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View Poll Results: To Toss or Not to Toss Shipping Boxes? That is the Question.
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Keep the boxes. Store at home, Grandma's, GFs, or office. A great side table!
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Keep SOME of the boxes. Just keep what I can. Out with the rest.
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10.38% |
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Toss all of the boxes! I don't live in a warehouse!!
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Sell the boxes. Is this really an option?
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0.94% |
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Keeper the outer box and toss the inside. This is art after all.
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0.94% |
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Pay for Storage. I will sell these one day....
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03-01-2021, 04:48 PM
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Kiss my shiny metal arse!
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Midgard. Better than Assgard
Posts: 3,375
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To Keep Or Not To Keep The Shipping Box?
Shipping boxes are stacking up and I feel that I am at the crossroads. Toss or no toss. So what do the rest of you do? 
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03-01-2021, 04:54 PM
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Metal Men
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Kentucky
Posts: 10,350
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Keep them if you have any intention of selling or if the possibility of moving exists. Once you toss the value plummets and the risk of damage in a move skyrockets. If you are fine hanging on to your pieces forever and don't mind damage in a move.
I'm lucky I have a storage shed behind my house to store them in so I am least a few years away from your crossroad.
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03-01-2021, 04:57 PM
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This is Dr. DGK, I'm listening...
SF ReviewerModerator
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Stoke, England
Posts: 9,401
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Keep them all. You never know what lifes going to throw at you and shipping any statue is a nightmare without the box....even more so now with such complicated pieces.
Also you can knock a good 1/3 of the resale value off for no box in my experience.
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03-01-2021, 04:57 PM
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Jedi Order
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 26,270
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I pay for storage. Personally, I think anyone who throws the boxes away is an idiot. Regardless of one's intentions of selling, there could always come a day when you're forced to sell or move and the box is imperative that the piece makes that trip safey.
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03-01-2021, 05:01 PM
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Hellboy
Join Date: May 2020
Posts: 824
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Quote:
Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP
I pay for storage. Personally, I think anyone who throws the boxes away is an idiot. Regardless of one's intentions of selling, there could always come a day when you're forced to sell or move and the boxe is imperative that the piece makes that trip safey.  |
That's the only reason I got...
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03-01-2021, 05:07 PM
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Martian Manhunter
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Dela-where??
Posts: 17,940
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It's really not the boxes that pose the problem, is the foam. So, if you can devise a plan on how to safely foam up pieces upon a move or sell, you can break down the boxes - both art and shipper - and store them flat.
If you're selling them, hopefully you'd have an understanding buyer who didn't get the foam insert designed specifically for the piece.
That being said, my collection is small enough that the boxes fit in our attic or on the overhead rack storage we have in the garage and basement (can't be getting that water damage!)
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03-01-2021, 05:08 PM
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Batman
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Michigan
Posts: 20,099
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keeping boxes is just a necessity of the hobby, you want to collect high end statues you gotta keep the boxes
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03-01-2021, 05:12 PM
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Black Panther
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: 7he N3rd R00/v\
Posts: 7,238
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All of mine are in storage. You never know when you will need them. I have sold off pieces I swore I would keep forever when a new better version came out or I simply switched my collection focus.
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03-01-2021, 05:17 PM
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Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
Join Date: May 2018
Posts: 2,174
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Not even a question for me really. You have to keep them. The day will inevitably come, for whatever reason, that they're going to be sold. If you don't have the boxes you might as well just give them away because the price is going to absolutely plummet. Very, very few people are going to trust the statue getting to them safely if it isn't in the original box.
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03-01-2021, 05:18 PM
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Inhumans
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: New York
Posts: 9,194
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Practice box Tetris
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