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A couple of posts ago, I wrote about making moolah with mini figures. Without re-writing the entire post, the gist is that you buy cases of these mini figures, open them up, assemble a full set, and sell them at ridiculously inflated prices on eBay to lazy collectors. The last part is what I have been doing on the first two Armored Core Trading figures series. So when the third series was released, I thought I would get smart and try to go into a little biz-ness myself. What follows is the sad, but true tale of trying to make moolah selling mini figures.
Long story...short. I received my case of mini figures straight from Hobby Link Japan with great anticipation. I opened each of the little boxes trying to be very careful as I would end up re-selling them on eBay making a ton of money and having my choice of the figures I wanted to keep for free! Well, what I didn't realize is that you need more than one case to make this whole scheme work out.
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In this Armored Core Series, there are five different models that come in at least three different colors. To assemble the entire set in each color would require a total of 15 different figures. Seeing that you only get 12 in a case, the likelihood of pulling this off is quite remote. Worse, this doesn't account for duplicates. So as I opened each box, not only was I not able to complete a set in each color, I couldn't even complete one set in
ANY color. In fact, I believe I was lucky to be able to complete any set in any color. Which is exactly what I have, a motley crue of mis-matched mecha in a multitude of colors! ack! The rest are duplicate mecha! ugh!
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The worst part about it is that i'm now too dis-illusioned and lazy to even try and sell them on eBay. So what I have done is spent $100 on a mismatched set with a lot of duplicates lying around. I think it's best to leave this eBay mini-figures business to the professionals!
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