After years of using the site, coupled with the search-fu learned from being an IT guy, I reckon myself as somewhat of an eBay professional.
By the way, for those of you who don’t already know this, IT guys don’t know all the answers–they just look errors up in Google. That’s why, I’ve a policy on my network that mandates Bing as the default search provider for all of our employees. Sure, it’s vastly inferior to Google, but I figure if my users figure out how to search for answers, I’m out of a job!
But I digress… Since I’ve picked up some decent scores on eBay, I thought I’d start posting some particularly juicy ones as I pick them up. My first entry into the category is a winged chaos lord. I stumbled upon the auction and saw that the model was only $1.25 (before shipping), so I put in a bid.
I couldn’t tell much from the picture, other than it was a painted model with wings, a sword and a gun. Due to the base, I figured that it had to be roughly 40k scale (it looks like a Wyrd miniatures base), and any model that size had to be worth more than a buck, so why not place a bid? Worst case scenario: I’m out a buck.
When the package arrived, I was floored. The model was a mix of some unknown figure company with Belakor’s wings. To top it off, it had an awesome paint job to boot! Such a clean NMM effect must’ve taken the painter hours upon hours to accomplish. The blending is fairly seemless as well. No, it probably won’t win any Golden Demons, but without a doubt, this is far better than a $1.25 paint job…
Sadly, this model should’ve fetched upwards of $30-40 on eBay easily, but the blurry picture scared away buyers.
I’m quite happy with my purchase, and hope that prospective sellers out there will think twice before posting blurry pictures with their ebay auctions. Really, when you have fantastic models like this, you owe it to yourself to take good pictures of the models before you try to sell them. Believe me, it’ll be worth the extra time…
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