SG stuff already going for silly prices on eBay?

[Stormwind]

Two Bretonnian command units went for only £14 today.  A pegasus hero and a command blister. I couldn't believe that I'd missed it.  Slightly cheaper than it would have costed from GW.  All because it was mislabelled as an Empire command group.

On the other hand, £45 for a single blister of Epic scouts:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/291164899236?ssPageName=STRK:MEDWX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1435.l2649

[marell le fou]

Yep, i had followed those bretonnians but did not needed them. This army seem to be back to normal prices. They reach 20$ per blister approx now. Of course, it may stay like that or not.

[Stormwind]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Epic-40K-Armageddon-ULTRA-RARE-new-pattern-Eldar-Scorpion-SHGT-/161392385933

Please file this under whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat.

[Aquahog]

ULTRA-RARE...

Well, that's a first. Seriously guys, who ever puts rare in the search field anyway? Talk about setting yourself up for a myriad of irrelevant hits. If something is rare, I'm pretty sure that we as interested buyers are fully aware of that.  When I sell on Ebay I try to list it under an as descriptive and succint title as possible. Now stop spamming my searches with irrelevant overpriced crap. /end rant

[Geep]

Beautiful madness...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/181492226943?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&fromMakeTrack=true

Would anyone be interested in pooling funds to get something like this? I have an interest in the Brettonians and/or Dark Elves. I'll make a thread in the trade area, as it seems a bit more relevant there.

[stevothedivo]

Hello gents
Very interesting reading on this thread - I'm new to this forum but my Specialist Games collections are fairly respectable in size and scope and I've been playing some years now.

In years past I'd seize every opportunity to jump on the GW hate/flame bandwagon - today I reason it's simply not an issue for me as I don't buy GW products nor - since they dropped Specialist Games - even play the company's games. So what's there for me to argue over?

Ebay has been pulling some quite questionable stunts (like their Global Shipping Program, a scam that I know would be illegal at least here in Australia but seems to be operating quite well in the US for some unknown reason...) so my solution is two-fold

1. Bartertown and other trade/sell forums can still render some rare gems at reasonable prices. I avoid FleaBay like the plague. To me it's like Target - I go there to buy my socks and jocks, but if I want a suit or a pair of runners I go to a clothing or shoe store

2. Proxy the heck out of anything that can be even remotely proxied. There are so many talented artists, innovative entrepreneurs, dedicated game designers in the market these days that GW is old news to me. They're the "have beens" of the wargaming world. Sure some of their figures are great, if I can get a GW original army all the better - but if I can't Eureka, Pendraken, Kallistra, Copplestone Castings and others will proxy just fine for my fantasy needs. Don't even get me started on the amazing 10mm ranges available for historicals!

Dark Realm, GZG, Exodus Wars, Brigade Models, GHQ/H&R with a little imagination, green stuff and superglue can all be made into very appropriate Specialist Games units. And as GW has turned its back on us, the SG community anyway, even killing off my beloved 1/72 WAB  I feel absolutely zero allegiance to them.
They may have designed the world over the decades, but the games I feel are mine. I grew up with them. The fluff as they continually re-write it interests me little.

Gaming is still to me a chance to meet like-minded people, sink some bevvies, compliment one another on painting and modelling, discuss tactics, win the odd game, research new historical periods - painting is my version of meditation, gaming my testosterone output.

Any tournaments, never mind pickup games, which I have partaken in over the years including the European GT not one person has ever raised an eyebrow at proxied units - pretty much everyone is of the same mindset at least in my current Victorian gaming cadre/community.

Pardon the long post and may all your dice roll high (or low, if making Ld rolls)!
 

[Stormwind]

Yeah, it's very easy to tell others to be happy with proxies when you're sat on a large collection yourself. =-P

[ruiza97]

Yeah, it's very easy to tell others to be happy with proxies when you're sat on a large collection yourself. =-P

GW is so supid.  If they would have just announced a last chance opportunity to get your orders in with the full understanding that it would be filled, they would have made so much money.  Instead, all the money is now going to ebay and people sitting on a pile of stuff that new gamers, caught unawares by GW's ignorance, now pay 'uge of amounts of cash for.  Totally understandable if all you need is that few odd units to complete your army, x 20 if you tried to collect every army for alot of games systems.

[stevothedivo]

True that but when I was collecting my armies Specialist Games were fully supported by GW. There were articles, a dedicated magazine, tutorials, events being run at the stores...
That perhaps is the main point of difference. Were I to begin playing today I'd be welcomed and relieved by someone with, as you mention, several original armies telling me I don't need GW originals and proxies are perfectly acceptable. I built my collections of both Epic and Warmaster over several years, losing interest awhile, then going out on purchase binges, then losing interest again, then getting full on back into it..like I imagine most of us do.
What I really meant - which may not have come across as intended as evidenced by your response if I've interpreted correctly - is it's the rules, camraderie and fun/fluff of the systems and universes GW built that keep me coming back to Specialist Games. I love the univeses and world, the fluff, and the Specialist rulesets.
Once GW dumped them, though, all bets are off in my book - I no longer owe GW's shareholders jack.
A Kallistra army makes a perfectly acceptable Brettonian force; Eureka's line of miniatures offer wonderful Dark Dwarves and Beastmen army proxies. Demons are available from more manufacturers than I can name, as are renaissance (Empire) and generic Elves and Dwarf forces (just look at Pendraken's lines - stunning and cheap)
Were GW supporting SG it'd be a different ball game, but since they're not - why pay a premium for something the very manufacturer of the game has dumped. It's the community that keeps these games alive, certainly not the corporate bigwigs in their crystal palaces.
At my local GW store you can't even mention Specialist Games, yet on a Sunday arvo the manager shuts up shop and busts out Blood Bowl, Necromunda, Warmaster, Epic...not all managers/GW staff abide "the rules" - many became involved for the same reasons we all play these games, they just have to toe a line because they have rent and children and it's their job to push product. Once the doors shut though, they're gamers just like you and I and that's cool to me.
 

[Dobbsy]

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Warmaster-Magazines-Multilist-Games-Workshop-Rare-Very-Good-Condition-OOP-GW-/321281874147?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item4acde458e3

Each! Bwahahah! I did chuckle immensely

[Big Red]

If the price of the Warmaster Magazines made you chuckle, you should see some of his prices for a blister pack.... AU$150+ for some Dark Elf blisters!!

[Aquahog]

I'm rich, I'm rich! I just scored a dozen of those magazines for only a tenner more. Oh... right.

[Aldaris]

Well, that's certainly an optimistic asking price!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BATTLEFLEET-GOTHIC-VENGEANCE-CLASS-GRAND-CRUISER-METAL-OOP-BRAND-NEW-W163-/390853510575?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item5b00af45af

[Stormwind]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Epic-40k-Imperial-Warlord-Titan-Metal-New-Sealed-OOP-Epic40k-40000-Armageddon-GW-/321369441517?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item4ad31c84ed

Think I can match that, pound per pound. =D

[Geep]

That says one sold  I know they're expensive, but there are usually a few with a 'But it Now' at least half that price.