What items are you willing to spending more than the asking price?

[cypher1]

In a time where it's so easy to find deals or cheaper prices online for an item, what items (wants, not needs) are you willing to splurge on, or pay more than the asking price?

So far I can only think of a couple of items: Earlier last year I paid $130 on Ebay for a new Casio G-Shock GA-2100-1, which I absolutely love. Suggested retail was 99, but they were sold out, and prices going for 165-200 online. The other was a red dot sight for my rifle, which the current mark up is 10-25% depending on the item and if it's still in stock.

[Scallywag]

A house that meets all my "must have criteria"

A high quality tutoring service in Math & Statistics for my daughter.

Organic food that really is organic & sourced locally.

[corn18]

A Lego Death Star kit.

[amarowsky]

i Recently bought my first gun. (Colt Python 2020). The MSRP is like $1600 or $1700, but they are sold out everywhere. I wound up finding one locally for $2,000. And now that I search more closly, you can't really find that gun anywhere for under $2k.

I figured If i buy a gun, make it fun to shoot, aesthetically beautiful, a sound store of value, and a great heirloom piece I can hand down to my kiddo's one day. (I have no plans to conceal carry. I would just take this as animal defense when scouting deep in the woods in the off season, & so I have a wepon I can shoot at the range socially with my wife, friends, and father in law).

Plus i know i could sell it for the same or more than I paid for it now. And some of these guns are as high as $7,000 (this has become a collector gun). Reminded me of when I sold a 1967 fender jazzmaster when I was 18/19. I bought it for like $600 used at a store, and wound up selling it like 6 months later for like $1500. Had I still had that beautiful instrument....it's current value is closer to $4000 +/-$500 (about 14 years later).

Back then @ my age, the $550 I spent on that guitar & the proceeds from the sale was a lot harder to come by then that kinda money is for me now. And @ the time I needed money to pay for college.

Now that I can afford some collectible hobby stuff, I can go long on these investments. This Python, I have a feeling (granted, I know very Little about guns. I only started hunting last year for my 1st time) that this may hold & gain value in a similar fashion.

[disneysteve]

Popular whiskeys routinely sell for over MSRP. The smaller the supply, the higher the prices. I’m willing to pay moderately above retail for a couple I really like but even then I often can’t get any because too many others are willing to pay a lot more.

[cypher1]

I definitely overlooked house, quality food and liquor. As well as having friends who collect and invest in certain whiskeys, etc.

[cypher1]

i Recently bought my first gun. (Colt Python 2020). The MSRP is like $1600 or $1700, but they are sold out everywhere. I wound up finding one locally for $2,000. And now that I search more closly, you can't really find that gun anywhere for under $2k.

I figured If i buy a gun, make it fun to shoot, aesthetically beautiful, a sound store of value, and a great heirloom piece I can hand down to my kiddo's one day. (I have no plans to conceal carry. I would just take this as animal defense when scouting deep in the woods in the off season, & so I have a wepon I can shoot at the range socially with my wife, friends, and father in law).

Plus i know i could sell it for the same or more than I paid for it now. And some of these guns are as high as $7,000 (this has become a collector gun).

What a beautiful gun and collector's item. I'm not a revolver fan (Glock fan boy), but I'd love to shoot something like that. The only one I fired was my BIL's Ruger SP 101. First time with it at the range, and everyone stopped to see what I was firing out of a snub-nose (like in the first Robocop movie).

[Singuy]

OoO, I usually get others to pay for more asking price, not the one paying above asking price myself. I believe I bought a few figures 50-75 dollars above msrp from Hot Toys, but usually it's not the case. Usually I'm the one selling them for double msrp as I buy multiples.

[Singuy]

A Lego Death Star kit.

I know the cost of that kit is now ridiculous, but if you want the knock off just for the experience, it's widely available for 1/10th the price.

[corn18]

I know the cost of that kit is now ridiculous, but if you want the knock off just for the experience, it's widely available for 1/10th the price.

Want the real thing. They sell for $625 on Ebay. New they were $499 from Lego. Now the Millennium Falcon kit: that is expensive ($1100)

[cypher1]

OoO, I usually get others to pay for more asking price, not the one paying above asking price myself. I believe I bought a few figures 50-75 dollars above msrp from Hot Toys, but usually it's not the case. Usually I'm the one selling them for double msrp as I buy multiples.

Hot Toys is a pretty sweet line, but outside my budget. I collect Takara Tomy MP Transformers and various 3rd party. But even paying msrp on some is rare as I usually wait for prices to drop based on the market, or even a KO if the review is good.

[Singuy]

Want the real thing. They sell for $625 on Ebay. New they were $499 from Lego. Now the Millennium Falcon kit: that is expensive ($1100)

Oh I thought you wanted the half built death star. That piece is reaching 3k on Ebay last I checked.

[bjl584]

Maybe real estate if I was purchasing as an investment

[ua_guy]

For the right house, yes. Cars, no. Guns, no.

Paid a $50 second-sticker markup on a $1200 bicycle this year. Covid bike shortage. I was supporting a local bike shop. Sure, whatever.

[disneysteve]

Back when we were actively collecting Disney memorabilia, we spent over retail on numerous items. But that's how collectibles tend to work. Someone buys items and then resells them. I did plenty of that myself, having run a collectibles business for 30 years. It's just the nature of the beast.