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What's the best deal you ever got off Ebay?

For me, it was a Forge World Dreadnought for 18 bucks after shipping.

Foud some rare unreleased Epic Exodite miniatures in an auction given by an unsuspecting seller.

Got rare MOW miniatures the same way.

It's amazing what you can find if you broaden your search.

when I first got into the hobby I got a couple deals off of Ebay for something like $300 inc shipping. I got a wide range of models I was going to buy anyway (for that price) + a carrying case, a bunch of extra Warlocks, D-Cannons, Dark Reapers, etc, etc. And around 30+ second rate guardians that have been cannibalized for bits numerous times.

all in all, much happy.

IMO, eBay isn't the buyers market it used to be. Summer is a good time to buy, but most of the sellers of used stuff stop selling until fall. With eBay though, the more you buy, the more you save.

While it's frustrating to shop at, the best deals are on Bartertown. I once got a full 5th ed Wood Elf army for $80, a 12lb box of bits for $50 (including stuff I sold for over $150), and a giant 2nd ed 40k collection for $265. It included old nids, marines and eldar, old books and codices, etc. Great stuff.

Bits from insaniak.

Bits are hard to come by in Australia as we never had a bitz service and saves having to buy whole boxes.

Polonius wrote:IMO, eBay isn't the buyers market it used to be. Summer is a good time to buy, but most of the sellers of used stuff stop selling until fall. With eBay though, the more you buy, the more you save.

While it's frustrating to shop at, the best deals are on Bartertown. I once got a full 5th ed Wood Elf army for $80, a 12lb box of bits for $50 (including stuff I sold for over $150), and a giant 2nd ed 40k collection for $265. It included old nids, marines and eldar, old books and codices, etc. Great stuff.

nice.

Keep in mind that those are spread over 6 years, and you get an idea of how rare deals on B-town really are. Sometimes you find a guy looking to see in a hurry, and then it's good times.

I got an armourcast gargant on ebay for about $250 a couple years ago. It was primed, and not 'new-in-box'- but considering they routinely go for over $500, that's probably my best score.

Got 3 sentinels the ones with autocannons for 30 bucks

about 7 or 9 years ago i found an auction labeled "Space Miniatures" with an opening bid of $80 and I was the only person who bid. it had 100 old metal Citadel figures in it including: 6 original Chaos Terminators (the ones before the trophy rack ones), 2 metal terminator inquisitors, 2 non terminator inquisitors, a bunch of Brats, Tech Gang and Scavvy minis from Confrontation (precursor to Necromunda), 8 Lost and the Damned/Slaves to Darkness era Chaos Space Marines, about 20 metal Rouge trader era Space Marines, some old Eldar, Leman Russ (the Primarch), and a bunch more stuff.

A few egghead v1 terminators, for cheapo (can't remember how much now). So damned rare now. :(

Polonius wrote:Keep in mind that those are spread over 6 years, and you get an idea of how rare deals on B-town really are. Sometimes you find a guy looking to see in a hurry, and then it's good times.

I beg to differ.
I spend a LOT of time on Bartertown, and I come across great deals all the time.
Fifty percent off is not an uncommon occurance there. Even for whole armies.

I built a 3000+ point SM army from 95% Bartertown trades/purchases (all new, unpainted, unassembled) and about 5% ebay or online retailers. I spent/traded about 65% retail. Took me about 6 months, as I bought it piece by piece... but the deals were all there (regularly).

Eric

MM: I mispoke a bit. There are deals to be had on B-town regularly, but firesales are still relatively uncommon (but exist as well). B-town is great for what it tries to do: match traders and faciliatate deals. It's a swap meet, and there are great trades to be made. there is a lot of chaff however (although the noise ratio is going up on eBay as well), but that's a natural result of being able to post listings for free.

