Since we mentioned B5 MicroMachines, and how some sets are more collectible than others, a few have asked “How do you know what they’re worth?”
Honestly, I just remembered that some were harder to find than others, and that their value on the collector market was priced accordingly.
There used to be a really cool online price guide for B5 Collectibles, but like many other online sites devoted to B5, it has faded. The guide hasn’t been updated since 2003, and the trading whiteboard is now a clearing house for spam comments.
Does anyone think a price guide is worth keeping anymore, since eBay is usually a pretty good indicator of the going rates? I think a comprehensive list of toys and the like might be kinda cool.
And does anyone interested in a German B5 poster? I bought one years ago, and I have never been able to hang it anywhere…
I’d be interested in the German poster Summer.
I’m up for that collection list making… Would be nice to get some sort of list of what I got and what I need to collect:P Lemme know if I can help you making it:)
OK, may be telling some people how to suck eggs here on the Micromachines, but from what I’ve got and not got and tried to get hold of, this is what I’ve found.
Generally speaking, sets 1-4 are fairly common and exchange at relatively low prices.
Set 5 is less common and will normally go for a bit more than usual.
Set 6 is the rarest of the lot (the one I don’t have) and tends to be going for over £50 ($100), or at least that’s what it went for last time I saw it on e-bay, though that’s a few years ago now. Set 6 is often believed not to exist by some as I’ve seen sellers being very ‘defensive’ when corrected over listing ‘all 5 sets’.
Can probably dig out the ship listing for all 6 sets if someone wants me to!
They actually think Set 6 didn’t exist? Wow… that’s funny. For some reason, here in the US, Set 4 was the hardest for me (and a lot of others) to find.
And since that price guide is way out of date, I wonder if it’d be worth the effort to create a Wiki-based one here. If for nothing else than to keep listing all the cool stuff that Petter keeps acquiring 🙂