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

[Brummie]

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

Shhhhhh! Don't tell them about that!! Been keeping that secret so the KGB and the chinese don't get me! now I am DOOMED!

[Glitzer]

My worst Evil-Bay Moment was when I found out they didn't let my brother-in-law pay my bills with his credit card. The international money transfer from my bank cost me a 35 Euro fee to pay my 20 US-Dollar bill...

[Cholly]

E-bay, sometimes good sometimes bad but I just managed to get Tim Trumans "Simon Girty-The Wilderness" for a very good price and am also bidding on his "Tecumseh" graphic novel. Superb inspiration for some French-Indian war skirmishes!

[Delaney]

I get 99% of all my minis from ebay.  Not through choice.  Australia never really shipped out many miniatures in the old days, and those they did where ridiciously expensive.  That means very little chance of coming across a box in a boot sale. 

That said, I still look.  I found plenty of heroquest plastics over the last year- and a mint, never opened, shrink wrapped heroquest in an antique store wedged between scrabble boards and that game where the dice came in a plastic popper.

But besides that, I have to pay premium ebay prices.

[Braxandur]

Wohooo, gor 4 nice old skool chaos warriors for 4 quid.

sadly had to pay a ridicioulous amount of P&P, which made them costly after al... Then again the miniatures were packaged quite well... I did ask for putting the models just in an envelope..

Anyhow, last week to my suprise a received quite a package:


Opening it didn't give me a cle as to what was in there


At the bottom were hiding a few packages, a oose shield an a loose base


Got them out of the box.. 


Well, they are painted okayish, but since I'll be repainting, a bit of shame for the 10 quid P&P


Let's hope for better luck next time

[Johnno]

I just opened a package containing 22 PAINTED Dark Elf Executioners!!
Cost me the same as an unpainted unit of 10 D.E. Executioners
Unfortunately 9 of the swords had come off....

I blame GW tho for making AWKWARD places to separate the models on the molds.
But I'm not a mold maker...

[Damien]

Hi Braxandur, are you telling me that the ebay seller used that enormous box to send four (4!) miniatures?! No wonder he charged such P&P prices. Btw I really like your pointing mini (made me laugh), I see that he is pre slotta, where is he from?

Damien

[Braxandur]

Yeah, Allthough it was a bit ridicioulous and totally ineffective as protection for the minis, I could laugh about it as well

The miniature is a Grenadier necromancer, at the moment still available from mirliton:
http://www.mirliton.it/product_info.php?pName=necromancers-2&cName=fantasy-2528mm-undeads

[Delaney]

Thats classic.

Someone once sent me a cardboard shoe box, stuffed with wrap, containing a plastic food container, filled with bubblewrap, taped to a peice of cardboard where three matchboxes full of cotton, each containing one figure.

Whole thing smelt of horlicks for some reason. 

Does yours smell of horlicks?

Could be the same guy.

[Barry S]

E-bay, sometimes good sometimes bad but I just managed to get Tim Trumans "Simon Girty-The Wilderness" for a very good price and am also bidding on his "Tecumseh" graphic novel. Superb inspiration for some French-Indian war skirmishes!

Cholly,

Agreed, excellent graphic novels.

One of my best wins was also a French and Indian War graphic novel or more correctly a collection of the comic strips from the Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine from the '50's. These were collected and released as Archive Adventures 2: Ron Embleton's 'Don o' the Drums' plus Roger's Rangers. I bid on a copy a few years ago and the bidding ended at around £40 or £50. Much more than I wanted to pay, let alone afford. A year or so later I saw another up for sale and won it for £10.

Cheers,

Barry

[SortiumSought]

I won a lot with this thing in it



I am not into historical minis so I dont even know what it is. The knolls look really cool though, I bet they'll paint up great.

Oh and welcome to the board

Damien

The figure is a bronze 17th century spanish conquistador type. I have the figure. but it was never meant to be painted. Part of a collection of 'bronzes'.

I have some of the knolls from the 1980s and would love a find like that in a job lot. Lucky you.

Worst i ever got were "Easterlings". Turned out to be mongols from a decidedly ropey range. Couldn't even really play them as Mongols or with any of the other figures I have.