Ugh...So now I remember why I do not buy new toys off of Ebay

[Amberbratt]

Originally Posted by Captain Hydra

I once bought Buzzer off of ebay. Now eveytime I go into a store there he is taunting me.

i bought the lady jaye wave for like umm


i think it was 60$ shipped...

who was in the wave??

this was back before hisstank and before I knew how easy it would to to 'find these'

and back before i started spending 500$ a month a toys again

*sigh*



everytime i see the lady jaye with a hat I want to kick her in the face.

[wolfrunner74]

Originally Posted by Amberbratt

everytime i see the lady jaye with a hat I want to kick her in the face.

LOL...you're funny Amber Bratt! =P

[Quick_Kick]

I've used eBay to acquire a wave 1 Flint, which ran me about 37 dollars w/shipping. I feel like it was a good deal considering I didn't start collecting until wave 6. Deals always come down to what you feel comfortable paying, one person may differ from the next!

[GunghosLipHair]

i used to army build with ebays help, but now i find trading is much easier and beneficial for everyone

[morgana08]

I just used E-bay to find Hawk, Bazooka and Barbecue. That was before I discovered how easy BBTS could be. *hits self in forehead* Of course, I'm still waiting on them to actually show up.

[Fingers]

I caved today and bought Hawk and BBQ on ebay, found a couple of good auctions with free shipping. Im just really worried these wont show up around here, only 2 cases came out this weekend and I got 1 fig from them. Wave 8 hit very lightly here too and I was lucky to put a full set together. But now wave 7 is overflowing so who knows if wave 9 will be sometime shortly. If so I can always use 10 bats like I have vipers now.

[code_red_shockwave]

The distribution does end up an issue for some figures in my area. I have bid on a total of three auctions for 25th Anniversary figures. The first auction was for a Firefly/SS Comic-pack. I bought it for $20 and I don't think that's too bad since I gave up the two figures to someone else and got a pretty good trade out of it. The second was for a lot of comic pack figures(9 2-packs) loose and while I don't remember the price, I remember that it ended up about $3 per figure and all were complete. The third one was for two customs that I bought for $15. While I am unsure if I would go buy any more on ebay, it looks like most are too expensive to get nowadays.

Originally Posted by wolfrunner74

So my impatience got the better of me and I ended up purchasing 25th Anniversary Gi Joes Wave 9: Snow Serpent and Hawk off of Ebay this afternoon. I should be ecstatic that I got two of my favorite childhood Gi Joes in 25th style, right? Well, it turns out that after shipping I paid 32 dollars for only two figures =(. Now I have this sick feeling in my stomach with buyer's remorse that I should've waited it out. What's even sad is that my brother, who's visiting from out-of-state, saw the entire Wave 9 set earlier in the day but passed on them because he's lost interest in collecting due personal reasons.

Don't get me wrong, I am totally glad I don't have to drive around town, wasting gas, looking for the only two figures that I want from this wave, but I essentially paid double of what Target is charging for their 25th Joes. The seller wanted to charge me an additional 5 dollars for insurance on top of spending 32 bucks for these; and I really wanted to insure them since I am a MOC collector, but paying 37 dollars for two Joes was way too hard for me to wrap my mind around, so I passed on the insurance since it was optional.

Anyhow, I hope this serves a reminder to me that I need to be patient when it comes to finding these hard-to-find 25th Joes. I just know, that knowing my luck, I am going to see these two figures in the next week or two sitting on pegs; and I will probably kick myself for it too. D'OH!!! Fortunately, I am moving to a small town where there is a Walmart and my brother who lives there always find the new waves of Joes in no time.

I will never buy new releases of toys off of Ebay again, I swear. Has anyone ever essentially done what I did today with newly, hot releases of any type of toy before? Please share so I can feel better with the damage I've done to my wallet =). Damn you Hasbro for making these 25th Anniversary Gi Joes so hard to find!

if it makes you feel any better,way back in february, i
bought a battle armor cc for $25.00 plus shipping,and that january,i bought a whole case of the force unleashed figs for $120,only to find the whole wave in store about a month later,talk about kicking your own ass!!