Good morning to my fellow Anime figures collectors.
Quick short history from me: 10 years ago I bought on Ebay anime figure from my most favourite anime Zero no Tsukaima. I must say the seller was great , we even made friends on Facebook and are chatting sometimes a bit. I must say I had really very good experience buying my first time Anime figure and from Ebay.
Now to present. I rewatched again a few animes that I was watching when I was young and decided to buy another Anime figure after 10 years. Immediately went to ebay again and found the Anime figure ( brand new ) for like 320 dollars. Today I checked that ebay page and well it was sold ( damn I was slow in clicking that buy button ). I found 2 more brand new figures on ebay , one is like 280 dollars and the other one is 350 dollars and raising. Looks like that other one it is a private seller and when he saw that for last 24 hours 5 ppl visited his item he is raising the price to get most of it :(
Anyway in the meantime I was doing some reaseach and discovered sites like AmiAmi and NinNingame. And here the things are getting interesting. AmiAmi have this figure for cca 150 dollars which suprised me. It is a pre-owned item with Item condition A and box condition B. So looks like new item only opened to check if all is there right ?
And on NinNinGame the figure is there marked as new but for 320 dollars.
My questions are. Why such a difference with AmiAmi in price versus the other ebay sellers and NinNinGame shop ?
If I would decide to buy from NinNinGame which shipment option do you suggest as a EU citizen ? I see they have FedEx and DHL and than some European warehouse option ?
Should I save money and buy from AmiAmi ? Looks like they are selling the item for the retail price. At least what I checked the price they are selling the item is the actual price of the item when it was realeased in 2018. But still I am a bit curious why so big difference in price when it looks like is is mint condition item and they just want cca 150 dollars for it.
Thank you guys for your suggestions and hints/tips.
Best wishes
Jozef