Best "steal" you've ever found?

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Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby Wakko » Mon Apr 11, 2016 11:11 am

A couple of weekends ago at a flea market I found a Carol from Where the Wild Things Are, loose, for $2. That's by far the least I've ever paid for a POP! What's the cheapest/best deal you've found?

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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby RedPats » Mon Apr 11, 2016 11:14 am

Some of the best deals I think I've gotten had to be...

Sinestro for $8.95 at B&N
Ghost Rider for $12.95 at Harrison's Comics
9" Darly Dixon for $35.99 on Amazon
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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby dboneo » Mon Apr 11, 2016 11:21 am

Paid 20 buck for a error chase batman off a guy from craigslist who was selling off his collection about 2 years ago.

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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby Ske7ch » Mon Apr 11, 2016 11:23 am

I have a couple, I think the best one was a Headless Hershel for $30 like a month ago lol
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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby TPOP » Mon Apr 11, 2016 11:38 am

Amazing spiderman 2
3 dollars
Box was destroyed pop was ok lol

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Ghost rider 40

Unmasked flash tv show 25

I think these were good deals lol

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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby popfanboy » Mon Apr 11, 2016 11:39 am

Cruella De Vil for $20 this past summer. I was in the arcade game where you have to get the key shape through the perfectly shaped hole to push the prize off the shelf. I spent $20 and got her with a almost mint box. If you're curious about the exact game its called "Winner's Cube"
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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby alex_dewitt » Mon Apr 11, 2016 11:44 am

My three are not too spectacular but still...

Invisible Bilbo - $12 at a comic store in Wellington, NZ in September '15
Tusken Raider in Blue Box - $13 at a local store about two months ago
Chase Green Goblin - $13 at the same local store as above some weeks ago

I roughly converted the prices from € to $ since I'm living in Europe.
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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby Divino » Mon Apr 11, 2016 12:19 pm

Picked up Bane from The Dark Knight Rises for $12

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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby commodorefunko » Mon Apr 11, 2016 12:56 pm

Chase Gremlin for $10.99
2 Chase Smaugs for $15.99 each
Spacesuit 10th Doctor for about $20
I've also found quite a few for $2 on clearance at B&N
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Postby Strending625 » Mon Apr 11, 2016 1:00 pm

2 Green Goblin Chase $10
10th and 11th Doctor spacesuit around $20 each
A dozen or so at b&n on clearance $2-4
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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby treswright » Mon Apr 11, 2016 1:09 pm

DEFINITELY my biggest steal was finding a Batman chase at Walmart. I think it was 8.50 lol
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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby Xx4ST2R0NoTxX » Mon Apr 11, 2016 1:23 pm

I've only found a Chase Spike at B&N, I was pretty new at collecting and it was pretty exciting. I think I bought it just because it was the first one I've seen, but I'm happy. The next best thing would be a Queen Amidala that I had seen for over a year at a local comic shop. I collect SW, but didn't really want the piece. Well, I'd rather pay $9 than what it goes for now, so I went back and snagged it. That's pretty much it besides getting first dibs on different online sales like the last Fugitive one at 3:00am and snagging a couple Pops that I needed but I didn't want to pay $50+ a piece for.
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Postby zaghawk » Mon Apr 11, 2016 1:28 pm

I bought a Shadow Trooper from Singapore for a couple hundred bucks last year, which was already about 30% cheaper than it was selling for on eBay at the time, and a steal compared to it's current pricing. For me I'm happy with that.
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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby mikechickenhead » Mon Apr 11, 2016 1:29 pm

Just recently got an OOB Heat miser for 8 bucks....also both red dragon error and B&N Daenerys for 10
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Postby PopGoestheJess » Mon Apr 11, 2016 1:32 pm

Cyclops for $4
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Postby goheels0509 » Mon Apr 11, 2016 2:00 pm

Haven't been collector that long but got Nick Fury for $15. Thought that was pretty good.

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Postby HowardTheDuck » Mon Apr 11, 2016 2:10 pm

Got a Chase Zero at an antique mall for $11. That was awesome.
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Postby Coulsonsss » Mon Apr 11, 2016 2:25 pm

Nick Fury for like 5 or 6 dollars at Walgreens. I got him back in 2014 and the cashier said he had been off file for over a year lol
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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby ShockWaveZ55 » Mon Apr 11, 2016 2:51 pm

My most random find was when I went to see Star Wars TFA at arclight cinemas opening weekend and in their gift shop I found a thorin Oakenshield for $7
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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby jester00 » Mon Apr 11, 2016 2:54 pm

Bane $20 Forbidden Planet
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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby Pop_Fly » Mon Apr 11, 2016 3:06 pm

Chase batman for 8.50 and 2 jax tellers at the same walmart for the same price
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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby leosalion » Mon Apr 11, 2016 3:21 pm

Tate Langdon for $5 in the clearance of my local comic book shop a few weeks back

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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby txcarr85 » Mon Apr 11, 2016 3:31 pm

Mine was about a month ago. Found a craigslist add that seemed to good to be true. Must say it was a gold mine.

