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Hi everyone,
I posted over in the Auctions forum a link to my eBay sales, but I thought I'd pop over here and say hello in the meantime.
I'm 32, so I was around for the G1 craze as a kid and absolutely loved them! Somehow, over the years, my mother had made me get rid of old toys before I was allowed to get new ones and most of my G1's disappeared, sadly. All I have left is a Dazzleglow with a partial mohawk, and a Baby Brother Whirly Twirl whose tail falls out!
Then when the G3's came out and I was an adult with a paying job, of course it made sense to buy every single pony I came across and to go pony shopping at least once a week! I ended up with over 100 loose ponies and then got smart and started keeping them in the box, quite honestly, to sell later.
So "later" came and my hubby and I decided we wanted to buy a house and I figured it would make sense to sell some stuff on eBay so we didn't have to move it all and also make some extra money. Not too long after this, he lost his job, so now he's my full-time picture-taker-pro and I do all the listing. So I gathered up all my ponies, and started listing the boxed ones on eBay.
Then I started doing some reading here and over at the Arena and I worry about eBay's reputation!!! I am an honest seller and buyer, and I only want to deal with other honest sellers and buyers, and I guess it's the usual old saying: "One bad apple spoils the whole bunch." Sad! I hadn't sold on eBay for years prior, and it was only a few things. I hope it wasn't a mistake to go back to it!! I've also been buying some stuff for my friend's gothic-themed wedding, and where else but eBay can you find some of this one-of-a-kind stuff?!?!
Anyhow, thanks for reading! You all seem to be such a great bunch of people, and I definitely am not any kind of expert and I don't even think I want to consider myself a collector, because I'm not up to par with what most of you guys are doing here!
Before I sell my loose G3's, I wanted to get an opinion (if anyone is still reading this far down....) on what to do with their hair. I've seen all the tutorials and the advice with the shampooing & conditioning or not and the ironing or curling or not and I just wanted to throw out this opinion I have. Personally, I feel that anything I do to them could end up making them worse, or ruin them or something.... and I think I'd just prefer to brush them, and in a very unruly case, maybe just wet it down a bit. I'm scared to mess with them too much and all I have ever done with them (as an adult collector) is take them out of the box and put them on a shelf, then put them all in a big box to store, so they're as near-mint as anything can be that's been handled that way. I feel as though I'd want to preserve what's left of them, the way they were right out of the box, since they hadn't been played with by a child, especially if I were buying them, but again, that's just my two cents! I haven't been able to see concrete proof that they sell better after the hair has been styled, so I figured for 100 ponies, I just don't have the time and it wouldn't even be worth it. What do the buyers want, I wonder????
I posted over in the Auctions forum a link to my eBay sales, but I thought I'd pop over here and say hello in the meantime.
I'm 32, so I was around for the G1 craze as a kid and absolutely loved them! Somehow, over the years, my mother had made me get rid of old toys before I was allowed to get new ones and most of my G1's disappeared, sadly. All I have left is a Dazzleglow with a partial mohawk, and a Baby Brother Whirly Twirl whose tail falls out!
Then when the G3's came out and I was an adult with a paying job, of course it made sense to buy every single pony I came across and to go pony shopping at least once a week! I ended up with over 100 loose ponies and then got smart and started keeping them in the box, quite honestly, to sell later.
So "later" came and my hubby and I decided we wanted to buy a house and I figured it would make sense to sell some stuff on eBay so we didn't have to move it all and also make some extra money. Not too long after this, he lost his job, so now he's my full-time picture-taker-pro and I do all the listing. So I gathered up all my ponies, and started listing the boxed ones on eBay.
Then I started doing some reading here and over at the Arena and I worry about eBay's reputation!!! I am an honest seller and buyer, and I only want to deal with other honest sellers and buyers, and I guess it's the usual old saying: "One bad apple spoils the whole bunch." Sad! I hadn't sold on eBay for years prior, and it was only a few things. I hope it wasn't a mistake to go back to it!! I've also been buying some stuff for my friend's gothic-themed wedding, and where else but eBay can you find some of this one-of-a-kind stuff?!?!
Anyhow, thanks for reading! You all seem to be such a great bunch of people, and I definitely am not any kind of expert and I don't even think I want to consider myself a collector, because I'm not up to par with what most of you guys are doing here!
Before I sell my loose G3's, I wanted to get an opinion (if anyone is still reading this far down....) on what to do with their hair. I've seen all the tutorials and the advice with the shampooing & conditioning or not and the ironing or curling or not and I just wanted to throw out this opinion I have. Personally, I feel that anything I do to them could end up making them worse, or ruin them or something.... and I think I'd just prefer to brush them, and in a very unruly case, maybe just wet it down a bit. I'm scared to mess with them too much and all I have ever done with them (as an adult collector) is take them out of the box and put them on a shelf, then put them all in a big box to store, so they're as near-mint as anything can be that's been handled that way. I feel as though I'd want to preserve what's left of them, the way they were right out of the box, since they hadn't been played with by a child, especially if I were buying them, but again, that's just my two cents! I haven't been able to see concrete proof that they sell better after the hair has been styled, so I figured for 100 ponies, I just don't have the time and it wouldn't even be worth it. What do the buyers want, I wonder????