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shmokes:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320858073975

The narrative in my Ebay description is a bit different than the one I gave here. It's silly overthinking, since a non-interested person isn't going to be looking at auctions for pez collections to begin with, plus not every personality is like mine, but I figured that if I'm trying to convince someone to buy something I shouldn't emphasize how boring/uninteresting the thing becomes over time.

Rando:
When I was younger, maybe in my teens, I was poking around in my grandparents basement and found a small box containing some of my Dad's old Baseball cards from the 50's.  There were also a couple old metal toy trucks and some other neat stuff.  For the next few years I searched every inch of that house for any other intesting piece's from my Dad's past that I could find.  I currently have no interestt in Baseball, and I don't plan on selling those cards.  But I like just holding onto them so one day my kids or a grandkid can stumble onto them so I can say "You want them?  They're yours".

If I were a kid and stumbled on a box of freaking Pez dispensers in my Granpa's attic, dude, I would freak out!  And if there was some candy in there that doesn't go bad and tastes the same after 25 years... so much the better! :D

Luck with the sale!

Gray_Area:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on February 26, 2012, 03:08:47 pm ---Just sell it all in one lot and be rid of it. The additional labor required to try to get top dollar out of them probably wouldn't be worth your time, particularly since doing so would require you to really educate yourself about pez values and such.

--- End quote ---

It's possible you (shmokes) may suffer a re-lapse - but I'm a supporter of the above. Oh, I see you've put them up. Good lad.

Yeah, if I still wanted to play with action figures, that's why I'd collect them, which means I wouldn't collect all of them, and actually would get only the ones I thought were way cool. Sorta like arcade machines, or even roms. If I really don't like the game, I can it.


Vigo:
6 bids already....best of luck!  :cheers:

shmokes:

--- Quote from: Vigo on February 28, 2012, 10:33:58 pm ---6 bids already....best of luck!  :cheers:

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So there are. That's promising. I still don't expect it to go very high based on the closing bids on other lots. Maybe $200-$300. I wouldn't think more than that. I'd be disappointed, but not super surprised if it did't even quite break $200.

Those six initial bids were at first a little alarming. They come from three users, each of whose usernames consist of a single letter, followed by four asterisks, and then another letter. Like o****o. Or maybe it's three asterisks. Anyway, they all follow the same convention. Which obviously can't be a coincidence. And anything that's not a coincidence is pretty much for sure a scam. But the users have high possitive feedback scores, one with like 600 transactions. Then it occured to me that maybe I'm just not a hardcore collector, cos serious collectors all creat a username that is the equivalent of a Pez dispenser emoticon. Like, first initial is the head, asterisks the body, and your last initial the feet. Anyway, hopefully that's it and I have nothing to worry about. The guy's 600 transactions seem to be exclusively buying and selling Pez, so it's probably all legit.

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