Interesting, rare and sometimes cheap ebay items.

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Originally Posted by griffin

JUST A WARNING - I was bidding on some of this person's items, and the same shill bidder with zero feedback came along and pushed up several of their auctions in the last half hour... and then cancelled a bid on one item when they went above the maximum bid of the current winner. :mad:

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The same thing had happened to me with the same seller...but I have purchased another item from him without worry. Go figure :confused:

Was just looking at eBay and saw this listing for Metroplex:eek:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/2FT-Tall-...8a11be5&_uhb=1

Just a little sus - http://offer.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAP...p2047675.l2565 seller also ended several other auctions early claiming there were no bids on them but there was.:confused:

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Originally Posted by Skullcruncher

Just a little sus - http://offer.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAP...p2047675.l2565 seller also ended several other auctions early claiming there were no bids on them but there was.:confused:

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Looking at their past auctions, it is really suspicious that a lot of them have 2 or 3 shill bidders, probably to make it look less suspicious (a bidding war between shill bidders just might convince someone that the item is actually worth that much and bid again).
Or they are being targeted by someone else who doesn't like them, and are just wanting to vandalise/sabotage their auctions.


(if you're ever offered a second chance after you lose to a shill bidder, haggle the price to something closer to what you would have won it at if there was no shill bidder... if the seller refuses to budge on price, then you know that they were in league with the shill bidder to squeeze more money out of you and report it to ebay)

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Originally Posted by Dangermot

Was just looking at eBay and saw this listing for Metroplex:eek:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/2FT-Tall-...8a11be5&_uhb=1

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:eek: Man thats really bad!

Just because I was curious, I did a search for transformers doujinshi on ebay, and was amazed at the amount. Are they all sex comics like the one Griffin posted, or are some doujinshi clean?

Just spotted an odd item. It's clearly ko, but I don't know if it's a custom color, or a knock off of a lucky draw Lamborghini?

Gold Lamborgini

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Originally Posted by reillyd

Just spotted an odd item. It's clearly ko, but I don't know if it's a custom color, or a knock off of a lucky draw Lamborghini?

Gold Lamborgini

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it's a ko. In robot mode, he isn't fully gold.

he looks like this:

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/attach...deswipe-ew.jpg

MP1 (Gold Convoy) was the only Masterpiece that was a lucky draw prize so far

The J in MP12J, from what i've read stands for jin, which means gold.

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Originally Posted by griffin

After saying that I was going to report the shill bidder to ebay, the guy dropped it down to what I would have won it at. (I didn't threaten them at all, or demand they change it to my winning amount, but while we were haggling a couple of his other items that didn't sell, the suggestion that it was suspicious that so many of his items benefited from the one shill bidder, may have had him worried)
It's only $10 difference, but it is the principle of it... and why throw away money that is rightfully yours?

In the end it probably didn't matter, as I was able to talk him down $200 on a couple of other JP Gen1 boxed mint figures... that still ended up costing me nearly AU$3000. :eek:
Mint Boxed Sixknight ($400), Metrotitan ($820), Dai Atlas ($700), Road Fire ($700), plus $50 shipping.
Metrotitan and Sixknight had the shill bidder, but I won Metrotitan without the shill bidder affecting the final price. Dai Atlas didn't get any bids at $800, and Road Fire was just listed at $800. Both looked to be mint and white (and Dai Atlas was NOT the KO C888-version)... which is hard to find with these ones. I wasn't too keen to spend $800 on Road Fire though, as it is about half the size of Dai Atlas.
Offering $600 each plus postage, he came back with $700 each including postage. (postage wasn't going to be much since I was already paying $50 for the Metrotitan... but seeing the current selling rates of these in worse condition, and getting combined shipping, I figured, what the hell)

Now to see if they show up, and if they arrive in one piece.

JP Gen1 toys are way too expensive now... I don't think I've spent this much at once on TFs toys since Grand Maximus. :(
That should be my expensive JP purchase for the year.

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wow Congrats on this. That is a big purchase in one lot but its worth it! I got lucky with my Grandus - actually found one on Gumtree. He was yellowed as all hell but 100% Complete unused ( with all paperwork ). Managed to grab him for $400. Got the H202 on him now hes a $1000 toy (i reckon) :o

Whenever i buy an expensive Japanese toy , im always expecting to see a news listing the next day for "Encore G1 XXXX announced"