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I feel so lucky right now. My day started off nearly as horribly as any day possibly could, but this is definitely a little spot of sunshine in the midst of it.



It's missing 1 of each of the most plentiful players (one guy in the standing pose and one orc in the hunched over pose), 2 of the footballs and the painting guide leaflet. It's otherwise complete, including the original dice. The kicker?


3 fething dollars at Half-Price Books.

So, dakka, do I strip the minis and sell it or keep it as a nerd trophy?

What are the best deals you've gotten on minis or other nerdery? My second closest is a soul grinder, NIB for $20.

I recently got a bunch of IG tanks from a guy who was "cashing out" of 40k.

I got ten Leman Russes, 3 basalisks, a hellhound, a griffin, and a chimera mint on sprues for $150.00

Best deal i have ever gotten.

100 'random' lead figures for $75. A resubscribe special offer from a very long time ago.

Few dozen old Terminators, a few Dreadnoughts, BFG Starter, CSM Fleet for BFG, and a 1500 point Tau army

For 75$ off a friend who was leaving the hobby. He was into smoking some plants and needed quick money. He quit the hobby a few years back but decided to ditch his stuff after awhile.

78 Metal catachans, 5 Chimeras, 6 Leman russes, a bunch of other random metal minis including Vinidcare assassins, a female Catachan, the Female Commissar, and an Armorcast Baneblade/Shadow sword for $350.

Auxellion wrote:Few dozen old Terminators, a few Dreadnoughts, BFG Starter, CSM Fleet for BFG, and a 1500 point Tau army

For 75$ off a friend who was leaving the hobby. He was into smoking some plants and needed quick money. He quit the hobby a few years back but decided to ditch his stuff after awhile.

I've gotten several cheap instruments off people who put that they need weed in their Craigslist ad It's always in my first round of searching. Good stuff, man.

Lots of cheap IG mentioned

I have gotten a few good deals over the years.

One that comes to mind was a trygon NIB, 2 carnifexes that were primed, and 3 ravenors that were painted for 80 bucks

Another more recent one was a guy on ebay selling the space marine attack starter set that comes with 4 marines with bolters, a marine with a missle launcher, and 8 old school genestealers for 7 bucks. I have a buddy of mine that bought like 10 of em for prolly around 70 or 80 bucks shipped.

14 PAGK minis (including 4 special weapons and three justicars) for $40 - three months ago. Now they want to buy them back. Ha ha!

13 Classic Harlequin models (inc a shadowseer) for $40.

Eldar Warwalker (plastic) with two scatter lasers $15 - needed a canopy piece.

Best deal was 20 cadian bodies, 20 vox helmets and packs, flamers and GL in a bag that also had a metal 2nd ed sentinel, vindicare sniper, 5 Steel legion, 6 rough rider metal torsos, and a set of guard track and wheel sprues for $20.

local player getting out.. got me
3 LR
Hellhound
Chimera

Original Land Raider bare plastic
OOP Predator
OOP Whirlwind
bunch of RT marines (needing stripped)
20 or so multipart plastic marines on sprue

lots of fantasy goodies

FW USA Warhound titan..
16 bottles oop GW paint, still sealed and liquid

less than 300 bucks..

With the amount of trading you do, that one somehow doesn't surprise me

yes.. but it wasn't internet based. Just a ad on my local craigslist that my wife saw and pointed out to me..

I actually tried to talk him up in price.. the Warhound alone was worth almost what I paid.. but, he really wanted these boxes gone.

Oh yeah.. Battlefleet Gothic starter, Titan Legions starter, and heroquest also were in the lot..

119 Plastic Genestealers from a bunch of space hulk boxed sets for 50.00 as well as abut forty full old style tyrannid warrior sprues...

Oh yeah, go the hock shop suckers!

Jihadnik wrote:119 Plastic Genestealers from a bunch of space hulk boxed sets for 50.00 as well as abut forty full old style tyrannid warrior sprues...

Oh yeah, go the hock shop suckers!

That's insane. Genestealer Apocalypse formation...

I once scored over 70 Epic tanks for 20 quid on eBay.

Most reccent, Star Wars Miniatruess AT-AT for £20, just because it wasn't boxed. I think the main reason I got away with it was he listed ship to UK only.

Considering what they are selling for on average, and the fact I just wanted it for games, I was very happy.

The best was a heap of older figures, 30 plastic womble marines, 18 metal harlequins, metal/plastic orks, space slann, etc, totalling around 80 figures - £5. Yup, five quid.

Either the time I got an entire 1980/90's metal dwarf army (about 150 figs inc all of the white dwarfs and regiments of renown) for about £60 on eBay

or in store when I picked up about £80 worth of 30% off FoW stock at hobbycraft and the checkout girl accidently put the 30% off code on again.

(or any transaction with GW mail order when they balls up and you get the same stuff again!)

When GW went bananas and started passing out C&D's like chiclets, a lot of people were pretty fed up with them.

One fellow was so angry that he gave me all of his GW stuff. The majority of which was LotR stuff (score for me since it is about all GW is good for IMO).

He sent me a list and asked me to pay shipping. The shipping cost me a couple hundreds dollars.

Pretty steep shipping huh? Well considering that it had nearly $5K worth of unopened (and much of it was OOP) GW product...I wasnt shocked by the shipping cost anymore.

