Thinking about selling my GSXM Emma Frost (this is not a sale thread)

[ProfessorShananigans]

I am very tempted to sell the "Giant-Size X-Men" Emma Frost figure that I have. However, hearing about these "oreo bases" that we may be getting in GSXM has me wondering...

... If all GSXM figures have the new bases and my Emma Frost has the previous style of base, that would make her (and the Cyclops that was given away) the only GSXM figures with the old bases. Which makes me think she would be worth a LOT more. Should I put her up for sale (either here or on Ebay) or wait until the set comes out and see if she's worth more then? What a dilly of a pickle...:cool:

[Troma99]

They probably won't give the GSX men figure Oreo bases...

[phantalien]

I wouldn't do it. I am not a person who would take a gift and sell it. Since this was done through the secret santa, it was a gift.

[ProfessorShananigans]

I wouldn't do it. I am not a person who would take a gift and sell it. Since this was done through the secret santa, it was a gift.

I agree with you actually. However, I was the recipient of the Secret Santa gift. I merely contacted the person that had received the Emma Frost and asked him if he would trade it (which he did). I only had to trade a couple of extra maps for her.

[The Decepticons]

personally i wouldnt sell it. i dont think that the change over in base is going to increase the value whatsoever. If that is indeed the case and we see GSX oreos. You never know, a person is likely to dislike the oreo and just swap onto an older base.

the other thing that you have to realize too is that it would be greatly set apart from the similar concept of the Cheung Nightcrawler. If it was a rare it might be worth selling. as a common though i dont think that youll garner any more than 20 bucks tops. and thats only due to the fact that the set isnt released yet.

[Thrumble Funk]

Really don't think the base is going to make much of a difference.

Box it, sell it to somebody with ample cash/no self-control, and call it a day.

Or keep it as something nifty.

[Jarosa]

The new bases aren't being used in GSX. I explicitly heard that. Even so it's just the base. Anyone can tear a figure from one to place on another. Not rocket science.

[Jarimy123]

I'd rather not see it sold. It's in your right to sell it - but when people start selling items that Wizkids gives out as a really cool secret santa idea - it just gives them reason to not do these kinds of things in the future.

[The Decepticons]

agreed. if it pops up on ebay Wizkids will probly just get it pulled down anyway

[booleyb]

Since I organized the SS event, I was actually kind of shocked that you ended up with Emma in the first place.

This figure (along with the Cyclops) was a special treat from Wizkids and should be special to the recipient.

I can't stop you from trying to acquire them or move them, but there shouldn't be any extra worth to them except to the original owners (and only for sentimental reasons).

[ProfessorShananigans]

Since I organized the SS event, I was actually kind of shocked that you ended up with Emma in the first place.

This figure (along with the Cyclops) was a special treat from Wizkids and should be special to the recipient.

I can't stop you from trying to acquire them or move them, but there shouldn't be any extra worth to them except to the original owners (and only for sentimental reasons).

I don't think I really did anything wrong. I saw the thread about the Secret Santa gifts and PM'd both guys. The person with the Cyclops WOULD NOT TRADE. Believe me, I tried. Emma however, I got for just a couple of maps. That guy really didn't seem to care about keeping her.

I just wanted to get them, play them in a couple of games and then re-sell them to raise money for my GSXM purchases. Don't worry though I have decided NOT to put it up on Ebay. I found a friend that wants to buy it. I just want to make clear though, that had the figure been given TO ME originally I would not have even considered trading it. Out of respect that it was a gift. So I agree with you guys on that. That wasn't the case though, it was easily obtained and looked to be a good way to help support my clix addiction.:cool:

[sparks4289]

Isn't a gift supposed to be just that, a gift with no expectations whatsoever from the giver other than the fact that the recipient enjoy it?

We all got a gift that day from wizkids, a super early sneak peak at gsx. I think thats what the intention was behind it in the first place, if nothing else it was great cheap promo advertising for wizkids.

Who cares if he sells it at this point? The original recipient got a great gift that gave them a firsthand peak at something, and was then able to turn that gift into a few maps, which just happened to be more valuable to them then having a common from a set coming out in a few months.The community got a super early sneak peak about an up and coming set. Wizkids got some GREAT advertising, the secret santa will be FLOODED next year with participants, and now the guy who has it will get 20 bucks in his pocket.

Sounds like a win all around, for everyone.


To the OP:
I don't think the dials going to make a bit of difference in value in the long run. Sell it now while you can for the big bucks.

[Munchoboy]

Since I organized the SS event, I was actually kind of shocked that you ended up with Emma in the first place.

This figure (along with the Cyclops) was a special treat from Wizkids and should be special to the recipient.

I can't stop you from trying to acquire them or move them, but there shouldn't be any extra worth to them except to the original owners (and only for sentimental reasons).

Agree 100%.

[absolutvt69]

Since I organized the SS event, I was actually kind of shocked that you ended up with Emma in the first place.

This figure (along with the Cyclops) was a special treat from Wizkids and should be special to the recipient.

I can't stop you from trying to acquire them or move them, but there shouldn't be any extra worth to them except to the original owners (and only for sentimental reasons).

This echoes my thoughts. It was extremely cool of WK to send out unreleased figures to people as a gift. It would be sad if they don't do it anymore because people saw it as a way to make a quick buck.

[soxolas]

I'd rather not see it sold. It's in your right to sell it - but when people start selling items that Wizkids gives out as a really cool secret santa idea - it just gives them reason to not do these kinds of things in the future.
Since I organized the SS event, I was actually kind of shocked that you ended up with Emma in the first place.

