Yup! It’s another one of these damn Funko Pop collections. These are definitely walking into our door more often as of late which I don’t mind at all. It’s a great way to build up our inventory and restock on the cheap.
Funny part is I specifically remember the sellers as they came in Black Friday weekend when we ran our sale and purchased the Freddy Funko Bloody Chucky Exclusive. This one...
Anyway, it’s a young couple and they are moving their Pops as they just found out that they have a baby on the way. I congratulated them and then started diving into the 2 large Rubbermaid tubs full of vinyl goodness. I always do a count to start with. Just to get a number of pieces total.
As I count these suckers I also look to see what the collection is mainly made up up. In this case it’s a bunch of commons with some lower tiered exclusives and retired pieces. But certainly nothing on any large ilk.
This specific collection consisted of 76 individual Pops, 1 3pk, and 1 18” inch Batman for a grand total of 78 pieces. As always I let the seller state the starting price. I gave the usual warning that I always give when stuff of similar stuff is brought in which is that we pay anywhere from two to five bucks a piece.
He was reasonable in his starting number with a price of $350. That would have broken down to about $4.50 a piece which is more than I wanted to drop on this particular lot. So I did some snazzy math and came up with a total of $235 which broke down to about $3 bucks a piece. That was more in line with what I felt I wanted to shell out. While I know we needed a decent chunk of the lot, I also know that we have been getting similar types of collections walk through our door on the regular...so I can afford to be a bit choosy these days.
He didn’t even try to counter. He thought about it for about 5 seconds and accepted under one condition. That he could have his dirty Rubbermaid bins back. I gladly obliged. As we unpacked the Pops, I also realized that he had hit us up right when we opened and that I didn’t have $235 in cash on me at that very second. So I asked if he accepted PayPal it Venmo. Nope! I even joked about Bitcoin to which he just stared at me blankly. So I had to run out to the back a few blocks away and withdraw the funds from the ATM. A few minutes later, it worked out and I wished them good luck on their new adventure of parenthood.
So let’s dive in...shall we?
Out of the 78 pieces in the lot, we needed 48 of them on the sales floor. Pretty happy with that. The rest were doubles that went to die in the abyss in the back room. Before I could even price em up, we snapped pics, popped em up on Instagram, and had a few folks come in to pluck a few goodies.
Pieces sold immediately
So we already immediately moved 7 pieces for $183 bucks...and since I priced them I know a couple of other commons sold as well. I believe we are probably at that even point or within a few bucks of it...so I’m happy with that as only about 11 pieces have gone in total so far leaving the rest for pure $$$. My favorite kind of deals are the ones we are out of the red on immediately with little effort.
Onto the next one...
Blewitt
