Rough news - I'd be happy to help by taking your orange Oljisan off your hands! It sucks when the last things you want to pay for necessitates the getting rid of the last things you'd want to sell. On the other hand, it's kind of great to know that in a pinch toys can be like Krugerrands.
If I ever do it, I think i'll just have a big one-day garage sale at my studio. It would be fun to see the nerdfights break out like the old ladies in the department store on the day after Thanksgiving.
^^ If you do Coop, count me in for a front row seat! I haven't really noticed a trend per se, but there are always those non-regulars who pop up now and again either 1) just to ask for something or 2) only to sell stuff. Anyone who checks this board regularly has a fair idea though that the BST is really only a tiny aspect of the community, and the people who want to take advantage of it solely for those purposed are soon evident. And further to all those points mentioned, you also have to consider that for many of the long time collectors, what they are selling off (though large by comparison) might just be a drop in the ocean compared to their whole collections.
Not sure if it's true, but I sometimes get the feeling that people are selling off their collections of common toys, or even some newcomers in general, only to buy 'bangers and hype' toys. Collections being built solely consisting of Bemons, Nags, G-Ju, Anraku, etc. Collections that are s1ck cause they have all the rar3z Anyone else see it?
for me, i have 2 main collections. 1). the stuff that this forum focuses on: japan vinyl! 2). 80s action figures (mostly motu and motu ko's) its like a cycle, but not a conscious one. i mean, i don't one day wake up and decide i've been hitting skullbrain bst and searching gargamel for awhile, its time to transfer over to 80s action figures. its a slow progression. and one that kind of helps me focus on the other. when i'm hitting vinyl pretty hard, i start back into it usually when i find a grail pop up (the most recent being the unpainted white flocked skullwing), and i grab it. hunt for a few more grails that left my mind for awhile. move onto checking out the new stuff from my favorite companies, and then i get locked in. eventually, i'm buying tons of stuff that i have been thinking about collecting, or something that has caught my interest before and shows up at a price i can't pass on. etc. after awhile, the flame goes down. it doesn't die, just sort of gets monontonous (hunting for the same things over and over, making a want list and as it dwindles from picking stuff up it keeps growing) and i start checking out my action figure forums and hunting remco stuff on ebay. the one action figure grail that pops up kind of pulls me back in that direction, and the cycle goes on. now, as for how this helps me focus each collection, its this: when i'm "active" in the vinyl hunting, i will stand back and look at my collection on occassion and really can't figure out what could be sacrificed. nothing looks out of place, all are equally awesome. but when i'm in 80s action figure hunting mode, and something totally awesome pops up, i read over the vinyls and end up finding those 3 or 4 figures that can move on to new homes so i can afford the new action figure find. and it works vice versa. so yeah, its a system. its pathetic. but i like it.
