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Seen a few of these threads over the years.. but now that I've actually gone and bagged myself a second-hand deal, thought I'd start a thread for everyone to share their own lucky bargains.

The other day on Ebay I noticed some chap was selling:
- 12 Khorne Berzerkers
- 20 CSM's
- Terminator Lord
- Daemon Prince

For £30 at buy it now. RRP that's nearly £100.

What bargains have you lot come across then?

Found a plastic LOTR Balrog still in the shrink wrap at my local model shop for about £10. Yeah, I went and swapped it at the local GW...

Forgive my LOTR ignorance, but why did you swap a Balrog you got for so cheap?

A little while ago I got 50 of the old Legion of the Damned models for $120. Including a complete box set. The boxed sets alone sell on Ebay for more than that usually. Now I just need 5 more variations for a complete set.

I just got a 'faulty' PSP from cash convertors for £10. Home 10 mins and found the problem was the down button being pushed during game play. 10 mins of fiddling with the analogue stick and I now have a working PSP

brettz123 wrote:A little while ago I got 50 of the old Legion of the Damned models for $120. Including a complete box set. The boxed sets alone sell on Ebay for more than that usually. Now I just need 5 more variations for a complete set.

That's a neat find.

Foster wrote:I just got a 'faulty' PSP from cash convertors for £10. Home 10 mins and found the problem was the down button being pushed during game play. 10 mins of fiddling with the analogue stick and I now have a working PSP

Pretty good deal there.

So he could get the 50 pounds or whatever difference in rohan or whatever he collects? I'd assume thats the reason.

I bought 25 hammerers and 25 ironbreakers from a guy for 60 bucks each, 30 of each arrived at my door...30 hammerers and 30 ironbreakers would have cost me 502 bucks...thats the first time I added that up. Hot damn.

motyak wrote:So he could get the 50 pounds or whatever difference in rohan or whatever he collects? I'd assume thats the reason.

I bought 25 hammerers and 25 ironbreakers from a guy for 60 bucks each, 30 of each arrived at my door...30 hammerers and 30 ironbreakers would have cost me 502 bucks...thats the first time I added that up. Hot damn.

Now that's a bargain!

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Forgive my LOTR ignorance, but why did you swap a Balrog you got for so cheap?

I pretty certain that you can swap a box set in at GW for its full RRP. So he could still swap it in for £37.50 worth of stuff even though he got it for a tenner elsewhere.

I see, that's a pretty cool idea.

Yeah, my mate did that a couple of weeks ago. He found a load of unopened LOTR stuff in his house and swapped it in for a Tervigon, some Hive Guard, Zoanthropes a box of Termagants and some paint.

Hm.. I'll have to keep an eye out for unopened kits in charity shops and sales then.

Also, here are the pictures from ebay of what I bought:








Especially looking forward to getting my hands on that Prince..

I'm good at finding cash!

Found £25 last weekend in town, It had been York races and lots of drunk people with too much money benefits me a great deal.

Found £15 on floor in a bar/club, then found another tenner in a drain on my way home.

Only left the house with a tenner, played a dj set in the club, was given free beer by the promoter, got home with £35.

Good evening all round.

Heh, that's crazy.

I've never found a whole lot of cash in my life.. maybe I'm just not looking hard enough (at all?).

I should go to York more often .

I've got some Yorkshire blood in my veins.. but no Yorkshire luck it seems.

I've found over £300 in the past 8-10 years at least, best was two twenty's together in the car park of Xscape in Castleford.

People always ask me why I walk around looking at the floor.

Bah.. some people get all the luck.

I managed to get my hands on a limited print book from the black library. Namely "The loathsome Ratmen and all their vile kin." A Skaven background book long out of production. Now I'm not exactly sure what the origional price for this book was when they released it. But on E-bay people ask up to $90 or more for it. and usually with slight to moderate wear and tear. I won one at auction for under $45. wich is peanuts by comparison. and in mint condition to boot. So as a devout follower of the horned rat I'm happy to have it in my collection neek neek

Rampage wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Forgive my LOTR ignorance, but why did you swap a Balrog you got for so cheap?

I pretty certain that you can swap a box set in at GW for its full RRP. So he could still swap it in for £37.50 worth of stuff even though he got it for a tenner elsewhere.

