darkSpyro

If someone offered me an open Boomer, but it still came with the card and code, (used i assume), for 15.00,
should i take it, or wait n try to find one in a store?

Does the box art, card and code even matter? You have one of the most valuable toys to have. That's a pretty low price for a Boomer sold by a person somewhere.

so boomer have become valuable now?

yeah why not if you want it boomers go for 35-55 bucks so 15 is a steal

So people are paying more than retail for a used SSA figure? LOL

^ Thought you were in the know...Apparently not!

Dont do it.....and dont worry about letting your friend know.....I will do it for you....just give me his name and contact info and you have nothing to worry about.

take itttttt

Yeah im gonna take it.

Who is the user selling it to you?

._. Please tell me it's not pfiz13.

It isnt a user on here. Its one of those craigs list peoples, selling a bunch of different skylanders

Good.

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So people are paying more than retail for a used SSA figure? LOL

Have you never been on eBay?

Remember the day (Last Summer) when the stores were full of boomers?
I do. I started collecting them at the end of January (4 months after SSA was released) for my son. By that time I believe they were working on wave 3 coming out so I had alot of figures to choose from. Boomer was one of the last ones we got because there was so many and he did not appeal to my son or me, compared to the others we were looking for. Eventually we got him and there was plenty to choose from. Now he is the most popular SSA out there. Way to go Boomer. By the way, my son loves him now because with the upgrades he (as my son states it) poops out bombs...

Activision sure knows how to make an un-popular Skylander popular again. Too bad they cant figure a way to do the same with Drobot. He may be the next boomer.

Between me and my nephews, there are TWO SSA characters we don't have (if we count S2 characters which work in SSA): Boomer and Wham Shell. BOTH weren't re-released with Giants, haven't seen either in the stores in months, never mind since I found out over Christmas we were that close. Plus Boomer always somewhat appealed to me... Looks like he has the psychosis of Trigger Happy - which is quite entertaining - except he has more explosives, tossing around sticks of DYNAMITE! But I never see him...

So yeah, $15 for an open Boomer is a steal. I checked eBay today for him, the lowest ones - also open - were like $35. And I'm not even sure if that auction had the card or anything.

Yeah im pretty excited about it now that i know its such a good deal. They also have a bunch of other skylanders, including an unopened Wham Shell for 15.00. Maybe i should grab him too...

i have a open boomer never been used with card and code unused dont need it i bought a triple pack just to get the other two figures with it

$15 is a great deal for boomer, I would definitely buy him for that much

$15 is great for it.

Haven't seen Boomeer in stores in a long time. I managed to get Boomer and Dark Crypt from my sons friend who doesn't play anymore. Cost me $10 total.

Wham Shell you can get in the TRU cardboard figure case. You can catch it on sale for about $24. Worth it, case is ok, but that is the only time I've seen wham shell in a store.

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So people are paying more than retail for a used SSA figure? LOL

Have you never been on eBay?

I have. But it's an open figure. It has no value other than the retail price it sold for. Doesn't matter how rare he is to find in the wild. He's unboxed and $15 is $5 too much.

Do you not see how much he sells for, even loose?

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So people are paying more than retail for a used SSA figure? LOL

Have you never been on eBay?

I have. But it's an open figure. It has no value other than the retail price it sold for. Doesn't matter how rare he is to find in the wild. He's unboxed and $15 is $5 too much.

You must not know how value works...

If Boomer is re-released with Swap, there is a good probability his S1 value drops like a rock. So you could argue that any value over retail is assigned to the convenience of owning him earlier rather than in the fall. But that would be nitpicking in the end. He sells for what he sells for currently. And re-release is not guaranteed.

I actually saw a single pack Voodood at Toys R Us yesterday. If he was only $5 like last week's sale I probably would have bought him and offered him up at cost + shipping here cuz I'm sure some are looking for him...As it was they wanted $10.99 or me to buy another and get 2 for $12 for SSA figures...and none of the others from SSA they had were that great. Double Trouble was the only other decent one. And there were like 12 or so Whirlwinds. LOL. Flashwing, this is your future.

Most people get skylanders to PLAY with, not to leave in a box. I understand that there are TRUE collecters out there that keep them boxed up but that is not the majority of Skylander fans. Since we have a new wave of Skylanders fans and Acti is not making boomer a priority to fulfill the newbies, $5 more for a character that your going to open and play with anyways is a deal, to be able to get that much closer to complete your collection. An extra $5 for a figure that is hard to get for a Skylander fan that plays with them, is a better deal than a TRUE collector getting a figure for over $100 that will never smell the fresh air, oh wait that was Boomer passing gas...

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yeah why not if you want it boomers go for 35-55 bucks so 15 is a steal

who would have though that.. last year they coudn't get rid of boomer and he was everywhere...

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So people are paying more than retail for a used SSA figure? LOL

Have you never been on eBay?

