and she went out to them and collected the claw button card and gave them the right card. It was still a little suspicious that artbox made that "mistake" with the same collectors that just so happened to also know the exact maximum of one of the 8 card sets, and the exact minimum of the other 8 card set that were auctioned. I didn't see them make that mistake with any other collectors that were buying bags.
All of this is just a little weird to me. Maybe it is just me and maybe I am still jealous that ONE person won 16 cards instead of 8 people all getting 1 card from each set...but if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck....
Also, look, Artbox saw at the convention that one of the Fleur back patches sold for almost $2400. One of the people that worked there said can you believe it sold for that. If one person knew, they all knew. And This was a goody bag bonus card that you could win at Bingo. Artbox didn't auction those they didn't make any extra money off those at all. Seeing the price that fetched they had to know that the letter sets could get $10k EASILY on eBay. Not to mention they knew what those Potter letters got last year. They also knew that the highest an auction has gone AT THE CONVENTION isn't even half of that. If I knew I could sell something for $10k, why in the WORLD would I put a maximum sale (bid) price of $3k on it? There is just NO logical explanation other than something a little sinister, which other companies have been caught doing as well.
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« Reply #96 on: August 05, 2010, 01:11:42 PM » |
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Why would Artbox single out this one person for special treatment? I know I've never bought anything from the seller. I can't recall ever seeing that eBay ID selling HP cards before now. It just seems so out-of-the-blue. I'm not discounting the fact that this all does look fishy, but it's also odd.
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« Reply #97 on: August 05, 2010, 03:12:11 PM » |
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Has anyone asked Artbox for an explanation for their behaviour, or has this already come up and I've missed it  |
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« Reply #98 on: August 05, 2010, 07:33:41 PM » |
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Yeah, it all seems a bit fishy to me too. It almost seems as if someone knows someone and gave them the info needed to get the cards. Artbox is a small company, so I am sure they hire "extras" or volunteers to help them at the booth. It is possible that someone had something to do with this behind Artbox's back to make money for themselves on the side on eBay. This is all speculation and may not be anything at all, but just a thought.
Marlon - no one asked Artbox, but would you honestly expect an honest answer from them if they were doing something they shouldn't?
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« Reply #99 on: August 05, 2010, 09:03:05 PM » |
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Be interesting if the Japanese parent company found out!
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