It took several months to receive it, but I got thousands of dollars worth of GW stuff for free. Just had to pay shipping.

The sad part about all of this is, is that one would imagine nearly $5K worth of GW product being delivered in a refrigerator box, but that value of product really doesn't take up as much room as one would think or hope. Still it was beyond a reasonable doubt the best score I have ever gotten.

All I had to be was in the right place at the right time.

let's see.

a couple hundred metal Cadians, Steel Legion and Valhallans (including heavy weapons crews) and a Dozen metal Chaos Dreads for $200 from a contact that worked for GW.

A hundred older metal Space Marines and 20 old metal Terminators with some old (1st edition) plastic Rhinos and Predators for $50 at the Gen Con auction one year.

a 20 gallon plastic bin full of Armorcast scenery for $50

30 space marines, a predator well assembled and unpainted and a load of scenary for 15 dollars.

25 dollars for 50 cadians.

THIS bad boy, plus a custom version of this cases plus some other accoutrements for the low, low price of roughly $2,000.00 US.



King Ghidorah

20 Firewarriors, 15 catachans, couple old DE, two or three space marines, a metal ork warboss, a random fantasy orc, a warbuggy, 5 sisters of battle seraphim, and a couple of random bits, as well as a copy of this:
http://www.amazon.com/Make-Wargames-Terrain-Nigel-Stillman/dp/1872372449
and the figure case they came in for (drum roll please)

gotta love charity stores

Aquaterry

i allways used to scam the kids at the local club :]
always used to swop there old rouge trader stuff for current versions ie 10 old metal marines for ten plastics lol

best deal was mint first ed warhammer for 50p
and a whole old school plastic skelly army 3 chariots 10 horsemen 60 infantry all still on the sprue for £5
and got given a huge box of mixed models and books inc the two realms of chaos books for free !

Hmm...I got two trashed rhinos for free from a buddy who got them for $1 each from a bitbox I think. After using spare bits from a rhino box and a bit of hotel key-card they're both looking pretty slick and usable.

Otherwise I have decent luck with E-bay. Just got two new boxes of Daemonettes for $15 a pop, shipped.

Gotten lots of good deals through the swapshop here as well. There's some really nice folks who are happy to toss things in. Several times have opened a box to discover they added a few minis or things as a bonus.

The best deal I have got was someone selling his IG army, I got 2 Medusas ( with FW turrets) and a Valkyrie from him for $40. I also got 2 guardsmen w/ meltaguns and 7 guardsmen w/ plasmaguns from him for $5. He had already sold 4 Leman Russ tanks, a Manticore, and a Chimera to someone else for $60, but I was happy that I was able to get the plasma and meltaguns that I needed from him for cheap.

Got a Complete AOBR Set for 35 dollars. The dreadnought and the space marines were already painted ultramarines and to a tabletop standard. In addition, the guy gave me all 7 or 8 of his paints and his primer. All in all it was a really surprising deal for me.

very recently:

Chaos Predator w/ Heavy bolter side sponses and Twin linked lascannon-Primiered black

OOP metal Dreadnaught. Comes with plasma cannon and TL Autocannon

5 Built Termies 2 w/ Power weapons and bolters; 1 w/ PW and Hvy Flamer; 1 w/ Power fist and combi melta; 1 w/ chain fist and Reaper AC

35 misc chaos space marines in various shape

11 old style (1st gen) Plague marines in various shape.

two 1st gen nurgle icon bears.

5 unassembled metal Plague marines

1 new in blister Havoc missle launcher.

Lots of havoc squad models

$50+ shipping

I picked up a 10,000 ork army for $250 and a about 150 common magic cards. The whole lot was over 1000+ models.

I also picked up the following for $45

Nightbringer
2 Monolith
3 Destroyers
3 Wraith
3 Immortal
30 Warrior
2 Flayed Ones.


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Something not so dorky, but I got a beautiful Oak Entertainment center roughly work $2000 for free. Some guy's mom passed away and he didn't have the room for it in his house, So when I was over hanging out with him. He asked me if I would like to take it with me.

Great deals batman!

Almost all my purchases fall into the great deals catagory, as I buy used and almost never pay more than 35% of retail for anything, but a few standouts at least in terms of % were.

-Trollbloods mage $.50 (was in a bag marked bits)

-CAV rulebook and Journal of recognition $2

-Battle For MaCraage. 12 bucks.

-1250 points of IG along with a bunch of extra marines and random figures and a massive bits collection for $100. The bits were the real jem, I used them as trade bait for 5 years and probably turned them into 100-200 bucks worth of stuff.

-For me the real deal comes in the trade or resell. Buying something you know is a great deal b/c it will finance something you really want.

-2 bucks of Legions of steel figs flipped for $25

-Spending 20 bucks at an auction and then spending 20 bucks more b/c that one $20 item will resell for more than the 40 total you spent = free stuff!

Like (I suspect) many of the folks above, at this point I'm trying to make my hobby just about pay for itself.

I bought 2 FW Broadsides, 1 FW Shas'o R'myr, 2 Firewarrior squads, 3 XV8's, a Sky Ray, 12 Pathfinders (4 with railrifles), a ton of gun drones, Codex and a carrying case...

for 160 buck on eBay. I was soooo stoked