Evil-bay, sometimes you lose and sometimes you win.

[Bloodysword]

I´m sorry to tell you that ebay is not about grabbing a bargain but about paying premium price for things you threw away or could have gotten on the cheap some years ago Pulper you are so right.  I totally remeber going into my favorite hobby shop and looking at almost every classic minature posted here.  I also remeber thinking that they were way to expensive. 

Deaf - I live in Oakdale on the south shore, but I spent alot of time up in Rockypoint and Millerplace.

Conquistador - those guys who buy up the minis just to resell make me a little ill as well, although everyone has to make a buck one way or another.

[trynda1701]

My coolest purchase on eBay was bidding a few years ago on a collection of 46 Citadel Star Trek The Motion Picture minis, including most of the aliens seen in the background at the start of the movie.

Wanting them as I didn't have ANY Trek figs then, I decided to be sensible, saying to myself allow about £2 a figure max, and bid £100 with about a day to go. Expected the bids to fly past my max quite quickly.

Got the lot for £10 and a few pence before P&P!

[Connectamabob]

Never understood the fuss about snipers. An open auction is an open auction, and the winner's the one who bids highest, not last. It's not rational to blame others 'cause you convinced yourself the auction was yours while it was still running, whether that was by three days or three minutes.

I've never had the experience described by the OP, but that's because I don't bid on stuff I don't legitimately want.

[Delaney]

I often bid on a few things that I kinda sorta want to complete a set, only to justify post and packaging on the one or two items I MUST have.  A couple of times I have ended up with the padding figures... but hey, win some loose some.  The collector mentality is that yeah, it looks rubbish, but if I have the other nine of a set of ten, that last ones going to annoy me.

I always bid the exact amount I think they are worth and walk away.  I also ignore second chance offers because 99% of the time its shill bidders.  Purely random statistic that, btw.

[Conquistador]

@bloodysword, agree, with all such tactics it's a legitimate part of the game and if it makes a living for someone I hope I never imply they should be prevented from making a living.

Mostly I twitch because I go through a brief, unrealistic, moment of "If I had just bid..." which is illogical on my part.  Obviously someone wanted it more than I did and bid more.

Gracias,

Glenn

[mweaver]

Good job snagging the gnolls. I bought a fair few back in the day - I happened to be in England the year they and the Fantasy Tribe dwarves were released.  At 30p each, even a starving student could snag a fair few.  They paint up quite nicely.

[Brummie]

got a few wolfen figs of there myself and have put up a load of GW stuff i don't want.

Though I will never really recover the costs of what was bought (though I bought a lot of it over a very long period) i put up my Ork and Space Marine Army for about £20 (if it was brand new I am guessing its worth well over a hundred at GW price) and already the Marine army, 4 hours after being put up is now worth £41.

[Pappa Midnight]

I tend to wait until my horde of half finished projects exceed my space and have an eBay blitz. Unfortunately I then tend to buy more!
I've had some good sales . A GW undead army I had sold for over £1000.00, then I got a few of the buyers complaining that they didn't get what they wanted because I split the sale into units!
On the other hand, I sold a painted GW dredd for £20.00! The buyer sent a real nice email saying what a bargain he got

A real stupid thing I do is sell stuff and a few months later think " why did I do that?"
I had a 1:48 scale aliens dropship and apc produced by smt which I decided I would never build and sold it a month before the company stopped making them! The prices are now very silly.

I've got a pile of stuff sat in my spare room waiting to be ebayed, but I keep holding onto them just in case!!!!!

PM

[Comsquare]

A real stupid thing I do is sell stuff and a few months later think " why did I do that?"
I had a 1:48 scale aliens dropship and apc produced by smt which I decided I would never build and sold it a month before the company stopped making them! The prices are now very silly.

The next time you plan to do something like that please send me a message

[Commander Vyper]

A real stupid thing I do is sell stuff and a few months later think " why did I do that?"
I had a 1:48 scale aliens dropship and apc produced by smt which I decided I would never build and sold it a month before the company stopped making them! The prices are now very silly.

PM

We are not amused! 

[Brummie]

Just had a classic evil bay moment.

5 Wolfen figures going for a £10, no one else has bid, so I stick in ten pound. Today two other guys had bid, I then discovered that one bloke has put on a maximum bid of £30+ so he must desperately want them!

So instead I found a site with some of the pre-painted ones, £18 free postage too for 3-4 figs, which considering one metal figure goes on ebay for about £10 is not that bad, going to get some stuff to strip the paint of them if the paint job is really poor and re-base them and use them to buffer up my Wolfkin army.

[Commander Vyper]

Never understood the fuss about snipers. An open auction is an open auction, and the winner's the one who bids highest, not last. It's not rational to blame others 'cause you convinced yourself the auction was yours while it was still running, whether that was by three days or three minutes.

I've never had the experience described by the OP, but that's because I don't bid on stuff I don't legitimately want.

The fuss is the principle of sniping. I have no issue being beaten in an auction, but it does smart when it's a snipe bid rather than a healthy slog to the finish line.

Anyway yes I've bought shite from ebay, you're a liar if you say you haven't

The Commader

[Commander Vyper]

Just had a classic evil bay moment.

5 Wolfen figures going for a £10, no one else has bid, so I stick in ten pound. Today two other guys had bid, I then discovered that one bloke has put on a maximum bid of £30+ so he must desperately want them!

So instead I found a site with some of the pre-painted ones, £18 free postage too for 3-4 figs, which considering one metal figure goes on ebay for about £10 is not that bad, going to get some stuff to strip the paint of them if the paint job is really poor and re-base them and use them to buffer up my Wolfkin army.

Hang on how do you know the guy's maximum bid then eh?

[Brummie]

I kept bidding! And it kept beating me! Eventually I gave up at around £30 and that was that.

[Commander Vyper]

Well it could have been much higher though. I thought had some sneaky black ops CIA NSA funded hi-bid tm software.

Just my overactive imagination then