Any thoughts on buying AFA graded figures
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 6:43 am
While hunting around for vintage figures I've always tended to steer clear of any AFA graded examples for a few reasons....
-The whole Toy Toni drama, if he got so many pieces through AFA surely others must have.
- They weren't authenticating loose weapons.
- Usually the price is way in above similar ungraded figures.
- The standard of 'trained' authenticators and the short amount of time they must spend on each figure.
To me it just seemed like a pointless cash grab by a collector who saw a way to fill a hole in the community that didn't really need fixing.....only my opinion....but I must say the cases look amazing and I'd happily pay for a figure to display with that kind if protection, its just the whole AFA grading system doesn't excite me at all.
-The whole Toy Toni drama, if he got so many pieces through AFA surely others must have.
- They weren't authenticating loose weapons.
- Usually the price is way in above similar ungraded figures.
- The standard of 'trained' authenticators and the short amount of time they must spend on each figure.
To me it just seemed like a pointless cash grab by a collector who saw a way to fill a hole in the community that didn't really need fixing.....only my opinion....but I must say the cases look amazing and I'd happily pay for a figure to display with that kind if protection, its just the whole AFA grading system doesn't excite me at all.