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Opinions on value

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 3:54 pm
by bobb428
I picked up 4 NIB items, Wolfpack F-16, Golden Dragons F-18, Hog Head Huey and a AH-64 Apache for 600. Is that a good price by forum standards?

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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 4:14 pm
by NWarty
Yeah Bob, I honestly think you did really well. Considering they're NIB, that's a pretty fair deal.

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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 4:24 pm
by bobb428
Thanks

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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 5:33 pm
by bobb428
He also has
P-38 Silver with black & white stripes
Mig-15BIS Silver & red
F-86 with the rainbow stripes
P-47 Bubble Top
What would be a steal on this group of planes?

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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 5:43 pm
by bobb428
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 6:09 pm
by Jnewboy
The ones you got are nice, all worth $150 each NIB. The rest are not worth $150 each. They are nice but can be had for less.

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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 6:17 pm
by bobb428
What do you think the grouping of the last 4 are worth to make a small profit resealing?

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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2016 10:03 am
by NWarty
The Eagleston P-47 is probably worth the most of that bunch. The Sabre is the less desirable of the two color schemes (The Huff commands a higher price).

I'll disagree with Jnewboy on the values. I think the Sabre and P-47, definitely. The Mig can be had for less but is the desirable color, the P-38, meh...that one is a crap shoot.

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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 12:11 pm
by digger
Both the P-38 and P-47 are worth almost $150 nib. I would not pay $600 for that lot though. You can get the cold war jets much cheaper. The Bubbletop in particular is collectible.

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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 1:40 pm
by bobb428
I didn't buy the last 4. I would only go 400 on the last 4.

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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 9:36 pm
by flayrah
Did you open the P-38 box to confirm the paint? Back in 2008 or 2009 FAO Schwarz was going out of business and selling the p-38 for $19 (yes, that's right). They must have had hundreds of them because they were listed online for at least two or three weeks. I purchased three with the thought of re-painting in different schemes, or even modifying to photo-recon or, in the unfounded belief I could do more than I had time or space for, even creating a carrier version with folding wings. Never did any of that work although I still think about it. Anyway, of the three two were the silver d-day version; one was 'Samantha Peyton'. So for a time, it was impossible to tell what model was in what box without opening.

I'll never see these at $19 again, but I'd certainly like to find a 'Samantha'.

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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 10:04 pm
by tmanthegreat
Flayrah, good to see you posting again! The Samantha Peyton came in pretty much the same box as the silver D-Day P-38 save that it usually had a different figure - the Corsair pilot - on account of it being a PTO P-38. That was how one could distinguish it.

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Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2016 3:20 pm
by flayrah
Tman, after all these years I never knew the difference in pilots. And to think all those boxes I opened at TRU when all I had to do was look for the pilot... :shock: