Unreleased G2 Menasor Sells For $26,815 on Ebay

leokearon wrote:Seriously you could by a real car for that and what would be the point? You don't have Mensaor's face so you can't combine them and given the price you will probably never play with them.

Hopefully next year we will get new Stunticons toys with a G2 exclusive.

leokearon wrote:.......and what would be the point? You don't have Mensaor's face so you can't combine them and given the price you will probably never play with them.

Hopefully next year we will get new Stunticons toys with a G2 exclusive.

Rated X wrote:They need to come out those stupid ugly baggies for the whole world to see in a gallery. What are you really gonna do with them like that ?

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Rated X wrote:They need to come out those stupid ugly baggies for the whole world to see in a gallery. What are you really gonna do with them like that ?

Yeah, really. And if I won the auction, and they truly were 1 of a kind, I'd let Ryan borrow them to do a gallery of them. Unless he has some rule about photographing only figures he owns or something like that.

Bounti76 wrote:And if you think about it, we already have CHUG versions of Breakdown (from TFCC) and Drag Strip (from the Classics Mirage mold), so all we need is Dead End and Wildrider. I bet you anything the new Generations Voyager Optimus will be redecoed/retooled into Motormaster.

shajaki wrote:

Bounti76 wrote:And if you think about it, we already have CHUG versions of Breakdown (from TFCC) and Drag Strip (from the Classics Mirage mold), so all we need is Dead End and Wildrider. I bet you anything the new Generations Voyager Optimus will be redecoed/retooled into Motormaster.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Rated X wrote:They need to come out those stupid ugly baggies for the whole world to see in a gallery. What are you really gonna do with them like that ?

Yeah, really. And if I won the auction, and they truly were 1 of a kind, I'd let Ryan borrow them to do a gallery of them. Unless he has some rule about photographing only figures he owns or something like that.

Seibertron wrote:Featured eBay Auction #4
PROTOTYPE Transformers Beast Wars Heroic Maximal DINOBOT

Caelus wrote:Is it at all possible the G2 Stunticons were bought by a toy museum or something, rather than a private collector?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Caelus wrote:Is it at all possible the G2 Stunticons were bought by a toy museum or something, rather than a private collector?

I'm looking for the bidding history, and of course the names are partially hidden. I did see some really weird bidding: a jump from $455 to $1500, and one from $18,500 to $26,800 at the very end, plenty of automatic bids.

I smell shenanigans.

Seibertron wrote:I bet the winning bidder put in something around $30k which is what I would have done had I wanted to drop enough money to buy a car.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Theres that Seibertronian who want to build a Dinobot Shrine. Whoever you are, I hope you have money to burn because that's one auction you want to win!

shajaki wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Theres that Seibertronian who want to build a Dinobot Shrine. Whoever you are, I hope you have money to burn because that's one auction you want to win!

read nine posts earlier

-Kanrabat- wrote:

shajaki wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Theres that Seibertronian who want to build a Dinobot Shrine. Whoever you are, I hope you have money to burn because that's one auction you want to win!

read nine posts earlier

Yeah, I saw your post after hitting SUBMIT. Out of curiosity, how much did your Dino Proto cost you?

As for me, my grail would be Shattered Glass Starscream, without having to pay 500$ for it.

shajaki wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:[
As for me, my grail would be Shattered Glass Starscream, without having to pay 500$ for it.

does shattered glass starscream really command that price? jeeze... makes sense though. i follow everything botcon on ebay and until recently (one listing a few days ago) i cant remember the last time i saw one.

OptimalOptimus2 wrote:

Prototype Megatron's colors looks better. Does anyone else agree?

-Kanrabat- wrote:

shajaki wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:[
As for me, my grail would be Shattered Glass Starscream, without having to pay 500$ for it.

does shattered glass starscream really command that price? jeeze... makes sense though. i follow everything botcon on ebay and until recently (one listing a few days ago) i cant remember the last time i saw one.

Well, the only things available on Ebay are WHOLE 2008 Botcon sets... Starting at 2000 modda fawking dollars!

Seibertron wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Caelus wrote:Is it at all possible the G2 Stunticons were bought by a toy museum or something, rather than a private collector?

I'm looking for the bidding history, and of course the names are partially hidden. I did see some really weird bidding: a jump from $455 to $1500, and one from $18,500 to $26,800 at the very end, plenty of automatic bids.

I smell shenanigans.

That's how eBay works. Nothing fishy with those numbers. Someone bid a max amount of something around $26,800, someone put in more at the last minute which ups the bid to the max amount of the 2nd highest bidder. If you're bidding on an item like this, you aren't bidding a little bit at a time, you are bidding thousands of dollars at a time. I bet the winning bidder put in something around $30k which is what I would have done had I wanted to drop enough money to buy a car.

mooncake623 wrote:

Seibertron wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Caelus wrote:Is it at all possible the G2 Stunticons were bought by a toy museum or something, rather than a private collector?

I'm looking for the bidding history, and of course the names are partially hidden. I did see some really weird bidding: a jump from $455 to $1500, and one from $18,500 to $26,800 at the very end, plenty of automatic bids.

I smell shenanigans.

That's how eBay works. Nothing fishy with those numbers. Someone bid a max amount of something around $26,800, someone put in more at the last minute which ups the bid to the max amount of the 2nd highest bidder. If you're bidding on an item like this, you aren't bidding a little bit at a time, you are bidding thousands of dollars at a time. I bet the winning bidder put in something around $30k which is what I would have done had I wanted to drop enough money to buy a car.

