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AnarionZelle
Underboss
1172 Posts
    
USA
 | | 05/14/2008 3:23 PM |
| Well, the title says it all - how are traders judging the value of minis now? I was pondering a trade with a member and couldn't find the online price guide.Â
The only reference to trade values that I saw was an eBay buy it now and auction price guide from last July. I know that the last online price guide that
Madda did was back in December, and that was fine to use for the first few months of 2008, but what are traders using now? I see that trades are still
being made; perhaps they are using current buy it now or auction prices that they are averaging themselves... | |
Completed Trades: Cha0tic g0od x2,IHawk x6,demagogue x5,jcnorris00,Sammael x3,Diomedes x3,Pan,Phoenix,samstephenson500,sage_raistlin,jai,simage,Lab Monkey x4,bugsy,Vulturedoodle,T-Bone,niolo,GreyOne,Kunimatyu,Mullins,ShivanWurm,berus316,Thenameless x3,Tysac,ksuvampire,Mama Cass,Metz,Zim x2,brucemc,Krush x3,Venport,RedneckDM,nycfarmkid,Corim Danex,Chad the DragonLordofAiur x2,Puggins,Izeya82 x2,Oryan77 x3,Zenako,Wayne,Vocenoctum1,Drakkengi,Username x2,lyus_sleyden,Cyberia,Star x2,xuthal x3,Qucalion of Celene x8,sam500 x2,Blob39,Keoki x2,hazel monday x3,emontedodger,Dargoth,Wraithborne,Anothermullen,Vrecknidj x4,Ghendar,Gunthar,shoesan,beurice,ckissee,kyrin,Khellrendros,GuJiaXian,Wolfgang,True_Blue,md3,stephengroy(MMT08),Teflon Jeff,GuJiaXian(MMT08),aries71,Count Dooku,Kat_Dawg33,oldben,TheChuck,hung4treason,relientKittenI I I I I I I I I I 0 I I I I I I I I I I Pending: Thenameless,Krush
"This is what you want, this is what you get..." | |
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Wraithborne
Commander
4482 Posts
The Red Light District
| | 05/14/2008 4:16 PM |
| | I've been using Auggie's or cheapest BiN on ebay...bit of a pain for large trades though. | |
Eye dun no why youse guys think im not relly a person im jimgang from canada but im moving to cali as soon as i get a master card
-Jimgang
May I mambo dogface in the banana patch?
-Steve Martin | |
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Zenako
Commander
3469 Posts
| | 05/15/2008 12:33 PM |
| | Well for most of the older minis, the prices have been pretty stable for some time in the guide so anything from the earlier sets (first 8 or so) can probably be considered still reasonably valid. New sets tend to flucuate a lot more as the relative nature and value of the minis settles in. Rarely if you are using one of the reasonable vendors as a baseline for "value" would you be too far off. | |
Built the addition for this addiction, now on to the "gaming table" project....
http://www.maxminis.com/hw_list.asp?user=Zenako last updated 29 May 2006
Set Status: in a nutshell = all of all
In Process trades 0), (Sig last updated 05/29/06) 300 plus Completed Trades -
If I seem scarce at times...blame DDO - Sarlona | |
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stephengroy
Underboss
1415 Posts
Tempe AZ Beeyotch
| | 05/15/2008 5:37 PM |
| | Auggie's BuySite makes things fairly straightforward also. | |
Waiting for Chainmail Equivalencies since 2005
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Shottglazz
Underboss
1132 Posts
Quinte West, Ontario, Canada
| | 05/16/2008 6:24 AM |
| | Really Stephen? I don't find buy sites at all helpful...the prices are always very low (obviously, the ppl buyin 'em expect to make a profit when they sell)... | |
Shottglazz
"Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand;
I don't care, I'm still free, you can't take the sky from me."
