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Specialist Games General Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Zarathustra Sucuine on March 19, 2014, 05:04:28 PM
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So with the insane prices sweeping most specialist games stuff on ebay, has anyone had any bargains? I've managed to get the Amarda book for £21 including postage.
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Someone put up pictures on eBay of Warmaster Chaos. Each one was meant to be 4 or 5 blisters but they only showed a picture of one so bidders such as myself only put in low bids. I won about 8 chaos warriors and marauder blisters, but I was gutted I hadn't bid more on the Chaos Knights. I only bid £8 or so, so £1 a unit.
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Picked up huge bargains in the dim and distant past but nothing recently.....
Dave
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Only bargain I ever got was my [WM] Undead army. Bought via ebay-Canada to Blighty. About 2500-ish pts built and a bag of spare bits that can bring it up to 3000 ish pts. Cost me a little over £100 inc postage and import fees. This was about 7 years ago now though. Since then... 1 unit of Undead Chariots from Israel for £18, does that count? Probably not!
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Hi
I was very suprised when 4 chaos chariots and 4 Chaos knights arrived in the post from ebay as Stormwind says it only had a picture of the one unit
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One can hardly call it bargain, but regarding prices these days... I got unit of Knights Panther for 15pounds
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I know what you mean , i was lucky enough to pick up a unit of knights for £12 of the wolf for empire .
in another bid picked up 4 x units of night goblins painted for £10 .
Well pleased
Stuart
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Once picked up 2 blisters of Empire Knight Panthers for $17 each.
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We're talking about recent bargains here, not boasting about past glories! There's a whole other thread for that nonsense. ;-)
Just got a Dark Elf Riders unit for only £5, whilst scalpers are still trying to sell them for £40 or so.
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I would have loved to be the guy who bought those lizardmen lots of 3 or 4 blisters each NIB with a crested stegadon each time for 50$ per lot...
If the winner is here, i'm interested in a crested steg NIB :)
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I would have loved to be the guy who bought those lizardmen lots of 3 or 4 blisters each NIB with a crested stegadon each time for 50$ per lot...
If the winner is here, i'm interested in a crested steg NIB :)
I was looking at those auctions and had decided to spend some $$ but when I went to bid, they were done. I was lucky enough to get the last one - it was a crested steg but out of blister.
Marell - send me a PM with a list of stuff (rares) that I might be interested in. We might be able to come to a mutual arrangement.
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Well I actualy menage to get a bargain for SG stuff from time to time. I think that's mainly because ebay never surpassed local auction service so the poll of buyers is much smaller. For example I menage to obtain a mint BFG Adeptus mechanicus Ark for about £20, or Necromunda Spyrrer Matriarch, unpainted, for crazy £5.
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I've had a couple of real bargains.... neither on ebay though.... just when GW pulled the plug a chap on warseer offered me a box of eldar, asked £60 for it, so it wasn't super cheap but when he sent me pics there must have been £4-500 worth in there.... 25 metal falcons, titans, 13 superheavies, vampires, nightwings and just so much stuff I just about tore his arm off.... the second was a guy who had listed a marine army on ebay, I lamented that I would have bought some stuff before he listed it and he offered to pull the auction for me, got about 5000 points of latest edition marine stuff for £55....
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I am resigned to never getting the Eldar Super Heavies for less than £50, now. =-<
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I have 2 of the E40k style cobras if you're interested? they need some repair work (the guns were cut off when I got them, fixable though....)
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also, check this thread (http://taccmd.tacticalwargames.net/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=27331) out, some great ideas and tips for scratching GW-style eldar vehicles from 40k bits, those tanks in the first pic would work really well for eldar SHTs.....
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Thanks for the kind offer but the 40k Era ones aren't too hard to find - it's the Armageddon era ones that are going for £40-£70 prices!
They might have gaps but I honestly do have enough models to make a fair Eldar and Space Marine Army.
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This past week a box arrived full of painted WM Daemons arrived. It contained 11 Daemon hordes, a Slannesh Horde missing a strip and a Daemon Cavalry unit. Paid $17 per unit.
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Just picked up a pair of BFG Dark Eldar cruisers for $9. Also missed a BFG Planet Killer that went for $23... DOH!
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also, check this thread (http://taccmd.tacticalwargames.net/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=27331) out, some great ideas and tips for scratching GW-style eldar vehicles from 40k bits, those tanks in the first pic would work really well for eldar SHTs.....
That's pretty cool.
AlsoI gotta brag a bit :P Got a great bargain today! This whole bunch for 65,21 GBP
(http://s30.postimg.org/oz5kkd31t/4225915342.jpg)
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Got a fair bargain on imperial fleet, but mainly bought it for those guys and few dauntless. Never knew that one of the rogue traders had this weird shape.
