Ebay ridiculousness

Orjetax

Orjetax

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I - for one - cannot wait to start the bidding:

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AranaszarSzuur

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How do they even have all these unpacked things after all these years?

I guess someone bought a stock of a bankrupt store or something?
 
Orjetax

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AranaszarSzuur":23n5dzt0 said:
How do they even have all these unpacked things after all these years?

I guess someone bought a stock of a bankrupt store or something?
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I don’t know how one could bear not to tear of the shrink wrap.

Or why one would feel the desire but not do so.

This is a hobby for ripping open the packages, painting, and hopefully getting the models on a table for a game (the hardest part of the equation, as an adult).


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dieselmonkey

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AranaszarSzuur":xlzkmbpx said:
How do they even have all these unpacked things after all these years?

I guess someone bought a stock of a bankrupt store or something?
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Probably, but having said that, I've got maybe a dozen shrinkwrapped Leman Russ tanks I bought for a project maybe a decade ago and never used, so stuff is out there.

I got a decent haul of 80's blistered stock from a model railway shop that used to be a GW dealer a few years back, too. I did open and paint most of 'em though. ;)
 
ardyer

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AranaszarSzuur":2z7gny5n said:
How do they even have all these unpacked things after all these years?

I guess someone bought a stock of a bankrupt store or something?
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My local ex-red shirt had worked for GW for so long that he acquired so much stuff he just never got around to opening. At the recent 40k anniversary, he brought in a shrink wrapped RTB01 box of his to put in the store's display case.
 
AranaszarSzuur

AranaszarSzuur

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Oh, so they have it like I have with books. I have, like, 20 books bought last year that I haven't read yet. I guess it starts happening at certain age or something.
 
Stormbringer

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The winner of the auction opens the margarine tubs, finds that they're empty, emails the seller asking where the miniatures are and gets the reply: "They're on the shelf in my bedroom, like the label says. 'Sold as seen', mate!"
 
Jonas

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I reconsider my selling methods.

Apparently people bid more if they have no idea what they are bidding for.

I see absolutely nothing in the pics to warren a £190 price.
 
OldManPaints

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Yep, just had a rant about it....I've spent way too much on there recently...and I could really get my collection back up to speed if it wasn't for the god damned stupid prices ...people are SOOOOOOO greedy. Boils my urine!


Fimm McCool":cbi8c6ix said:
I thought it might be fun to have a thread for all those auctions you see, raise an eyebrow and check you read it right...


Like this one: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Heroquest...664468?hash=item3ac796fd94:g:UZwAAOSwGXtXgp~1

Seriously, is it gold-plated or something?
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AranaszarSzuur

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Zhu Bajie":17m7vo81 said:
On the one hand, it's really cool. On the other hand it's someone asking £30 for an 80s deodorant painted black witth some plastic junk on it. But on the other hand, that is cool.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Games-Worksh ... 0903.m5276

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Waitaminuite, that's 3 hands. Arrgh! mutants!
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I'd buy it if I'd earn UK wages. Like, wow, getting my hands on this kind of an artefact of the glorious post. Like, think about it, someone has actually scratch-built it and painted it back in the 80s. It's just unbelievable.
 
symphonicpoet

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Well let me see what I've got for you. I assure you, it will be a bona-fide 80s deoderant stick with bona-fide 80s teen sweat. No no, that paint won't run off revealing something modern . . .

Sorry. Couldn't help it. The beautiful thing about that concept is you can still do it. In complete honesty, I have a Marine version I did in the 80s and a small collection of deoderant sticks set aside to make myself armor for a small eldar force I'm building now. Might even spare one or two to make civilian speeders.

And I'll tell you which one I expect to come out better. ;)

(Won't paint it black, though. The old one is beige camouflage. The new eldar ones will be blue and yellow.)
 
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