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“All That is Gold Does Not Glitter” …
Good to be back after many years. And is wasn‘t me, neither. Cheers
Ha, there will be a last second onslaught, I suppose
I hope, in the Ent (!?) someone from this forum wins this figure, as it should be.Heyho, fellowship. I just tested it, the zero feedback bidder just had multiple bids, therefore several auto-increases. Nothing rigged. I am not expecting to last long at the top, though. Cheers.
Winter is coming …
And before snow blocks all passage from this city of Beorn, Elrond is about to leave this homely place soon, in order to let others take delight in his presence.
We will search and contact the next host soon, and provide additional cover against the cold on the roads.
Long is the story of the adventures of Elrond and his entourage in Berlin; maybe we can also provide some electric paintings soon. He also met and befriended the local cat guardians …
Ad Master Turambar: Fully agreed, I wanted to support your position, here.
Also: Happy Easter to everybody! (… to be read on Sunday.) Ad Master Milo: Well, not angry, no. But as you aptly formulated: wondering. This could all be a bit more transparent. Maybe it isn’t (at least in part) also for reasons beyond the control of Man and Mitrhil, e.g., the evil ME enter-empire-prise … but this is really just speculation.
Turambar wrote:Ah, it is worth looking around the old threads . . .
I was looking around my Dwaw-gallery. I found different things. For example:
An auction on on 2009, Nov 07 ( unfortunately I missed that auction):
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So it is up to you spending a lot of money for a unique figure that appears quiet often.I did win this 2009 Dwar auction, for a slightly less amount than the current one. I think it’s fair to see more copies offered for other collectors, but I also contemplate if this supply is “infinite”, as we have witnessed with some other supposed uniques or rarities. Are the M16s, Dwars, MWs really old and from an attic, or (rarely) reproduced at leisure, I often wonder … Perhaps it would be best in the latter case if every such rarity would at least be described as potentially (re)available in future, in order to reduce that hyped $$$-aspect of collecting. My 2 cents.
No one ever is ever rolling their Rs around here …
RS play(ed) with international clichés on krauts / huns or … But Laibach from Slovenia was first …Though understandable from a commercial point of view, I share the anger about this. And I doubt that first or second castings could really be distinguished. Another marketing example from the archives, strongly indicating uniqueness (at that time
), apparently to fuel sales (“exist …, all of which”):“Theses are castings of 4 Half-orc soldiers from the un-released “Armies of Saruman” Warbands series made by Mithril Miniatures. Although numbered in the Mithril series as Mw347 this release was never put into production. Only a small number of test-castings exist for these figures, all of which I am putting up on today’s buy-it-now auction.”
(March 2007, 140097972582)
