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In a surprise to no one, by the way, not one of those land raiders is yet painted or even primed.

I only have one story of any worth on the day I decided to start playing 40k (12/10/10), I managed to find two deals that I have still yet to beat.
For $61 I got 60 Ork boyz, and 6 Lootas all built and painted up to a nice tabletop standard.
And moments later I picked up a Mad Dok, Snikrot, Weirdboy, Big Mek, Warboss, and some assorted other metal HQs and elites for $17.
I have yet to do that well again.

3 complete sets of genestealers including broodlords from the new space marine boardgame on the sprue for a grand total of £10 on ebay. Probably my best bargain.

100 O&G boys + warbosses / chariots etc on the sprue for £74, not bad either.

120 snap fit space marines with bolters for £2.99

I have a similar story to Ouze. Where I went to bed, and had bid on a bunch of auction thinking I would maybe win one.

I was looking for some spiky bits from chaos tank spurs. To add a bit of dread to my game board and scenery. While searching for bits on ebay. I find a guy listing a ton of new on the spur chaos vehicles that will end in the early morning hours. Everything had spiky bit spurs ( I wanted like 2 or 3), and the bids were really low. So I bid on everything thinking come morning if I was lucky I would win one or two. I really didn't think I would win any, but the hope was there. I put like 15 dollar bids on the Rhinos and 30 dollar bids on the Land Raiders and Vindicators. Then went to bed.

Come morning I went to take a look to see if I had won anything. To my horror and excitement I had won 9 of them. Horror because I had to pay much more then I had intended, and Excitement because I had won so many new models at decent prices. In all I payed $153.31 including shipping for the lot. I got 2 Land Raiders (one was $24 and the other was $23). One Vindicator (for $19). 6 Rhinos (2 for $13, 3 for $12 and 1 for $10).

Once I got the models in hand. I noticed all the Rhinos had no spiky bits spurs. The action showed them all having them. So I asked the seller if he had forgotten to ship them. He gave me a 14 dollar credit for the mistake. My final coast was now 139.31. I was happy to get some money back as I didn't plan on winning so many, and really only wanted to spent maybe half that at the time. I got the 3 sets of spiky bit spurs I wanted, and all the transports I would ever need. Since then I have won a whirlwind tank spurs auction. So I turned one of the rhinos into a Whirlwind. The Whirlwind spur rhino combo still comes in at less the 40% retail. I still haven't put them all together yet, and probably wont anytime soon.

Its nice to see that not everyone on ebay is a rip off merchant.

My Blood Bowl box set was $3.00 at Half-Price Books and was only missing one of each lineman, two of the four balls and the painting guide. Super find

@PC Veteran - I feel your pain! So many treads...

Someone was selling a ridiculous amount of Tau pickup only. I was the only bidder at $500 AU.
From that I got 7 Devilfish, 3 Hammerhead, 8 Piranha, 2x Shadowsun, 18 XV25, 12 XV15, 6 Pathfinders, 2x Shadowsun, 1x Command,er 15 XV8, 6 XV88, 2 Sniper Teams, 30 Kroot, 90 Firewarriors and gun drones to last two lifetimes. And a skaven. The vast majority still on sprue.
I think it totalled to something over $3000 AU at todays prices without using battleforces.

Recently got 18 of the OOP metal Cadian models for 20 bucks, shipped. That's probably one of the best deals I've ever gotten on eBay.

Trasvi wrote:Someone was selling a ridiculous amount of Tau pickup only. I was the only bidder at $500 AU.
From that I got 7 Devilfish, 3 Hammerhead, 8 Piranha, 2x Shadowsun, 18 XV25, 12 XV15, 6 Pathfinders, 2x Shadowsun, 1x Command,er 15 XV8, 6 XV88, 2 Sniper Teams, 30 Kroot, 90 Firewarriors and gun drones to last two lifetimes. And a skaven. The vast majority still on sprue.
I think it totalled to something over $3000 AU at todays prices without using battleforces.

Awesome find. That skaven really makes the army.

Off ebay, $4 metal immortals for necrons (back int he day)
Off a local website, a guy was clearing out his old hobby stuff, got about $300 worth of necron stuff for $50

I think the best deal i've had was 24 rulebooks, codex', armybooks etc for under £40. There was only one i already had and everything is in great condition.

I have to say I am happy I just went to Ebay as a random trip and bought some old Dark Reapers for my Eldar Corsair-themed army- 4 Aspect warriors and an Exarch for 20 dollars with shipping. They are the really old ones (2nd edition, I think?) without the awkward squares that stick out from each side of the helmets, just the skull shape. The Exarch is the old version with the Shuriken catapult held to his hip and pointing.

Nothing special, but still 15 dollars less than the Finecast boxed set, and with some of that good old 2nd edition style.

