Puzzle Support Group

[allardwza]

Graham, you need help buddy - you're starting to doubt!

[AFKAN]

Hello my name is Graham and I'm a puzzle-a-holic

[TheJuggler]

Trust me, it only gets worse when you realise you can make them yourself! You end up with more, then some crazy puzzle-a-holics ask you to make them copies too!

[a-maze-ing]

hmm an interesting concept...

Is it actually possible to have "enough" puzzles???

Anyone saying yes to that question should be banned from this group.

My new puzzle score this month is only a good old spin-out puzzle (eBay, 2pounds).
I have a fair amount of unsolved puzzles on the shelves though, for which I blame the Geronimo puzzle that is currently holding me up.

[Paradox]

Here's an interesting question;

Say you had to work out the total value of your puzzle collection, how would you do it?

Finding the value of a puzzle that is still on sale is easy, but many of us have puzzles which are limited in number and are no longer being produced. Maybe some of us have puzzles that haven't even been sold on the open market for many years.

So what method would you use to try and calculate the value of your collection as accurately as possible?

[maztec]

I would take all the wood and put it in one pile and divide it by type of wood. I would make a second pile of all of the metal again divided by type. Then a third pile of everything else, divided by type (plastic/etc). I would then value the wood as scrap by weight and type for artisan plywood. The metal can be melt down in to other things and is valued by weight. The third pile depends on what it is made of, but would mostly sell as unique tidbits for a few cents each.

[Paradox]

Erm.....anyone else?

[mattangel]

Glad to know that I can melt down a black chunk of anodized aluminum and an associated chunk of nickel-plated brass, and get a buck from my local scrap metal yard for my efforts.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find a puzzle in your collection that hadn't been auctioned off or sold in recent memory. You could always take the high bid and assume that it is worth that plus or minus a few points.

[allardwza]

...I suspect you end with a few piles
1- currently available commercially - current cost
2- available on auctions reasonably consistently - recent average auction prices
3- not available or unique items - your very best guess at a replacement price, bearing in mind no insurer will accept 'irreplaceable' as a valuation

...that's about all I can offer, but I'm guessing you already had all of that!

allard

[maztec]

I don't see much difference between Allard's valuations and mine. Same idea.