(http://s13.postimg.org/db6r7o093/2014_07_12_031.jpg)
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Thats an incredible score!! What are those aircraft on the back right of the pic?
Blind-
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Thats an incredible score!! What are those aircraft on the back right of the pic?
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The two on the left are decomissioned/converted Cobras. On the right is an "alien" ship according to the Rogue Trader fleet listings.
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Yep. I belive those are as timdp stated. I never saw them on the tabletop just on the Gw site. But I'm not sure about the one on the bottom left. This dosent look like the " decomissioned" cobra that I have.
(http://www.star-ranger.com/images/BFGrtEscorts.jpg)
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The one in the bottom left of your pic is listed as a Rogue Trader Cargo Vessel in the RT fleet list.
It has an interesting benefit for its 20 point cost:
"When included in a Rogue Trader escort squadron and not being used as a transport in scenarios that require them, it offers +1Ld to Reload Ordnance by ensuring escorts have a ready supply of torpedoes before the battle. This effect is not cumulative if there is more than one Rogue Trader cargo vessel in the escort squadron."
Yep. I belive those are as timdp stated. I never saw them on the tabletop just on the Gw site. But I'm not sure about the one on the bottom left. This dosent look like the " decomissioned" cobra that I have.
(http://www.star-ranger.com/images/BFGrtEscorts.jpg)
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The one in the bottom left of your pic is listed as a Rogue Trader Cargo Vessel in the RT fleet list.
It has an interesting benefit for its 20 point cost:
"When included in a Rogue Trader escort squadron and not being used as a transport in scenarios that require them, it offers +1Ld to Reload Ordnance by ensuring escorts have a ready supply of torpedoes before the battle. This effect is not cumulative if there is more than one Rogue Trader cargo vessel in the escort squadron."
Wow. So there was more rogue traders models than pictured on SG site? Because as for escorts this photo I posted was the only one I saw. So it's obvious that i thought there are only three.
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Don't remember how many ships were in the Rogue Trader escort blister, but I have two each of three types: Xenos, RT Cargo and Recommissioned Escort, so it looks like Dicnar's pic with the red/white ships shows what was in the blister
Oops my bad... Bottom ship here (below) is a standard Cobra. forgot about the assymmetrical one.
Simple mods and different paint to any of the Cobras could easiliy make them into a Recommissioned Escort.
Got a fair bargain on imperial fleet, but mainly bought it for those guys and few dauntless. Never knew that one of the rogue traders had this weird shape.
(http://s13.postimg.org/db6r7o093/2014_07_12_031.jpg)
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Don't remember how many ships were in the Rogue Trader escort blister, but I have two each of three types: Xenos, RT Cargo and Recommissioned Escort, so it looks like Dicnar's pic with the red/white ships shows what was in the blister
Oops my bad... Bottom ship here (below) is a standard Cobra. forgot about the assymmetrical one.
Simple mods and different paint to any of the Cobras could easiliy make them into a Recommissioned Escort.
Ops :D Never had an Imperial fleet so I just figured that this asymetrical cobra is a part of RT. :) Hmm... so the guy didn't have all RT escorts on sale.
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I just managed to pick up a sisters of sigmar matriarch, Augur and superior for £9. Which compared to eBay prices is a massive score. Now to get the rest of the warband!
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I've got a long story, puchased some Daemon blisters from GW before sock ran out and stored them in my closet. Later, I won an auction for painted Daemons on ebay, with each unit costing about $18. Offered the blisters for trade, now that I had excess amounts. Ultimately, was able to trade the blisters to expand my Kislev army and begin a Dark Elf army. Two armies that I didn't think I would be able to afford.
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Just picked up some WM high elf characters which included teclis and tyrion for £1.99. Not complaining on that one!
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Just picked up some WM high elf characters which included teclis and tyrion for £1.99. Not complaining on that one!
Nice
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Not really a bargain per se, but I just got the two rare Storm of Chaos sorcerors for £19, which is way lower than I've seen them go for in the past.
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Nice bought. I was following the sell to see how it would end. I have noticed that frequently, when people are in vacations or just around important dates, prices where going down.
I have made nice bought durint august and 24th or 25th dec, when nobody is in front of his computer. But well... That was when i could myself be in front of it and now it's not possible anymore :) :)
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Well done Stormwind on those two sorcerors. I was watching that myself, but couldn't quite justify bidding.
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Yes, I have noticed that just before and after Christmas you can pick up some bargains as most people are skint! :)
Dave
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I've had a really ahrd time trying to get myself to paint Warmaster without feeling really horrible, but these sorcerors might be good as a "mini project" to buck my spirits up.
