IC: Group Buy - World's Largest Collection

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Inb4honiestang

Edit: nevermind

[mjmjr25]

@Cha, that would all need to be decided by the group.

If I were to cross post this on another forum, it might help chances of actually getting 11 others to commit, but that's when we might run into issues - dealing w/folks we don't know.

I've got a couple members w/questions in PM, but i'm not ready to say how exactly it'd work, other than it would be decided by the group.

Here's what needs to be decided now:

-Do you have or can you quickly get 6K and are you comfortable wiring it to me?
-Do you trust that a group of 12 known racket members can come up with an agreeable way to divvy this up?
-Are you comfortable knowing you'll put out money in a week, but may not see games for a couple months?
-Do you believe you'll be able to add many things you want to your collection well under value OR do you believe you'll add some items to your collection and have the patience to move the rest along to recoup most of your investment?
-Do you believe this is worth over $120K if parted out individually?

If the answer to all 5 questions is yes; then i'd say you should seriously consider this.

[Omerta]

Mike, you're tempting me again and I don't like it. I want to stay married.

[dsheinem]

-Do you have or can you quickly get 6K and are you comfortable wiring it to me?
-Do you trust that a group of 12 known racket members can come up with an agreeable way to divvy this up?
-Are you comfortable knowing you'll put out money in a week, but may not see games for a couple months?
-Do you believe you'll be able to add many things you want to your collection well under value OR do you believe you'll add some items to your collection and have the patience to move the rest along to recoup most of your investment?
-Do you believe this is worth over $120K if parted out individually?

If the answer to all 5 questions is yes; then i'd say you should seriously consider this.

I think my answer to all of these questions but the last one is "no"

Why are you mentioning a figure of $120K at all?

[mjmjr25]

My wife is in some sort of calm mood about this whole thing - all she said is i'll need to have a talk with our rude post lady who hates that I refuse to use shipping manifests.

manifests: if you print multiple labels, you can log everything in at once. I don't do this as i like items individually logged in and CONFIRMED logged in. With the manifest, your manifest is logged in, but if one gets missed before it leaves the facility, you're screwed. You can't prove you dropped off a specific package; only that you dropped off "some" packages. Individual trackers are on that manifest, yeah, but i'm not trusting that they wouldn't say, "well, you must not have had that one when you dropped it off, it isn't covered unless it was scanned in." Nope, you can scan them in each individually. /rant.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Interesting thread. I don't think I've spent more than $6K on my entire collection.

Does this guy have a list of his games online? RFGen or something similar? Would be helpful. Hard to tell exactly what he has based on pics alone.

Anyway, good luck all yous.

[mjmjr25]

@dsh, 120K was the rough / conservative ballpark I threw together when I first looked at it. I initially considered a solo bid of 60K, but that was kaiboshed quickly by my wife and later by my own common sense.

If we got to about 6 committed members, i'd go to a much more detailed evaluation and reporting back before actually accepting anyone's money.

[noiseredux]

mjmjr25: What do you think about a $60k bid?

Mrsmjmjr26: How's that chicken coop coming along?

[dsheinem]

@dsh, 120K was the rough / conservative ballpark I threw together when I first looked at it. I initially considered a solo bid of 60K, but that was kaiboshed quickly by my wife and later by my own common sense.

If we got to about 6 committed members, i'd go to a much more detailed evaluation and reporting back before actually accepting anyone's money.

I think that before arriving at a good guess, the biggest thing to know would be what games in his complete sets are sealed and which aren't. Knowing what games he has dupes of would also be pretty important, and their status. Sealed games easily doubles the price of a lot of the bigger, rarer fish that he'd have in those full sets.

[mjmjr25]

There are no dups to my understanding - he had 1,000 and donated them, this is for the 11,000 documented games in the Guinness official record, no dups. He has some personal dups he's keeping. This will be for 11,000 games and 100+ pieces of hardware.

On my rough guess - I valued everything at used but good condition, if sealed, the value would only go up.

Chickens - a reprieve, built a larger brooder to buy myself some more time: