some juicy ebay-auctions

Well, instead of spending 260€ for one miniature, I’d rather buy magnificient ones which are much cheaper !
And maybe one day I will find another attic treasure containing one M16.

way too much for just one figure, no matter how rare it is — but then again, i spend that much on a single vinyl record, so who am i to judge?

the good thing is that the seller had a very unusual ending time for the auctions — 11 am? many of the figures could actually be had rather “cheap.”

a few bargains i snatched, i hope they’re in good condition and can be stripped and primed easily, without too much hassle.

Even for me who leaves on grenwich meridian, I was at my office, having a look between two progress meetings…
Well, I won 9 auctions, 7 were just initial bids to try to get some cheap extras (M2 for 1.99€ for instance).
Allas, that means I only bought 2 I was missing.
But I lost every auctions on references under M100, which is currently what I am most looking for…just because being at office…bad timing that was yes….

Cameosis wrote: ” but then again, i spend that much on a single vinyl record, so who am i to judge? “

I hope this was not a venyl record from cameo . . . 😆 😆

You just wrote my thoughts wise Master Ent. 😆

it’s only bad timing when you lose the auction. i got five out of five, so i can’t really complain.

the rarity aspect overshadows the quality aspect, i have witnessed this many a time in music collector circles. if i love the record, i’ll buy it sooner or later, whether it is rare/expensive (later) or not (sooner). it’s the music that counts.

some things however, are so obscure that hardly anybody knows anything about them — which means that they don’t become expensive … odd, isn’t it?

for example, this was a 2001 promotional figure for the online rpg “everquest” by sony online, an iksar (lizardman) character/shaman. wonderful sculpt, and among my top five favorite figures across all lines that i collect. i only saw it twice (and bought both; gave one of them as a gift to my former room mate). cost me € 3 including shipping both times (€ 1 for the mini, € 2 for shipping).

other than that, what really helped me stack up on my mithril collection was a purchase of 25 mint blisters for a total of € 36, including shipping (from france to germany, last year in february). that was an average price of less than € 2, and it included
[mith]m145[/mith] / [mith]m154[/mith] / [mith]m170[/mith] / [mith]m174[/mith] / [mith]m177[/mith] / [mith]m199[/mith] / [mith]m200[/mith] / [mith]m201[/mith] / [mith]m205[/mith] / [mith]m246[/mith] / [mith]m269[/mith] / [mith]m270[/mith] / [mith]m277[/mith] / [mith]m278[/mith] / [mith]m281[/mith] / [mith]m294[/mith] / [mith]m296[/mith] / [mith]m316[/mith] / [mith]m334[/mith] / [mith]m338[/mith] / [mith]m349[/mith] / [mith]m354[/mith] / [mith]m355[/mith] / [mith]m390[/mith]

one was a double, but i forgot which one. in any case, i’ll take such an opportunity over a single figure any time — with one exception: burzash, [mith]mx436[/mith] — i love trolls and they’re on top of my want list as minis.

the only ones where i paid more than € 10 per figure were
[mith]m10[/mith] / [mith]m73[/mith] / [mith]mb369[/mith] / [mith]ms495[/mith] / [mith]pm496[/mith] (of these only the [mith]m10[/mith] was not in a blister, but it came with the blister card. the last two would have been cheaper if i had waited for them to show up again, they are quite frequently on ebay).

this time i passed up on a lot of ral partha ad&d blisters, which i probably shouldn’t have, but i only could afford one of the two (the last mithril auction or the ral partha sets).

here are a few interesting and … unusual things people collect (i used to have a lot of banana labels, for example, haha):
http://itthing.com/collectors-who-collect-the-most-unusual-items

Turambar wrote:

I hope this was not a venyl record from cameo . . . 😆 😆

nanana! nix gegen cameo, sonst muss ich meine trollfreunde holen, damit die hier aufräumen.
best funk band ever.
i have all their records as original pressings, by the way, yes.

and they had a concert here last september — incredible experience, this will forever be a highlight for me.

. . . best funk band ever . . . We should talk about this elsewhere . . .
Seems that your German is as good as your Japanese . . . 😎

Painted Riders of rohan were just sold for 89,91 GBP. A good price considering the amount of minis.

neighborhood sniper struck again (and no, i wasn’t bidding).

Please, let me win this wolf alone :D:D

http://shop.ebay.com/briboox/m.html?_nkw=mithril&_sacat=0&defsort=12&_odkw=&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3911.c0.m270.l1313