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That Assault Walker is pretty nice, though it looks a bit.. unusual.

Looks better then the stock stormtalon IMO.


Ok back on topic.

By far the biggest lucky find of my life was about two years ago when I lived in Chicago. I lived down the street from a small 24 hour diner in a pretty bad neighborhood. It was about 1am and I often went up there for some late night cheeseburgers. I got about halfway down the block and I noticed cops busting a few guys in the diner parking lot in the front of the building. There must have been someone meeting them i guess and he panicked when he saw the law and tossed something by the grease box or whatever the term for that stinky thing is. I walked pass the cops and got my bacon double cheese burger and left. 1 hour or so later I got up the nerve to go see if I really did see him throw something or not. I did. I was sooo happy. Should have seen my cheeseburger eaten self run.

Brilliant comment in the second spoilered box, though not so sure about what you find myself... Could be kids reading this (I'm not normally a prude lol)

Today I got some fantastic eBay finds,

72 Unpainted Moria Goblins for £10.37
Sauron Unpainted for £5.50

Saved myself about £90 on retail for things I would have bought anyway.

I love eBay sometimes...

I'm into Epic Armageddon and ended up getting an Emperor Titan, 5 Warlords, 2Eldar Phoenix Titans, A complete run of all the funky Eldar and Imperial Titans as well as 3Warhounds, complete Marine, Eldar and Orc armies with multiples of all vehicles.
To top things off, I also got a complete Tyranid army with all transports, artillery, bio titans, etc. for $75.
The guy that sold all that to me said he wanted to get some War Machine stuff and needed to make room.

Gotta love ebay... I just got a stormraven gunship for $35

I bought an OOP Warhammer starter set (Empire/Goblins) for $1 on Ebay. Seller had jacked up the shipping so no one else was bidding - he was local and agreed to a pick up. Turns out he was 5 minutes away from my work.

I got an entire epic scale Marine Chapter (the only thing missing was a few devastators and Dreadnoughts) for £25 I don't even want to work out how much it would have cost at full RRP.

My best deal ever was on Bartertown. I posted looking for Genestealer Hybrids. Somebody PMed me, said he had them and some other stuff he was looking to get rid of. I asked him what he had. A rough list:

40 Genestealer Hybrids
Genestealer Patriarch
3 Genestealer Magi
30 Necromunda Ash Waste Gangers
6 or 7 IG tanks
2 modern Sentinels
2 RT-era Sentinels
RT-era Rough Riders
Various RT-era IG infantry
7 metal Minotaurs
30 Kroot
Necromunda Ratskin gang
buncha plastic Necromunda Orlocks
miscellaneous other Necromunda models
Rulebooks, templates and a bunch of codicies

...and probably 2 or 3 other big items that I can't remember. I know I'm forgetting stuff.

He asked for $175. I gave it to him. It was 7 boxes worth of stuff. A funny side story was that the box containing all the rulebooks and codicies opened in transit and lost all the contents. He was apologetic...I told him not to worry about it. Christmas came early that year.

Some of the stuff was beat, but most of it was useable or repairable. You know I'm telling the truth about this because you can see some of the models mentioned above at the links in my sig.

- got a pack of Moonscape terrain for $15. GW sells it for $35.

- Was looking for a single Space Marine Bike for my Wolf Priest. Looked on eBay, found one new on sprue for $14 shipped.

Last wednesday of the month here in central ohio is 1/2 off day at the local Volunteers of America thrift store.

Last month, whilst awaiting my wife to finish her shopping .. I was browsing the luggage section of the store, and ran across a Sabol Army Transport, mk1 (no foam) for $3...

Since I have a lot of sabol stuff already, this was wonderful!

-P

An old Chaos Champion of Slaanesh for 20p in a charity shop.

The space marine terminator box that included the captain and librarian all unbuilt and unpainted, all the bits everything in mint condition for £10 at a car boot sale. Got it home, oppened it and found the guy had put an Azrael model along with his helmet in there too.

i contacted my friend in 2010 about purchasing his IG off him. Sure enough he was in the mood to sell since his 8000 points of Black templar are his personal favorite over the guard force he had been collecting. We bargined till the final price was 40$ plus the Helsreach Novel for all of his guard. His total force was as followed:





5th edition Codex (new)
4th edition Codex (old but mint)
48 lasguns, a couply w/ radios
10 regs w/ G Launchers
1 w/ meltagun
1 w/ plasmagun
3 guys from the Macragge set (the 'captain' who wa flying the crashed lander)
5 ratlings
1 well painted senior officer with chainsword and laspistol
1 assassin sniper (Vindicare)
4 sergeants w/ Las pistol and CCW
junior officer with a force field generator
a plasma pistol and a power sword
a standard bearer
a combat medic
a metal 'wounded soldier' model which comes with the command squad
a metal guy who looks like a green beret
who is carrying an 'auto rifle'
which is from 3rd ed.
but well painted with camo
An old Gene stealer cultist leader who basically looks like a psycher and DEFINATELY looks the part
but he comes from 3rd ed. as well
Comissar Yarrick
6 weapons platforms : 2 with mortars, 1 with HBolter, 2 with Autocannons
and one with interchangeable Auto/Bolter/Lascannon
10 Kasirkin, 2 w/ Grenade Launcher, 1 sergeant with hellpistol and power sword
1 leman russ with sponson bolters, lascannon, extra armor, dozer blade and smoke launchers
1 russ with just a HBolter and battle cannon

