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Griffiness wrote:wolflodge100 wrote:
rumsey.2007 is the winner. They are in the UK. I don’t know if they are a forum member or not but they have bought a few pieces lately.
Yup they are in the UK i sold them their first Windstone on ebay so i guess i am to blame, they have been buying everything!
Sounds to me like they are making up for lost time like a LOT of us had to do over time especially after joining the ForumDragon Master wrote:Honestly people!! If someone can afford any number of items duplicate of not more power to them.
Absolutely. As a collector, if I had money I’d think nothing of buying a second identical item as insurance against anything happening to the first. When I was younger I would buy at least two of each of my favourite books and record albums. Some books I’d buy every time they came out with a new edition or even just changed the cover, so I could read the book anew without risking damage to any of harder-to-replace copies in my collection.
I think to a collector, there can be no such thing as “too many”. Buying a second or a third of something is merely an affirmation of one’s love for that thing. The problem is that most of us are constrained by our lack of income, and this means having to spread the money around more judiciously than we would like. Freed from that constraint, though, we would specialise in collecting what our desires call for.
If there are 10 of something made, and that something is a defining aspect of my relationship with the world, then naturally I’d be happy to own all 10 and the heck with anyone else wanting one.
i guess for me its kinda a fact of being a bit jelouse beings i know i will never be able to afford a special piece and i know i shouldnt have said it was “selfish” of people to buy more then one, and im sorry
Dracomancer wrote:i guess for me its kinda a fact of being a bit jelouse beings i know i will never be able to afford a special piece and i know i shouldnt have said it was “selfish” of people to buy more then one, and im sorry
Don’t apoligise for saying what you feel. I mean, no two ways about it, is IS selfish to want something for yourself instead of allowing someone else to have it. I just don’t see that being necessarily a bad thing. In fact for the most part it is a GOOD thing because being selfish frees you to do things you won’t do if you wait for someone to tell you it’s OK.
There are extremes, of course, but we’re not going there.
Good points, Dave. And anyway, if the person does wind up selling one of the multiples, then someone else really will get it in the end. It just went through a middle-man first 🙂
Hee hee! Actually, only one-seventh of my collection (excluding PYO pieces) isn’t retired! 🙂
Of course, I only have fourteen pieces, so that’s not quite as impressive as it sounds.
WindstoneCollector wrote:Atleast 50% of my collection is retired. I love thast factoid! 😆
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Dave, you crack me up! I am right there with you. I have a huge collection of Anne McCaffery books. Pretty much everything in hard back, book club, paperback and multiple duplicates. Whelan Prints..some bought in your store by my brother Sean.
I agree..I wouldn’t hesitate to own multiple items if it suited me…
I do want to let collectors know that on the Hatching Dinos and Baby Dinos…there are alot of differences. I had a collection of duplicates and all the dinos were different.
Different interference paints, highlights and colors. They were subtle, but I admit I compared closely before I picked the one I wanted….
Dragon Master wrote:So I’m selfish for having 2 23KT Gold Leaf Hatching Empress Dragons? I think I have heard that before. I wonder what I would have been if I had gotten all 3??
Honestly people!! If someone can afford any number of items duplicate of not more power to them. Why is this such a problem here?? It has been brought up several times in the past and was one of the reasons I cut back on posting. I felt like I was being persecuted because at the time I had the money and luck to get them. I got them on e-bay just like everyone else. They may also be getting them to sell in 10 years for 10 times what they paid for it now.JEEEEZZZZZ DM!!! Not everything is about YOU and its not a problem here. You set yourself up for persecution by continuing to drag yourself into it. No one even mentioned you and I doubt even half these folks KNOW you have two of one item. I think we would ALL buy EVERYTHING if we could afford it. I know I would. And what would you be if you had gotten all three? Broker than you are now.
Griffiness wrote:wolflodge100 wrote:rumsey.2007 is the winner. They are in the UK. I don’t know if they are a forum member or not but they have bought a few pieces lately.
Yup they are in the UK i sold them their first Windstone on ebay so i guess i am to blame, they have been buying everything!
😆 Nice, Griffiness.
And Ski, thank you for being blunt.
I’m glad other people buy multiple copies of books! I was feeling like a freak. I really like getting the English and the American versions of the Harry Potter books – most of the time I like the English cover better. (But I have to get the American version to read right away because the English one gets here a lot later. Or did – it won’t be a problem any more. 😥 )
ddvm wrote:I’m glad other people buy multiple copies of books! I was feeling like a freak. I really like getting the English and the American versions of the Harry Potter books – most of the time I like the English cover better. (But I have to get the American version to read right away because the English one gets here a lot later. Or did – it won’t be a problem any more. 😥 )
I collect first editions, and I always buy 2 copies, one for reading and one for display. I actually missed out on the Harry Potter firsts, despite a tip that I got from a book collector friend of mine. I was stupid and blew him off. He had the true first Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone, signed by JK. Now he was stupid in that he sold it for $6000 after the first movie came out, despite my telling him not to. I remember telling him that I would buy it, but he thought I was joking, as I was poor… 🙁
When I was into comics, I knew a kid with super wealthy parents that spoil him silly. He had 2 copies of Amazing Fantasy #15, Spider-Man #1, FF#1, X-Men #1, Avengers #1, Hulk #1, and Journey Into Mystery #83. They were all at least in CGC 8.5 or greater condition.
Also, keep in mind, $4000 is equivalent to about 2000 pounds sterling at the moment. The exchange rate between US dollars and Pounds sterling is hands down in the Brits favor (not including shipping and customs of course, but still cheaper in the long run).
ie. If it costs me $20 for something in the US right now, to get it in Britain would cost me the equivalent of a little over $40 for the same item. The dollar just isn’t doing well right now 🙁
If someone has the money to spend on something, then by all means, go for it if you want it 🙂
*shrugs* I’ve got two old green males, but their both really different so I’ve kept them both. Sometimes even two of the same thing have subtle differences because of different artists painting them or perhaps difference in time release. I know that the peacocks became brighter over time and the first batch of em-peas was different too. I think some of the early rubies were more “black cherry” colored, my ruby fledgie is enormously different in color from the other rubies I’ve seen. The old greens changed over time as well. Some whites are more yellow gold and some are pure white, so purchasing several may just be the buyer insuring that they can choose whichever suits them best and sell the extras. 🙂
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