I sold the OOP anphelion base on ebay, priceoffer or bid. After reciving such funny orders
As 300€ i got an email in Perfect french offering me a sum the Price for a new renault.
Bid came from dubai.
I accepted and he was choosing to pick up the Order directly from me.
I met with his Assistant at Charles de gaule Airport and he gave me the Money , Taking next Flyer back.
My wife now thinks i do some bad Deals with the Mafia...
SH 1st ed makes sense. Anphelion base sorta makes sense to me but the situation he described made it seem like the total cost of travel, model etc is no where near worth the amount anyone should pay for a- let's face it- a toy soldier base. A cool looking toy soldier base, but not a faberge egg.
I had found a train for my Malifaux table, after a review from someone on Facebook. Train sells for 25$, but because the buyer deals with Pitney Bowes, I would have to pay 44$ of shipping, plus the exchange rate. All that for a trek that would take me 45 minutes... if it weren't for the border.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Just to be clear, I understand that the service is there for a reason and is useful in some instances. I'm just bummed that the train is now too expensive for me.
That early giant really is rare, though I think is would have to be boxed to get that kind of money, they certainly can sell for a grand when they show up.
At first I thought maybe Mr. T was trying to eBay some 40k stuff, then I re-read it as the model has a "fool you" pose to him....BC it looks like he is flipping a bird. And by "fool" he really means...well you get it.
But it also makes complete sense if read as written in a Mr. T voice.
I wanted this when I was much younger than I am now, and it still holds a place in my heart. In fact, the missus is out tonight and I have free run of the credit cards...
The world of miniature gaming on ebay, like anything else, has a number of bizarre and/or odd entries, from crazy-looking conversions to insane asking prices.
It is fun to have a thread that focuses on such oddities. This is a continuation from a previous dakka thread of the same topic.
However, that previous thread was locked because some of the people posting in it seemed to be forgetting some of the basic tenants of posting on Dakka, primarily that you must always remain polite.
While ebay may have plenty of auctions that feature incredibly crude conversions, blatant forgeries, terrible paint jobs, etc, if you'd like to discuss those things here on Dakka you must do so in a polite fashion, as though the users running and participating in the auctions are reading and responding in this thread (because for all you know, they might be).
So no calling people 'clowns', 'morons', etc, no matter how bizarre the auction may seem. Anyone who ignores this warning will be disciplined exactly as though they were insulting another Dakka user (because they may well be without knowing it).
I see a lot of this - and I am wondering if the person just has unrealistic expectations (or someone who sold them something mislead them) or if they are just hoping someone will buy such an outrageously priced item.
Okay not ebay, but still pretty fun. Look at those prices, with no pics AND with that supposed color scheme. First off, the Seahawks lost! Second, does this guy realize how narrow a field of potential buyers this limits too? A 40K player, Seahawks fan, eldar player... be easier to find a unicorn farting rainbows on a lillypad while talking to a crowned frog prince.
No idea if this price is ever going to find him a home, but it's an intriguing piece.
Citadel MANCHESTER RABBIT(Games Workshop store opening Special Event only miniature)
Own a little piece of incredibly rare Games Workshop history!MANCHESTER STORE OPENING EVENT ONLY RABBIT!!
In the 80s Games Workshop used to produce special `Store Opening`Event only miniatures.These were only available in very limited quantities to people visiting the store on opening day.
This rabbit warrior with sword is probably the rarest of these special edition miniatures.(He`s a fantastic little character too!)
He HAS `MANCHESTER`SCULPTED ONTO HIS BASE.
Games Workshop never produced another rabbit miniature like this!!
it's the sort of thing I'd throw down <£50ish on if I knew it was original, and I had a flush week, due to being from the area, and loving small forest creatures (no, not like that).
100 quid for shipping though, which I actually find not outrageous for something like this. Anybody know how much this thing weighs? I did see once, but I can't remember now.
I'm not sure it needed to exist, but the phenomena of pointlessly sexualised female minis isn't exclusive to eBay...
Speaking of odd auctions, I wish I could find it but I was skimming a vintage paint auction where the seller used the expression, "some are more moist than others." I think that's delightful in some strange way.
I think the point of a free mini becomes pointless when you pay 4x the cost of retail for the item it's attached to...
Especially when the two important parts are the mini and the rules which are in the box set and free online. And the mini is in the box set too. Chances are, if you want that mini, you either plan to get the box set too, or are only interested in the idea of painting it.
People were using the issue as a quick way to increase their squads without finding someone else who bought the starter. Though that price is ludicrous. I have no idea how it's got so high.
It took me longer then I care to admit to stop laughing.
That guy is hilarious, the way he's trolling all the "Pro" painters that show up on Ebay. Reading the item description shows he's not serious about selling.