Winning bidder had a max bid of $26,815.00 you can tell because the second highest bid would is $26,800 at this point bids go up in increments of $1000 (or $100) if his max bid is $30,000 and the last person bids $26,800 the winning bid would be $27,800 (or $26,900 if increments are in $100) so basically the winner of this auction won by 15 bucks!

Seibertron wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:

Seibertron wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Caelus wrote:Is it at all possible the G2 Stunticons were bought by a toy museum or something, rather than a private collector?

I'm looking for the bidding history, and of course the names are partially hidden. I did see some really weird bidding: a jump from $455 to $1500, and one from $18,500 to $26,800 at the very end, plenty of automatic bids.

I smell shenanigans.

That's how eBay works. Nothing fishy with those numbers. Someone bid a max amount of something around $26,800, someone put in more at the last minute which ups the bid to the max amount of the 2nd highest bidder. If you're bidding on an item like this, you aren't bidding a little bit at a time, you are bidding thousands of dollars at a time. I bet the winning bidder put in something around $30k which is what I would have done had I wanted to drop enough money to buy a car.

Winning bidder had a max bid of $26,815.00 you can tell because the second highest bid would is $26,800 at this point bids go up in increments of $1000 (or $100) if his max bid is $30,000 and the last person bids $26,800 the winning bid would be $27,800 (or $26,900 if increments are in $100) so basically the winner of this auction won by 15 bucks!

It's not the max bid of the winning bidder, it's the max bid of the 2nd place bidder. While it could be entirely possible that the max bid was 26815 for the winner, it's not very likely. Ebay only ups the bid to the max bid of the current bidder plus whatever increment ebay has in place.

ScottyP wrote:Guys, there weren't shenanigans with the bidding. Decently well-known collector HighPrime was the winner and he's on record stating that he knows who his one person competition was (I had to lurk TFW to find all that out, I don't think he posts here).

HighPrime wrote:

ScottyP wrote:Guys, there weren't shenanigans with the bidding. Decently well-known collector HighPrime was the winner and he's on record stating that he knows who his one person competition was (I had to lurk TFW to find all that out, I don't think he posts here).

No, I don't post like I did a long time ago here; but I still have an account (seems to be working still, heh).

I made an exception to post so you all don't have to search for answers. Not that I feel I am of particular importance, but If you have any questions I'll be looking at this thread to respond to minimize the search for details.

Thanks all!

Mkall wrote:Congrats on the win HighPrime. Please consider loaning the set to a photographer to make images available to us less fortunate.

HighPrime wrote:

ScottyP wrote:Guys, there weren't shenanigans with the bidding. Decently well-known collector HighPrime was the winner and he's on record stating that he knows who his one person competition was (I had to lurk TFW to find all that out, I don't think he posts here).

No, I don't post like I did a long time ago here; but I still have an account (seems to be working still, heh).

I made an exception to post so you all don't have to search for answers. Not that I feel I am of particular importance, but If you have any questions I'll be looking at this thread to respond to minimize the search for details.

Thanks all!

HighPrime wrote:

Mkall wrote:Congrats on the win HighPrime. Please consider loaning the set to a photographer to make images available to us less fortunate.

Thank you very much, I appreciate it!

I actually own all of the necessary equipment to photograph these, should I actually open the baggies.

Seibertron wrote:

HighPrime wrote:

ScottyP wrote:Guys, there weren't shenanigans with the bidding. Decently well-known collector HighPrime was the winner and he's on record stating that he knows who his one person competition was (I had to lurk TFW to find all that out, I don't think he posts here).

No, I don't post like I did a long time ago here; but I still have an account (seems to be working still, heh).

I made an exception to post so you all don't have to search for answers. Not that I feel I am of particular importance, but If you have any questions I'll be looking at this thread to respond to minimize the search for details.

Thanks all!

Congratulations again, HighPrime! That's an extremely awesome set to have in your collection.

If there's an opportunity to photograph these, I'd be honored to provide everyone with photos of them on Seibertron.com. I would be willing to work out something with you for shipping and making sure that they are properly insured in transit. JRFitzpatrick and I used FedEx when I photographed his Lucky Draw Unicron a few years back which worked out very well.

If you are not interested or comfortable in doing this, I would completely understand and would probably feel the same way. Just thought I'd reach out to you in case you were interested.

ScottyP wrote:

HighPrime wrote:

ScottyP wrote:Guys, there weren't shenanigans with the bidding. Decently well-known collector HighPrime was the winner and he's on record stating that he knows who his one person competition was (I had to lurk TFW to find all that out, I don't think he posts here).

No, I don't post like I did a long time ago here; but I still have an account (seems to be working still, heh).

I made an exception to post so you all don't have to search for answers. Not that I feel I am of particular importance, but If you have any questions I'll be looking at this thread to respond to minimize the search for details.

Thanks all!

Congrats on the score! I'm glad this set went to a true blue collector and not someone looking to flip 'em or something silly like that.

ScottyP wrote:If it was me, I'd open them, but that's because I like to watch the world burn >:oP

On a non-joking note, if I owned a set like this it'd be treated like a museum piece and I'd find some hermetically sealed sterile glass case to put them in. These are about as close as this hobby gets to rocket-firing Boba Fett or the first comic featuring Superman.

HighPrime wrote:

ScottyP wrote:If it was me, I'd open them, but that's because I like to watch the world burn >:oP

On a non-joking note, if I owned a set like this it'd be treated like a museum piece and I'd find some hermetically sealed sterile glass case to put them in. These are about as close as this hobby gets to rocket-firing Boba Fett or the first comic featuring Superman.

Believe me, the temptation is there. If this had happened a few years ago, this decision would have been fairly one sided - OPEN! Different person, different time, different place now.