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I could imagine those minis are actually bought by people in countries like Canada, where minis that are sold at US prices are usually a huge deal compared to their pricing over here. For example, Grey Knight Terminators in the US cost $55 in the US, but $75 over here.

This wasn't for me, but when I worked for GW, some guy bought the space marine army deal, that had the then-new 4th ed marine codex in it.

He opened it up, and inside the box that ws supposed to have the land speeder was a USED deodorant. We all thought it was someone's idea of a joke, since waaaay back they had a picture of a converted speeder made from a deodorant stick. But yeah, the guy at the warehouse had used it, so we of course told the guy who was a regular it was our secret way of saying take a shower, and then I cracked open a land speeder box for him GW Warehouse wanted the batch codes, and they wanted the deodorant too, and then they sent us a landspeeder to replenish my stocks.

Weird eh?

Not really recieved anything wierd, but I've been know to throw in extra cards for CCG lots, especially if I felt they went for silly money, or someone was paying silly postage due to destination and the tracking cost.

Although there was one time I sent some figures in a 'Crunchie' box that was the right size, so I thought it'd be funny to send the guy an actual Crunchie with it. He appreciated the gesture and even left a mention of it in the feedback.

Didn't occur to me until after I could have got into a world of trouble for sending foodstuffs unmarked overseas.

Fafnir wrote:I could imagine those minis are actually bought by people in countries like Canada, where minis that are sold at US prices are usually a huge deal compared to their pricing over here. For example, Grey Knight Terminators in the US cost $55 in the US, but $75 over here.

The same happens at ebay UK, and I doubt that there is any economy in having stuff bought at UK prices shipped abroad. There's no explanation for that other than that people are too stupid to check prices, and think everything on ebay is a bargain.

I used to buy stuff mail-order from Ral Partha in the late 80's, for second edition Battlesystem. Sometimes I would get exactly what I ordered, sometimes half would be my order and half would be other stuff. Once, I'd actually ordered a dozen wolf-riding goblins but what I got was three of them and about two dozen Kobolds. Since everything they mistakenly sent me was something that fit in with the army I was collecting, I didn't ever try to fix the situation. Five years later, I ended up selling it all at the local drive-in theater swap-n-shop for a quarter of what I paid, which was okay. Now that I've read this thread, I'm a LOT less likely to mess with Ebay.

LOL! Ah c'mon. I've actually had real good success with ebay. You just gotta adhere to some rules...

1.) Read the entire item description!

2.) Check the sellers history and read the feedback comments.

3.) If you're unsure about the item or seller for any reason, be patient, someone else will probably sell it eventually.

That one negative interaction I had listed above is one of two that I can remember going bad (lousy or misleading sellers) and that's out of several hundred buys and sells. Overall EBay is fantastic!

I was once sent and extremely rare He-Man figure by accident along with my order. I sent it back to the seller who was relieved to have it back, since the person who actually ordered it thought he had been cheated out of $500 and had freaked and sent a bunch of threatening e-mails to the seller.

At one point I ordered 12 mounted daemonettes from GW. They made a mistake and packed in 12 boxes of mounted daemonettes.

A free coke.

For those of you that are wondering, I didn't drink it.

Chrysaor686 wrote:A free coke.

For those of you that are wondering, I didn't drink it.

That probably saved your life.

wiggles wrote:

Fafnir wrote:I could imagine those minis are actually bought by people in countries like Canada, where minis that are sold at US prices are usually a huge deal compared to their pricing over here. For example, Grey Knight Terminators in the US cost $55 in the US, but $75 over here.

The same happens at ebay UK, and I doubt that there is any economy in having stuff bought at UK prices shipped abroad. There's no explanation for that other than that people are too stupid to check prices, and think everything on ebay is a bargain.

I've seen some buy it now stuff that was a bargain. I've also paid retail price for Flames of War stuff so that I didn't have to special order it from New Zealand. Made sense to me in both cases.

cuscus wrote:At one point I ordered 12 mounted daemonettes from GW. They made a mistake and packed in 12 boxes of mounted daemonettes.

Its hard to imagine that type of mistake as it would be obviouse mistake
when they are making the receipt and stuff o_o

cuscus wrote:At one point I ordered 12 mounted daemonettes from GW. They made a mistake and packed in 12 boxes of mounted daemonettes.

Did they charge you for all of them?

Quite a few times I have been given extra books/minis/stuff not mentioned in auction/etc with ebay orders.

I had one box of random SM parts completely covered in cat hair and worse, thankfully soap, water and simple green cleaned them all up.

I also played Russian Roulette on an auction, it said it was 2 pounds of 40k minis and had no picture with a vague description (I think the seller had a low feedback score at the time too). I am glad I did, it was way more than 2 pounds and had some rare IG including almost 2 complete sets of Last Chancers.

Golly. My flgs carries Last Chancers.

Pubes.

There have been entire threads on Bartertown in the past on "Why am I getting PUBES in my trades?"

It's rather gross.

I've never gotten anything weird, myself, but I regularly get "bonus" items (extra minis, etc.)

Eric

Fafnir wrote:

cuscus wrote:At one point I ordered 12 mounted daemonettes from GW. They made a mistake and packed in 12 boxes of mounted daemonettes.

Did they charge you for all of them?

Only charged for the 12 I ordered. Don't forget that these came in blisters and a box of blister packs is 2 individual blisters in a rather small box.

Similar to the 12 blisters turning into 12 boxes we had a guy at the local GW almost end up with 12 Battlebarges for the price of 12 Strike Cruisers. The mail order guys ended up sending an email to the store to confirm the order, which in turn corrected the mistake before it happened.

I have never personally had anything odd happen to me with any orders but did have a strange one for a customer show up when I worked for GW.

The guy had ordered 5 metal chaos terminator power fists. What came were 5 Banner of Macragge. When reorder I opened a new box with 5 more banners and no power fists. I can't remember what the problem was but I think it had something to do with the bin lables being off or something. The power fists were only $1.25ish each but the banners were $22+ per model. Who would ever need 10 Banners of Macragge I have no idea, and I also can't remeber the eventual fate of the models.

cuscus wrote:

Fafnir wrote:

cuscus wrote:At one point I ordered 12 mounted daemonettes from GW. They made a mistake and packed in 12 boxes of mounted daemonettes.

Did they charge you for all of them?

Only charged for the 12 I ordered. Don't forget that these came in blisters and a box of blister packs is 2 individual blisters in a rather small box.

You wouldn't happen to still have any of these you'd be willing to part with mayhaps? I only need 3 to finish a legal unit...

captain.gordino wrote:Golly. My flgs carries Last Chancers.

At the time I won the auction, Last Chancers were officially OOP as a set and had been for a while, GW just decided to bring them back again after all. Besides, I paid less than one set of LC cost new for the whole set of minis in that lot.

Fafnir wrote:I could imagine those minis are actually bought by people in countries like Canada, where minis that are sold at US prices are usually a huge deal compared to their pricing over here. For example, Grey Knight Terminators in the US cost $55 in the US, but $75 over here.

ouch... say a kid works at mcdonald and earns to buy their own minis instead of relying on parents....
thats like $8 an hour, add in tax and stuff for GK, thats 10-11 hour work for a box.


@o@ over priced!