“Once you get two people who are desperate for an item, then where do you stop?” she said. The company makes a 20 percent commission on sales. “We’ve been blown away by some of the prices,” said Vicky Weall, the managing director of Vectis, which is stacked to the rafters with collectible toys of all sorts, including dolls, stuffed animals, toy trains and the increasingly valuable “Star Wars” items. One of the oddest items at Vectis is an inch-long (2.5-cm) piece of plastic that is a prototype for a Boba Fett rocket, never produced, and estimated at 800-1,200 pounds. People even look at some of these cardbacks that we sell as works of art.”
“It’s actually a way of life and a cultural thing.
“It isn’t anything that’s just a toy,” she said. The most valuable toys are those that are sealed in their original packages from decades ago, having never been used, Kathy Taylor, Vectis’s “Star Wars” expert, said, adding: “It’s not a normal retail situation we’re in here.”
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Various collectors’ hoards of “Star Wars” memorabilia, from robots, to spaceships, “Death Star” pencil sharpeners and on to packaged figurines, are piled up in Vectis, which will hold another in a series of online auctions of about 700 pieces on Dec 8. “I’d like to say I had some kind of vision but I didn’t, I collected for myself,” Stevens told Reuters, adding that some items he had collected had been about to be thrown away. With the proceeds of that, and mainly other toys anyone could have purchased for pocket money at the time, Stevens and his wife bought a house – for cash.
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