Are the oldschool Rookies rare?

colubrid

colubrid

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I have a slightly used one in ATS-55 . What is the value on this spydie?
 
Yes it was carried so there are small scratches but the blade was never sharpened so it was not a "user". No box.
 
Jeez nobody knows the value of this?

I saw one a week ago sell for $165. on the classified section here. I was surprised they appreciated that much. So I was wondering what a slightly used one was worth and WHY these are rare.
 
They are rare because:
1) They didn't sell well enough to continue in the line-up for long. This leads me to believe there weren't a lot of them made.
2) They have been discontinued for several years. Every time someone uses a NIB specimen, there is one less NIB specimen out there.

The value is: Whatever someone will give you for it. I got my NIB SS PE Rookie for $73.50 at a local pawn shop last year. The same pawnshop I bought a NIB D'Holder Toad from for $40 a few months before that. Could I get my money back if I put them up on eBay? Probably. Am I going to? Probably not. Would I have given more for either of them? Again, probably not. That doesn't mean no one else would, though.
 
The stainless steel Rookie, know as the "M Police" in Japan, is still available there from sources like Hamonoichiba, so I would not classify it as rare by any stretch of the imagination. It's just a model that never caught on in the US market. At the current exchange rate, I could get a brand new one for around $84 plus shipping from Japan. That, to me, establishes the "max value" for one in NIB condition. Any signs of use would reduce that figure, or make a collector lose interest completely.

Paul
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I recently purchased a very slightly used one about a month ago for $100/shipped from a person through Ebay. Truthfully, I might have been able to get it cheaper, as it had no bids with a starting bid of $60. I contacted the seller and asked if I could bid as they didn't state they would ship to Canada. She answered "yes", but Ebay wouldn't accept my bid as she didn't change her settings to accept a non-US bid. As result, I contacted her after the sale closed offering her what I thought was a reasonable offer and she accepted.
 
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