bloodbowl auctions on ebay

gken1 · Post by **gken1** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:29 pm

Seems like the bloodbowl auctions on ebay just seemed to get spammed...single minis by one seller. they don't sell and keep ending right back up there.

Snew · Post by **Snew** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 3:25 am

Are they not selling? I haven't checked. I'm pretty annoyed only because I want to dump some minis and he has the market glutted. I like to post them one at a time as well. I hate it when people beat me to my own racket.

Dragoonkin · Post by **Dragoonkin** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 3:39 am

Unless they're rare'uns may as well just package 'em up as a team or something close thereof. I don't like bidding on single minis 'cause if I win some but not others and I wanted to make a team of 'em I'm screwed.

Asperon Thorn · Post by **Asperon Thorn** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:35 am

What's irritating is that seller sniped a good 2nd edition DE team, and is now turning around and selling them individually.

Asperon Thorn

narkotic · Post by **narkotic** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 7:53 am

Maybe it's annoying, but he get's most out of his minis. He will make 300% of each mini in contrast to what he earns selling them in lots or teams.

The only positive thing I can see is that he addresses people who already have a a team and looking for one particular mini/variant they are missing and who do not have the intention to buy 20 mini at once and dumb the rest somehow.

Still annoying, but frankly you can't blame him for doing so. I only critice the high starting bid for non-rare single minis. Anyway, I once bought something from this seller and he seems to be a nice bloke.

I usually sell minis in pairs or lots of 4-5, a convenient amount IMHO.

ORTHODUB · Post by **ORTHODUB** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:24 am

If its the guy i am thinking of he is not a bad bloke, i do quite a lot of private sales with him having met him through ebay. He usualy finds the mini's i need in the condition i need. He also gave free plugs for my painting to his buyers when asked with no mention of a fee for himself.
But i do agree with the iritating page after page of single mini's which are not even that rare anyway, but if he wants to keep paying the listing fee...

firebreather · Post by **firebreather** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 9:52 am

Assuming we`re talking about (Margaretthorn) i got no problem with him buying groups of figs and selling them as individuals saves me having to buy groups to get just the one i want, and the fact that he`s having to relist items must be cutting into his profits.

Norse · Post by **Norse** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:36 am

Margaret Thorn is splitting up her son's old collection of stuff (his name is Jason) to the best of my knowledge...

I have bought quite a bit of stuff from her and she is a great seller.. I didn't think she was buying anything though...

Maybe she got the Ebay bug!

firebreather · Post by **firebreather** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:48 am

Norse wrote:Margaret Thorn is splitting up her son's old collection of stuff (his name is Jason) to the best of my knowledge...

I have bought quite a bit of stuff from her and she is a great seller.. I didn't think she was buying anything though...

Maybe she got the Ebay bug!

No he`s defiantly been buying in bulk and selling on ive bought from and sold stuff to him, like you say nice enough guy.

Snew · Post by **Snew** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 2:25 pm

Norse wrote:Margaret Thorn is splitting up her son's old collection of stuff (his name is Jason) to the best of my knowledge...

I have bought quite a bit of stuff from her and she is a great seller.. I didn't think she was buying anything though...

Maybe she got the Ebay bug!

That's what happens. You buy too much just for the one mini you need. You sell the rest and realize that the reselling will pay for the minis you kept and it starts to snowball. You buy a few more lots and BAM! You're hooked and all your minis are paid for by other people.

Indigo · Post by **Indigo** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 2:34 pm

Norse wrote:she is a great seller..

firebreather wrote:nice enough guy.

one of you has to be wrong

let's just hope it's firebreather or who knows what other mistakes norse might have made

firebreather · Post by **firebreather** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 2:53 pm

My theory is that his mum sold off his prized collection while he was at uni, and now that he`s got back and found out he`s busy trying to rebuild it.

ORTHODUB · Post by **ORTHODUB** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 3:00 pm

As far as i can tell the seller is a he, but in this world of the internet it may not be so.
Like you say though all this readvertising must be a bitch for costs, i can see why he? sells direct now

gken1 · Post by **gken1** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 4:10 pm

i've bought from him too. Just hard to sort through all the crap when it's page after page of "rare" minis. Alot of them are on their 3rd run being listed....sooner or later you got to suck it up and realize the mini won't sell at that price.

jaylazer · Post by **jaylazer** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 4:23 pm

He is a nice guy.

He's been helping me with my 2nd Ed collection, doing several deals outside of Ebay.

At one time, he out bid me on an auction that he was bidding on only to get the mini's for me. When he realized what he did, he sold me the minis for pretty much what I would have paid for them in the first place.