What's worth more, assembled or flat unassembled homebrew boxes?

[+Lathe26]

Question of the day: what's worth more for homebrew games, assembled boxes or flat unassembled boxes?

[mr_intv]

No brainer for me. All mine are assembled.

[+Lathe26]

It is true that an assembled box is more useful. However, a flat, unglued, unassembled box is usually a lot more rare (and getting more rare as people glue them together).

[+JasonlikesINTV]

Unassembled = more valuable because the big spenders are collectors who want mint, which is typically unassembled. Plus, an unassembled box can either stay flat or be built. A built box can not be flattened back to mint.

 

Separate topic, I like displaying my games, so I'd be inclined to buy two sets and build only one set.

Edited September 25, 2014 by JasonlikesINTV

[+SoulBuster]

I think I fall on the other end. I will not buy flat boxes, unless that is the only way they come. If they come flat, I will build them. They take up less room built and IMO easier to keep mint.

[+JasonlikesINTV]

I think I fall on the other end. I will not buy flat boxes, unless that is the only way they come. If they come flat, I will build them. They take up less room built and IMO easier to keep mint.

Flat boxes are kind of a bitch to store

[Crazy Climber]

To me personally an assembled box is worth more because then I don't have to assemble it

[+JasonlikesINTV]

I have a bunch that I want to display (GF, GFTG, SMB), but I'm afraid to assemble them. Me no handy much

[+BBWW]

I have a bunch that I want to display (GF, GFTG, SMB), but I'm afraid to assemble them. Me no handy much

Which explains why you think they are more valuable. :-)

[mojotv67]

The Repro boxes that Oliver makes come with the glue strips so it makes more sense to assemble them. I only have one of the other repro boxes (Go for the Gold) that don't have the glue so it makes it harder to put together... it is still unassembled.

[Ignorama]

Since we are talking about homebrew boxes I think it doesnt make much sense to talk about rarity of assembled/unassembled. If you have a unassembled box from the 80s its pretty nice, but if the game was produced 2014 its not so awesome, especially since the homebrew scene is very little and I think its much easier to get an unassembled box if you really want to. I refuse to call them more valuable just because they are not assempled and I also refuse to call this condition mint. They are not mint, they are just unfinished

[+JasonlikesINTV]

Since we are talking about homebrew boxes I think it doesnt make much sense to talk about rarity of assembled/unassembled. If you have a unassembled box from the 80s its pretty nice, but if the game was produced 2014 its not so awesome, especially since the homebrew scene is very little and I think its much easier to get an unassembled box if you really want to. I refuse to call them more valuable just because they are not assempled and I also refuse to call this condition mint. They are not mint, they are just unfinished

In the greater scheme of things, I agree. Take Robot Rubble, for instance. If you started two auctions simultaneously with $0.99 starting bid where one had an assembled box and one had an unassembled box I doubt you would see much of a difference in selling price. Any difference in price would likely be because either 1). Shipping may be higher for the wider flattened box, or 2). The second auction might go higher as the first auction sets the base price leaving everyone else to raise their max bid for the second auction.

[+intvsteve]

In the greater scheme of things, I agree. Take Robot Rubble, for instance. If you started two auctions simultaneously with $0.99 starting bid where one had an assembled box and one had an unassembled box I doubt you would see much of a difference in selling price. Any difference in price would likely be because either 1). Shipping may be higher for the wider flattened box, or 2). The second auction might go higher as the first auction sets the base price leaving everyone else to raise their max bid for the second auction.

Multiple auctions is an interesting dynamic. Another factor is simply the pool of interested bidders, If bidder #3 has a self-imposed max bid significantly lower than #1 and #2, you'll see that second one end substantially lower. Depends on how the pool of #3 and lower bidders respond - dejection, determination, or gotta-have-it-now!