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#851 Posted: 19:53:31 05/01/2014
Fixed. I hit the IMG code by accident.
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#852 Posted: 19:56:38 05/01/2014
Quote: goldenrushducks
If you don't want to feed scalpers your money, don't buy from them. Plus, you is a scalper nao :3
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#853 Posted: 03:37:30 06/01/2014
Quote: Matteomax
Based on what I've seen...it wouldn't take someone with much effort to stick it inside any old Cynder case and call it new...think about it. I'd be TOTALLY fine buying used Giants chase figures...because they figured it out with the in game notation. The SSA with the gold, silver stuff is a bit dicey.
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#854 Posted: 09:56:31 06/01/2014
@Matteomax while I agree I have an opened one and it looks very legit, has similar wear on the eye that mine has and silver scratches can happen on her as she's made out of silver material
The shading also looks pretty legit Best way to tell would be to ask for a pic of the bottom side, with a light shining on it, if it's legit the outer rim of it will be shiny silver.
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#855 Posted: 00:07:29 11/01/2014
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Skylan...=item43c43c2672
Nice... background.. Couldn't ya just wait until you get home?
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#856 Posted: 01:24:20 11/01/2014
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#857 Posted: 01:26:27 11/01/2014
Someone needs to get sprocket to fix that awkward image.
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#858 Posted: 03:19:58 11/01/2014
Quote: Matteomax
Well, it did say "in hand"...maybe "in lap" would've been more appropriate. Don't blame the person in hurrying. There's about 24 hours before the gig will be up on this one.
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#859 Posted: 05:41:01 11/01/2014
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#860 Posted: 05:57:31 11/01/2014
Quote: GhostRoaster
just for US buyers there will be still alot of overseas buyers on this one Best Buy does not ship internationally and the Canada store is not even getting it |
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#861 Posted: 12:51:30 11/01/2014
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Skylan...=item3f2ed7597c
Biggest. fail. ever. This guy is pathetic. Look at this description: Quote:
And this is equally as bad, if not less: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gold-F...=item4acea89137
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#862 Posted: 13:12:34 11/01/2014
Quote: Matteomax
It isn't that much of a fail. He is exaggerating.
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#863 Posted: 13:14:21 11/01/2014
Quote: wreckingballbob
Look at the price. They're selling for nowhere near the amount he wants. He made the description to fool buyers into thinking that it's a chase variant.
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#864 Posted: 14:35:35 11/01/2014
He thinks he found a Glitter Heavy Duty Sprocket
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#865 Posted: 20:16:32 17/01/2014
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DONATE...=item2ecdaf9098
As usual, the donate thing is suspicious (which is horrible), but for THAT price? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Skylan...151211769390%26 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Skylan...=item1e84f5969d Thanks, Frito-Lay.. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Skylan...=item417b949c99 What's with all the dupes? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Skylan...=item27dbe858a0 That's an excessive price, considering that it isn't a "complete" collection.
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Hexblazer Blue Sparx Gems: 895 |
#866 Posted: 20:57:54 17/01/2014
Quote: Matteomax
Look at this one selling Special Gill Grunt for $125 lol, also say donate to Autism from Vancouver, BC. http://vancouver.en.craigslist...4285656045.html |
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#867 Posted: 21:00:50 17/01/2014
Quote:
It has free shipping, tho! Gotta be worth it... *sarcasm*
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#868 Posted: 18:34:41 18/01/2014
why do i want to kill those ebay sellers now??? lol
i mean. c'mun!!! gold should go for about $250.00 about the sprocket is probably around retail and, seriously, those genius scalpers believe they found a "silver" mine. ^ sprocket pun. hehe |
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#869 Posted: 18:55:56 18/01/2014
Yea got to remember you can't sell them for retail because between eBay fees of 10% on final value fee once it sales and some auctions are still charged insertion fees and some list free shipping but that is because they have to add it to the price so something that is 9.99 retail would go for no less than 17.99 on eBay simply because 9.99 cost of item plus 1.79 for fvf, plus 4 for shipping that is 15.78 plus PayPal fee now it is at 16 so the seller only makes roughly $2 on it and that does not count his time and gas getting it.
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#870 Posted: 20:04:28 18/01/2014
Quote: goldenrushducks
Ahem, you don't know what the Developer Exclusive Fire Kraken is. Less than 100 exist. And, you want to kill the sellers? They have no clue that their item would sell for that much.
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#871 Posted: 20:15:28 18/01/2014
Someone should ask the "donate" seller if he/she will provide tax deductible receipt from autism speaks
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#872 Posted: 20:47:38 18/01/2014
Matteomax--how do you know that there were lesz than 100 made?
Curious
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#873 Posted: 20:48:34 18/01/2014
Quote: shelly9871
There were probably less than 100 developers.
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#874 Posted: 20:55:37 18/01/2014
So you are guessing based on how many developers you estimated there are ? Ok. I see. I was just wondering if you had information that was from someone who knows for sure. I am so curious how many were produced. Thx
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#875 Posted: 21:28:36 18/01/2014
Quote: shelly9871
Yeah, there could be more, but I'm sure there aren't that many. Any time.
