TCracker Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 Congrats. I started back in 2007. Stopped in 2009. I thought it was over. Sayonara to Valk addiction. My wallet adored me because i only buying cheap ass plastic Transformers. But the Macross bug found me again in 2012. My wallet hated me ever since. Quote
Gakken85 Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 This forum should make a sticky about how to collect the smart way! haha. I just started buying in January after playing with some old toys in my parents basement. I've gotten a lot of good deals, but I've paid a lot of money in a short time. I'm trying to stick to the idea that I don't need multiple paints of each sculpt, and picking across scales and lines the ones that have the highest reviews. I'm also doing a lot of trading and money management. I'm a single guy and have plenty of cash to burn, but I don't want to end up sinking 10k into a collection with nothing to show for it and nowhere to display it. Quote
Gakken85 Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 Congrats. I started back in 2007. Stopped in 2009. I thought it was over. Sayonara to Valk addiction. My wallet adored me because i only buying cheap ass plastic Transformers. But the Macross bug found me again in 2012. My wallet hated me ever since. Well your wallet will thank you when you go to resale the macross stuff. Cheap transformers are always cheap Quote
dapro Posted February 19, 2013 Author Posted February 19, 2013 The good thing with macross toys are they got good resell value, right? Quote
Gakken85 Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 The good thing with macross toys are they got good resell value, right? Generally. If you bought like a v1 yamato with the die cast legs it might not sell for as much, since the V2 is a vastly superior toy, but as long as you keep the box and have all the parts you can usually at least get your money back, and in some cases with limited runs make more. I just suggest reading all the reviews you can: anymoon.com is a great source for reviews on what you should and should not buy in collecting. He's very hawkish about things that are over priced as well. Quote
Vifam7 Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 The good thing with macross toys are they got good resell value, right? Most of them but not all of them. Hikaru's DYRL VF-1A, Kakizaki VF-1s, and VF-1 cannon fodders don't seem to hold their value too well. Quote
Gakken85 Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 You can still sell them for 35-50 bucks though. Lots of people just want something to get back into collecting that doesn't break the bank. It's a good little toy to have IMO. Quote
valky-001 Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 Mostly only Roy’s VF will resell a bit higher than others and with its super packs for a lot more. Quote
Lightning Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 Poor Kakizaki, even in death he gets no love. Quote
Shaorin Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 Wow, I went back now to see I can get another 1/60 Macross VF-1S Roy Focker Movie Ver with Option Parts (30th Anniversary Sticker) and it is listed as out of stock. I hope they honor my order this morning. perhaps you nabbed the very last copy in stock? Quote
dapro Posted February 19, 2013 Author Posted February 19, 2013 perhaps you nabbed the very last copy in stock? I am hoping that is the case. I haven't gotten the tracking number yet though. They must be backlog after the chinese new year. Quote
Zor Primus Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 (edited) Congrats! Be warned...it will continue without pause, unless you pace/budget yourself. Edited February 19, 2013 by Zor Primus Quote
BlueMax Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 I remember when the very 1st V2 VF-1 came out (Roy DYRL) in mid year 2008.... having gotten the whole collection of the V1s, I though i'd just get this one and only one..... Almost 5 years later now......Oh... how wrong I was... Quote
plutoniumhunter Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 My order from HKC just shipped... My first ever valks on the way! Quote
dapro Posted February 20, 2013 Author Posted February 20, 2013 (edited) My order from HKC just shipped... My first ever valks on the way! Cool. Take some pics when you have it! Edited February 20, 2013 by dapro Quote
plutoniumhunter Posted February 21, 2013 Posted February 21, 2013 Lol, I'll try to... I live in a dorm-ish kinda place, so I don't plan to let them outta the boxes too much - people coming over might wreck them. Quote
dapro Posted February 21, 2013 Author Posted February 21, 2013 Lol, I'll try to... I live in a dorm-ish kinda place, so I don't plan to let them outta the boxes too much - people coming over might wreck them. Haha You can get a lock display box so no one can touch them! Quote
dapro Posted February 27, 2013 Author Posted February 27, 2013 doh! The delivery came to my door but I wasn't home. Quote
ff95gj Posted February 27, 2013 Posted February 27, 2013 doh! The delivery came to my door but I wasn't home. You know what's worse? You've been waiting at home all day, and next morning when you go out, you see a notes saying "We have tried to deliver but no one was here" crap. Quote
aceoftherebellion Posted February 27, 2013 Posted February 27, 2013 Argh. This is why the post has instructions to leave packages on my door regardless, but I'm lucky enough to live in a quiet subdivision where nobody is going to bother taking a box from my porch... I'll be sad next time I move and I won't have that ability anymore Quote
TCracker Posted February 27, 2013 Posted February 27, 2013 You know what's worse? You've been waiting at home all day, and next morning when you go out, you see a notes saying "We have tried to deliver but no one was here" crap. That's what happened to me for all my HLJ shipments. Damn the local posts. Quote
