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Most expensive single miniature auction ever

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 9:58 pm 
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Well, at least I have never seen anything go for more. OVer $1000 for a single (chariot sized) model. Now there is something for Otterman to work on...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... K:MEWAX:IT

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 10:52 pm 
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It's amazing what people will pay for lumps of metal


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 11:39 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Most expensive single miniature auction ever
PostPosted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 1:23 pm 
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Indeed http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/380316468289

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 2:51 pm 
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That's insane.

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 9:50 pm 
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zedmeister wrote:

Saw that too.

You'll all love this one:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Chaos-Plague-Towe ... 588ca0ce33

£30 is the going rate for those. What. A. Douche.


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 Post subject: Re: Most expensive single miniature auction ever
PostPosted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 9:51 pm 
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Ooo. It's the same asshat. He's also got a Capitol Imperialis listed for £130...


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 10:09 pm 
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zedmeister wrote:


If it doesn't have bids then it doesn't count

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 10:38 am 
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Apocolocyntosis wrote:
If it doesn't have bids then it doesn't count


Fair enough. How about this then, recently sold and can be seen listed in his feedback: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0522619234

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PostPosted: Thu May 05, 2011 11:48 pm 
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It's not as high as that chaos dwarf wosname, but £217 for a Psi-Titan makes it my most expensive single miniature sold :)


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 Post subject: Re: Most expensive single miniature auction ever
PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2011 12:41 am 
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that was it's final bid? :o

Crazy, I meant to watch it so i could see but forgot
well kudos my friend, hopefully you sold enough to get thru to the fall, IIRC that was your goal...from some of the bidding i saw I am sure we won't see you selling yourself on the street any time soon...unless you decide to jst for kicks >:D


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 Post subject: Re: Most expensive single miniature auction ever
PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2011 10:15 am 
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elsmore wrote:
I know it shouldn't wind me up, but it does. When buying and selling was done the old fashioned way via shops, those shops added value. They provided the means for people to obtain the items they were after, and it was fair that they added a markup. Now we've got eBay, it's the website that provides the means to obtain the items people are after, and eBay rightly profits from it. So tell me what value dickheads like huntiktradingcards add. They buy stuff we could already get hold of and sell it for 10x the price. at the same outlet! They are worse than ticket touts. At least ticket touts provide disorganised people with a means for obtaining tickets close to an event. All resellers do is slowly strangle the hobby by putting prices out of reach of normal people. The sad thing is they wouldn't exist if there was nobody buying their items, so there must be an awful lot of thick people in the world.

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ehem. as you were.

Apologies if I have got the wrong end of the stick, but I find this quite ironic considering you have been reselling Forge World Warhounds on eBay. With a carefully worded item description to suggest that these are no longer available without explicitly stating so.

Unless it is not the same elsmore?

Don't get me wrong, I don't really have a problem with doing it, but perhaps the moral high ground is occupied by someone else :)

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PostPosted: Tue May 10, 2011 1:43 am 
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Re-sellers add value (sort of)...

Let's say 'Mr_I_dont_know_the_market' wants to sell an 'Epic-El-Rareo-Tanko' he picked up when he was a kid.

It goes up for auction and the top bid from a hobbyist is $50. A 'Mr_reseller' then tops the bidding by paying $55.

Mr_I_dont_know_the_market gets $55, better than $50!!!

Mr_reseller then puts the tank on the market for $75.

It takes a while to sell but eventually Mr_I_love_rare_tanks happily pays $75. (Mr_I_love_rare_tanks was otherwise engaged during the original auction).

This process is old as cheese. The re-seller takes risk and gets a better deal for the original seller. They address the problem of buyer scarcity.

The big difference between now and olden times is that eBay has vastly diminished the value that re-sellers add, but they still provide a service. They make life better for the original seller (at the expense of the buyer).

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 Post subject: Re: Most expensive single miniature auction ever
PostPosted: Tue May 10, 2011 6:37 am 
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Unless it is not the same elsmore?

Don't get me wrong, I don't really have a problem with doing it, but perhaps the moral high ground is occupied by someone else

I think the difference here is,
that elsmore´s titans started at 0,99 pounds
and not with a "buy-it-now" option for 75 pounds or more

I do not have a problem if a reseller buys lots,
split and resell them
as long as all auctions strat at 0,99 pounds


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