some juicy ebay-auctions

I also kept wondering about this indeed, Barliman. And be sure it’s not the first time I do that.

Protozeus, I did not witness that at all, because I don’t have the time to be linked to Ebay all day (and have no interest in doing that).

The fact that one (more or less complete) batch of that army was offered lately left me angry. No, I have to be precise: extremely angry. That’s because of the fact that I once was told about the number of that castings (several times, in different emails, with long periods of time in between purchasing the different sets of the army that were first offered).
Yes, calculating or even guessing about those castings now became a nonsense to me.
As far as I can see all those “27 test-castings” (sic!!!) of each figures are not sold by now. And believe me … I do keep some record about that.

Of course I will not reveil in public here what my anger is about, but I really cannot stay from quoting and referring to this:

“These are 3 castings from the never-released “Armies of Saruman” Warbands series made by Mithril miniatures. Although numbering the Mithril series as Mw347 this release was never put into production.” ……….. so far we know, but then: (in bold print)
THIS IS THE VERY LAST SET WHICH I HAVE AND WHICH I AM RE-LISTING DUE TO THE NON-PAYMENT OF THE BUYER
This group comprises the Half-orc command, namely a Half-orc officer, standard-bearer and drummer.”

So what? – I’m not willing to broadcast any more information about this here. But I am more than surprised now having to learn that there obviously are more so-called test-castings being made (or even re-made) as there once were announced and confirmed in various emails.
If I had known that in those days in 2005 I could have saved a lot of money buying them nowadays.

So, we’ll see in the end how many test-castings do still exist, or might re-exist – I dunno, and please don’t ask me any more about it, as for me this seems to be a kind of miracle.
I’d better walk down to my cellar and melt that stuff completely. At least then I’ll have a nice boiling liquid which I can get rid off next Monday.
Cheers.

Of course it wasn’t you, Holger. The seller on Ebay could clearly be identified.
I am not interested any more in where things go to and to whom and under which conditions, via Ebay, privately or not at all.
What angers me is the fact that I from now on cannot believe in words like “very last set”, or believe in provided numbers of limited test-castings as they were once announced … Of course, there obviously seems to be more “second-test castings” as we might have believed to exist many years ago. Just wait awhile … do you know about a “very,very last set of the third test-castings”? – What is it?
And just to be honest, I don’t mind any more if another “very last set” of some other “very lost things” suddenly see the light. Having witnessed about five years later that some of those “lost things” see a new light in its completeness as never before (betraying the first given numbers of releases, which once was announced as “not much more than 27 test-castings for each figure” – even less than the M16″). This by now has become very much ridiculous to me.
So we mind the language, please.
“Not much more than …” also could mean 30 or 300, right?
Saying “the very last set of the command group of the army” does not necessarily mean that there won’t be any army-releases, right?
So all’s fine. Except the numbers of production that once were provided with the first auctions on Ebay.
As for me, as I said before, I don’t mind any more. Let’s have another “complete army set” appear on Ebay or in private. Why not? There are so many collectors and wargamers being keen on that. Why not suddenly find some more sets (forgotten in some garrage).
I will stay from commenting this furtheron, I hope you do understand.
That’s all I can say from my point of view … please accept.