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picked up some Bretonnian peasents for $18
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i got a good one :D
a chaos fleet for 50 euros: NIB desolator, repulsive grand cruiser, and 6 cruisers. bam!
also, in the same deal: two necron capital ships, completely mint condition, 25 euros.
needless to say, i am pretty damn happy. :)
and the chaos fleet was my christmas gift to my girlfriend, and she was super happy, so all in all, even better! ;D
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picked up some Bretonnian peasents for $18
I saw those as well, the seller actually has more up on ebay right now. Doesn't appear to be a re-caster either as he hasn't really sold a whole lot.
Time of Madness
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One of you must have picked up that Storm of Chaos blister - it was only £25. =-P
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I would'nt call it a bargain but I just got myself 1 NIB Forest Goblins for £40 from Ebay.
Cheaper than I have been offered elsewhere but still expensive...
Damn my pokemon-mind.
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I would'nt call it a bargain but I just got myself 1 NIB Forest Goblins for £40 from Ebay.
Jabba no bargain.
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Jabba no bargain.
Seller probably used an old jedi mind trick... :/
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Warmaster seems to have shot up in price for "common" units to about £20 a blister, with some weird exceptions.
A whole Dark Elf army went for as little as £5 a blister just the week before, with even the most expensive being £30 a unit, less than what scalpers try to charge for a MiB unit!
Just now I've managed to snag a squadron of Chaos fighters for £25 which seems reasonable, as i never see them come up normally. There's a bomber too but by itself, not in a squadron of 2 which doesn't help for an Epic game.
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Last week end, during my club's wargame con (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hellana-Games/210180885773018) in the bring & buy i grabbed two complete battlefleet gothic boxes (one completely mint), with four extra imperial cruiser sprues, one retribution battleship box, one dauntless light cruiser blister, one sword frigates blister, two firestorm frigates blisters, 4 loose cobra destroyers, 3 loose infidel raiders and some strips of imperial fighters, bombers, for "just" 120 euros. Dont' know if it's a proper bargain, but i'm quite happy with it :-)
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I got some Epic Chaos Hellblades for only £25 which I thought OK bearing in mind I never usually see them on Ebay.
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I don't know about Chaos Hellblades, but I'm pretty sure that BFG lot is a bargain. Sounds like a very nice Imperial army, and a very good start for Chaos too (assuming it had all 8 cruisers).
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Anyway the "real" bargain has been made by a friend of mine: at the bring and buy he grabbed a still wrapped in cellophane box of HQ expansion "wizards of morkar" in italian at 10 euros.............that little rascal, sold it two days ago on a gamer forum for something like 120 euros!
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So with the insane prices sweeping most specialist games stuff on ebay, has anyone had any bargains? I've managed to get the Amarda book for £21 including postage.
You can try Ali Express, some people think its a fake website but its not. I bought a bunch of stuff for BFG their for relatively cheap. The down side for the low pricing is that it can take up too 30-40 days to reach you from China.
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Wizards of Morcar is a holy grail to get in good condition! Worth more than Ogre Hoard, even. =-<
Did anyone else see a bunch of Dark Elves and Skaven go for normal prices? Like £10 a unit not £50? I was watching them but didn't bid.
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I saw the skavens and they were very tempting, they were also painted fairly well!
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There does seem to be some sanity returning to the eBay prices for WM. I've not been collating any data, but my impression is that common type blisters are now selling in the low to mid teens (£) from non-traders. That said, there are lots of traders who have slapped a £30+ price tag on common blisters and they just go round and round on 30-day listings.
I recently bought a pair of rock lobbers. One-off seller put them at £18 (incl. postage) on buy-it-now and I thought "at £9 each, why not?" and grabbed them for a future project. The traders were asking around £20 for single lobbers. No chance.
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Yeah EA, that's what I'm saying for sure - I've seen Skaven and Dark Elves go for perfectly resonable prices - something unthinkable back in late 2013 when the plug had been pulled.
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I agree, prices are going back to reasonnable prices. But it may be only for a matter of weeks or months. it happend already at the beginning of this year. It went back to high prices for three months, then.
I saw the skavens and they were very tempting, they were also painted fairly well!
Not as well painted as that. And the seller only agreed to ship in the UK, that's why they went for a low price. Clearly, there is a buyer who won a very nice skaven army for a very cheap price :)
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I'll never get why people limit postage like that! And it's always so frustrating to see!
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Yeah, saw the Skavens but noticed they wouldnt ship outside of UK so less cash for the seller I suppose ;)
I usually contact sellers that do not ship outside of country and ask if they might reconsider. Sometimes it helps, sometimes you dont even get an answer.
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I picked up 5 High Elf sealed Blisters for £30 and free postage. I didn't need x2 of the silver helms but they gave me trading fodder and I thought it was all good for £6 each a blister delivered!