Expert: Marvinator - 10/17/2004

Question
i have this pumpkin head pez and i was wondering how much it was worth.

Answer
THanks for asking, but I am not an appraiser of toys and such.  There are appraisers out on the internet that will be glad to asses the value of your item.  You can find them by putting "toy appraiser" in a search engine.

Most people will find that they have an item they think is valuabe or has value and they want to put it on ebay to make the cash.  They don't realize that ebay is a BUYER's market. This means that most items sell BELOW their percieved value.  

What this means to you and your pumpkin pez, is that although it may be worth (as example) $10, you might only get about $5-6 on Ebay.

In fact, this is the one most ill-percieved part of Ebay.  When Ebay first started, items were selling far above their percieved value.  Ebay became THE place to both sell and find that rare collectible.  As more and more people flocked to ebay, sellers made more and more money.

Then, the inevitable happened.  More buyers became sellers. Many will say that because of this, Ebay killed the collectibles market, making it easy for anyone with a collectible to market it and in some regard this is true.   These new sellers wanted to sell their item so badly that they were willing to take less for it.  In addition, more and more "rare" items were becoming available not only nationwide (US) but WORLD wide.  What was once a rare item, is now not so rare - and not so valuable.  Coupled together, this was the deadly combination that fortold the devauling of the Collectible market.  

In the end, anyone could tell you that an item is valuable, or a value it has.  BUT unless you can get someone to PAY you that value, there really is no value in anything.  So, finally, it has become that the value of an item is only as high as someone is willing to spend on it.

I hope this helps.