I have. But it's an open figure. It has no value other than the retail price it sold for. Doesn't matter how rare he is to find in the wild. He's unboxed and $15 is $5 too much.

You need to get off the boxed vs un-boxed kick. There are legitimate gamers out there that just want to use him in the game, and this is the only way to do it. It kinda becomes irrelevant.

BTW, I've never seen him by the droves anywhere. Maybe I was not paying attention. I was a bit lazy on my SSA character search, which is why I'm paying more than I should now.

New question.
Im now being offered:
Series 1: Zook, Gill grunt, Trigger happy AND
Legendary: Ignitor, Slam bam, Jet vac.
all for 33.00
Should i go for it, or is it a rip off?
all are open (used) but still come with the cards.

That feel when we were literally sitting on Boomers this time last year.
Why didn't we have the hindsight to buy tons of them when they were all stores had!?

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New question.
Im now being offered:
Series 1: Zook, Gill grunt, Trigger happy AND
Legendary: Ignitor, Slam bam, Jet vac.
all for 33.00
Should i go for it, or is it a rip off?
all are open (used) but still come with the cards.

Its still a good deal, but offer $30.

not a bad deal dragon could be better, but not bad, I buy and sell a lot of landers

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New question.
Im now being offered:
Series 1: Zook, Gill grunt, Trigger happy AND
Legendary: Ignitor, Slam bam, Jet vac.
all for 33.00
Should i go for it, or is it a rip off?
all are open (used) but still come with the cards.

Not bad considering that S1 Gill grunt and Trigger Happy come with the SSA Starter kit, they dont come in a single ($5 per character). Unless you buy the SSA Starter pack from Target for $40 (Its on sale this week) but if you have no interest in purchasing the SSA Starter kit, you probably be hard press to find it cheaper.

Zook, Gill Grunt and Trigger Happy can be found as series 2 characters and the new legendaries can be found at Toys R US

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So people are paying more than retail for a used SSA figure? LOL

Have you never been on eBay?

I have. But it's an open figure. It has no value other than the retail price it sold for. Doesn't matter how rare he is to find in the wild. He's unboxed and $15 is $5 too much.

What do you not understand about supply and demand? Is it too much to comprehend that when a figure is hardly being produced anymore the price will greatly increase? "LOL"

I remember a couple of weeks ago there was someone on my local Craiglist selling a Boomer in package for $5. I was tempted to buy it to scalp it, but the good side of my conscience won over when I thought about how much I hate scalpers.

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Have you never been on eBay?

I have. But it's an open figure. It has no value other than the retail price it sold for. Doesn't matter how rare he is to find in the wild. He's unboxed and $15 is $5 too much.

What do you not understand about supply and demand? Is it too much to comprehend that when a figure is hardly being produced anymore the price will greatly increase? "LOL"

Is it too much to comprehend that supply and demand has no factor in the "worth" of a figure?

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I have. But it's an open figure. It has no value other than the retail price it sold for. Doesn't matter how rare he is to find in the wild. He's unboxed and $15 is $5 too much.

What do you not understand about supply and demand? Is it too much to comprehend that when a figure is hardly being produced anymore the price will greatly increase? "LOL"

Is it too much to comprehend that supply and demand has no factor in the "worth" of a figure?

Without getting into the semantics of wording. Value vs. worth vs. what it should cost vs. what it did cost before etc... Besides Supply and Demand how should one come up with the number they should pay for a figure.

If something is harder to find and more people want it then usually it will sell for a higher price. That is the definition of Supply and Demand.

If you have a different outlook on how this works please enlighten us because coming from someone who has tons of variants (and was asking earlier about selling them) I would love to hear it.

Clearly eBay is proof that you are wrong. And the fact that you were trying to figure out how much your figures are worth is laughable. You should already know they're value. Anything above retail is asking too much so you better list your variants at a fair price of 9.99 since that is what they are worth.

By your logic, nothing is ever worth anymore than retail. Also, opened doesn't matter, the box isn't what you're paying for, its the figure.

Variant and regular figure are two different things. Please come with a better argument.
And please don't put words in my mouth. I never asked how much my figures are worth.

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Variant and regular figure are two different things. Please come with a better argument.
And please don't put words in my mouth. I never asked how much my figures are worth.

Semantics again. variant vs store exclusive vs regular figure. and chase variant vs exclusive vs toy fair etc.

I can kinda understand what you mean when talking about Toy Fair Chop Chop value vs Granite Crusher as that Chop Chop was not available on the open market. But you specifically listed numerous widely available variants in your thread (Granite Crusher, Molten Hot Dog, Jade Flashwing, GITD Sonic Boom, Legendary Bouncer, Legendary 3 pack, Blue Bash and Red Drill Sergeant).

