Something stealing my mind…?

I think (with zero evidence) that the market is partners of gamers. So you'd always wanted "mini X" and your wife/husband/mindslave decides to surprise you for your birthday or whatever. As a one off purchase as a gift (by someone who isn't doing the collecting directly and maybe factors in more realistic costs) whilst expensive it's less of an issue. Think of it more like the purchase of an ornament or piece of jewellery type thing.

I think those of us doing day to day collecting know that eventually things do re-appear, so it's only once in a while where I'll go over the odds. My Eldar Phantom Titan springs to mind, that was the second one I think I've seen on ebay ever that was certainly original and in the UK. Some extra Beasts of Nurgle, nah I'll wait until some eventually turn up at more like £20-30, not paying ~£100.
 
yeah. the odd more then you really wanna pay but you can kinda justify it is kinda okay. I'm still struggling with paying £10 for a Skaven I want but while there are a few on eBay, the ones which allow offers have stupid sellers (allow offers but then just sit on them for them to time out more then atleast REPLY? big sin in my books)
 
I bet there's long beards on here sitting on an an absolute fortune. Cast lead in the right shape is worth more than gold.

And GoldfishBlue (What a stupid name!) I've never bought from and never will. I was so glad when he decided to retake all his photo's on a piece of red foam, makes scrolling past his crap so easy, I don't even look at it now, second nature.
 
The Serene Badger said:
I seem to remember being able to tailor my searches so it didn't show me what it thought I wanted, just listed everything. But I can't seem to edit my searches at all when using eBay on my phone (not the app). Do I need to be on my desktop?
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Are you viewing the mobile site or the desktop site on your phone?
 
Fighelm said:
Just on nostalgia + associated costs. Never got into WH40K EPIC, but not sure how anyone can figure a price like this? For a Chaos Banelord Seen on Oxfam website, so guessing they are throwing a random price for rarity?
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AND looking today, there are these EPIC Space Marine Stormblade miniatures as well. £150 a pop from Oxfam Henre Hill, obvs London-weighted prices :(
 
*splutter*, well that's my coffee everywhere. £150 for three EPIC tanks!!! Even the ebay shops are not that bad, £75 for an open "new-ish" box here https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226908107944
, you could use the remaining money to buy a shrink-wrap machine if you wanted the box fresh feel. I do sometimes wonder if anyone does that - buy open boxes and shrink-wrap them again to increase the value?
 
Eric said:
*splutter*, well that's my coffee everywhere. £150 for three EPIC tanks!!! Even the ebay shops are not that bad, £75 for an open "new-ish" box here https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226908107944
, you could use the remaining money to buy a shrink-wrap machine if you wanted the box fresh feel. I do sometimes wonder if anyone does that - buy open boxes and shrink-wrap them again to increase the value?
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Yes. While I don't do it and don't have the machine or any interest, making re-production boxes etc. It's not too hard or costly to either get some boxes printed up by someone that doesn't have any morals, or to get the kit yourself.

I do remember (slightly unrelated) for an April fools day gag a few (yikes, over 10) years ago, the one side did mock up of a video game having a remastered version and a new game and his local copy shop was a bit unsure when he got the inserts for the cases done cause they looked like bootlegging.

but when you think of how many re-casts are made and sold as 'new old figures', and how much harder it is (and more costly) to produce metal miniatures, compared to cardboard boxes with cheap plastic wrap? hell, the minis aren't that hard to reproduce ¬_¬ you think the boxes are either?

So I do know it happens. I can't 100% say I've seen a example of it in miniature gaming, but I sure as hell have seen it in pretty much every other field and as long as people don't give a damn and wanna throw money way to make things 'investments' like MtG became years ago, it's gonna happen and happen more.

Like with the gem market though, if a whole bunch of the same turns up at the same time on to the market, it'll crash so it probably more happens via private sales and some shops like second handers, cash converters etc, where they can be passed around with less knowledge while still getting a price.

oh hell.. I seam to be a bit.. on a downer today, don't I? don't worry ^_^; nothing too bad so I'm okay
 
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