That's a collection of stuff stolen from the hotel bathroom right there folks
Stolen is the wrong term. When you stay at a hotel, you are given soap, conditioner, and lotion each day. Some hotels have other toiletries that they give, too.
If, like me, you are allergic to that gak, you learn to bring your own. The stuff they give? Bring home and give to my wife for her trips or to keep in the guest bathroom in case a guest forgot to bring something.
OR, you could just sell it. I tossed over 3 lbs of the stuff when I moved.
He's also trying to sell a 1.5 rated city of brass.
Pretty sure those listings are satire... Because I'm friends with him on Facebook, and he's a member of the high end MTG sales group, he's quite a real seller/collector in MTG. I guess you kinda have to know him to get the joke.
Tell me about it. I used to have evidence my Aquila needed to be insured for £250 as part of my travel case. The amount I'd have to pay to replace it with a genuine one.
A recaster has been hammering them out in the UK out of pure greed and now they're going for £60-80
Try explaining to an insurance company about recast vs genuine.
I could buy a thunderhawk from china for $200 and sell it for $600 (as evidenced)
Or, I could buy a recast thunderhawk from ebay for $600, gamble that paypal will agree it is a forgery, refund my money and organise it "destroyed", thereby getting a free thunderhawk.
OR, I could not be a jerk to anyone.
I honestly think that I was destined to be batman, this kind of injustice just really bothers me. I wonder if that means I was supposed to kill my parents.
Surely letting people get ripped off isn't the right thing?
BUT MAYBE that dude was also ripped off? I hassled another seller on ebay who was selling recasted stuff and actually got the whole story out of him, someone sold him a bulk lot with all this recasted stuff and he was stuck - he didn't realise at the time, and seemed legitimate.
Maybe I am looking to create batman, maybe I am...
oohhh - quite like that fella. Reminds me of Gaunt's buffonish mate Commisar Blenner. Nice wee slightly comic fig.....50quid???....yeah.......PASS!!!!!
Buttery Commissar wrote: The bulk lot story is in a lot of recast sellers descriptions. I no longer believe anyone claiming it, especially those selling primed minis.
I bought a bunch of FWs recently, some of them were glued. Looked fine on the photos, when they arrived I had to discard most of the assembled ones as the guy used some sort of epoxy glue in such excess that it melted the plastic parts and those FWs looked like posessed by nurgle.
I saw that. But dat free shipping tho... You know as I look at this, I'm impressed with the level of detail. No, it's not worth what he's asking (more than an official Stompa!), but I give the guy credit -- he put a fair amount of work into that scratch build. Certainly more than a quick slap-n-glue job. I could see someone might buy it for the right price.
For what it's worth, most recasters are easy to spot.
Most are dumb enough not to make feedback private.
There's currently a guy selling his "collection" of Eldar.
In the past month he had sold 52 revenant titans for £110 each.
All undercoated black, none with instructions or FW bags.
leopard wrote: Not a specific link, but a trend, what is that rubbery glue people use on metal models before badly priming them for sale?
Had a brood Lord that had joints like rubber, all bendy, I mean it cleans up fine but wtf?
Age of the glue, more than likely.
Did wonder on the age of it, had a land speeder with yellow glue that was at least 20 years old, was solid though. this model looked fresh out of a packet, put together then given a very quick blast with black car primer (lots of bare metal showing). Just seemed to be glue to let the model be assembled then 'painted' before a piccy and sold.. Weird, would have actually paid more for unpainted and unassembled as it saves me taking it apart and stripping it.
He turned out fine in the end, they generally do, just seems weird, never seen glue like it.
Sells the package as devestators marked as new, but the Sprue is half empty and from dark angle veterans.
The description says its 'fragments', whatever this means.
However, that previous thread was locked because some of the people posting in it seemed to be forgetting some of the basic tenants of posting on Dakka, primarily that you must always remain polite.
While ebay may have plenty of auctions that feature incredibly crude conversions, blatant forgeries, terrible paint jobs, etc, if you'd like to discuss those things here on Dakka you must do so in a polite fashion, as though the users running and participating in the auctions are reading and responding in this thread (because for all you know, they might be).
So no calling people 'clowns', 'morons', etc, no matter how bizarre the auction may seem. Anyone who ignores this warning will be disciplined exactly as though they were insulting another Dakka user (because they may well be without knowing it).
and
Alpharius wrote: This thread is always on thin ice as far as I'm concerned.
It skirts the edge of Rule #1, in my opinion, in spirit if not in true intent.
So, with that said, please try to at least make it about wargaming 'oddities', and not just 'excuses to mock'.
^
Everything ever from those Chinese/Thailand sellers. Horribly overpriced. Like yeah they look good, but for those kind of prices?