And again we are talking semantics if we take what you said word for word "average going price for certain figures on eBay" vs value vs worth etc. You can get as technical as you want but you are still stating value of items based on your opinion. You say $10 max for Boomer open. I say you spent too much on your variants, exclusives, and boxed figures, and are too uptight about opened vs boxed to see how it all really works. But luckily for me I have no need to sell my figures. Good thing because I opened them all so my son could enjoy them. Have fun with selling your still boxed figures to pay the bills you should have spent the money on in the first place.

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Variant and regular figure are two different things. Please come with a better argument.
And please don't put words in my mouth. I never asked how much my figures are worth.

Stone Zook went to stores, its retail price is $10. Granite Crisher went to stores, its retail price is $15. All the store variants you listed in your other thread went to stores, you know their value already.

And this must be a different DutRank in the other thread:

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And that's relevant to the topic how exactly?

It's not, and a little research will tell you what they are "worth" on the free market. But the little money you will score from selling these figs won't cure the root cause of the problem ... spending money you apparently don't have.

You may or may not be a true scalper, but you have created multiple threads asking how much your boxed figures are worth. It's suspicious.

Here is what they are worth: they are worth whatever the highest bidder pays for it. It's not rocket science. If you want a specific price, you don't risk an auction site that takes a percent of the sale price. Or else you list it as Buy It Now with eBay's commission built into your price.

I've made one thread, this one, asking what my figures are worth. And what it looks like to me is that everyone else in this community wants to be helpful except for you.

I didn't put any words in your mouth...

You're putting words in my mouth by finding one comment that, when relating to my topic and original comment, doesn't help your argument at all. Try again. But to be on topic. $15 is not a good deal. The OP asked if it was a good deal so he should expect some people to say no. I gave my reason why so deal with it.

I said you created a thread asking how much your figures were worth... You said you never asked how much they were worth. Yet you clearly posted on your other thread that you were asking what they were worth. I put absolutely zero words in your mouth and it is truly astounding that you can't grasp that.

Do you not understand the meaning of "putting words into someone's mouth"? And its either $15 or $50 on ebay for a figure that's hardly on shelves, if any, and no longer in production. I wonder if its a good deal or not...

Read my first post please. Simple.

The major issue here is that Dut is not speaking to anyone or about anything in specific. No quotes no nothing. Just speaking generally as to avoid actually getting pinned into a discussion. He is also playing the word games. He gave his reason of (my paraphrase) Its out of the box so retail price or less. And Dut you are entitled to that opinion. Only issue I see with that is it is not how supply and demand works. If on average ebay prices are 3.5x-5.5x original retail value for unboxed figures, and unboxed characters sell for about 50% of the unboxed going rate, I would assume we would be looking at 1.75x-2.25x the retail rate for an opened figure that has the extras with it. By that logic $17.50-$22.50 should be the going rate for an open Boomer when they are selling at $35-$55 Boxed. So to the Op $15 is the lower end of expected price. But as Dut says he would expect less. It all depends on how much you want it. and what it is worth to you.

No skylander (or other collectable) really has any worth or value or any other word you want to use Dut. They are only worth what someone is willing to pay for them. So if no one demands them price will drop. If alot of people want them and only a few have them price will go up. (supply and demand) (it makes the world go round).

And If i am putting words into your mouth, Dut, by taking exactly what you said, after you getting technical about the word variant, then you should have and can still clarify what you mean. But you are staying very vague in the situation except to call out any small technicality in the discussion.

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Read my first post please. Simple.

Yeah... That definitely explains you contradicting yourself.

If you really want it, and it isn't easily available at retail, AND it's cheaper than the average eBay price, then it's generally a good deal.

$15 is not a good deal, huh? Perhaps you'd like to enlighten us as to one place online or in person where one could possibly find the toy for cheaper than that. Can't do it? Then abandon your argument. Simple as that. Can't have your cake and eat it too on this one, buddy.

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Read my first post please. Simple.

Yeah... That definitely explains you contradicting yourself.

And yet, in that entire thread I never once say. "How much are my figures worth?" Because that is the whole point you are replying to me right? You think I asked how much my figures were worth when I never did. So until you can find a quote of me actually asking for the worth of my figures then you are the loser here and always will be in this particular argument.


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$15 is not a good deal, huh? Perhaps you'd like to enlighten us as to one place online or in person where one could possibly find the toy for cheaper than that. Can't do it? Then abandon your argument. Simple as that. Can't have your cake and eat it too on this one, buddy.

If he was to ask to buy mine that I have out of the box and complete with sticker, code and card then I would say $10 +shipping. Want to try again?

^ Then send him your Boomer for $10+shipping. Otherwise, if you aren't actually offering this to the guy, and he can't actually take you up on it, then you're arguing fantasy while the rest of us are talking about the real world.

Put your money where your mouth is, send him the Boomer. Although, if shipping costs him anything more than $4.99, then you're wrong again.