Everything in this pic plus a few others for $200
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Chase flash and thor for only $48
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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby RoboFist » Mon Apr 11, 2016 6:28 pm

Back in late 2013, I was at a little hobby shop on Mackinac Island, where I stumbled upon a sight so astonishing that I had to take a photo of it:

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That was a brand-new, still-in-the-box Two-Face! Even back then, he was downright impossible to find. He may have even been vaulted at that point? Either way, I was an impossibly naive collector at the time who had no clue how much he would've been worth in three years time. Two-Face is just my favorite Batman villain. So I bought him, ripped him out of the box, and reveled in my $10 purchase.

Every time I look at him, I think about how much he'd be worth if I just hung on to that box... ](*,)

Finding the Metallic Chase Joker one morning at a GameStop for $10 was also a pretty good steal. That one I do still have in the box lol
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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby EvilDeadpool » Mon Apr 11, 2016 6:31 pm

Don't ask me how this happened but, a hottopic by me got one John Diggle mixed in there shipment of pops about a year ago. Picked him up for $12.
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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby thejosh2010 » Mon Apr 11, 2016 7:48 pm

I would have to say....

PA Vegeta from TT online...$15 plus shipping in October 2014
All 3 Mars Attacks Martians for $200 on eBay in Fall 2014
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Postby MasterSplyntr » Mon Apr 11, 2016 8:30 pm

RoboFist wrote:Back in late 2013, I was at a little hobby shop on Mackinac Island, where I stumbled upon a sight so astonishing that I had to take a photo of it:

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That was a brand-new, still-in-the-box Two-Face! Even back then, he was downright impossible to find. He may have even been vaulted at that point? Either way, I was an impossibly naive collector at the time who had no clue how much he would've been worth in three years time. Two-Face is just my favorite Batman villain. So I bought him, ripped him out of the box, and reveled in my $10 purchase.

Every time I look at him, I think about how much he'd be worth if I just hung on to that box... ](*,)

Finding the Metallic Chase Joker one morning at a GameStop for $10 was also a pretty good steal. That one I do still have in the box lol


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Postby Valde » Mon Apr 11, 2016 8:47 pm

I bought a compound Hulk for $5 from the Toy Anxiety booth at a comic con a few years ago.
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Postby Megacam » Mon Apr 11, 2016 8:49 pm

txcarr85 wrote:Mine was about a month ago. Found a craigslist add that seemed to good to be true. Must say it was a gold mine.

Everything in this pic plus a few others for $200
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Chase flash and thor for only $48
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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby batcave » Mon Apr 11, 2016 9:19 pm

A Chase Smaug for $15, under a display table in Barnes and Nobles....as if someone had hidden it there.....

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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby WVPride » Mon Apr 11, 2016 9:21 pm

Found Dead Gus Fring in the clearance bin at B&N for 3 bucks....that's the cheapest one I have bought.

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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby Rozureido » Tue Apr 12, 2016 1:10 am

I got the Glow White Walker for $5 on clearance at HMV. Sold it for $95 less than a year later and bought a non-glowing one for $10 bucks and a bunch of other pops I'd rather have on my shelf.

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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby Shinfo13 » Tue Apr 12, 2016 1:48 am

Star Wars Blue Box Slave Leia $10
Star Wars Blue Box Jedi Luke $10
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Arlia Vegeta $15 on Toy Tokyo website
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Postby Nooklin » Tue Apr 12, 2016 2:00 am

B&N clearance picked up the Bambi characters for my nieces.

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Postby Hourglass75 » Tue Apr 12, 2016 4:33 am

Walgreens exclusive Chase Green Goblin on sale for $8.99.
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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby Battastic » Tue Apr 12, 2016 8:53 am

Error Batman $9.99 at Six Flags over Georgia
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Postby JsinLegacy » Tue Apr 12, 2016 9:34 am

I got both Gitd Skeletor & Skeletor for $13 shipped each
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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby Jezter » Tue Apr 12, 2016 3:33 pm

I got the Green Lantern and Superman Domos for the Pop culture deal at B&N a couple years ago, they were something like $2, but then, to me they are only really worth that much too, haha.
Got Ender on a clearance rack once for $5, but he's also kind of boring, so he's worth that price as well.
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Postby kikiblanko » Fri Apr 15, 2016 12:26 am

Biggie for 10$ and Alan & Carlos for 15$ when both were going around 80!

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Re: Best "steal" you've ever found?

Postby mohawkjones » Fri Apr 15, 2016 1:16 am

SDCC Tony Stark for $23 that year at SDCC. I was shut out of the booth, vendor next to Funko had it. I was able to snag James Rhoades from the Funko Booth for $15.
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