There's a 'group' of 4-5 Chinese/Thai painters that I've kept an eye on, and the one you quoted is one of them. Occasionally they will start an auction at .01 cents. I've actually scored a few figs from them for under $10 (then $10 for shipping, or thereabouts).
So far I've never been ripped-off, the figs have arrived pretty quickly, and the painting is FAR better than anything I could ever do.
But their -normal- selling prices are indeed pretty outrageous, even if it's quality stuff. But one person's 'affordable' is another's 'outrageous', and all that.
Sure, the price is absurd, but I think it's a respectable conversion attempt. Looks like he took another model truck and stuck a few bits from the official Trukk kit on it. I would play against it in a casual game. Moving on.
Well, I'd call the use of photoshopped light source a bit disingenuous, so yeah, kinda' fits the theme. But otherwise, looks to be a pretty nice diorama.
I got to admire the vision this person had. I mean, it's not particularly clear what the vision is, but a lot of effort went into it and I'm curious as to what it'd look like if its creator had more skill and resources.
No, no, it's 'BATTLE DAMAGE'!' Even the inner "mechanisms" and giant ball thingy get shot up 'in' war. He 'explains' it several "times" in his book he so kindly wrote out in 'full'.
(Seriously, what is that giant ball thingy? Can't be part of the actual model, right?)
The world of miniature gaming on ebay, like anything else, has a number of bizarre and/or odd entries, from crazy-looking conversions to insane asking prices.
It is fun to have a thread that focuses on such oddities. This is a continuation from a previous dakka thread of the same topic.
However, that previous thread was locked because some of the people posting in it seemed to be forgetting some of the basic tenants of posting on Dakka, primarily that you must always remain polite.
While ebay may have plenty of auctions that feature incredibly crude conversions, blatant forgeries, terrible paint jobs, etc, if you'd like to discuss those things here on Dakka you must do so in a polite fashion, as though the users running and participating in the auctions are reading and responding in this thread (because for all you know, they might be).
So no calling people 'clowns', 'morons', etc, no matter how bizarre the auction may seem. Anyone who ignores this warning will be disciplined exactly as though they were insulting another Dakka user (because they may well be without knowing it).
One of these beauties can be yours for the low low cost of a down payment on a house! Does your Mom REALLY need that life-saving operation? We also take harvested organs in trade now!
You know, as much as I love to criticize hacks on eBay...I often wonder if I shouldn't give some of this silliness a go. I suspect the old adage of "there's an ass for every seat" might apply. I know plenty of people who spend money in stupid ways - there must be heaps of wargamers who do the same.
I do genuinely wonder how much of this stuff sells...
So, $25 US at the moment I write this. For just a few dollars more, you can get the entire Skaven team. My question/thought is why people do this to themselves? Yes, all you need are those two extra Gutter Runners to make a complete Skavenblight team with the box you're probably already bought but wouldn't it be easier at this point to just get another team box and sell off what you don't want?
So, $25 US at the moment I write this. For just a few dollars more, you can get the entire Skaven team. My question/thought is why people do this to themselves? Yes, all you need are those two extra Gutter Runners to make a complete Skavenblight team with the box you're probably already bought but wouldn't it be easier at this point to just get another team box and sell off what you don't want?
Sometimes bidding patterns boggle my mind.
Fairly sure that's the 'IT'S MINE AND YOU CAN'T HAVE IT" mentality when it comes to bidding. I can say for myself that I've done it over... what was it. Oh, it was 2 boxes of old old skinks.
This Forgeworld dwarf command group (and its matching pair, and Orc command group). All at £75 or offer, marked as OOP and "fairly rare" - presumably apart from the racks and boxes at WHW in stock at £34 each....)
So, $25 US at the moment I write this. For just a few dollars more, you can get the entire Skaven team. My question/thought is why people do this to themselves? Yes, all you need are those two extra Gutter Runners to make a complete Skavenblight team with the box you're probably already bought but wouldn't it be easier at this point to just get another team box and sell off what you don't want?
Sometimes bidding patterns boggle my mind.
There's a lot of fake bidding on ebay, i.e. people paid to bet on someone else's thing to jack up the prices, then cancel it with their friend so that no transaction takes place and no fees.
Elbows wrote: You know, as much as I love to criticize hacks on eBay...I often wonder if I shouldn't give some of this silliness a go. I suspect the old adage of "there's an ass for every seat" might apply. I know plenty of people who spend money in stupid ways - there must be heaps of wargamers who do the same.
I do genuinely wonder how much of this stuff sells...
