Warhammer (with the models and everything)

Tempted to buy from them, then return to amazon... save me £40.

I have a conscience, but at the same time this is amazon.

@ryands Do it. Then put some of that £40 saving towards the battletome for the faction in the box you like best.

(Or, if you're like me, just end up buying both lol)

I can't return the amazon one as I literally finished gluing the models today. Aiming to spray paint and start painting tomorrow. I assume amazon don't check barcodes or anything on returns. May give it a go and just order the cheap one and try anyway. Worst case scenario I ebay that one.

They aren't going to look at a serial number. If Zyr has bent your ear then order 2, send one back to Bezos and ride into the sunset like a pirate with 2 2000 points armies for the price of one. If you're that worried about a barcode then rebox one of the new ones with your Amazon box

I prefer 40k too but for the price and the quality of the models I couldn't say no.

I'd possibly even cause some "damages once opened" as an excuse to return if it got that far.

What I don't get is the discount in the first place. No idea if the box has struggled in sales, or if it's AoS popularity waning, or if Weyland are just using it to drum up traffic.

Oh well, back to cutting up my fingers.

Well, had an order in for Chalnath with my usual third party seller, hobby shop in England.

GW just shut down their trade account, no warning, as they 'suspect' they were splitting boxes into bits to sell via a separate eBay account. Except this separate eBay account pretty much deals only in second hand/pre-owned stuff, is well established for the past decade and popular, and I avoid them like the plague because of past experience.

But GW 'suspect' they're buying trade through this shop, building shoddily, painting crapply and then hawking them on eBay at the silly prices they get as past trade-ins ? Bizzare.

It's all very confusing, but ultimately no Chalnath for me. Guess I'll pick up the Sisters at a later time. Was kinda looking forward to my first taste of Tau though.

Hmmm. Done some digging.

Who's involved ? .

Turns out aa are a subsiduary of TH, same owners by the looks of it, and same location. Anyone who eBays 40k should know their listings on a Sunday, as almost every other auction is theirs, and that's been the case for a decade. And looking at a few current listings, you could possibly argue that there are a few sus kitbashes in there...

It does seem to be an interesting situation, and certainly could spell trouble for both. As I suggested, they do get some obscene prices for the "second-hand" lots, but more than selling new boxes at 3rd party discount ?

Perhaps GW have taken umbrage with the possibility of making more off the trade price, or otherwise some sort of fraud regarding new/pre-owned or something ? Can't really figure it out, but I'm so curious now.

The only thought I've had is that the GW legal team have been swinging the banhammer like the lunatics they are, in order to combat all the "split box" sellers (Space Marine half, Necron half for Indomitus etc, scalper outrage) on eBay, and seeing what sticks. Posted about it on dedicated forums, so we'll see what the hivemind comes up with.

It also makes me query that Weyland discount too - maybe they can't sale/return either ?

In other news I got the next 4 Imperium Mags today. 10 Necron warriors, 3 scarab bases, a Necron overlord and some teeny paints (a white, and citadel white is rarely passable, retributor armour and mech grey). Plus a binder for all the paper bumph.

I'm keeping hold of it for my nephews, see if I can annoy my brother some by sending them home with a plastic crack habit when they visit next Easter

Well, the hivemind actually dug through 1000+ listings on AA, and found "second-hand,new on sprue" bits that could easily be pieced out from oldish combat boxes, and some essentially brand new, no-box sprues like a complete Chaos Knight.

GW have had a "no bits" policy hardline for a number of years with trade, so I guess somebody has been digging into invoices. Could also quite easily have been traded in/bought to resell, and that's what TH say they can prove, so we'll see what happens next.

DarkSphere have been recommended as the next best 25% discount retailer, but the website, ugh.

I spent a good half hour sticking the mags into the binder earlier. It was quite nostalgic, like buying a whole bunch of SFII stickers for the album or something.

Managed to clean up a single necron warrior for gluing together after that and then it was dinnertime. Will hopefully find more time for it, the pile is getting out of hand and it doesn't even involve my faction