This figure (along with the Cyclops) was a special treat from Wizkids and should be special to the recipient.

I can't stop you from trying to acquire them or move them, but there shouldn't be any extra worth to them except to the original owners (and only for sentimental reasons).
Holy Crow...I couldn't agree more!

A few years ago, my stepson was a student at a rather famous art school and as it turned out, he ended up with one of my comic book idols from the '60s for a professor. So shortly before my birthday, he asked the professor if he would do a sketch for me of a certain favorite character as a surprise gift. Well, this artist wanted to...but first, he advised my stepson that he'd have to get the green light from the artist's agent and promise in writing that the sketch would not be sold.

Well, as it turned out, I got one of the nicest surprise presents ever that year -- this legendary artist did it as a gift -- and it is something very special, involving a certain measure of thoughtfulness, that I will treasure for the rest of my life.

But when I hear of stories such as this one, involving the unreleased Emma Frost figure that was given as part of the recent Secret Santa exchange, I understand that not everyone feels the same way. It might help to explain why certain safeguards, such as the one my stepson's professor mentioned, are deemed necessary.

In keeping with booleyb's comments...IMHO, gifts by nature are special items and some more so than others, because of their intrinsic value or the thought that makes them so and the least a recipient can do is treat them that way. But in this particular case, the Secret Santa program that resulted in the gift is at least as special as the item itself.

I'm just sorry to learn that the person who was lucky enough to have been sent that Emma Frost figure apparently doesn't agree.

More than that, with all due respect, I offer this to the OP: while you're not the individual who originally received this piece, if you fail to see how the selling of an unreleased figure that was given as a gift could have a negative effect on the good will shown to our community by someone at WK, I think you're missing something.

Just my two cents.:cool:

[fubar]

To be honest, it was in bad taste for you, the OP, to go out of your way to try and get the people to trade you their secret santa presents. Just sayin'.

[Jarosa]

I just hope our community isn't viewed negatively by the actions of a few. First trading off something that most of us would be overthrilled to have, a figure from an unreleased set. Secondly, trading to get said figure just so you could turn a buck. I won''t deny that if I was offered a GSX figure for trade I'd jump at the oppurtunity. Not so I could sell it though. I also wouldn't even ask if it was for trade. If someone asked me I'd think they should know better than to ask. Especially if it were a gift.

[spike1138]

I side with the folks who say not to sell it. Everybody else had said all that I would have regarding the value of the fig, its status as a gift, et cetera. No need for me to repeat what was said.

[Miraclo]

A few times Wizkids decided to do some advance promotion of sets by randomly sending boosters out to people who’d posted on their boards. So it was that an advance booster of Justice League came into my hands ahead of the release. While I could have seized the opportunity to sell the five pieces (including the Mr. Mxyzptlk, which was both a Rare and an item that I’d been the only one to receive at that point, at least among people bringing info to the Realms) it didn’t seriously cross my mind for several of the reasons others have posted, but mainly because it would strike me as rude to resell it. Still, that’s me.

In this case the recipient of the piece for whatever reason didn’t care about it. Maybe this is someone who’s not an X-Men fan, perhaps not even a Marvel one, or maybe he hates her for becoming a romantic interest for Scott, but for whatever reason Emma apparently wasn’t something he valued. He didn’t actively move to sell it, and certainly didn’t go for a big pay day given that it took someone else contacting him with an offer and then only a few maps to free Emma up, so I’m not going to be hard on him. (I could see someone getting irritated at him, in fact, for thinking so little of it that he didn’t try to exchange it for as much as possible.) As for now, at the point it had changed hands it became a commodity. The aspect of it originally being a gift is gone and cannot be seen as morally binding on the one who owns it now.

Emma (as with Scott) is a Common from the set, and we know that by the end of March not only will it not be worth trying to sell it, but one might even have difficulty finding someone at a venue who would even accept it if someone offered it free.

Here, just under two months before the set comes out, however, it’s as special an item as it’s ever going to be. Advising someone who traded to get it, I would say that if the idea of selling or trading it is there then now would be the time to do it. Either do that or use it on teams. Wizkids' best interests are probably best served by it being in the hands of someone who is out there using it, giving people a look at what's coming just a few days before Spring.

[KillerSavage]

Come march the only extra value the figure will have is the sentiment of what wizkids had done. Being it was already traded for that sentiment didn't really matter to the original owner. Though the original owner may have been thinking he was trading it to someone who would enjoy it more.

I'm almost prone to say if you sold it that you are just taking advantage of the person buying it. I don't know how much of an affront to wizkids it would actually be. Once march is here they are going to be a dime a dozen. So pike I said it's really just a matter of who you sucker into purchasing it early and however you might feel about that.

[Jarosa]

I wish they would send out advance boosters again. That was so cool. I didn't get one but the excitement of those who did was contagious.

[JDKenada]

So, just so I'm clear on this...

A WK individual sent out a figure that had not yet been released as a Secret Santa gift. That person, for whatever reason, didn't think the gift was all that great (and subsequently the thought process behind the gift) since they were quite happy to trade it for "a few maps." If that's not disappointing to ANYONE who takes part in the Realms Secret Santa, then I'm speechless. :tired:

Further to that, you went out of your way to acquire it. Ok, fine. No harm done there, really. However, you admit that it cost you next to nothing (just a couple of maps) and now you're trying to make some money off of it?

Honestly, it's really disheartening to hear. :( The whole scenario reeks of, quite frankly, shenanigans (oddly enough).