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Well call me crazy, but I just spent $600 dollars on Gold and Silver Spider-Man still in the package. I kept telling myself I wouldn't go over $300, but then that turned into $400 and then $500 and finally $600. I felt like I had two because they were the last two I needed to complete my marvel collection. Not counting just released and small variants like a dark blue gun instead of black which I don't care about.

Has anyone else spent a crazy amount of money like this all at once on minimates?

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i'd been following that auction, and a little earlier tonight was having a good laugh with my family that someone had spend $600 on 2" of plastic.

jokes aside, congratulations on winning, and i hope you're v.happy with your purchase... what price can you put on happiness?

...other than, $600

EDIT: to answer your question, i first got into minimates in 2007, a few days after i'd received my student loan. i managed to spend the equivilent of approx. $300 in 3-4days, playing catch up on ebay. in my defence, the dollar was v.v.weak at the time

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wow that auction started with a buy it now of a whopping $60.00 with free shipping, so I'm told.

I guess somebody thought they could pull a fast one there..

does anyone know what the openning bid was? just curious

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wow that auction started with a buy it now of a whopping $60.00 with free shipping, so I'm told.

Seriously? Whoever first bid is kicking themselves now, I bet :lol:

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I know when there was just one bid on it it was $60.

And, no, I've never spent that much on 2 toys at once. Not even close. Frankly, I like my wife and I'd sure like to keep her around.

Same here. I asked my wife what she'd say if I paid $600.00 for minimates and she said "it wouldn't matter what I said because you would not be here to hear it".

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$600 seems like a crazy amount of money, until you start to add up how much you've spent on minimates in total. And I say "start" because I started to feel sick and never finished that task... I know for me, if I throw in all the other toys I've bought since I first picked up a Kermit 6 or 7 years ago, $600 really is just a drop in the comically large bucket.

Even though this post sounds negative, my point is I don't think it's too much, I believe you can buy (a little bit of) happiness, and you should enjoy your Spideys! Congrats on the win!

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I believe that the starting bid was $60 (not a BIN) & an advanced search on the listing perhaps confirms it. I am still confused at the level of scepticism regarding their authenticity .....these are Gold & Silver Spider-Man,numbered in sealed bags .....is there yet a new level of authenticity required now?

Enjoy them rodimus because they are great little figures.

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All sarcasm aside, it's good to see there are people out there who can still drop $600 on a collecting hobby "in this economy". Unfortunately... well I could win a $350,000,000.00 loto tomorrow, and I think my wife would take that much for two 2" plastic men well. But it's good to know there are those who can.

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Wow. . . . that makes me jealous for two reasons 1. you will have a gold and silver spidey and 2. you have 600$ to drop like that! I would have done it too my friend if I had that kind of moolah but since I don't I will just congratulate you on completing your collection. Those and the holiday spidey are the holdouts in my collection so I have just resigned myself to being a not so complete completist.

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wow that auction started with a buy it now of a whopping $60.00 with free shipping, so I'm told.

Seriously? Whoever first bid is kicking themselves now, I bet :lol:

'Twas me who was the first bidder. There was no buy it now, trust me, or they'd be on their way to my house right now :D.

I wonder why he didn't do separate auctions for these. I think he may have gotten more money.....plus, I only need one of them ;), so my max bid wasn't very large to begin with. Just figured I'd get the ball rolling

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l..................that you got a minimate that very little people have. Congrats.

I'm 6' 2"!

That's a terrible joke :D

Congrats Rodimus, I am so jealous. I hope you enjoy them, I was planning on bidding and then if I won just hiding them from my girlfriend so she'd have no idea....she already thinks I'm nuts!

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I will of course post pics as soon as I get them, as far as opening them I am conflicted. I would like to display them next to all my other spideys, and I have never been a MIB collector but since these are so rare I might just have to leave them in the package. Anyway I should have them by Friday so expect pics then.

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Congrats rodimus on winning those mates! $600 nah, not too bad, you can say it's a good amount on just two minimates but they're not just ordinary minimates.

For me personally I have bought up to at least $1200 in one weekend on minimates. From time to time the way DST is releasing mates it's now like $400 here, $250 there. My wallet feels it now every time, ouchie.

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l..................that you got a minimate that very little people have. Congrats.

I'm 6' 2"!

I thought people shrink as they get older?!? How tall were you before?

I was in fact 6'3" up until 1988 when I crashed my car & spent 3 months in traction in hospital. I had a compound fracture of my left leg & kneecap which resulted in me losing an inch in height . Strangely enough by the time I was forty I had regained the missing inch but recent measurings have indicated that it has mysteriously gone missing.... yet again. My left leg is one & a half inches shorter than my right leg if that is relevant......is any of that relevant ?:biggrin:

Is that clear!

I bet ol' Rodimus doesn't open them ;) Part of me can't blame him & part of me wants to laugh out loud at the irony of toy-collecting :lol:

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