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I just saves $45 on Marneus Calgar and his honor guard retinue.

As Apu would say: "Thank you, come again!"

Flea markets are even sweeter. Rogue Trader dreadnought for $7 and the 3rd ed starter set for $10 are my best deals.

You know what's even sweeter? When Marneus Calgar and his buddies didn't cost $56.

Never thought to look at the flea market for wargaming sutff. But im in south florida so theres isnt much of a market for that at the flea market. Just fake watches and purses and clothes

Brother SRM wrote:Flea markets are even sweeter. Rogue Trader dreadnought for $7 and the 3rd ed starter set for $10 are my best deals.

You know what's even sweeter? When Marneus Calgar and his buddies didn't cost $56.

You're quite luck, we have some big flea markets (biggest being Columbus Flea market, it has a few hundred venders usually, here's an aerial picture: http://columbusfarmersmarket.com/aerial.htm) here but I have never seen any wargaming stuff.

Edit: spelling

Gaming conventions often have flea markets - Kubla-Con in California has one, as does Historicon in Pennsylvania. You can get crazy deals if you're looking for em!

Brother SRM wrote:Gaming conventions often have flea markets - Kubla-Con in California has one, as does Historicon in Pennsylvania. You can get crazy deals if you're looking for em!

Ok, I thought you were talking about normal flea markets.

What? There are flea markets (which I'm guessing is american for car boot sale) at conventions?

Does anyone know of anything like this in the UK?

You know whats even better?Mispriced items at the not so friendly local gaming store. Ogre Kingdoms Battalion for 20 USD? I'll take that.

I bought AoBR on ebay for 50 dollars, bargain, truly amzing. The thing about ebay is that your not the only one looking for cheap mini's!

e.g.:

Going to buy my first ork trukk for 22 dollars, got bought before I even had the chance to bid!

DARN!!

I just got a Khador Battlegroup for $28 plus shipping.

MaximusPrime wrote:I bought AoBR on ebay for 50 dollars, bargain, truly amzing. The thing about ebay is that your not the only one looking for cheap mini's!
DARN!!

I got one for that cheap when it came out three years ago, before the price got jacked up

eBay is a great source of cheap figures, provided you are patient and don't need to have them by the coming weekend. Otherwise it can get as expensive as retail, if not more.

I got my Plague Monks at nearly 33% of retail by lowballing and eventually winning enough from the bits sellers. I'm about to have to buy my last Ironguts off the shelf at a GW store because nobody seems to be selling them on eBay at the moment. :/

Just won 6 space crusade dreds on ebay for only 13 GBP, Winnnnnnnn


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Sorry, i had to brag somewhere!! :-)

tantan628 wrote:What? There are flea markets (which I'm guessing is american for car boot sale) at conventions?

Does anyone know of anything like this in the UK?

yeah dude, I'm off to Border Reiver at Newcastle Arena in 2 weeks, theres always loadsa bargains to be had either from sellers or the bring n buy.

The Mantic stall last year was selling everyting Mantic at 50% off (think about about how cheap half Mantic prices are!).

You know whats better? A SM predator for 20p, only a little renovating needed. I love clueless jumble salers

tantan628 wrote:What? There are flea markets (which I'm guessing is american for car boot sale) at conventions?

Does anyone know of anything like this in the UK?

Nope but flea market is an old term predating cars let alone boot sales

Try Jumble Sale for an older term.

There were tables off to one side at the historical con I went to back in June. Piles of 40k stuff going fairly cheap, at a show selling mostly Roundheads and Romans.

Just picked up 37 clanrats, 1 rat ogre and assorted bits for £29! Looked like the leftover battalion bits, pretty sweet deal if you ask me!

Ebay is OK. Not sure if it is just me but I have noticed in recent years that genuine bargains are getting harder and harder to find on there. Sellers seem to be getting a bit more savvy. The downside to this is that all too often, people check their stuff against the GW retail price and think 'oh so it's worth x amount' and list it as such, even if said listing is for old and broken models, crappily assembled and globbed in paint.

But if you are patient and trawl through the listings, every so often you can find a real gem.

I have been buying old RT mini's on eBay for a while now. Not bad value, but old mk 1 Landraiders are going for a pretty penny now.... People are really getting savvy now.

With no true "plug" intended... I've gotten better cash purchases on Bartertown than I ever got on feebay.

Eric

E:^^^ I've gotten great deals on Dakka's own Swap Shop. I check there before eBay if I'm going to make a purchase.

filbert wrote:Ebay is OK. Not sure if it is just me but I have noticed in recent years that genuine bargains are getting harder and harder to find on there. Sellers seem to be getting a bit more savvy. The downside to this is that all too often, people check their stuff against the GW retail price and think 'oh so it's worth x amount' and list it as such, even if said listing is for old and broken models, crappily assembled and globbed in paint.

But if you are patient and trawl through the listings, every so often you can find a real gem.

I'm not sure how much is people getting more savvy or more retailers and stores selling stuff on eBay. I suspect both. The weirdest thing is when models go for more than retail price. I was tracking some Imperial Guard HQ model - GW sells this fig for $15 or so. Damn thing went up to $33 before bidding ended, and it was stripped. I don't understand.

SRM: Dakka is my second choice. BTown has, by nature, a larger selection of ads. That's one reason I prefer it. ; )

That said, I have gotten some really good deals here and have traded with some very good traders, too.

As for the higher price... you get that sometimes. I recall seeing Last Chancers selling for HIGH amounts of money, when I could've bought the box on the GW site, still. Not sure if that is STILL the case, but it was within the last year. I know this, because I briefly contemplated buying a couple Chancers boxes and parting them out there.

...then I remembered what a pain it is to sell with feebay and why I stopped. lol
Even to double my investment, it wasn't worth it. : )

Eric

My gaming group in NY had some swap meets, great fun if you can find a non-store location to hold it in.

Since discovering Ebay, I've gotten my Hordes stuff 30% off retail and saved me LOADS. Oh ebay stores, you make me love my wallet more than it deserves.

I am mainly buying my miniatures on US Ebay. There is very nice deals here, and with the advantageous conversion between € and $ that's even better

I've gotten some great deals from bartertown, so i can't knock it. You do have to invest a lot of time to sift through ads though.

Yeah.
There's some truth to THAT.

Eric

Best thing about eBay?

Misspelled listings, followed closely by wrong listings. You can often find incredibly cheap stuff if you look for slight misspellings. People don't see these items, so nobody bids on them. It's also worth browsing occasionally, as people will have something listed wrong, and you can scoop it up. I got long OOP miniatures this way, including a Nagash (man, that model is hilariously bad) listed as a Dark Elf Necromancer. Wha?

Patience and luck are your friends on ebay. Bartertown is nice, but there, you generally have people who know what they are selling.

At A-kon 22, I got 2 metal razorbacks and 20 metal pink horrors for $25.