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Around here, you can own a small home or some acreage for that amount!
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Male Hearth....one day🤞Dream on.HA! Yea really. I dont even know how much I have invested, but $15k is an estimate. I have 115 Windstones, that’s $100 each. Some worth a huge amount more, some a huge amount less (I only paid $14 for my sitting young unicorn :D)
Top 5 Most Expensive Things I Own
1. Car
2. Emerald and diamond ring
3. Secret Keeper<—lol
4. Emerald and Diamond necklace
5. Flame Crested male dragon (he’s a close 5th if no 4th)
oh and just because I love her so much,
6. Cat (Goblin) (cat was free but her vet bills have made her a high mainteneance kitty!)Think of it this way….our collections are an investment! Worse case scenario, if we desperately need money, we can always sell them, usually for more than we paid. They say jewlery is so valuable, but who wants to pay full retail for second hand jewlery, even in perfect condition?
well all I can say is right now re-selling windstones is not a money maker 🙁 I’ve been trying to sell pieces I’ve bought to pay off some bills just for what I paid for them and I usually have to sell lower than what I paid. So they are a money loser for me, but they are just so darn pretty you cant stay mad for long 😀
NicoleH, I’m sorry you’re experiencing that. I think generally that is true for right now, but I think that is a sign of the economic times. In general everyone seems to have less to spend right now than in years past. Not long ago- even last year- Windstones did seem to not only hold their value, but many seemed to greatly greatly increase in value. I can think for example of the auctions for white coiled mothers we were seeing bring in $300+! I think and hope that as things turn around for people financially, you will see your pieces increase in value again. 🙂 It’s just hard right now- many people are without jobs or are suffering pay cuts, and they are selling their pieces to a smaller money pool.
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My art: featherdust.comWindstoneCollector wrote:Nirvanacat13 wrote:Dragon87 wrote:Shouldn’t that be…
One thousand dollars
Two thousand dollars
Three thousand dollars
Four thousand dollars?Well this I think is a little more accurate for a lot of us…
Though there are some of us that qualify for:
Ten thousand dollars
Twenty thousand dollars
Thirty thousand dollars
Floor!
I might qualify for the 10 to 20k range…*picks self up off floor**coughs* There’s no “might” for me. My collector’s insurance is for about 12k. 😛
Windstone collector in remission. 😉
Serenity wrote:On the PYO’s… do you put them at cost to buy them or at cost to sale them???
You should quote them at what you paid for them and can prove what they are “worth” such as an eBay/paypal reciept.
Nirvanacat13 wrote:Serenity wrote:On the PYO’s… do you put them at cost to buy them or at cost to sale them???
You should quote them at what you paid for them and can prove what they are “worth” such as an eBay/paypal reciept.
I was talking about the ones that you would paint… either for yourself or to be sold on the forum or ebay… my bad! I should have thought out the wording better! Oops! :spank:
So I guess you would just take them at cost that you bought them for then huh?
Serenity wrote:Nirvanacat13 wrote:Serenity wrote:On the PYO’s… do you put them at cost to buy them or at cost to sale them???
You should quote them at what you paid for them and can prove what they are “worth” such as an eBay/paypal reciept.
I was talking about the ones that you would paint… either for yourself or to be sold on the forum or ebay… my bad! I should have thought out the wording better! Oops! :spank:
So I guess you would just take them at cost that you bought them for then huh?
Well…..the rule of accounting is that you only list something at what you paid for it. And it’s only worth the amount that it is SOLD for, not going to sell for, but SOLD for. BUT if you can put a value on your man hours, or prove a general pricing “trend” then you can give a good estimated value and list it as such. For instance, if you can say your time is worth $20 and hour and say you did 8 hours of work on it, then you could try and list it as ~$30 for the PYO + $160 of man hours….If it were for insurance purposes, you’d probably be better off showing a trend in average pricing for PYOs sold on evilBay. Which would probably be about $100. So if you’re LISTING stuff down for insurance purposes go for a price between the two that you’re happy with, so like $150. This is all speculative numbers of course but you get the idea.
Art is such a hard thing to insure unless you can get it appraised, and unfortunately with PYOs they probably can’t be appraised. With regular Windstone pieces it’s a little easier because you can PROVE, usualy with your reciept, what you paid for them, or you can prove an average, like on rvnheart (or however you spell it >.<) and it's easier to get money from the insurance company.
Hope that clarifies! =P
Oh and on a side note, insurance companies goal is to pay the least amount of money out of their pockets, so it you don’t have everything FULLY doccumented they probably won’t fully cover your losses. Not saying all companies are like this, but it’s seemed to be a general trend with everything I’ve heard about.
Yep! That clears it up! Thank you!!! :hi:
And I am sure that is the truth with any insurance company… the less money out, the better! Good for the insurance company’s bad for us collectors! lol
*Now to get all my ducks in a row! lol*
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