Yep you sure can.

I bagged a Mines of Moria, Baneblade, A necron Squad and 3 Tau Broadsides in a Hobbycraft 30% off clearance sale, then got a further 25% off with a voucher. So pretty cool to begin with then...

I liked the MoM terrain which is why I got it but have no real interest in LotR games so felt it was a waste just for a few coffins/doors etc and took it into GW and swapped it for new VC stuff. It really helps to blow away the post price rise blues.

Not one of mine, but I've been reminded of a friend who bought an iPod for a tenner from Cash Converters. As he was walking out the door, they said to him that if he wanted he could sell it back to them for £20.

He didn't, but I found it rather amusing that he practically found a real life infinte money glitch

Tibbs, your post has reminded me of someone from youtube, not sure who.. but they went to a sale and for £20 bagged something like 2000-3000 points of marines (including two land raiders, though that's the only specifics I remember) and a tonne of black library novels to boot.

Another "bargain" I got which wasn't really much of a bargain, was I paid £50 for "a lot of 40k" or something.. hadn't seen it but I was young and careless with money.. in return got a bunch of Eldar, load of white dwarfs and some terrain and such. Worth it, I suppose, though the eldar were and still are in such a state of disrepair I never use them. Need to fix them up one day.

My best find?

A few summers ago, when a lot of students were moving away/changing apartments, I was driving down the road and spotted some red foam sitting on the curb with other unwanted items.. I stopped, checked it out and managed to score an old GW/red foam carrying case. I was pretty pumped to say the least.

Aside from that, I was in an antique/junk store this past winter and someone selling comics/collectibles had a box of Tac Marines and Chaos Warriors listed for $15 a piece...win.

Rampage wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Forgive my LOTR ignorance, but why did you swap a Balrog you got for so cheap?

I pretty certain that you can swap a box set in at GW for its full RRP. So he could still swap it in for £37.50 worth of stuff even though he got it for a tenner elsewhere.

Correctamundo! My friend was gutted he didn't think of the same idea.

Another one, my dad works in Nottingham at Raleigh which is pretty much now a distribution centre for loads of companies. At one point they were going to throw out a 16GB iPod as it was returned as "faulty" as Derpymcderpson who bought it did not realise that 16GB=about 14.8GB in reality, so he sent it back as broken. It gets given to my dad to see if it's fixable and long story short I get a free 16GB iPod.

Lucky bugger.

Top condition fairing for my bike on eBay, RRP of ~£400, got it for £32. Very happy!

Darkvoidof40k wrote:I've got some Yorkshire blood in my veins.. but no Yorkshire luck it seems.

As a guy from Yorkshire, I can vouch for this in my case. I actually seem to roll pretty well most of the time. The last multiplayer HQ battle my local gaming group had, we had to get someone else to roll the scatter dice (whoever it pointed to went first) as I couldn't stop rolling hits. This was only on Saturday.

A number of years ago, I scored about 40 noise marines, 12 of the metal daemonettes, six chaos bikers, and a daemon prince model for less than 100$ on Ebay. The amazing thing is that most of the figures had decent paint jobs as well. That was probably my best "score" on 40k stuff.


The thing was that the seller had a single very poor quality photo which was scaring off most other bidders. But that's how I get good deals on Ebay. Look for used stuff with poor quality photos, no pics, listing errors, and awful little kid paint jobs that can be stripped. You can sometimes get recent stuff for pennies on the dollar that way.

For non-GW related ebay purchases, my best ever has to be a nice WW2 German topical canteen (with original straps and cup, which are are almost always missing) for 20$. They usually run in excess of 100$. Once again the seller had a poor pic and had mis-listed the canteen in the wrong category. I almost felt bad for him....
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Those are some pretty cool bargains, and if a person lists it wrong/doesn't know what they've got, well, it's pretty much their fault for not looking into it more.

Reminds me of something I saw where in a supermarket a man was at the checkout. He let another person go first because the other guy only had 1 item. This guy with 1 item then became the millionth customer and got 250k or something mad like that.

Talk about a bad day.

Not sure why I was reminded of it, but I was.

Let's see... I guess I could say I managed to find an old-school Terminator Librarian in my box o' bitz, rather than having to shell out £20 or so for a Belial model and Librarian cohort...