Old toys that sell for alot on Ebay

pianeet

i sold an original boxed rubiks cube for £39 couple of years ago,also sold loads of the original game and watch games for mega money,i had one called toss up that fetched over £100 and had been lying in a draw for about 20 years.

ormus

hornby trains/sets is a really good market on ebay.
my SIL is a collector. but he knows his stuff. as usual sets must be boxed and complete to make the real money.
the difference can be amazing. one set had a cardboard tunnel in it. if the tunnel is still there, it can add a lot of money to the price.

pantographs is another area where there is serious money. they are often missing/broken from locomotives, so a market has developed in just this one piece.
ive seen one sell for 45 quid!

carolinosourus

Totally off topic so really sorry but I just bought a She-Ra 'Princess of Power' t-shirt and I love it!

Also my mum kept making us give away all our old toys... And I think my dad used to have a lot of those toy cars that are selling quite well, can't remember what they're called (just remembered- Corgi!). However, boyf does have a lot of '80s games which could be worth a bit! *goes off to have a look*

lynnexxxo

Who are these people who pay absurd amounts for old toys? What do they do with them? Are they for their children or just collectables, or do people buy them thinking they are going to be worth more later??

Never really got the whole collecting thing at all ??

soolin

I dabble in sci fi toys and most, if not all, of my sales are to men who want a particular toy or model to add to their collection. They usually only want mint and boxed and it does strike me as a little bit sad that some of these lovely items will never be played with by a child but just put in a cupboard for ever.

pulliptears

lynnexxxo wrote: »

Who are these people who pay absurd amounts for old toys? What do they do with them? Are they for their children or just collectables, or do people buy them thinking they are going to be worth more later??

Never really got the whole collecting thing at all ??

Depends I guess. My daughter is a star wars nut. She buys the toys but, she plays with them. She bought an original At-At once, and much to the shock of the seller played with it. lol

I buy the dolls in my avatar, some can cost me £130 or so, but I get great enjoyment out of them and added to that they are all limited releases of 1000 so the value climbs. They will be passed down to DD eventually.

lynnexxxo

At the risk of sounding thick, whats an avatar?

pulliptears

lynnexxxo wrote: »

At the risk of sounding thick, whats an avatar?

Its the little picture below posters usernames. If you cant see them its because you dont have the setting enabled in your user CP

morg_monster

Blue peter badges - whoever posted this earlier is right, they only go for a few quid now as you have to have photo ID to get the discounts due to people selling them on Ebay. I have a green, blue and silver badge but managed to resist the urge to sell them when they were getting £30-40 each, I was such a BP geek when i was little, it would break my heart to sell them! Also have almost all of the BP annuals, and Brownie annuals, but they aren't worth much either.

Some of the ladybird books are valuable - but most aren't. There are lists online I think of the good ones, the only one I can remember is a "how it works - the computer" made especially for the MOD in the 70s, and there are no known copies remaining in existence!

valk_scot

Britains Swoppit Knights from the 70's. I bought my son a box of plastic knights in a jumble sale and was cruising around ebay a few days later when I got the urge to look them up. Two minutes later I was through in his room scraping the figures up off the floor. It was a very mixed box of knights but in amongst them were five of the above. These things are just plastic figures on foot or horseback but they come apart into bits you can swop(it) round and have miniscule plumes, helmets and shields and such, plus tin swords, daggers and scabbards. I ended up with three complete mounted figures (probably not with all the right bits, but I tried), a couple of foot soldiers and a little heap of loose bits. Sold in six lots, I got over £150 for them

The bases are marked if in doubt. It has to say "Swoppit". There are lots of other Britains figures as well and they fetch reasonable prices, but the Swoppits are the rare ones because of the tiny bits.