God Bless Ebay.

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**Horst**

I'm going ahead with my straight up marine bikers list. It should be fun. However, bikes are expensive as hell.... so i've been ebaying like crazy.

Just bought 8 normal bikes, and 4 attack bikes, for the price of $120 shipped. excellent! normally from GW as list that'd be well over $200.

**crazykiwi**

so where they assembled, unassembeled still in the box painted etc?

that is a fairly good deal though (but then im thinking nz $$$ so it may be pretty expensive here still though lol)

working in tech support I have very little love for second hand goods lol

"i bought this device from ebay/ trademe and its broken can you help me ??

but either way good find mate and use those bikes to there full awesome ness lol

**Horst**

new on sprue, but not in box.

I've bought 40k goods on ebay like this before, never had a problem.

**crazykiwi**

new on sprue then I gotta say thats a awesome deal then more power to you for buying online and getting a deal like that

**willydstyle**

The ravenwing box is a really good deal too, but I guess if you're not using speeders it would be a bit less efficient.

**Sanctjud**

Well, I was lucky to get the Ravenwing boxes and sell the speeders to a friend who wanted them.

But that is a nice buy, the 4 attack bikes alone are $100 through GW.

**Horst**

yea, GW pricing on bikes is absolutely silly. $25 per attack bike is just... stupid.

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**crazykiwi**

we still pay it though

**Horst**

lol like hell we do

I got my gak for half GW prices, and I encourage everyone to use ebay to do the same.

**Captain Killjoy**

ive bought my small 900 pt space marines on sprue and my codex

**Horst**

just picked up 5x stormshields and 5x hammers (not the terminator bodies, just the TH/SS parts) so I can convert command squads... for $12.00

good stuff!

**crazykiwi**

Horst wrote:lol like hell we do

I got my gak for half GW prices, and I encourage everyone to use ebay to do the same.

well someone had too for it to be on ebay lol

most have been another sucker like me

**Rubberanvil**

I been doing pretty good with getting WH and WH40K codexes(sp?) (near-mint to barely good quality), daemonettes (the sexy ones), Legion of the Damned and to a lesser extent nurglings, and raptors (new and old) figures at discount on Ebay.

**Soup and a roll**

Sanctjud wrote:Well, I was lucky to get the Ravenwing boxes and sell the speeders to a friend who wanted them

You could also have stuck truck wheels to them and called them attack bikes.

**Blarglord**

I get so pissed at Ebay because I'll find a good deal and be the only bidder on it and when the time is up on it the seller will take it off b/c they weren't getting the amount they wanted from it. I had 6 chaos bikes and Doomrider that were put to gether and primed (I was gonna have to do some restoration work, but I'm playing nurgle so it wouldn't need much.) For 10 dollars, on the last day it was gone because the guy took it off the market. It happens all the time, so I just look for Buy It Now.

**Sanctjud**

@Soup and a roll:

Meh, not my cup of tea,... I rather keep my CSM holding handheld Multi-meltas riding juggernaughts...(though still in WIP).

I don't particularly like Speeders in any of their forms. I've seen some nice looking ones but I would never use the model though.

**1-UP**

Haven't had any problems with folks cancelling auctions on me. I've purchased my entire army so far from E-bay - it's the only place that has prices remotely resembling what I think is worthwhile. Think they've broken down into something like:

CSM Assault Squad (5 troops, new) $12

CSM set of 15, including command sprue (New) $18

2x CSM sets of 10 (Glued and Primed) $12 a set

5x Nurgle Marines (old style) and Chaos Lord (all used and painted - needed stripping) $8

1x Chaos Sorcerer (NIB) $12

Abaddon, 5x Raptors, 1x terminator, 10x CSMs, 9x Berzerkers, 2x Noise marines (All in various states of quality, CSM probably trash, rest was stripable/restorable) $14

5x Terminators (Needed to be stripped) $24

Soooo, grand total on the army is something like $100 if my mental math is right (prices listed included shipping, some of those auctions I won for like a dollar, but paid through the nose to ship). Pretty tolerable. Not having as much luck with vehicles, but I'm sure that will pass.

Big thing has been to be willing to accept that you're going to lose 9 out of 10 auctions you bid on and to remember that shipping is part of the cost. I don't think I've paid more than 50% of retail for new product, and pennies on the dollar for used.

**Brother SRM**

I just got one of the prototype Terminators from 1987 for seven dollars.
eBay is fantastic for addicts of old metal like myself.

**kuro_khan**

I play warhammer for the combat aspect of it, not the modeling, so eBay is awesome for me. The less I have to put together/paint, the better.

**Forgotmytea**

kuro_khan wrote:I play warhammer for the combat aspect of it, not the modeling, so eBay is awesome for me. The less I have to put together/paint, the better.

I do love eBay deals, but at the same time personally there's so much fun to be had in taking a broken model missing various parts, and remaking it into something good-looking

A lot of my Gorkamorka models started life off that way; as half-painted broken models I got off eBay, and now look like a coherent warband =)

That said, deals on new/unmade models are fantastic too. Managed to save 2/3 of the retail price on my Eldar army thanks to eBay/trading forums (should've cost around £300, got it for around £100 in total =D)

**Kilkrazy**

If you are patient and lucky you can get some great bargains.

Just keep looking and making lowish bids. Eventually someone will dump a load of anything popular (SMs for instance) and you'll bag them.

It helps to not mind stripping and disassembling painted models.

**kuro_khan**

Painting.. ugh...

**Norbu the Destroyer**

I think ebay can be a useful tool to grab some rare or out of print miniatures, or to grab a cheap unit now and again; but I would not encourage people to use it to build their armies. I think supporting your LFGS is very important. Now if you only play in your basement and never at a store well then I guess continue, but for people who game at a store regularly and then purchase all of their armies on ebay I think its a bit greedy. I know GW does not make a cheap product but most stores I know are always offering deals on GW merchandise to help customers out. Buying your GW at a LFGS also allows the store to exist so it can stay open to let others come and enjoy the hobby.

If everyone bought their armies off of ebay and the local stores went away, the hobby would die. Now this is an extreme and again I think ebay can be a useful tool, but keep those friendly gaming stores in mind the next time you purchase entire armies off of the internet and then look for a local store to play or enter tournaments in.

**kuro_khan**

I buy my minis solely from eBay. But I buy all my tabletop gaming books and board games from the FLGS. I have lotsa hobbies... It's expensive being a geek.

**Shadowbrand**

For my IG all I bought was a 15$ Pewter Steel Legion Commisar from the local shop. I got 40 Guardsmen one sentinel and 2 weapon teams and a Basilisk all from a friend and deals with old stuff I got, Next ill buy a actual russ. So its been fairly cheap.

**Horst**

Just snagged another 20 (!) marine bikers... $7.50 each. thats half off list... awesome!

**kuro_khan**

GW's legion of redshirts will be coming for you soon.

**pr0t011187**

OH NO'S REDSHIRTS!!

**Huffy**

nice snag, I myself got a Stompa(christmas present) for $65 on ebay or amazon, don't remember which it was

**despoiler52**

Since I have a unconditional fear of the internet (even typing this scares me) I could never bring myself to buy anything from it. But all power to you for snaging that awsome deal.