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$100 for 7 plastic Beetlebacks?
javelin98
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:20 pm 
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http://cgi.ebay.com/Rare-19....iewItem

Of course, the Buy-It-Now price is only $185.  I'd love to have some unassembled Titans, but this seems a wee bit steep to me.

Is it me, or are there a whole lot more "optimistic" prices out there than there used to be?  Seems like Epic is worth its weight in gold, judging by some of the eBay prices one sees.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:27 pm 
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HAHAHAHA!  I just sold 4 of those plus weapons to Dwarf Supreme for $10.

Either I gave my boy a smokin' deal or this guy is way out of market.  I can't wait to find out which one it is. :p

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:08 am 
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Too true!  Saw 50 chaos androids going for something like 30 squid the other day!  Madness I tell you!!

Also saw this one.  Cute if optimistic...




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PostPosted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:50 am 
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(Moscovian @ Oct. 17 2006,00:27)
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HAHAHAHA!  I just sold 4 of those plus weapons to Dwarf Supreme for $10.

:O  Care to sell four to me for that price?  :;):   :p

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:18 pm 
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This seller is highly optimistic. I wouldn't pay more than $40 for seven mint Warlords, weapons and VS wheels.

The deal with Moscovian I think was fair for both of us, especially since the weapons that were included were only 2 (3?) power fists, 1 or 2 vortex missiles and a few banner poles. Also, the Wralords were already painted (which I'll need to strip) and the heads were glued in place.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:21 pm 
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4x Painted and glued Warlords for $10 is about fair, because stripping and painting glued together warlords is a flaming pain in the rump.  I have bought, sold, and traded a huge pile of Imperial titans on Bartertown.  The painted stuff gets very little in return on deals, but the mint condition Warlords can get $20 a piece without much trouble.

I have sold about a dozen plastic Warlords in mint condition for about $20 a piece on Bartertown.  The Ebay seller linked at the top of this thread is asking a fairly reasonable, maybe a smidge high, price for those Warlords.  What is unreasonable about that auction is the number of Warlords he wants you to buy - 7.  Nobody needs 7 Warlords anymore.  If Epic were still structured like it was with SM/TL where you have 3 titan battlegroups running around (ah, those were the days...) then 7 Warlords is not unreasonable.  But since Epic: Armageddon is the current rules set, where you are lucky to see 1 Warlord, let alone 3 in a game, and with the "latest and greatest" mentality that pervades GW stuff, buying 7 Warlords is lunacy.

If I did Ebay and I had the money in my Paypal I would consider buying those Warlords at the starting price, but not much higher.  I'd then turn around and sell them individually on Bartertown for $20 a piece.

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(Blarg D Impaler @ Oct. 18 2006,15:21)
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4x Painted and glued Warlords for $10 is about fair, because stripping and painting glued together warlords is a flaming pain in the rump.

Soak 'em in pinesoap, use steam cleaner. Paint flies off.

I bought half a dozen of painted warlords last spring and stripped paint fast(biggest problem was finding suitably big container. Old paint stripper container I had wasn't designed for as high models but rather FB/40k infantry). Could have done it faster but I mistook the black from one warlord for suprisingly hard to remove paint when it was infact the colour of plastic itself :whoops:. Got to hate coloured plastics!  :laugh:

But 7 for 100$. Hah! After you have bought 6 unassembled and unpainted for around 30? you laugh at that price.

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:30 am 
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(Blarg D Impaler @ Oct. 18 2006,16:21)
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What is unreasonable about that auction is the number of Warlords he wants you to buy - 7.  Nobody needs 7 Warlords anymore.  If Epic were still structured like it was with SM/TL where you have 3 titan battlegroups running around (ah, those were the days...) then 7 Warlords is not unreasonable.  But since Epic: Armageddon is the current rules set, where you are lucky to see 1 Warlord, let alone 3 in a game, and with the "latest and greatest" mentality that pervades GW stuff, buying 7 Warlords is lunacy.

Not if you play AMTL and want to have a choice of different armed Warlords.

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