Hmmm, you guys must not do to well then finding vinty carded figures. Look
closely at the cards.
As for finding good, loose vinty figures on ebay, yeah, they are there. But I sure as hell don't have much luck finding them or getting hold of them. I look very closely at pictures, I email sellers for better pictures and still I wish that for about 50% of my vintage loose collection I'd just bought a crappy carded figure to begin with. I've bought multiples of numerous figures as I try to upgrade to something decent. It doesn't have to have uber stiff limbs, just tight; paint doesn't have to be perfect, but I'd prefer to know about the teeth marks on the back of the figure
; I'd prefer a legitimate vintage weapon, not a repro.
And no, I'm not just buying the super bargains off there. Hell, I paid a good price for a brown snake Yoda, just to get the frigging correct cane and sure as **** they send the wrong cane with it. I'm
still without the proper cane for my brown snake Yoda. If I see a beat card brown snake Yoda and can get it for $30-35, you can believe you'll see pics of it being opened here.
It's a pain in the ass - jacked up shipping fees because apparently Canada is on the other side of the universe
Dishonest sellers shipping repro weapons or quite probably, figures that were not pictured.
As for that Sise Fromm, look hard at the card. The damn thing was so wrinkled it's soft. I paid about the same, if not a little less than a loose figure is currently going for and that included the shipping. I should wait and pay more for a figure?
As for hurting the hobby, I'm not clear exactly how that's happening? I'd suggest while there are zillions of loose figures out there, I think everyone sort of underestimates the amount of carded stuff out there. I think there are ample examples and I'm uncertain why opening a card pretty much no one would display is an issue.
I've got some beautiful trilogo cardbacked figures, I'm not opening those. I understand the appeal of a M/NM cardback, really I do. But stuff the average collector would be embarassed to have carded? That can't be opened?
Again, exercise your eyes and sharp vintage skills. Look again at the pictures. Tell me what you see.
