Ok so, there's about to be a lot (more) people here that hate me.
No fleabites. Edges are still sharp.
Look at them again. All of them. Closely.
If what you say about the condition is photographically true, put them up for $2800 and buyer pays shipping. Firm.
A lot of the old hats around here probably think I'm leading you astray, that I'm a price gouger...(Go ahead, flood my DM's with hate mail....I get it every day) ...but stay with me.
Start squinting. I'm about to bring the seering light of truth.
You have good colors and progressing spots with a solid, attractive inlay.
There's already a *huge* drought on full
CPC sets in the Classifieds, and that drought is about to get a *hell* of a lot worse.
Most of the old hats can't see past their noses. I'm looking ahead and behind.
This forum has thousands of visitors a day already combing those Classifieds for real clay-full sets. There aren't that many available right now. And the amount of new, real clay is about to drop to damn-near-zero for the better part of ~a year.~
This doesn't happen very often. Once a decade. And we don't know what the prices will be when
CPC starts taking orders again. It will likely be 2026 before that happens, and at a bare minimum there'll be the basic inflation increase. So you can't even really use the current price chart, because
CPC isn't taking orders anymore.
I hate to remind you folks, but April 27th has come and gone. And those prices, they're effectively gone too.
And after they move and re-open, those prices are going up. BET ON THAT. The prices must go up about 10% due to rising costs, and it may be more than that if the new owner decides to increase the margin a little more.
It's pretty much a hand-made in America one-of-a-kind product, so they could certainly boost that price a little higher. But let's just say 10%.
That means that today, your set baseline is actually $3740 and like
@ChipMonster said, that's before art fees and shipping and waiting a year to get the damn set.
And while hopes are high, what will be the initial quality on the new batch of
CPC's?
Memories are short around here, but I recall a certain change of ownership in the past for this same company that went CATASTROPHICALLY BAD, quality-of-product wise.
You have to take this stuff into account.
Today, you already have a huge number of buyers that simply can't get what they want because of the moderate drought #right now.#
In a couple months, there'll be so many buyers, and so few
CPC sets, you won't even be able to see the sky.
$2800, buyer pays shipping.
