A message from DFC regarding the Mithral spike

Snew · Post by **Snew** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 12:01 am

He can't post but he wasn't the one who bought it offline.

Here's a direct quote, "Something to see with a silly sense of honour, I suppose and should you also telll for me I just hope the final winner would be: 1/ davin (after all he was the higher bidder... and a tbber) or 2/ a non-tbber!"

I wanted to see this auction end. It promised to be spectacular.

BigD · Post by **BigD** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 12:37 am

Well I've made an offer as most people would have guessed but I haven't heard whether it was myself or not yet. I was surprised it closed of early as well but thats the right of the seller. We've done it ourselves in the past for various reasons. Guess we'll find out tomorrow.

BigD

Oh and before anybody else says anything nasty. I won't mention names but like water of a ducks back as far as I'm concerned. If I have won it then its been offered to DFC to decide whether he wants to pay the price I've got it for. But I'll find out tomorrow. Promising to be an interesting day

Snew · Post by **Snew** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 12:45 am

I wanted DFC to get it too.

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 1:08 am

BigD wrote:I was surprised it closed of early as well but thats the right of the seller.

Actually BigD ... unless I'm wrong ... I really don't think Ebay allows you to pull an item to directly sell it to someone else ... not sure.

Oh and I sent the seller a nice email asking him if he enjoys losing money on rare figs ... just had to raz a moron ... sense of honor ... whatever. I'm very honorable, but come on ... if you had a dear personal friend who wanted it shouldn't you have asked him BEFORE you posted the freaking auction.

Galak

BigD · Post by **BigD** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 10:00 am

Well in theory I've got this but waiting on a confirmation at the moment. I've had an email not long come in to which I've replied and got the Paypal payment done immediately of course.

I've been in correspondence with Ebay as well regarding auctions in general. What I've been told is if the seller has a buyer who he is happy to sell to he/she can close the auction early. It doesn't have to go to full term provided the buyer is the winning bidder.

But as I said earlier, if DFC wants it then its his anyway. We (Snots, DFC) and myself have discussed this offline and we're happy with the outcome. At the moment DFC has passed on it so I'm holding onto it.

And I'd have to say £60 isn't a bad price from both a sellers and buyers point of view. From my view as a seller on Ebay though I'd have to say you never know whats going to happen though. I've had offers from people to buy something I'm selling on Ebay and they've made a great offer. I've turned it down and then let the auction close off as per usual and its gone for less that the offer. So think about it. Why shouldn't the auction close early to the high bidder?

This is also the reason I occassionally have made offers to people directly BUT only assuming I'm the high bidder or place the high bid to close of the auction early if its acceptable to myself and the seller. 2/3rds of the time the seller will close the auction early but some don't. Thats their per-rogative. Okay, I can't spell but you know what I mean LOL And this has worked to my advantage as well as a buyer. I made an offer on a piece of computer equipment I was after and the offer was very good at £3500 but the person didn't close it off. In the end I got that item for £1400 when the auction closed off. Of course then the seller wanted the £3500 and I told him to BYTE ME! I was happy, he was pissed and I saved some serious cash. But at the time it was worth the £3500 to me and I was lucky the seller didn't have the item in the correct area and the picture didn't match the description. How often do we get lucky with this? More than you'll ever know LOL

BigD

Ithilkir · Post by **Ithilkir** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 1:33 pm

Uhm.. The trophies are getting released in a pack soon, so I wouldn't worry about missing out on them.

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 1:59 pm

Ithilkir wrote:Uhm.. The trophies are getting released in a pack soon, so I wouldn't worry about missing out on them.

Ithilkir ... I've seen the new Mithril trophy ... its not the same. To a collector like BigD, Snots, DFC, traveller, and myself; the fact that a new Mithril is getting released is actually meaningless. It's like saying no reason to try and get a 1st edition ogre because Morg was made.

However, most likely you didn't realize that the new Mithril was a new sculpture either.

Galak

Snew · Post by **Snew** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 1:59 pm

That's true if all you want is a trophy. This is a very rare piece of BB history and a "Holy Grail" of sorts. It always will be, I suppose.

Indigo · Post by **Indigo** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 2:03 pm

well my friend has one and he is going to use my ebay account to list it. If it were mine I'd offer it to a TBBer first of all, but as it is not I won't be able to help

I will let you into a secret though - he is asking me to put a high reserve on it, in the hundreds of £££ region....

I knew it was valuable, but is it THAT valuable?!

Snew · Post by **Snew** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 2:18 pm

I guess we'll see won't we?

Indigo · Post by **Indigo** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 3:43 pm

lol I could sell it to someone for £1000, then tell him "it went for a whopping £400, aren't you impressed?!?"

and then finally get some 2nd ed humans

traveller · Post by **traveller** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 3:49 pm

To a collector like BigD, Snots, DFC, traveller, and myself

wow, to be seen at the same level like the most famous collectors of TBB ...

Anyway, i will get the new trophies as soon as possible, dig a deep hole, put it in and will dig it out in 10 years... tatatataaa... new rare items again

... no, i will get them just to have my collection as complet as possible. BUT i will always prefer the old stuff. So i exchange my white metall 2.ed mini ...yes, sometimes this happend... whenever possible with the nice old heavy metal ones.

I ´m spending quite a lot for BB minis, but also i have a limit... and the hope, to get it cheaper, once, somewhere,...

BTW... just found a starplayercard about a Chaosdwarf called Madeye. Thats a official starplayer, yes. But what is about this warhammer (?) mini... thats a BB mini also ? Someone own this mini ?

Traveller

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 4:30 pm

Indigo wrote:I will let you into a secret though - he is asking me to put a high reserve on it, in the hundreds of £££ region....

Please tell you friend he's nuts.

The most I've seen any single BB fig sell for was 85 BPS. BigD's purchase of this trophy for 60 BPS puts it close but still a little ways off from that price.

I hate reserve auctions, I never bid on them until the reserve has been met even if I really want the figure. Tell you friend he's better off starting the bidding at 50 BPS and going from there.

Just my opinion, but I got mine version of this fig from Ebay for 10 BPS before all the big boy collectors showed up. Back then it was just me and Darthnoir ...

So do whatever you want, but I'd tell you friend to get real about what this mini is worth.

Galak

Indigo · Post by **Indigo** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 4:44 pm

he thinks it's worth 500 GBP...

I laugh at him, but he still believes it

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 5:23 pm

@traveller:

As far as i know, the Warhammer Chaos Dwarf blunderbusses are used to represent Zzharg. I don't think he had his own mini made.

I have a spare blunderbuss, if you need one ->PM

CU,
Tim.