You'd be surprised how dumb or lazy ebay buyers can be, I have sold a lot on ebay and am continually surprised with what I see
Far too many scalpers and false scarcity going on. FB trading groups is where it's at for me these days. Stuff goes fairly fast, and there's few fees involved (pretty much just PayPal for the seller, and even then it's buying both sides protection).
But it also pays to keep a weather eye out when you're in the wild. I was in Darksphere a couple of weeks before Christmas, buying Prospero. And what I did I see? Two Plasma Obliterators....brand new, in box.
At that time, they weren't for sale as they'd only just come into stock, and hadn't been priced up. So I sent an email expressing interest. Two days later, both were mine for £50 each, which is their correct price.
Kept hold of one, sold the other on At Cost to a deserving gamer.
Just goes to show, you never know what you might find.
I sold a squad of average at best painted ultramarines a while ago just a plastic tactical squad, for ten pounds , 1 week later they were for sale by the buyer as pro-painted tactical squad for 40 quid. ( pro painted such an over used term) . I studied the photos and could still see the errors I had made painting them!
I would legitimately want that. Not just because of the paint job, but the look at my opponents face when I use I would be hilarious! I'd imagine 50% horror and 50% WTF, and the internal struggle to comprehend what his eyes were registering would send a "fluff-only paint job" gamer into meltdown.
I love that jaunty little wave that the gunner is giving. It's adorable. But yeah, 'Eavy Metal style? Ha.....
That's actually pretty cool, though it looks more Catchacan than Cadia. I'd even have no problem with someone running it in a Guard army, even though it should be marine.
Yeah, I actually think the conversion and painting is pretty fair on that land speeder. Only dumb thing is the gunner not actually manning the gun. Price isn't horrible, even.
Adeptus Playstatus: Every other turn this model must download a software update. During the update this unit may not move, cast psychic powers, advance, shoot, charge or fight in close combat.
"We found an STC that makes this. We have reasons to believe it's the oldest one we've found so far, there was some confusion about the measurements. We weren't sure what it was at first, but when we saw how boxy it looked, we knew it mush be a tank!"
I bought this, and I almost feel bad. I think what they put as the "buy it now" price was supposed to be the starting bid price.
This auction was up a month ago (same picture) in the US, so I'm guessing this is a Chinese recaster. However, for $21 I'll risk recasts for an Armorcast Warhound, OOP Rhino, and a Dreamforge Gabriel Knight.
Ive seen plenty of auctions from china with similar account names as that, selling whole armies for 20 dollar. I am guessing its a complete scam and you wont get anything.
If so, you will get your money back through, especially if you pay with PayPal, which now gets you 180 days of protections - conditions apply though, and be sure that you're covered before purchasing!
eBay 'only' gives you 30 days, and many overseas shippers will tell you it might take that long - or longer - for the package to arrive...
This does currently look like the typical cereal box stompa that I've seen a few of in this thread, but at least this is listed as a "Work in progress" and may actually end up being a really epic model, especially as it comes with a (supposedly) pro-paint job as part of the sale. I'd love to see what the finished product ends up looking like.
With respect, elbows, whoever bought it should feel however they like. I would feel "Gosh, that's a brilliant model" and would enjoy looking at and/or playing with is as much or as little as I want.
Nobody got ripped off. Nobody should feel bad. Two people bid £300. A third bid £201.
What's wrong with enjoying a great model, and a (presumably, as he bid a dozen times) happy buyer & seller?
Sorry for the threadromancy but I had to get this in here. Came across it months ago when looking for a bargain on tyberos. Thick paint, brush strokes, the most random colours in weird patterns and the obligatory 'Pro painted' label. Comes with a spiel about how it didn't place in competition because it lacked a wooden plinth, and all with a whopping 150 dollar price tag for a 40 ish dollar mini. Unsurprisingly its still up for auction, surprisingly, no drop in price since I first viewed.
queen_annes_revenge wrote: Sorry for the threadromancy but I had to get this in here. Came across it months ago when looking for a bargain on tyberos. Thick paint, brush strokes, the most random colours in weird patterns and the obligatory 'Pro painted' label. Comes with a spiel about how it didn't place in competition because it lacked a wooden plinth, and all with a whopping 150 dollar price tag for a 40 ish dollar mini. Unsurprisingly its still up for auction, surprisingly, no drop in price since I first viewed.
queen_annes_revenge wrote: Sorry for the threadromancy but I had to get this in here. Came across it months ago when looking for a bargain on tyberos. Thick paint, brush strokes, the most random colours in weird patterns and the obligatory 'Pro painted' label. Comes with a spiel about how it didn't place in competition because it lacked a wooden plinth, and all with a whopping 150 dollar price tag for a 40 ish dollar mini. Unsurprisingly its still up for auction, surprisingly, no drop in price since I first viewed.