They are these sculpts(but unpainted). Can anyone tell me if they are what I think they are? I'm pretty sure they are 2nd edition, and I think there has been two resculpts since then?:

I think they're 3rd/4th edition

They are the sculpt between what is available now and the ones with the pointy helmets with square bits (which are 2nd edition btw)!

Honestly? My #1 ebay find is this ebay store.

http://stores.ebay.com/westcoastcomicsandcollectibles

It is a godsend for someone who lives in Japan. Even with shipping included, the prices are still something like 35-40% off Japan retail.

I highly suggest people from Australia or NZ, or anywhere with outrageous double US/UK retail prices, check that store out as well. It works as an incredible substitute for Wayland until they get their act together.

For those that are "worried" about it being ebay, from my understanding, it is just a regular online store that uses ebay as a storefront for advertising etc.

Neroman wrote:I got 58 Fire Warriors for 71 dollars. Probably never going to field them all, but hey, 1/3 price

I wonder if they weren't from me. I always sell fire warriors in big lots like that.

I once got three chaplains, (the one with PF, the one with PP, and the one with a skull helmet,) for about £12 BNIB

Managed to win a current-ed Wood Elf Treeman for just over £6 last night, I'm pretty happy with that

Ben

A few weeks ago I was browsing eBay and came across 10 unpainted Death Guard marines (FW pieces included, already assembled) and a chaos rhino for a buy it now price of $55 with $5 shipping.

I quickly snatched that up before the seller came to their senses.

A large eldar army for around 70% off retail.

Got 31 SoB Seraphim for $60..

and they are $12.25 a piece new.

25 metal grey knight termies and brother stern for 125 shipped =) I buy most of my items from ebay a metal coteaz for 9 dollars librarian in termie armor oop for 8 all kinds of stuff =D most of my grey knights came from ebay or dakka

My wife got a seald horus heresy game for 60 shipped =) a nice savings of 40 dollars =D


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Grimtuff wrote:Got me a massive Legion of Everblight army for Hordes, completely unpainted- for £200. It retailed at around £540!

Yes, I was chuffed!

Oh, and to reveal the secret to getting awesome eBay finds- http://fatfingers.com/

+1 to you sir! That thing is awesome

Latest haul, as of today:

22 Rogue Trader plastic Imperial Guardsmen and 5 Rogue Trader metal commissars for 31 bucks, SHIPPED

Also just won 7 Rogue Trader metal Imperial Guardsmen for like 12 dollars shipped.

If I had bought this stuff from GW online, would've been 3 boxes of guardsmen for $87 (not including tax) and 5 metal commissars for $66.25. In short, I saved about $120. Not bad, not bad at all.

Kind Regards,
Vladsimpaler

I got my D day -1 book for flames of war for .99 cents with three dollar shipping.

Canon Digital Rebel Xsi for less than $400! Bought it last week and it's en route.

Eric

My conquest of eBay is over, that is until I get paid again.

Won the original Rogue Trader rulebook for 20.50, which isn't too bad considering that they normally go for at least 60 bucks.

At less than the price for a current codex too! ; )

Kind Regards,
Vladsimpaler

Vladsimpaler wrote:My conquest of eBay is over, that is until I get paid again.

Won the original Rogue Trader rulebook for 20.50, which isn't too bad considering that they normally go for at least 60 bucks.

At less than the price for a current codex too! ; )

Kind Regards,
Vladsimpaler

You should've been watching my trade ads. I just sold a pair for $20, total.


Eric

Recently my two good hauls were:

14 2ed shotgun arbites bare metal $95 cdn shipped.

And a lot of sister stuff that included:

20 Seraphims + VSS + hand flamers
20+ repintia
2x melta guns
2x flamers
2x Imagfiers
2x Partial St. Celestine
Female Inquisitor
Extra backpacks

For $80 Shipped cdn

MagickalMemories wrote:

Vladsimpaler wrote:My conquest of eBay is over, that is until I get paid again.

Won the original Rogue Trader rulebook for 20.50, which isn't too bad considering that they normally go for at least 60 bucks.

At less than the price for a current codex too! ; )

Kind Regards,
Vladsimpaler

You should've been watching my trade ads. I just sold a pair for $20, total.


Eric

HNNNGGG were they on Dakka? I search through the swap shop at least once every few days and I didn't see them

(edit: I see them in your thread, how did I even miss that?)

Kind Regards,
Vladsimpaler

for 15$ on ebay i got....
30 Marines + 1 Command + 10 Bases + 20 unprimed heads.

--- The Negatives ---
30 Marines were painted as imperial fists but were damaged severely. Some of the heads were glued too well on the torsos. Many rips and stabbings later The heads were removed.

Not a huge deal, but I did manage to get a solitary Sevrin Loth model for my upcoming Red Hunters army for $25.