Completed trades ( 51 ): Pikel, Darrell x2, JeffDHarvey, BiggPappa001, Ghendar, Valinrook X2, Wolfgang x4, Wraithborne x6, Mr Ruffles, Anothermullen, CKissee x3, Browns_Scoundrel, Kyrin, GuJiaXian x2, Tyngfumv, Basic_Aim, Mickey Mouse, Berus316, Crisisman, Zoons, Rockfrd, Sterling40 x2, Brucemc, 2007 Magical Mystery Trade, Redskullz x2, Stephengroy, Lyus_Sleyden, Foolforthought, 2008 Magical Mystery Trade, Kilsek x4, Generic Fighter, Auric, Relientkitten
Pending trades ( 2 ): relientKitten x2
WotC trades ( 1 ): Red_Deceiver
Bad trades ( 2 ): LeftEyeofGruumsh, Yotebeth | |
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Zenako
Commander
3469 Posts
| | 05/16/2008 9:27 AM |
| Posted By Shottglazz on 05/16/2008 6:24 AM
Really Stephen? I don't find buy sites at all helpful...the prices are always very low (obviously, the ppl buyin 'em expect to make a profit when they sell)...
The point would be not for "absolute value" but for relative value.Â
IF the buy sute offers you $2 for Mini X and $4 for mini Y, then it is reasonable to conclude that the relative value is 2 to 1 for trading purposes. The values in the price guides were just the averages of the selling prices from those sites. So again the RELATIVE values are what always were important. | |
Built the addition for this addiction, now on to the "gaming table" project....
http://www.maxminis.com/hw_list.asp?user=Zenako last updated 29 May 2006
Set Status: in a nutshell = all of all
In Process trades0), (Sig last updated 05/29/06) 300 plus Completed Trades -
If I seem scarce at times...blame DDO - Sarlona | |
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stephengroy
Underboss
1415 Posts
Tempe AZ Beeyotch
| | 06/02/2008 5:28 PM |
| Posted By Shottglazz on 05/16/2008 6:24 AM
Really Stephen? I don't find buy sites at all helpful...the prices are always very low (obviously, the ppl buyin 'em expect to make a profit when they sell)... This' true, and if you check Auggie's Sell site, it's one of the cheapest out there, and he combines shipping.
Most of my loose buys are from Auggie's.
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Waiting for Chainmail Equivalencies since 2005
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relientKitten
Warrior
179 Posts
Portland, Oregon
| | 09/03/2008 1:21 PM |
| My method takes some effort, but I generally find it to be pretty acurate.
My basis is using the median value of actually-sold domestic completed eBay sales, not including shipping. If there are no sales or only one or two, I will compare with the lowest currently active BIN. If the BIN is lower, I take that value. If the BIN is higher, I average the values together.
To see how I do it, search for a mini (I will limit it to Toys & Hobbies-> Games if there are other similarly named listings). On the left-hand side, check the box marked "Completed" and then click "Show Items" below it. From the drop-down for sorting in the top right, select "Price: highest first".
Count the number of sales. Red-numbered sales values don't count (they didn't sell). I also do not count International values (anything in italics) because it can skew the values significantly. If the number of values is odd, find the largest number that will go into it twice and add one, count that far down the list of valid values and that's your value. If the number is even, divide the value by two, count that value down the list, add that value to the next value below it, and divide by two. That's your value.
It's not completely fool-proof but I've only had one person complain about my computed values so far (and yes, as was pointed out, it provides more of a ratio of values than anything; so long as you use the same site and method for all of the minis, the sides will become equal).
Cheers!
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~relientKitten, Champion of Elenriel Annanole, Loremistress
>^..^<
Happy Customers: 17
Completed Trades: 22
Crochet Beholder: http://www.maxminis.com/Forums/tabid/104/forumid/68/postid/810379/view/topic/Default.aspx
Crochet Dice: http://www.maxminis.com/Forums/tabid/104/forumid/68/postid/807807/view/topic/Default.aspx
My trades, references, and flavrs: http://www.maxminis.com/Forums/tabid/104/forumid/53/postid/808880/view/topic/Default.aspx
My can-has-want-plz-trade list: http://www.maxminis.com/hw_list.asp user=relientKitten | |
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