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Yep thats right... when you order off ebay / online shops etc etc and open your box...

Sometimes there are extra unwanted things inside... what are they!?

My goblins arrived last night and along with it came

Victoria's secret Price tags
Pubic Hair
a stick of lipbalm.
tapes ... that attached minis to the bubble wrap... and i cant get the sticky
tape residue off the minis AHHHHHHHH

ya.... hmmm..... -_-

I would reccomend dropping those minis in bleach and taking an extremely hot shower, and not eating or drinking anything until you've scrubbed off your top layer of skin and all of your hair. Ick!

That will teach you to buy things from hairy transvestite wargamers.

Some Death Guard (IIRC) came wrapped in this.

O.O

I got a metal servo skull randomly once along with some empire stuff I think

I bought alot of nids off ebay and i got them all, plus 3 40mm bases with warrior feet on it, 3 drops of blood under the lid, 1 clean tissue, and a smile sticker lose in the pack, what a odd package

Dont you hate it when seller refuse to give you feed back even though we ( the buyers ) alreaady did or part by paying immediately? They hold on to giving feed back unless we give them good one.

If we complain about their service by giving them negative, they'll do the same back, its such blackmail.

LunaHound wrote:Dont you hate it when seller refuse to give you feed back even though we ( the buyers ) alreaady did or part by paying immediately? They hold on to giving feed back unless we give them good one.

If we complain about their service by giving them negative, they'll do the same back, its such blackmail.

Yeah, this is a pretty wiggety-wack system. Is there anything you can do about it though, really?

jesus, pubic hair? wtf. lol. wierdest thing i got was 2 sword bits and an epic space marine. just one.

I got a 40K2 Gretchin in a Skaven order once.

I got a random Magic The Gathering card in an box of Gaunts once off Ebay.

The box had been resealed, obviously.

Once I bought an Office chair, the box was empty, apart from a live bobcat. The guy got an A-- and I'm sure never buying anything from him again.

I <3 xkcd

Years back, when GW was changing over their paint bottles, I got an order in that had a half dozen or more 12-packs of paint used as filler material........................

I ordered some a partial Necromunda box set and the guy threw in a bunch of Epic sprues and stuff.

At work, I've seen the 'disgruntled employee ships out heavy plumbing fixtures in packages to bankrupt the company' trick.

LunaHound wrote:If we complain about their service by giving them negative, they'll do the same back, its such blackmail.

Sellers are now unable to give abything other than +ve feedback to a buyer, regardless of the outcome of the auction. So as a buyer, even if you don't pay, or leave -ve feedback for any reason, be safe in the knowledge that FeeBay have biased the crap feedback system, to protect buyers, and sellers.

I've ordered some GW Steel Legion from some guy who was having a clearout and selling loads of random stuff. I received through the post a box containing various Avon make-up and facial moisturising creams. But if you think thats bad......
Some poor woman on the other hand, recieved my x2 squads of Steel Legion - You can just imagine her face! The guy had already left me +ve feedback, and my girlfriend pointed out that the value of the Avon stuff far outstripped my Steel Legion figures, so quickly snaffled the contents into her bottomless pit that is her make up draw, and ordered me some new Steel Legion models from GW.

Not so much weird but good...

When GW used to extensively sell bits. About a month after an order I got another box/padded envelope from GW with several chaos character bits (I don't remember the exact count but it was in the teens). No invoice and I was never billed. Weird but cool!

Not so much weird as Bull S#it...

Once I did get an unopened empty box on an order from Ebay for a WH40K figure. Or course the seller claimed it was my fault because I didn't order insurance and gave me negative feedback after several email attempts to rectify the issue. I hadn't even given him feedback yet as all I wanted was the figure.

I got some vinyl tiles with a sisters of battle codex....

Not 40K/Ebay, but funny. My grandmother order this cool T-Shirt for me from this lady she knew who made arts and craft type stuff. She was on really good terms with the lady, having ordered a number of her creations. Anyway, she sends the box along to me, without opening it. You can imagine my complete bafflement and surprise at getting a purse for my birthday! Turns out the lady hadn't been able to sell it (it was hideous) and had decided to just put it in as a bonus, which was this T-Shirt that I thought was pretty cool. The look on my face had to be priceless....

This isn't what was in a package, but what wasn't. This didn't happen to me, but I saw, on eBay, an advert for an XBox 360 about six weeks before they were due out. The page of decsriptions was incredibly long with all of the technical information about the XBox, going into great detail. Essentially it meant scrolling through about 7 or 8 pages of text, which presumably very few people did. Right at the bottom of the description, the listing said "Please note that this auction is not for an XBox 360, but for a picture of one". When I saw it, it still had about three days to go and the price was at about £350. I forget what the title of the auction was but it was cleverly worded to make it sound like he had an XBox 360 weeks before they were due to be released, but without actually saying that. Just how much would you want to kill that person for selling you a picture of a console for £350?

Ants... couple dozen, straight from GW..

LOL great XBOX story! Ah the pitfalls of Ebay.

Ants? That is weird. I have to say that's weirder than the pubic hair story (though not as gross).

InyokaMadoda wrote:This isn't what was in a package, but what wasn't. This didn't happen to me, but I saw, on eBay, an advert for an XBox 360 about six weeks before they were due out. The page of decsriptions was incredibly long with all of the technical information about the XBox, going into great detail. Essentially it meant scrolling through about 7 or 8 pages of text, which presumably very few people did. Right at the bottom of the description, the listing said "Please note that this auction is not for an XBox 360, but for a picture of one". When I saw it, it still had about three days to go and the price was at about £350. I forget what the title of the auction was but it was cleverly worded to make it sound like he had an XBox 360 weeks before they were due to be released, but without actually saying that. Just how much would you want to kill that person for selling you a picture of a console for £350?

I'd say that for every scumbag seller there are a dozen slowed buyers. I saw a listing for an "Xbox box" that had no picture but was very clearly listed as a regular cardboard box with "XBox" written on the side with a black marker. The description couldn't have been clearer. It sold for $500+

lord_blackfang wrote:

I'd say that for every scumbag seller there are a dozen slowed buyers. I saw a listing for an "Xbox box" that had no picture but was very clearly listed as a regular cardboard box with "XBox" written on the side with a black marker. The description couldn't have been clearer. It sold for $500+

Huh? Who is that slowed?

InyokaMadoda wrote:

lord_blackfang wrote:

I'd say that for every scumbag seller there are a dozen slowed buyers. I saw a listing for an "Xbox box" that had no picture but was very clearly listed as a regular cardboard box with "XBox" written on the side with a black marker. The description couldn't have been clearer. It sold for $500+

Huh? Who is that slowed?

people bid on this stuff just to see how high the bid gets knowing theyre gonna get out of paying it...

my weirdest ebay story is the time I bought some avon stuff for my wife and ended up getting these little metal soldiers....

Then there's people who buy GW stuff of eBay for full RRP + shipping when there are "Buy it Now" listings on the same page with 10-20% off an free shipping.

lord_blackfang wrote:Then there's people who buy GW stuff of eBay for full RRP + shipping when there are "Buy it Now" listings on the same page with 10-20% off an free shipping.

I'll never understand the way some people use ebay. It's amazing how quickly all the buy it now BNIB stuff gets snapped up. Why bother buying stuff through ebay at all if you're just interested in getting new stuff at RRP?