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I've been looking at getting hold of a copy of the Imperial Army Book 4 for the base plans inside. So I thought I'd try Ebay, boy what fun that is ) So far I've seen one go for £20 inc p&p and another for £24.87, not too bad. What is hysterical is one for sale for £40 plus £8.50 for p&p. Another is £76.95 with free p&p. You can get it for £35.84 inc p&p, brand new. Am I missing something here?

Simple - people will bog their arm in for as much as they think they can. Then when no one bites drop the price until someone does bite

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/priceskimming.asp

A product pricing strategy by which a firm charges the highest initial price that customers will pay. As the demand of the first customers is satisfied, the firm lowers the price to attract another, more price-sensitive segment.

Therefore, the skimming strategy gets its name from skimming successive layers of "cream," or customer segments, as prices are lowered over time.

Its to snag the occasional fool who doesn't do any research. "A fool and his money are soon parted"

Yeah, eBay and Amazon, alike. Cards Against Humanity sells for stupid prices, as it quickly goes out of print...and gets reprinted. A lot. People horde it up and charge stupid amounts, and people wait a couple weeks and get a copy from the company who makes it. Runebound expansions are selling at stupid prices too. I've been trying to get the adventure packs, managed to snag 10 out of 24 at retail price, but most of the others are BINs at anywhere from $40-135. There are 30 cards in each pack! What makes you think they are worth that? Especially since FFG WILL eventually reprint them. Anyway, if any of you guys have Runebound Second Edition booster packs at your store that are selling for normal prices ($10), let me know-I'll ask you to pick them up for me (other than the ones I already have) and I'll paypal you the money. Thanks.

I managed to snag IA 4 on ebay recently for £15

You can get some stuff for a decent price; I guess I was just lucky

Have made around 150 purchases on Ebay including full armies - happy with all of them and about 90% were substantially under retail - especially pleasing when the minis were well painted - which is suprisingly often

I am pretty clear in my own mind what i will pay and don't chase the purchase - if I miss it - it will come round again............in fact i usually set out my max bid at the start and ignore it until I get the notice if i won or not.........

I was looking at battlehive on eBay and notices Lazarus games selling two empty cases for more than the maker charges for full cases, shipping included.

People is silly.

There's a whole thread dedicated to cataloging this kinda thing.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/407353.page