Brother Meredith
Lord
Simply not willing to pay that much money on single figures (yet)… I know this is a rich man’s game, but plenty of alternatives out there. Like Manic states, can see this market crashing in a few years if not handled better.
Oldhammer on easyliveauction
- Thread starter Citizen Sade
- Start date
dazza36
Lord
I always go for £6 for rank and file and then up to £20 for larger pieces. For instance the Eldar I recently bought. My biggest outlay recently was the Skaven I bought but I was extremely luck as I was able to buy several large lots which not only worked out to be less than £6 per model but also meant after 3 or 4 lots I had most of what I was looking for.
Trying to buy Squats has been a real eye opener as even the cheapest, damaged or missing parts are over £10.
Slave to Darkness
Baron
Saw a blister of Bretonnian foot knights on eBay for £45. Now I'm asking myself how much do I love Brettonia, especially as I'll need 2 blisters for a legit unit.
Might have to start busking, not sure if the locals are ready for acoustic Bolt Thrower though.
Might have to start busking, not sure if the locals are ready for acoustic Bolt Thrower though.
Eric
Administrator
Those are similar to my internal price limits. The handful of RT marines I picked up earlier in the year were all in open auction and I think my top bids were all in the £9-15 range and I got most of them for about £7-10. Which is a little more than I really want to pay for a mini (£3-5 is really what I still feel is okay), but occasionally I'll indulge. Then again for larger models it's more like £20-35 which is at least a little more like those size models often cost now. I think the most recent were some ork vehicles from Dieselmonkey which were about that.
Yep. Yikes, glad I got most of mine a good while back. They were expensive even then. I did manage to get another 24 plastics for about £3 each recently which is I think about as good as you're going to get on eBay. I'd love to actually get the full set of metal models, but the budget would never stretch to that so unless I notice a bargain what I have is what I have now I think!
When I was selling some of my old blisters of bits I knew I was not realistically going to ever get to I found sealed blisters would be going for typically £20-50 depending on contents, which was perhaps getting on for twice the un-blistered prices I'd say.
Alas to some extent a lot will be driven simply by age. Now granted it's lovely to have met some of the fresh young bloods at BOYL and listen to how they got interested in the "old stuff", but the majority of the market is essentially middle aged and above persons who are probably at the point in their careers where there is a bit more disposable income calling out to be spent (as a general rule) and are trying to re-capture some of their youth! So I'm afraid as that demographic drop away the market will probably cool somewhat as a broad trend. That said I do think sellers asking (or hoping) for silly money are not helping. I assume they are either hoping for "money no object" buyers or maybe the less clued up partners of hobbyists who are buying something for the beloved - in which case well as a one off £20 on a birthday present doesn't seem so stupid even if technically it might really be worth £5.
I remember there being a similar but smaller bubble for some Dan Dare facsimile books I collected as a kid - I was missing one out of the set and at the time on eBay they would rarely go for less than £300 (originally new they cost £20 - which was a lot to my mind as a kid). Fast forward about 3 years later and another company re-published the books (different covers) and the secondary market for the originals collapsed and I picked up my missing book for about £20. There is probably less risk of that with the Citadel model market, but I think you see a bit of that with some of the newer stuff that gets cycled out of recent versions of the games - especially rulebooks of course. In time that stuff might become more desirable, but right now no-one wants it - they want the old or the new!
Brother Meredith
Lord
Have seen Foundry remoulds of Citadel sculpts bid for more than they retail for new on eBay. It’s just madness…
Eric
Administrator
I often think the Zombie Dragon is king for that ... things like https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266339000514
for £126 or you could buy the dragon for £11 from RPE. Now I'd not say no to having a box on the shelf as it's nostalgic, but not ~£100 worth of nostalgic! It's the unboxed ones I really wonder about - I mean they could just as easily be a current cast as one from the 80s. You could buy four complete dragons for this "bit" of one: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186337490742
.
for £126 or you could buy the dragon for £11 from RPE. Now I'd not say no to having a box on the shelf as it's nostalgic, but not ~£100 worth of nostalgic! It's the unboxed ones I really wonder about - I mean they could just as easily be a current cast as one from the 80s. You could buy four complete dragons for this "bit" of one: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186337490742
.
Wilbur the Red
Vassal
It's almost the only option in some places in continental Europe.
Recently a random guy asked for 270€ plus shipping for 4 Dragon Ogres (built, 1 half painted) and 10 Chaos Knights (with mismatched 1997 & 1994 bits & riders). Everything had a thick coat of dust. I only wanted 2 and 5 so I declined. Two days later he posted the ogres and the knights on an app for almost 400€. Same guy sold an opened box of 3 Chaos Knights for 100€.
People behave like Dragons, deluded as they were sitting on piles of gold.
MichaelStockin
Lord
I certainly have, but only for special character models or ones I really really like.
I try and keep rank and file troops to a max of £10.00
mutton javelin
Serf
Yes to that. These prices can go off the charts.