A few years ago, in my early hobby days, I found on Ebay a lot of LOTR, named something like 'LOTR figures with magazines'
I decided to bid, even though you could tell nothing from the picture, and I won it for only $16 AUS (About 10 pounds)
When I recieved the lot, it contained over 60 miniatures, including the fellowship, a butt-load of Uruk-hai, Riders of Rohan, and many more.
Along with that, it contained roughly 10 of the now OOP 'Battle Games in Middle Earth' Magazines, which were full of great scenarios, painting guides, and other useful stuff.
I spent quite a lot of time just pulling stuff out of the box and staring at it.
Other bargains include:
New Balrog for $30
Undercoated Sauron for $25
and a lot of others I can't remember...

Gutsnagga, were those the Davinci games magazines that had the red carding backed blisterpacks.

Just got this lot for £16 ex delivery

Codex Eldar (current ed, £7)
Codex DE (3rd ed, for fluff reasons - it was only 99p)
About 30 sheets of SM transfers (2p)
SM Commander, all still on sprue (£7)
Fabius Bile, so I can use backpack in a haemy conversion (99p)

That's a pretty sweet collection of deals right there dude.

Seriously man, it's epic! The sellers a guy called Yastobal, he seems to be having a blow out starting everything at 99p with no reserve.

He did one load around the time that I started bidding, these have all finished, though he's got another lot up now.

For instance, painted defiler 99p!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Chaos-Space-Marine-Defiler-painted-/320942840332?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item4ab9af1a0c

swampyturtle wrote:i contacted my friend in 2010 about purchasing his IG off him. Sure enough he was in the mood to sell since his 8000 points of Black templar are his personal favorite over the guard force he had been collecting. We bargined till the final price was 40$ plus the Helsreach Novel for all of his guard. His total force was as followed:





5th edition Codex (new)
4th edition Codex (old but mint)
48 lasguns, a couply w/ radios
10 regs w/ G Launchers
1 w/ meltagun
1 w/ plasmagun
3 guys from the Macragge set (the 'captain' who wa flying the crashed lander)
5 ratlings
1 well painted senior officer with chainsword and laspistol
1 assassin sniper (Vindicare)
4 sergeants w/ Las pistol and CCW
junior officer with a force field generator
a plasma pistol and a power sword
a standard bearer
a combat medic
a metal 'wounded soldier' model which comes with the command squad
a metal guy who looks like a green beret
who is carrying an 'auto rifle'
which is from 3rd ed.
but well painted with camo
An old Gene stealer cultist leader who basically looks like a psycher and DEFINATELY looks the part
but he comes from 3rd ed. as well
Comissar Yarrick
6 weapons platforms : 2 with mortars, 1 with HBolter, 2 with Autocannons
and one with interchangeable Auto/Bolter/Lascannon
10 Kasirkin, 2 w/ Grenade Launcher, 1 sergeant with hellpistol and power sword
1 leman russ with sponson bolters, lascannon, extra armor, dozer blade and smoke launchers
1 russ with just a HBolter and battle cannon

I hope your 'buddy' got more than $40 and a book for that collection-that's worth a lot more than $40 value. If it was a guy on ebay, you got a great deal. If you gave a friend a book and $40 for all that, remind me not to be your friend, because that's a downright rotten deal to be done to a friend. I hope I misunderstand the amount somehow.

timetowaste85 wrote:

swampyturtle wrote:i contacted my friend in 2010 about purchasing his IG off him. Sure enough he was in the mood to sell since his 8000 points of Black templar are his personal favorite over the guard force he had been collecting. We bargined till the final price was 40$ plus the Helsreach Novel for all of his guard. His total force was as followed:





5th edition Codex (new)
4th edition Codex (old but mint)
48 lasguns, a couply w/ radios
10 regs w/ G Launchers
1 w/ meltagun
1 w/ plasmagun
3 guys from the Macragge set (the 'captain' who wa flying the crashed lander)
5 ratlings
1 well painted senior officer with chainsword and laspistol
1 assassin sniper (Vindicare)
4 sergeants w/ Las pistol and CCW
junior officer with a force field generator
a plasma pistol and a power sword
a standard bearer
a combat medic
a metal 'wounded soldier' model which comes with the command squad
a metal guy who looks like a green beret
who is carrying an 'auto rifle'
which is from 3rd ed.
but well painted with camo
An old Gene stealer cultist leader who basically looks like a psycher and DEFINATELY looks the part
but he comes from 3rd ed. as well
Comissar Yarrick
6 weapons platforms : 2 with mortars, 1 with HBolter, 2 with Autocannons
and one with interchangeable Auto/Bolter/Lascannon
10 Kasirkin, 2 w/ Grenade Launcher, 1 sergeant with hellpistol and power sword
1 leman russ with sponson bolters, lascannon, extra armor, dozer blade and smoke launchers
1 russ with just a HBolter and battle cannon

