11-09-2004, 09:59 PM
Nice topic William, here are my two cents.
I personally buy a mask only if I really like it, that means it has to really impress me the first time I see it and if it does, I will buy it with the intention to keep it for as long as the latex holds. Sure there are nice pieces coming out on a monthly basis, but even though they are nice, they just don\'t appeal to me as a collectors piece. What I really don\'t like and turns me off right away from buying a mask is when one person makes a mask that hasn\'t been done before and it looks amazing, about a month later another two or three guys make the "same" piece again instead of coming up with a different mask. Sure it will not look the same most of the time (depending if it was the artists own take on the piece), but in my opinion 80% of the time it floods the market and takes the value away from the previously released piece.
That brings me to my next point. Personally I think masks or busts should definitely increase in price if they are "out of print" and of course high quality pieces. To me I don\'t see any sense in spending almost twice the price of a mask buying it from a collector and having it at your doorstep in two weeks when you can buy the same piece from the artist brand spanking new for a fraction of the price. Why make another persons collection bigger by dishing out hundreds of dollars when you could have spend the same money buying two pieces for your own collection? That I don\'t understand. I would rather wait the extra time knowing that I spend my money wisely than knowing that I just spend 200 bucks on a mask that I could have had for 80. But then again, I am married and have to work with a budget for my collecting habits and just can\'t dish out the money for each and every mask that comes out.
I personally buy a mask only if I really like it, that means it has to really impress me the first time I see it and if it does, I will buy it with the intention to keep it for as long as the latex holds. Sure there are nice pieces coming out on a monthly basis, but even though they are nice, they just don\'t appeal to me as a collectors piece. What I really don\'t like and turns me off right away from buying a mask is when one person makes a mask that hasn\'t been done before and it looks amazing, about a month later another two or three guys make the "same" piece again instead of coming up with a different mask. Sure it will not look the same most of the time (depending if it was the artists own take on the piece), but in my opinion 80% of the time it floods the market and takes the value away from the previously released piece.
That brings me to my next point. Personally I think masks or busts should definitely increase in price if they are "out of print" and of course high quality pieces. To me I don\'t see any sense in spending almost twice the price of a mask buying it from a collector and having it at your doorstep in two weeks when you can buy the same piece from the artist brand spanking new for a fraction of the price. Why make another persons collection bigger by dishing out hundreds of dollars when you could have spend the same money buying two pieces for your own collection? That I don\'t understand. I would rather wait the extra time knowing that I spend my money wisely than knowing that I just spend 200 bucks on a mask that I could have had for 80. But then again, I am married and have to work with a budget for my collecting habits and just can\'t dish out the money for each and every mask that comes out.