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PostPosted: Sun Dec 07, 2014 9:15 pm 
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It sold for £300 with £5 postage. So with ebays 10% fees the total is actually £274.50. That's not including paypal fees. So not a great deal by the seller. Their strategy didn't pay off :shock:
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 07, 2014 9:17 pm 
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I'm all for people making a bit of cash but let's be honest the tactics these people are utilising are a little under handed. I love the smaug model and I know it's a little pricey but I would rather wait till after the Christmas period than have to take out a morgage to buy one before Christmas!
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 27, 2014 10:53 pm 
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1st edition LOTR books, very nice, but out of my price bracket

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/J-R-R-TOLKIEN ... 1c4b5ffb8b

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Look at the feedback for the smug auction. It didn't really sell

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 12:16 pm 
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Has anyone else noticed how competitive Ebay has got for LOTR recently?

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yeah, it's crazy. Trying to get high elves for a decent price is very difficult lol
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 8:46 pm 
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-ORC-MORANNON-METAL-E-/251772824470?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item3a9ed46b96

Is this an uncommon variant or nothing more than coincidental that a couple people are in need of it ?
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 8:54 pm 
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Not really uncommon at all that guy.

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 2:11 pm 
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It's really getting crazy now.
The original Sourcebooks are now going for big bucks.
...well, the seller wants big bucks anyway.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/LOTR-Games-Work ... 2a4a2724f0
Seller has others priced equally outrageously too.

I have been seeing in print miniatures that sellers want more than GW.
...now who is the one abusing the limited market???

I feel pretty frustrated for sure.
I had a lot of extra Easterlings up on ebay.
Putting up lots of 12, split evenly between pikes, bows, and swords.
Priced them right at $1/each miniature, and they went for a couple bucks more.
And I am totally okay with that.
I did have a Mahud King that went for like $85, and a dozen Mahud w/Blowpipes go for $160.
I guess it's whatever the market will bear.

Not sure where this is going really, but I can't wait for all the formerly interested players to be divested of their underutilized miniatures and are gone from the marketplace. I feel like I am waiting for the complete death of the hobby so I can pick up missing parts for my own at a reasonable price.

complaining and ranting over, probably...

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 4:15 am 
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It's hard for sellers like me to give good prices when I can sell an army of Hobbits to the right buyer for $250.

And it only took me two weeks.

But yeah I understand the bs when people are charging more than retail for miniatures that are still out.

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 11, 2015 8:32 pm 
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Has anyone noticed an ebay seller from Poland selling a lot of "rare" figures, does anyone think they are copies?

here is an example, there are loads of different ones

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DWARF-WARRIOR ... 3ceff1fcb6

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 3:34 am 
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I can almost guarantee they are copies. I purchased from this seller once before and the stuff looks good but not legit.

I asked them last year from March-Feb about lists and pricing and the seller gave me a list saying they had dozens of rares and had like 4 rare rohan captains lol.


4........and there were like 36 guard of the galad court etc. A goofy list.

Possible, but not probably.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 8:55 am 
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They are casts. I bought loads from them and can confirm what LOTBR has said above. Casts are pretty good in general and I was unable to tell until I bought Guards of the galadhrim court. They were the worst casts with the mail detail lost.

I am no expert however and some of you may more readily spot the imperfections.

i ordered about 60 minitures from her and got the rohan captain thrown in for free- though I already had one.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 4:32 pm 
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Ho ho surely this is one of the better examples of taking advantage of the unwary

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lord-Of-The-Rings-Mauhur-Rare-New-In-Blister-Warhammer-Metal-Lotr-/141613993798?hash=item20f8da0f46

currently an in stock item for a tenner..

though I will concede this is a metal version, but still :?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 9:00 pm 
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londoncalling wrote:
Ho ho surely this is one of the better examples of taking advantage of the unwary

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lord-Of-The-Rings-Mauhur-Rare-New-In-Blister-Warhammer-Metal-Lotr-/141613993798?hash=item20f8da0f46

currently an in stock item for a tenner..

though I will concede this is a metal version, but still :?


possibly the funniest thing i've seen all week!

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 11:09 am 
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Some of these people are greedier than smaug.
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Scratch that, some of these people are greedier than games workshop!

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Yeah I keep my prices high but only at the high end of current rates reasonably. I see items like a metal oop soldiers not heroes for like $65-75 and I die on the inside a little.

Lately eBay has had some nice stuff.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 7:38 pm 
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Anyone know of ebay sellers for hobbit minis? They dont seem to pop up often in ebay.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 6:21 pm 
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I know there are quite a few people here who like the Mithril range and this seller is selling quite a few at a nice starting price:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Fantasy-Myth- ... =1&_sop=10
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 10:25 pm 
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Hey guys! At the beggining, I would like to welcome you all, cause this is my first post over here since I'm watching your topics :) Today I decided to register my own account and the main reason is to ask you a question - because of lack miniatures in my store I'm about to do my first shopping on eBay, and here is one thing I'm wondering about - are these prices good or not?

http://www.ebay.de/itm/LotR-wroza-SALE- ... 3gU-FaQWEA
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