Should I buy this...?

[lharles]

I've got an opportunity to purchase an individual's collection of Heroscape that includes both master sets, (RotV 1st Edition), a castle set, a forest set, a lava set, a tundra set, Orm's return, Raknar's vision, along with all of wave 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6.

This would come with all the containers for the stuff that the person is using.

They're asking...

$300.

So, do I buy it?

I've got pretty much everything except for the Onyx Vipers and convention exclusives now, (I tend to be obsessive about the collecting part and then, once I've got everything, I move over to being obsessive about the game itself - - Heroclix nearly bankrupted me a few years back), so I'm conflicted.

What do all of you fine folks think?

Thanks for any input, silly, demeaning, or otherwise.


Lharles

[robbdaman]

It sounds like a reasonable deal to me. Think of it this way, if you don't need it you could always sell the parts off on Ebay and make more than you're paying for.

R~

[Frank'n'stay]

YES!!!!! BUY IT!!!!!! Honestly, that's an amazing deal, as a first edition RotV set goes for about $70-80. Then add all of the first two waves and you have basically made up the cost of what it usually go for at most places. (Waves one and two are nearly impossible to find, even if you DID want to pay out the nose for them.)

So buy it now! Before we all try to get our hands on it!

Frank'n'stay

[lharles]

That occurred to me but I'm not much of a buy it to sell it sort of guy.

I don't know...I'm REALLY conflicted about it. I don't tend to spend a lot of frivolous money but when I get into somethin' sometimes I tend to go a bit overboard.

I guess the question I would have asked next is answered by your response...

Is it worth it?


Lharles

Originally Posted by robbdaman

It sounds like a reasonable deal to me. Think of it this way, if you don't need it you could always sell the parts off on Ebay and make more than you're paying for.

R~

[lharles]

I'll be completely, ahem, Frank with you. I considered buying it for the purpose of giving it away in some capacity.

That would be the same as you getting your hands on it, right?

I don't really need it. I figured I might be able to trade for the stuff I don't have. Outside of that... {shrug}

It's a lot of cash and while I'm paid pretty well, I also have a whole gaggle o' small people who I have to feed!

Originally Posted by Frank'n'stay

YES!!!!! BUY IT!!!!!! Honestly, that's an amazing deal, as a first edition RotV set goes for about $70-80. Then add all of the first two waves and you have basically made up the cost of what it usually go for at most places. (Waves one and two are nearly impossible to find, even if you DID want to pay out the nose for them.)

So buy it now! Before we all try to get our hands on it!

Frank'n'stay

[iceman3317]

Buy it. The first waves are exspecive now. You can use all the common squads for bigger and better armies.

[Frank'n'stay]

Ahhhhh..... so this is an INVESTMENT.

[holylink718]

Originally Posted by lharles

Is it worth it?

Sounds like it to me. I would buy it (if I had $300) and just sell what I didn't need. The wave 1,2, and 4 almost make it worth it right there, and you get a lava and a tundra, both very difficult to find too.

Just my two cents.

[lharles]

Well, that's part of why I posted this thread!? I don't KNOW!

It sounds like I'd be gettin' a good deal no matter what though.

The question that will continue to plague me is whether I buy it to keep it, buy it to trade it, or buy it to sell it...

My typical action tends to be the middle of the three but I've sold things on the evilBay before, (not that I JUST purchased though), so I could do that too.

{internal mental wrestling continues...somehow I always lose...how does THAT work?}

Originally Posted by Frank'n'stay

Ahhhhh..... so this is an INVESTMENT.

[robbdaman]

Originally Posted by lharles

That occurred to me but I'm not much of a buy it to sell it sort of guy.

I don't know...I'm REALLY conflicted about it. I don't tend to spend a lot of frivolous money but when I get into somethin' sometimes I tend to go a bit overboard.

I guess the question I would have asked next is answered by your response...

Is it worth it?


Lharles

I recommend you start becoming a buy it then sell it kind of guy then. Heck if you pieced it off to people on here it'd sell. Resale is part of the American way and if you bought it as others have said you'd easily get the money back if and when you sold it.

R~

[lharles]

That's your recommendation, eh?

I'll definitely take it under consideration.

I just noticed where you're located. I've got family in Morro Bay.


Lharles

Originally Posted by robbdaman

I recommend you start becoming a buy it then sell it kind of guy then. Heck if you pieced it off to people on here it'd sell. Resale is part of the American way and if you bought it as others have said you'd easily get the money back if and when you sold it.

R~

[Ty the Awasome]

I agree with everyone else. Buy it, and sell off what you don't want. Oh, and how many packs of romans and orcs are you getting (from wave 1)? Because if it's 2 or more, I'd buy them if you didn't want them.