July 30th, 2014
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Tom Baker Tops Ebay Doctor Who Best Sellers List
Tom Baker Tops Ebay Best Sellers List
You can search www.ebay.co.uk for all newly listed Doctor Who items.
From the ebay press office…
With less than a month until the return of the iconic Doctor, a Doctor Who’s Who ranking has been compiled by eBay, that show fans clinging to the past rather than looking to the future.
Analysis of Doctor Who related sales on eBay, the online marketplace, reveal merchandise of Tom Baker’s incarnation (1974 – 1981) outsell the other time lords by 203% on average, firmly cementing him as the nation’s favourite Doctor.
Tom Baker tops the lists of merchandise listings and sales, with David Tennant and Matt Smith falling in line behind, while Peter Capaldi, the Doctor’s much celebrated replacement, ranks 10th.
For collectors, Sylvester McCoy – the seventh Doctor – is the most lucrative, yielding the greatest individual return. Items related to his brief stint sell with the highest value, with prices for his figurine peaking at £565.
Top 10 Doctors (sales):
- Tom Baker
- David Tennant
- Matt Smith
- William Hartnell
- Paul McGann
- Patrick Troughton
- Slyvestor McCoy
- Colin Baker
- Peter Davison
- Peter Capaldi
eBay Spokesperson, Laura Wilkinson-Rea says, “It really speaks to Tom Baker’s iconic Doctor Who status that he continues to outsell the other Doctors. It also seems like the Universe is safe for now as the Doctors are far outselling the baddies. For example, eBay.co.uk currently lists 200,000 items of Doctor Who merchandise – totally dwarfing the Dalek’s 14,000. We’d be fascinated to see what spin Malcolm Tucker would put on this!”
Our view is that considering Peter Capaldi has hardly any merchandise, official or otherwise so far, not coming last out of 12 is a remarkable achievement!
You can search www.ebay.co.uk for all newly listed Doctor Who items.
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Andrew
July 30th, 2014 - 7:36pmWhere the hell is Pertwee? The best?
The Twelfth Doctor
July 30th, 2014 - 3:45pmHow is Peter Capaldi not last?! He’s had 2 DVD’s and a figure!
Nobody in particular
July 30th, 2014 - 4:46pmOfficially, yes, but there have been many handmade or unlicensed products sold, and things like signed photos
Cammythechangeling
July 30th, 2014 - 6:04pmUDWF1? is that u or did u get the image from him?
EndlessTimelord
July 30th, 2014 - 3:43pmHow is Peter capaldi on there?
Anonymous
July 30th, 2014 - 3:42pmis there an actual link to any of the items
T4RD1S
July 30th, 2014 - 3:05pmAWESOME, does tom baker know this?
DOCTOR WHO ONE
July 30th, 2014 - 3:02pmJon Pertwee and Christopher Eccleston’s names are missing from that list.
booboo
July 30th, 2014 - 3:29pmthats because they will be 11th and 12th, this is the top 10
100000BC
July 30th, 2014 - 2:51pmThe top few are definitely what would be expected – Tom Baker: The iconic, longest serving, popular Doctor; David Tennant: The fairly recent, extremely popular with the general public, Doctor; Matt Smith: The current Doctor in terms of the most recent episode (Capaldi hasn’t really started enough to get hugely popular); William Hartnell: The original, you might say; Paul McGann, whose brilliance has been highlighted by the Night of the Doctor (The War Doctor figure may have something to do with his place on the list)…
EndlessTimelord
July 30th, 2014 - 2:43pmWow! 😀 and BooBoo will we see a Danny Pink figure this year in 9.5cm scale?