some juicy ebay-auctions

1190 Pounds?
No problem for a real collector (if he has enough money).
Look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treskilling_Yellow

well the amount of metal for this GW rarity is not the same as the 54mm aragorn, not to mention that the rarity is not the same kind, the aragorn never made it to retailers… it was a gift/promotional, how about this dwarven monstrosity?

entropy of money or call it what you like… those who receive the price for the auction may have need of this money and will spend it in a way that is positive for the economy of his country in a small or bigger way.
While the person who paid the price may otherwise never had spent this money and it would have stood “unused” on a bank account thus not serving anybody….

what is sordid somehow, is to have tons of money and not spend it at all, or scarcely… when you have lots but you spend it, then it is a beginning of a cycle renewal because this money will then be used otherway by other people which will eventually help some good causes such as charities , even if it may take years for this money to switch into proper and valuable hands… at least it will eventually end up in the good ones…

(well, metaphysics and philosophy in this thread hehe… original)

A curious standpoint, Master Elf, but we all have our own opinions on such matters, and clearly mine doesn’t tally with yours. Fundamentally, no one will ever persuade me that a small chunk of metal is worth this kind of money.

i would agree with Barliman that spending that amount of money on a chunk of fantasy gaming metal with limited classical artistic value is crazy. But I do understand and agree with Gildor’s microeconomic point that the sale of this item benefits others by circulating that money into the general economy instead of squirreling it away under the mattress.

oh I agree with you master barliman about THIS sale… totally agree… Still from those ridiculous prices can come some positive aspects. that was my point, but that does not mean I for once would do such things, EVEN if I had the money to do so… (after all, it was not me who won the Aragorn for £1000 and it would have been catastrophic if I had won actually )

my point was more general… for people who want to pay big amounts of money for something which does not have such a factual value (such as the stamp example from Zoetrop for example)

I can’t even spell phisopholy, let alone debate it.

60€ for starting price for Frumgar??? isn’t it a bit expensive for a starting price?

as for M10, I doubt its current price will remain so for long

Hmm, thats what it looks like Master Ent….

I don’t think he will go there, because he knows what he can get on auction for the minis….