I'd never steer anyone away from Btown, it's just that it can be frustrating from time to time.

mostly engineering stuff
A decent 400 kg linear actuator. Expensive one which can be used to lift plasma tv's and that for 20-30 quid
retail price over 150 quid

and some silver steel shafts 10 long 16mm shafts for around 15 quid retail over 40 quid

i got a devilfish for $20 bucks and two battlesuits for about 30 bucks

1)SPACE MARINE TACTICAL SQUAD (new)

2) SPACE MARINE BIKE- 2 (1 new the other primed)

3)SPACE MARINE ASSAULT SQUAD (new)

4) SPACE MARINE DEVESTATOR SQUAD (new)

all that for $46 so far this mite be the best deal I got for 40k stuff.

When my friend bought almost every possible game system for a measly $200. This is including those very old systems. Pity the seller's boyfriend found out, they had to cancel the sale.

P.S., that woman probably is now a crater.

A friend of mine somehow managed to search for sace mariens. and escaped with tonnes of marines and a dreadnought for about $40 Australian

First getting into Tau I got a D-Fish and 12 Firewarriors for something like $25 including shipping, and the fish had the Forgeworld Gubbins on it!

The best deal ever though was one that I went in on with a friend. $300 bought a huge lot that was advertised as "Warhammer Figures". We got:

A Tau Army
A Chaos Space Marine Army
A Tomb Kings Army
A Lord of the Rings Harad Army
Carrying Cases, battlefield accessories, bits and bits and bits

Seriously, it was heaven-sent. My share bought me the Tau army. I waited and waited, and finally, on the day I thought it would come I called my friend to see if it had arrived, and he said no. I was super bummed until I went home and found an entire Tau army laid out on my counter top!

(My wife still makes fun of me, apparently I "shoved past her" in my enthusiasm to get to the minis. I maintain that I stepped around her in a perfectly gentlemanly fashion.)

I got about 48 firewarriors, 48 kroot, 3 Hammerheads, a Devilfish, 3 or 4 suits, and a broadside, for my $100 that I threw in. That was really exciting because it was my first army getting back into the hobby.

The only thing was, I've learned since that buying used is a mixed bag. The amount of cleanup, stripping, disassembling and reassembling almost made it not worthwhile...

'Hounds of Love' LP by Kate Bush for 50p. Brilliant album.

A large Eldar army for £186 IIRC:

1 Eldrad
1 Avatar
1 bugeye Farseer
4 Warlocks
1 Maugan Ra

1 Fire Prism
2 War Walkers
2 Vypers
16 Jetbikes

14 Dire Avengers
10 Dark Reapers
13 Swooping hawks
4 Warp Spiders
9 Fire Dragons
6 Striking scorpions
15 Howling Banshees
4 Shining spears

36 Guardians
4 Rangers
6 Heavy weapons platforms plus crew
2 Shadow Weavers plus crew
1 D Cannon plus crew

Eldar Codex
Craftworld Eldar Codex
40 pots of paint
some spray cans thrown in

Orlanth has got me beat, but I'll throw my story out there! I got and eldar and an orc army for $100, split between me and a buddy. I ended up buying out his half (the orcs). All the orcs were RT originals and the eldars were 2nd eds.

Eldrad
Avatar
Jain Zar
Baharroth
Maugan Ra
Karandras
8 Banshees
5 Scorps w/ Exarch
4 Hawks w/ Exarch
3 Dark Reapers w/ exarch (web of skulls)
12 or so guardians (plastics, with one metal RT era)
3 Harlequins
2 brightlance platforms w/ crew
A warwalker and a lone wraithlord

The orks list is huge (posted in trades forum... I'm not selling it anymore) and included an original Rogue Trader era plastic battle wagon that I stupidly sold for $20 to the guy who runs the FLGS...

All the models had been painted years ago by a crack team of monkeys flinging god knows what at them, but came clean (relatively) enough to paint again. Best $50 I spent on the hobby.

I was lucky enough to get a 2nd Ed shokk attack gun at the opening bid last Christmas. The auction was mispelled, which I think is why I got it.

Nice suprise, the postage cost me more than the model. IIRC £2.50 all inclusive.

Mine is probably a pretty much complete fully painted Man O War collection for £750, had every fleet, including a constructed Undead one, and after playing the odd game over a year, I realised I didn't have the time or space to keep it, so broke them down into fleet lots, rules, terrain etc and sold the lot for just shy of £2500, so a worthy investment.