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TF-Plasticrack Crew
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Grifball Player
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From: Foundry
Originally Posted by Suba-Saab
Well...he doesn't really make me buy anthing...he just gives me the nudge that puts me over the top...:hsdunno: Once I got over my first $100, single item purchase, it got better. Scary thing is that I don't even think twice about buying $100 worth of transformers, but won't pay that much for anything else. I've been wanting to buy a new external hard drive, but I won't spend the money. But I do spend near $200 on a POS AFA-suck Predaking 
I was thinking that we should open up our own toy store, but then we wouldn't sell anything because we'd want to keep all of it. :crazyr:
I was thinking that we should open up our own toy store, but then we wouldn't sell anything because we'd want to keep all of it. :crazyr:
Wanderer
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From: Not so Sunny Cali
Originally Posted by nevets
how young were you when you were first exposed to TF's?
TF-Plasticrack Crew
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From: NW of Chicago, IL
Originally Posted by iLuvJae
Yea thats what's getting me...i need new cloathes and new pc stuff and need to build my car PC. But i dont really wanna spend the money...but at the drop of a dime i can drop close to $300 in one day on transformers...and if things start going the way i think they might be...i think there's a chance those days are gonna resurface.
I didn't listen. I had to pay $25 more for it later than if I had purchased it when he told me to.
G1's and Alternators seem to appreciate over time. I think of it as putting it away in a TF-plasti-crack savings account. If I ever really need the cash, I can unload them on Ebay for more than I originally paid.
Heck...I had a Japanese reissue Megatron #16 in the old school packaging. I bought it for $75. It had a bend in the top card which drove me nuts. I sold it two weeks later for $112.50. I couldn't believe that I had made $37.50 in 14 days. No bank savings account can even come close to that.
In the end...it's whatever I need to tell myself to make myself feel better about spending all insane amounts of $$$ ...completing the TFC 00-20 in under 30 days hurt the savings account big time....but I do sleep better at night knowing they're all there on the shelf
TF-Plasticrack Crew
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Originally Posted by IluvJae
Im contemplating on whether i should go buy that megatron for $100
Do eeeeetttttt!
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Originally Posted by IluvJae
There's 3 of them MISB
Take your TF addiction to the next level!!! You should buy two megatrons at that price. Sit on it for 6-8 months, and unload the 2nd one on ebay for more than you paid! When a new TFC reissue comes out, the old one isn't made anymore. With the right timing, you can make some good profits...offset your spending a bit...
That's what I'm doing with my 2nd MISB TFC #10 Soundwave re-issue, 2nd TFC smokescreen re-issue, crap load of Tuesday Morning TRU reissues, and certain alternator doubles. I got a shelf of transformers that are slated for future sale once the market conditions ripen.
Story: I had a MIB TFC 10 soundwave that was in perfect condition. There was nothing wrong with it. It was bugging me that it wasn't MISB, but I got it for $30(?) so I thought I could live with it. Andrew points at my collection and says:
"So, how does it feel to know that your TFC reissue collection is 95% MISB?"
Sold it off for $60 + shipping the next day. Purchased the MISB ones.
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