I hope your 'buddy' got more than $40 and a book for that collection-that's worth a lot more than $40 value. If it was a guy on ebay, you got a great deal. If you gave a friend a book and $40 for all that, remind me not to be your friend, because that's a downright rotten deal to be done to a friend. I hope I misunderstand the amount somehow.

I agree with this. That is not what I would sell all that to even if it was my bes friend since 2 years old or something. And you say you bargained to that price why would you try to take your 'friend' down to such a little amount.

I also find it hard to believe that after 2 years you can recall every model you got off him which is why I believe a lot of this to be fake which I hope it is.

I don't know if its a bargain but I found an old blister of Ulrik at my FLGS. Picked that puppy right up. Yay for metal!

Avatar of Khaine for $1.

Guy REALLY didn't want it, apparently. /shrug

I hope your 'buddy' got more than $40 and a book for that collection-that's worth a lot more than $40 value. If it was a guy on ebay, you got a great deal. If you gave a friend a book and $40 for all that, remind me not to be your friend, because that's a downright rotten deal to be done to a friend. I hope I misunderstand the amount somehow.

Nope, 40$ and the Helsreach novel.

He took off %'s for it being:
1) my birthday
2) he didnt want them anymore
3) he needed money to see his GF (gas)

In the end, he was more than happy to sell them and im still good friends with him to this day.

I agree with this. That is not what I would sell all that to even if it was my bes friend since 2 years old or something. And you say you bargained to that price why would you try to take your 'friend' down to such a little amount.

I also find it hard to believe that after 2 years you can recall every model you got off him which is why I believe a lot of this to be fake which I hope it is.

Read above, I just know how to bargin well. Also i have the messaged save on emails so yes even after 2 years i still have the entire list of what he sold me. It isnt fake

One good score on eBay was a complete set of Necromunda terrain + the Outlanders terrain. I had bought other second hand Necromunda boxed sets (which is why I have like 4 rulebooks), but this was just the terrain - nothing else.


But the best one was when I decided I wanted to buy Space Hulk (long before the most recent edition came out). I had found 2nd Ed and got that (in French - but the guy included a CD that had PDF's of the English rulebook, the original 1st Ed rulebooks, plus expansions, and scans of every Space Hulk White Dwarf article ever), but then I came across a great eBay Auction:

1st Ed Space Hulk (complete)
Deathwing (complete)
Genestealer (complete)
Tyranid Attack (complete & with x2 the models you should get)
Space Hulk: Campaigns (hardback supplement book for 1st Ed)

Not sure how much it cost me - it wasn't cheap - but it was everything in one go plus the Campaigns book and Tyranid attack with extra models.

Doctadeth wrote:Gutsnagga, were those the Davinci games magazines that had the red carding backed blisterpacks.

They certainly were... Loved those magazines...

Six or seven games for a PSP as well as the PSP and all its accessories in the box for 20$.
He (a buddy of mine) was going to give it all to me for free but i didnt feel right so i made him take the 20.

Found a Benjamin Franklin chillen on a sidewalk one day, my wife was very happy about that.

12 AOBR Deffkoptas + 2 AOBR Warbosses for $25 (shipping included).

My friend just got a Land Raider Crusader for $30.

Last Week I got the 3rd Edition Cadian Battleforce for 20 quid at a random marketplace.

It was a great day.

I have no luck whatsoever I lose money more than I find never win anything and if luckly get 50/50 odds with a 3+ save, so obviously the story wont be about me, my friend won a army carry case (one of the card ones with blue foam, forget the name) and he didn't even know he entered the competition! All he did was subscribe on youtube.

I used to visit ebay every day looking for bargains.
Secret to success: Google "Used Warhammer"

You get a lot of Buy-It-Nows crammed with stuff for real cheap. People don't really no what it is there selling (or don't feel like marketing it properly) and chuck it in one lot for about $100 dollars.

This has netted me:
2000 points used orks - About $400 retail.
5 lord of the rings army's- about $700 retail, I don't play LOTR so I gave them to a buddy.
750 points empire- About $150 retail.
Various box's from numerous armies- About five kits worth, no idea what they cost new.
Some Not-GW miniatures- Couldn't be bothered looking at what they were worth, threw them up on ebay and got $75.
Various rule books- Mostly out of date, though they would of cost a lot new.

This stuff came from three different auctions, cost me $200 total. None of it was in perfect condition, but most of it was repairable.