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Thanks for all nice comments guys. I am still floored about this myself.
Since there have been some questions, let me give you the auction lowdown.
First off, I was just doing a random Green Arrow search on eBay, which I do every once in a while (not very often really) just to see what turns up. When I came upon this figure, from the gallery picture I just assumed it was a repro card. When I saw that it was original, I thought cool, but of course assumed it would go for big bucks. I put it on my watch list just to see where it would end up. As the days passed I noticed that nobody was bidding on it, which I found pretty odd. That is when I noticed the category it was in (I had already noticed there was no Mego in the title or description). At that point I thought, hmmm, maybe I can get a good deal on it, but still EXTREMELY doubtful.
Come the day of the auction end, the figure had still not been viewed very many times, and had only two bidders. The min. bid was $12, and it had been bid up to a whopping $12.50. I decided to wait for the last seconds of the auction to enter my bid. About 10 seconds or so to go, I entered my bid of $350. I thought FOR SURE that when the page refreshed my bid would have been automatically outbid. When it ended with me the winner, I was in awe...and confused lol. I was honestly shaking. The fact that two people bid such low bids is probably the weirdest thing to me. You would think at the very least one of them would have placed a much higher bid...at least a couple hundred or so on a piece like this...
I kept extremely quiet about this, for fear that some Mego collector with fat pockets would E-Mail the seller offering him some crazy price resulting in the seller screwing me and taking an offer. Lets face it, even the most honest seller would be tempted to take a few hundred to a few thousand dollars in exchange for a negative feedback. lol
I told my brother about it, and he was getting all excited because he knew how important the piece was to me, but I told him I wasn't throwing any parties until the figure was in my hands. Just sounded too good to be true, and I had thoughts of the seller never sending the package, or not packing it well, or using someone else's photo in the auction, etc. When the package arrived and I opened the box, there was instant horror. A MIB Mattel Mork figure that I bought from the same seller (for $5) was smashed into the box which was too small for his package, resulting in a bent up box flap. My instant thought was a wasted Green Arrow, bubble separating from card, etc, lol. I pulled out the GA, which was barely wrapped in bubble wrap, and to my surprise, he was fine.
Oh, I should mention, the seller wouldn't combine shipping on the two figures, so he ripped me off charging me $17.00 for a package that cost him about $8.00 to ship. I would have been absolutely furious about the shipping and packing job normally, but hard to care about $8 and a bent up Mork when you have a carded Green Arrow in your hand. lol
So yeah, I can't believe I won it, I probably won't ever believe it. Lets face it, had I won it for my $350 bid it would have been a HELL of a deal. $13.00 is pure insanity.
Since there have been some questions, let me give you the auction lowdown.
First off, I was just doing a random Green Arrow search on eBay, which I do every once in a while (not very often really) just to see what turns up. When I came upon this figure, from the gallery picture I just assumed it was a repro card. When I saw that it was original, I thought cool, but of course assumed it would go for big bucks. I put it on my watch list just to see where it would end up. As the days passed I noticed that nobody was bidding on it, which I found pretty odd. That is when I noticed the category it was in (I had already noticed there was no Mego in the title or description). At that point I thought, hmmm, maybe I can get a good deal on it, but still EXTREMELY doubtful.
Come the day of the auction end, the figure had still not been viewed very many times, and had only two bidders. The min. bid was $12, and it had been bid up to a whopping $12.50. I decided to wait for the last seconds of the auction to enter my bid. About 10 seconds or so to go, I entered my bid of $350. I thought FOR SURE that when the page refreshed my bid would have been automatically outbid. When it ended with me the winner, I was in awe...and confused lol. I was honestly shaking. The fact that two people bid such low bids is probably the weirdest thing to me. You would think at the very least one of them would have placed a much higher bid...at least a couple hundred or so on a piece like this...
I kept extremely quiet about this, for fear that some Mego collector with fat pockets would E-Mail the seller offering him some crazy price resulting in the seller screwing me and taking an offer. Lets face it, even the most honest seller would be tempted to take a few hundred to a few thousand dollars in exchange for a negative feedback. lol
I told my brother about it, and he was getting all excited because he knew how important the piece was to me, but I told him I wasn't throwing any parties until the figure was in my hands. Just sounded too good to be true, and I had thoughts of the seller never sending the package, or not packing it well, or using someone else's photo in the auction, etc. When the package arrived and I opened the box, there was instant horror. A MIB Mattel Mork figure that I bought from the same seller (for $5) was smashed into the box which was too small for his package, resulting in a bent up box flap. My instant thought was a wasted Green Arrow, bubble separating from card, etc, lol. I pulled out the GA, which was barely wrapped in bubble wrap, and to my surprise, he was fine.
Oh, I should mention, the seller wouldn't combine shipping on the two figures, so he ripped me off charging me $17.00 for a package that cost him about $8.00 to ship. I would have been absolutely furious about the shipping and packing job normally, but hard to care about $8 and a bent up Mork when you have a carded Green Arrow in your hand. lol
So yeah, I can't believe I won it, I probably won't ever believe it. Lets face it, had I won it for my $350 bid it would have been a HELL of a deal. $13.00 is pure insanity.
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