Dimis Posted February 27, 2013 Posted February 27, 2013 That's what happened to me for all my HLJ shipments. Damn the local posts. Sorry, but no one can top the kind of experience I have had with 3 different couriers over time. The most recent: The driver could not be bothered with carrying my 7kgs parcel out of the van and to my door, so he wrote "not at home", which i read almost in real time, about 10 minutes later, called the company and complained, then they called me back and said that the driver could not "find my address", so they would send a different driver. The obvious question would be, how then did he write "not at home", but you never get anywhere with courier companies if you are just a private customer. Quote
Wasabi-san Posted February 27, 2013 Posted February 27, 2013 Our mailman is Mr. Sano (Sano-san). He makes sure to come back for deliveries at the end of his route that are from Japan, if I haven't gotten home yet. I've purchased so many valks and other Macross/Mospeada/Dougram items through HLJ.com, that he said "Thank you, for single-handedly trying to help stabilize the Japanese economy after the tsunami" while grinning and nodding one day. In '86, I saw Robotech on TV and promptly bought the Revell Robotech Changer "Axoid" model. For Christmas, I received Jetfire. The next Summer, I collected all 85 Comico Robotech comics...it, hasn't, stopped, yet. Now, I buy at least two (or more) of everything...one to display, one to keep MISB, and one to "invest" when possible. There's over 200 VF-1's and at least 300 Macross kits...so far. "Once you're hooked, you're hosed." Quote
aceoftherebellion Posted February 27, 2013 Posted February 27, 2013 Not counting Robotech (I watched it but was too young at the time to fully appreciate it until later), I actually came into the fold thanks to the old dub version of Macross II more years ago than I care to count (Suffice it to say, late 90s.) I was so good for so long, I stayed away... I kept my purchases mainly limited to gundam models... Then I finally joined these forums after lurking for so long... and then an HLJ sale happened... And now I'm somewhere around a grand and a half deep on Yamato/Bandai/Misc. offerings, even buying things on sale/used. My name is Ace, and I'm a Mechaholic. Quote
SuperSenpai Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 You know what's worse? You've been waiting at home all day, and next morning when you go out, you see a notes saying "We have tried to deliver but no one was here" crap. You know what's worse? You come home to find that they left the package on your front porch... IN THE POURING RAIN.... without a plastic bag. Quote
plutoniumhunter Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 Mine arrived today too! I'm really really reluctant to take them out though I did tell you before that I live in a dorm, would be kind of messy... plus I would have to sit through hours of questions and people getting their hands on my preciouses Quote
Mommar Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 Mine arrived today too! I'm really really reluctant to take them out though I did tell you before that I live in a dorm, would be kind of messy... plus I would have to sit through hours of questions and people getting their hands on my preciouses I don't understand why people keep touching your stuff. If I had something in my dorm room and someone wasn't supposed to touch it they'd know because their wrist would be snapped. Quote
dapro Posted February 28, 2013 Author Posted February 28, 2013 Mine arrived today too! I'm really really reluctant to take them out though I did tell you before that I live in a dorm, would be kind of messy... plus I would have to sit through hours of questions and people getting their hands on my preciouses maybe get a lockable display case. Quote
plutoniumhunter Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 I don't understand why people keep touching your stuff. If I had something in my dorm room and someone wasn't supposed to touch it they'd know because their wrist would be snapped. I have a roommate, he's fine, but he brings back his random nutty classmates for "room tours" every now and then, and if I'm not in the room at the time, there might be trouble - I do break wrists as well, but only when I'm around to stop them. maybe get a lockable display case. Lol, 2nd time you've told me that... I do need to fly quite a distance back after I'm done here, which is around mid-June, and it would be too much of a mess, unfortunately. Also, I don't think the university is too fond of us bringing new furniture into their rooms. Quote
Shaorin Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 Finally got it!!!! gonna get them out of the Poppy Paper already, or what? Quote
dapro Posted March 1, 2013 Author Posted March 1, 2013 gonna get them out of the Poppy Paper already, or what? I will once I receive my strike pack. Quote
dapro Posted March 3, 2013 Author Posted March 3, 2013 It happened again! I place an order and when went back in minutes it shows sold out. This time its, http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/shop/en/item_s-1157612.html Thanks for the help plasticgoose. Let's hope I got my order in! Quote
Lolicon Posted March 4, 2013 Posted March 4, 2013 It happened again! I place an order and when went back in minutes it shows sold out. This time its, http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/shop/en/item_s-1157612.html Thanks for the help plasticgoose. Let's hope I got my order in! Mandarake isn't a "regular" shop like HLJ. I don't know all that much about them, other than they're a second-hand shop of sorts. When they list something on their website, it means they have exactly 1 of that item. So if you bought it, it'll of course be updated to "sold out" right after. If they get another of the same item, it'll be listed it under a different item number. It seems a lot of the goods they have in their physical stores are not listed on their website, since they list every item individually. Anyway, I'd love to hear more about the condition of the units you've received, since they're listed as opened/used. Quote
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