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2016/12/26 06:42:40
Subject: Online scalpers, what's the most ridiculous markup you've ever seen?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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 Peregrine wrote:Asterios wrote:I agree the seller was not asking that price, but idiocy drove that price up.
How is it idiocy? $2000 isn't actually that excessive by the standards of adult hobbies, and an extremely rare unreleased miniature is much more like a work of art than a common toy.
and I repeat it is idiocy. just like the cost of the Black Lotus from Magic the Gathering a piece of paper for a game worth well north of $2K I had 4 of them gave them to my nephew along with a bunch of Alpha/Beta,Unlimited cards who traded them for Pokemon cards, but you don't see me crying about it, but I do make fun of him.
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Thinks Palladium books screwed the pooch on the Robotech project. |
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2016/12/26 13:36:22
Subject: Online scalpers, what's the most ridiculous markup you've ever seen?
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Bounding Assault Marine
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Asterios wrote: DarkTraveler777 wrote:
Wait, so selling a rare, unreleased item is considered scalping?
Or is that a standard release figure that got bid up by ignorance and eBay hype?
Regardless I wouldn't consider either case scalping.
I agree the seller was not asking that price, but idiocy drove that price up.
 bomtek80 wrote:I would tend to agree with Peregrine and say that selling OOP rare stuff for lots of money doesn't really seem like scalping. I was more referring to things like people buying up lots of Thousand Sons dice sets that were set at $20 BT Gdubs, and then turning around and trying to sell them for $40-50 on eBay or other selling/trading sites.
Like I said, not trying to argue the morality of scalping but just wondering what other outlandish markups some of you may have seen.
actually several sets available on eBay now for less then $40 a set, personally I never could understand dice buyers and why they feel compelled to spend extra money on dice just because of a symbol on them, when you can probably go to Chessex and get the same dice with the same or close symbol on them for a lot less?
Actually, the sets that I have seen going for less than $40 are tacking on absurd prices for shipping so that in the end, you are paying close to $40 anyway.
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2016/12/26 13:44:00
Subject: Re:Online scalpers, what's the most ridiculous markup you've ever seen?
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Hardened Veteran Guardsman
Australia
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I was going to say $40.00 for a dinged up old Tallarn guardsmen who looked like he'd been through a squiggoths digestive system but that Nuln spearman wins the day
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2016/12/28 22:09:10
Subject: Re:Online scalpers, what's the most ridiculous markup you've ever seen?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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 brushcommando wrote:Not a 40k mini per se, but I once saw the gw fellowship of the ring box listed for 2000 U.S. Dollars on amazon.com. wasn't even rare at the time.
Sellers do that to avoid relisting fees while restocking.
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Peregrine - If you like the army buy it, and don't worry about what one random person on the internet thinks.
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2016/12/28 22:21:27
Subject: Online scalpers, what's the most ridiculous markup you've ever seen?
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Chosen Baal Sec Youngblood
Lexington, Kentucky
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I sold one of these bad-boys on E-Bay last year, it went for £280ish.
http://thecitadelcollector.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tn_067.jpg
Lovely model, still my fav tyranid, and a great paintjob.
John
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2016/12/29 00:35:13
Subject: Re:Online scalpers, what's the most ridiculous markup you've ever seen?
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Rampaging Reaver Titan Princeps
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 Verviedi wrote: brushcommando wrote:Not a 40k mini per se, but I once saw the gw fellowship of the ring box listed for 2000 U.S. Dollars on amazon.com. wasn't even rare at the time.
Sellers do that to avoid relisting fees while restocking.
I was wondering about that most seem to be multiple time rrp it seems ridiculous
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"But me no buts! Our comrades get hurt. Our friends die. Falkenburg is a knight who swore an oath to serve the church and to defend the weak. He'd be the first to tell you to stop puling and start planning. Because what we are doing-at risk to ourselves-is what we have sworn to do. The West relies on us. It is a risk we take with pride. It is an oath we honour. Even when some soft southern burgher mutters about us, we know the reason he sleeps soft and comfortable, why his wife is able to complain about the price of cabbages as her most serious problem and why his children dare to throw dung and yell "Knot" when we pass. It's because we are what we are. For all our faults we stand for law and light.
Von Gherens This Rough Magic Lackey, Flint & Freer
Mekagorkalicious -Monkeytroll
2017 Model Count-71
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2016/12/29 18:43:16
Subject: Online scalpers, what's the most ridiculous markup you've ever seen?
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Sickening Carrion
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The mark up on Tomb Kings stuff is pretty crazy since they got squatted (tomb kinged?/brettonia'd?) Nothing like that spearmen, but anything NIB is listed at at least $70+. Maybe someday I'll get more necropolis knights or ushabti for under $100...
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Fantasy: Tomb Kings, Dark Elves, Wood Elves, Lizardmen, Daemons
40k: Daemon Hunters (GK,MT allied), Tallarn Armored Battle Group, Night Lords.
Firestorm Armada/Firestorm Planetfall: Dindrenzi
"I will lay down my bones among the rocks and roots of the deepest hollow, next to the streambed.
The quiet hum of the earth's dreaming is my new song."
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2016/12/30 01:24:36
Subject: Online scalpers, what's the most ridiculous markup you've ever seen?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Damn I love that mini. That is what got me into 40K. Sadly I could never find it 30 years ago and can't find it now. :(
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Agies Grimm:The "Learn to play, bro" mentality is mostly just a way for someone to try to shame you by implying that their metaphorical nerd-wiener is bigger than yours. Which, ironically, I think nerds do even more vehemently than jocks.
Everything is made up and the points don't matter. 40K or Who's Line is it Anyway?
Auticus wrote: Or in summation: its ok to exploit shoddy points because those are rules and gamers exist to find rules loopholes (they are still "legal"), but if the same force can be composed without structure, it emotionally feels "wrong". |
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