tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345470195229914785.post5045693813589802055..comments2024-03-23T03:20:51.709+13:00Comments on A Fist Full of Plastic: Imperial Scout TroopersUncle Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00975932783227453858noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345470195229914785.post-2124651201142667612014-12-11T00:03:20.073+13:002014-12-11T00:03:20.073+13:00Ah "utility" - such a great concept!
F...Ah "utility" - such a great concept! <br /><br />For the number I want, I am prepared to pay the Ebay price of US$7+ to obtain the extra two of three required.<br /><br />The forces for Star Wars Decision are indeed quite large now, and I hope to run a few games early next year once the shift is complete!<br />Uncle Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00975932783227453858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345470195229914785.post-83085893012182211752014-12-06T12:19:45.470+13:002014-12-06T12:19:45.470+13:00I think we run into a rather unconsidered branch o...I think we run into a rather unconsidered branch of ... erm ... economics here involving the meanings of the terms value, price, cost and worth. In my view, these words are not synonymous, though very closely related. I have had an economist tell me, with a straight face, that the value of a thing is price someone is willing to pay for it. Utter nonsense, of course.<br /><br />For a collector, perhaps, a MIB box of these chappies is worth more to him than the $80 parted with was as money. But for another person, the $80 dollars might be worth more as money than the box of figures is as figures. Clearly, then, value is in the eye of the beholder.<br /><br />For a collector, the 'utility' of the set might be in terms of the warm fuzzy feeling of ownership of something possessing rarity 'value'. Or, it might lie in the likely appreciation in market value, such that after a suitable interval he could on-sell at a price higher than the $80 he paid for it. Or, as in your own case, it lies in the enjoyment you will derive by using the figures in games... or it might be a teaching aid for conflict resolution, marketing, or delineating character types in visual media... whatever you fancy. If you think it was a good buy for the utility you have in mind for it, then it was a good buy for the utility you have planned for it.<br /><br />I can understand the outcry, of course. That's from people who want a set of their very own, for whatever reason. Their diminished availability MIB presumably increases their rarity value, and hence, very likely, their asking price. But such sets will naturally be the more difficult to obtain. That goes with the territory of course, if one is a worthwhile collector. You have done your bit for enhancing, by however a minute margin, the thrill of the chase and the glow of securing the quarry.<br /><br />If you have riders for your air-bike thingies, you could 'rough out' scratch-builds against such time as you can find actual cast models.<br /><br />Your Star Wars forces must be getting fairly sizeable by now!<br />Cheers,<br />IonArchduke Piccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.com