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Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:41 pm
by bay
jonthomas83 wrote:2 Q's...How much do you think it'll close at? Is it a lot including everything on the pictures in the auction?
it's a lot of whats included.

i've followed every auction of those movie posters from the signing event, the lowest a poster went for was 450 USD (i think) and it was just an odd auction ending time. the others were 700 to 750, along with one lot that was a poster signed, a game signed, and the promo materials (like shown in this auction - just 1 set) went to 1100 USD

i'll be bidding purely for the movie poster + mgo poster, provided i get the auction, since there are all those extra promo items, i'd be happy to send the dupes to whomever wants them for a nominal amount.

Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 6:48 pm
by violentpig
I'm tempted on that poster as well, but I donno. I'm so scared of it being in transit to Rinkya and then to me. I asked Rinkya if they could ship it in a PVC pipe once and they said yes.

I think for me it's have to be under $500 after fees, so I'm likely out of the running.

Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 4:56 pm
by Screaming Mantis
SPOTTED:

Item: MGS4 Signed Poster
Condition: New
Link: http://www.japanauctioncenter.com/view2 ... /w28729087
Price: 1 yen (for now haha)
Ending: 09.03.08

Goodluck to anyone who is going for this.

Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:40 pm
by bay
Screaming Mantis wrote:Goodluck to anyone who is going for this.
guilty as charged.

Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 10:11 pm
by Screaming Mantis
bay wrote:
Screaming Mantis wrote:Goodluck to anyone who is going for this.
guilty as charged.
Haha well good luck bro. Hopefully there's not that many people after it. I'm not in to print articles at the moment anyways.

Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 12:09 am
by bay
Screaming Mantis wrote:Haha well good luck bro. Hopefully there's not that many people after it. I'm not in to print articles at the moment anyways.
that's my focus.. and it's a pita. hence why i'm only collecting konami released items, and not just konami licensed items...

Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:36 am
by violentpig
HOT HOT HOT

http://cgi.ebay.com/Metal-Gear-Solid-4- ... dZViewItem

olive drab snake $169.99 buy-it-now, ltd to 500 pcs

the guy has already sold three of these (1 to me) and has 1 left...if it's gone ask if he has more!

Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 6:14 pm
by violentpig
Konami PVC MGS2 series 1 set, sealed on card

http://cgi.ebay.com/METAL-GEAR-SOLID-2- ... dZViewItem

only $20 with 4hrs to go, that's pretty low

Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 12:22 am
by Screaming Mantis
violentsnake wrote:Konami PVC MGS2 series 1 set, sealed on card

http://cgi.ebay.com/METAL-GEAR-SOLID-2- ... dZViewItem

only $20 with 4hrs to go, that's pretty low
Thanks for the heads up, I just won it.

Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 8:05 am
by mattbellamy
There is this very low auction on ebay, finishing soon, for the promotional TGS "vinyl" shaped MGS3 soundtrack: http://cgi.ebay.com/Metal-Gear-Solid-3- ... dZViewItem

Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 8:43 am
by Screaming Mantis
SPOTTED:

POSTERS!!!!
Image
Image
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They all just started with 6 days left. I already got me one, those are some that are left over. They also have 3 for a BIN price. Good luck everyone. These look good.

Oh yeah, all these are via yahoo japan.

Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 8:53 am
by jonthomas83
mattbellamy wrote:There is this very low auction on ebay, finishing soon, for the promotional TGS "vinyl" shaped MGS3 soundtrack: http://cgi.ebay.com/Metal-Gear-Solid-3- ... dZViewItem
I'm not sure that this thread is such a good idea you know! Everyone seems to be drawing attention to items I have in my watchlist! lol.

I'll be bidding, let me know if you're bidding guys I don't want a fight on my hands! :P

Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:00 am
by TSi
jonthomas83 wrote:
mattbellamy wrote:There is this very low auction on ebay, finishing soon, for the promotional TGS "vinyl" shaped MGS3 soundtrack
I'm not sure that this thread is such a good idea you know! Everyone seems to be drawing attention to items I have in my watchlist! lol.

I'll be bidding, let me know if you're bidding guys I don't want a fight on my hands! :P
I'm gonna be bidding, I was first bidder on it. =P
Screaming Mantis wrote:Thanks for the heads up, I just won it.
Its good I decided to not bid on it, I dont want to raise the price for collectors in this forum. I was VERY tempted.

Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:17 am
by bay
Screaming Mantis wrote:They all just started with 6 days left. I already got me one, those are some that are left over. They also have 3 for a BIN price. Good luck everyone. These look good.
the guy has alot of promo posters, has sold that same bunch several times over. if you missed anything you wanted, i'm sure they'll come around again.

Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:24 am
by Screaming Mantis
bay wrote:
Screaming Mantis wrote:They all just started with 6 days left. I already got me one, those are some that are left over. They also have 3 for a BIN price. Good luck everyone. These look good.
the guy has alot of promo posters, has sold that same bunch several times over. if you missed anything you wanted, i'm sure they'll come around again.
Yeah, I want those 2 posters with Naked Snake/Big Boss on them. Especially the one with Big Boss and The Boss. So we'll see what happens.

Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:28 am
by jonthomas83
TSi wrote:
jonthomas83 wrote:
mattbellamy wrote:There is this very low auction on ebay, finishing soon, for the promotional TGS "vinyl" shaped MGS3 soundtrack
I'm not sure that this thread is such a good idea you know! Everyone seems to be drawing attention to items I have in my watchlist! lol.

I'll be bidding, let me know if you're bidding guys I don't want a fight on my hands! :P
I'm gonna be bidding, I was first bidder on it. =P
Ok mate, well I guess out of forum courtesey it's best I don't bid on it cos it's not cool.

Ok I'm just gonna say this straight up! This thread is turning into a little bit of a problem for me. I don't want to cause arguments, I know it's here for the good of the collecting community. But I have a number of items in my watchlist on eBay that I'm scared are going to appear on here and I'll end up competing with real collectors. I don't want to be doing that.

I mean, it's cool that we're helping eachother out but it's not helping in other ways. In some ways, it's raising awareness of an item which isn't necessarily a good thing when I have already seen the item. The whole point of these auction sites are to bid on what you're really after. I scour three eBay sites every night (sad I know) and Yahoo Auctions every day. I look hard for what I find. The thing is, my hard work can get pulled apart with one post that says, "Quick look here: http://www....., super rare item, going for cheap!"

I'm certainly not having a go, I thought it was a good thread to start off with but it's starting to play against me in other ways, if not by attracting other bidders, its raising my paranoia! lol.

Please don't take this the wrong way fellas, I'm not trying to be selfish I'm just saying what I feel. Also, I don't want this to sound like it's only happened with the soundtrack either matt, cos it hasn't mate, it's happened a couple of times!

For example, if it wasn't for this thread, I could bid the amount I wanted to on the soundtrack not knowing that another member from Junker was bidding alongside me. Now if I were to bid, I'd just feel bad! I know some people wouldn't care (nobody on here, just in general), but it's just not me.

What do you guys think? There has to be a better way of doing this guys! Please don't hate me fellas! lol.

EDIT:
Screaming Mantis wrote:
bay wrote:
Screaming Mantis wrote:They all just started with 6 days left. I already got me one, those are some that are left over. They also have 3 for a BIN price. Good luck everyone. These look good.
the guy has alot of promo posters, has sold that same bunch several times over. if you missed anything you wanted, i'm sure they'll come around again.
Yeah, I want those 2 posters with Naked Snake/Big Boss on them. Especially the one with Big Boss and The Boss. So we'll see what happens.
Yeah I baught a load off him the other day, he has some great posters! He combines shipping too and is quite cheap so if you're buying a few, you'll probably get the same kinda deal. It's just a pity he doesn't sell them of as lots, it would have made life a lot easier!

Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:36 am
by TSi
I personally believe that it is true what you've said is kinda working against each bidder too.
I usually give the courtesy of bidding to the other person if they have been looking for it for a long period of time and of course, I rank it by priority.

- If they have it already, I will bid against them.
- If they have been repeatedly looking for the item, and this was my first time, I will not bid against them.
- If I have been looking for it over a period of time, I will bid against them.
- If they are finishing up a collection (like last figure or last soundtrack or something), I will not bid against them.

I respect each bidder / collector in doing what they need to do, if they bid against me, I wouldn't fight it, I mean, we are all sharing one thing in common... which is the "joy of collecting MGS stuff".

Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:38 am
by bay
if there are things you wanted, you'd probably be looking for them anyways.

if someone is going to bid on something, i doubt you can stop them. you can however say you are bidding and then between whomever here you can talk to them and decide if they have a higher cap than you. if so, it might be wise to just not bid, thus perhaps not cause auction bumps that aren't needed. alas, this isn't always going to work, but it's a nice idea in theory.

i collect print items, posters, etc. if you buy a poster i don't have, then you "probably" treaded on my watch list. am i going to get pissed at you? no, cause items come around all the time. i just look at a missed auction as an opportunity to bid on something else some other time :p

sure it sucks you guys are looking at auctions i am looking at, but it's silly to think i'm the only one looking at them. i've seen a bunch of stuff i was looking at goto you guys here. you've just saved me a bunch of bones.

in the end, it's just materialism. i've got plenty of crap, but why do i want kojimas crap? i dunno.. lol.

Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:47 am
by jonthomas83
Yeah I agree guys, I'd never in a million years think that I was the only one bidding on an item, I mean, I've got a few I'm looking at now and I'd be stupid to think it's only on my watchlist. But I think the point that I'm meant to be trying to make here is that with this thread, the innocence of bidding against a friend or fellow member without knowing is gone and it makes me feel a bit rough. Let alone the fact that I have to stop myself from bidding on something because a fellow member has been looking at items.

I agree with what you're saying TSi and yeah it's a common goal for all of us, but I don't know what people are looking to buy or have been looking for so it's hard to judge y'know!

Anyways, thanks for not shouting! :)

Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:54 am
by mattbellamy
I'm sorry, I didn't read the thread correctly to begin with, it was "buy-it-now". I'm sorry I guess it makes more sense than posting links to normal biddings, I'll stick up to buy it now.

Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:02 am
by jonthomas83
mattbellamy wrote:I'm sorry, I didn't read the thread correctly to begin with, it was "buy-it-now". I'm sorry I guess it makes more sense than posting links to normal biddings, I'll stick up to buy it now.
Hey man, it's not your fault at all fella. I'm not pinning the blame on anyone, I started thinking about this a while ago and only now am I saying anything about it. I really wasn't saying it because of what you posted.

At the end of the day, we're all trying to help each other and that's what makes this forum special. But I'm just saying that maybe there's a better way of doing this sort of thing.

But honestly mate, you're a legend and I don't want you to take it personally cos it wasn't directed at anyone in particular.

Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:26 am
by violentpig
Heh, yeah I think when I made this thread my intention most mostly if there's was an item that could be purchased immediately (buy-it-now) with a low price and I wasn't interested I'd like to try to give someone here a shot before it gets snatched up. Also rare items I might already have that might be tricky to find I'd post.

I think for the most part we all see almost all the auctions, so it's almost redundant posting links to regular auctions. If people have seen my wanted list on my site you'll see I even put "Please refrain from sending ebay.com links..." as I've probably already seen them.

I do post regular auctions sometimes if I have a gut feeling something is going to close really low and someone can get a steal, but more often than not I don't bother. I do if it's an item I don't think alot of people might be looking for I'll likely post it. E.g. those Yamato figures Screaming Mantis won. They were really cheap and I thought to myself most people aren't looking for these unless it's a great deal so I posted the link.

I'm sure I've outbid some of you guys, and I know for sure who's outbid me (and on what heh), but everything is fair game.

Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:46 am
by mattbellamy
Actually Jonathan I think you made a very good point. Like violentsnake I'd only give links to rare items I don't have already or that I can't buy at the moment, but it didn't occur to me that posting links here could also rise up the prices because it could interest several collectors as we're on a hardcore collectors forum.

Anyway these past two weeks I've really cooled down the collecting mania as I'm back on my Muse collection. It's awful being back on that one cause the prices of rare items are just insane compare to MGS, so it's going to be reaaaally hard to chose what I buy from now on :mrgreen: But God knows I'm all for Muse, but I wish I can still find that shareholder bottle of wine from MGS, I guess it's one of the last MGS items I'm interested in as I'm not collecting the figures, I've almost got everything I wanted.

Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:57 am
by bay
i'll make sure to post the rare BIN Muse items now! :lol:

tho yes, i've definitely not bidded on things that have shown up or have been talked about due to other people, with a greater passion for the item than i, have shown interest.

i'd like to be able to help anyone with their collecting, i don't do this to stare at things by myself in my apartment. it's a community and i'm part of it as a whole.

with that in note, if i've bid on something you wanted, or if i have something that you want, don't hesistate to PM me on it.

Re: Spotted! Kojima items for sale (rare or low buy-it-now)

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 2:06 pm
by TSi
+1 to what bay said.

If theres something that you guys are interested and I may be bidding on it, please let me know. Being a collector isn't always about having the "most stuff" or having "everything"... but its more like being part of a community that enjoys the same passion.(imo)