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#876 Posted: 00:18:01 19/01/2014
according to a seller of one they told me that there were only around 75 actually produced to be handed out
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#877 Posted: 04:09:04 19/01/2014
Quote: Matteomax
100 actual developers...but if you've seen the credits...there are hundreds more with producing the game. Not sure how far and wide this went.
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#878 Posted: 04:19:40 19/01/2014
Quote: GhostRoaster
All of them were specifically told not to sell it, so those few that made it through might be the only ones. Those will constantly change hands. I'm starting to want one now.. The disease.. It's getting to me..
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#879 Posted: 05:00:20 19/01/2014
Ghost roaster that is exactly my point. Just because they were made for the developers or in honor of the developers--doesn't mean that is all that were made. Assuming that because there are "x" developers so there are that same number of figures is just that--an assumption. The people I spoke to and got them from were employees but not developers. Clearly they are rare. Clearly they arent supposed to be sold. I have seen 5 or so eBay listings for Gold Firekraken's & several Snowderdash's that Activision had taken down.
I hope this metallic shroomboom is one we can buy retail. I messaged the eBay shroomboom seller yesterday and he said that he got it from his "source" and he thinks it may be a prototype and he is "sure it is authentic. " Lol. So that seller doesn't know the answer.
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#880 Posted: 05:03:30 19/01/2014
I've heard rumors that he's coming out later like the Metallic Gill Grunt, but I'll be kind of annoyed if he doesn't because they teased him on Boomcast. If you're going to tease this one it would just suck if it's one of the employee ones and none of us can actually get it, kind of mean.
Acti are trying to take measures to stop the reselling of employee and dev figures which may be why the price of them is so high. The bottom of Snowderdash even says "NOT FOR RESALE" in place of any barcode.
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#881 Posted: 06:05:05 19/01/2014
Quote: shelly9871
They have actually been taking down auctions of the employee figures?! I'd really like to know what legal basis they have for that. I don't have any intentions of buying one of the figures so I have no stake in it, but they don't actually have the right to restrict sale of them. They are a gift to employees. What the employee does with it after that is entirely within the discretion of the employee. Unless the employment contract explicitly forbids selling them, which is technically possible but unlikely, Activision has no leg to stand on. "Not for resale" on the package does not forbid any individual from selling thier own possessions. |
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#882 Posted: 07:37:58 19/01/2014
They have per several sellers. I wonder if you sign something to get the figure? ?
Just a guess.
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#883 Posted: 17:21:51 19/01/2014
Quote: Matteomax
All you need to do is to go buy a "rare" variant now...wait a year when they've announced a general offering similar to Green Gilly...and watch yourself lose 99% of your value. That will solve the disease quite nicely. I'm cured. Sorry, but once a gift has been "gifted"...they can't tell you what to do with it. If all of them wanted to take all 100 of them and create a bonfire and put it on youtube...that's their right...it's their property. Quote: shelly9871
Definitely wait and be patient. from what I've seen, values for these ALWAYS go down...and if there's a general availability of them, your investment won't be in the crosshairs. Take it from someone who's learned that lesson.
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#884 Posted: 18:03:02 19/01/2014
Thanks for info.
But activision is --for sure-- making people take their "gifts" down. I'm not sure how. But they have done it with several people. Interesting
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#885 Posted: 19:10:09 19/01/2014
Personally, I find that unfair.
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#886 Posted: 19:27:11 19/01/2014
The only ones I have seen taking down are the ones that show the bottom in a picture, that clearly states not for resale then Ebay has the right to take it down. I had something taken down for that reason but relisted it without that picture and was fine. I think as long as you don't publish it with the not for resale picture or say that it has a not for resale on it there is nothing that can be done.
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#887 Posted: 19:32:00 19/01/2014
For some reason, Employee exclusive Prism Break doesn't have a "Not for Resale" label, and he has an actual DCPI code..
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#888 Posted: 19:35:40 19/01/2014
^really hmmm don't understand that one, I do know the flocked prism break has a dcpi did not know employee edition had one. I know toy fair and e3 has a not for resale and a blank dcpi sticker
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#889 Posted: 20:54:21 19/01/2014
E3 Hot Dog has "Not for Resale" on the barcode spot, same forvthe Wham Shell in the TRU carry/storage tower thing.
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#890 Posted: 23:12:56 25/01/2014
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#891 Posted: 23:41:41 25/01/2014
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#892 Posted: 02:30:05 26/01/2014
That guy was selling a bunch like that
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#893 Posted: 02:47:50 26/01/2014
I take back everything I've said: THIS is the worst think I've ever laid my eyes upon:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Ra...=item3a8a9e9033 Lightning Rod is an OBVIOUS fake (You can see the white at the bottom of the base), and the Rip Tide is NOT a prototype. And look at that; he lists that the L-Rod is a custom in the description.. Another reason that the auction should be removed. Can someone report it?
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#894 Posted: 12:30:51 26/01/2014
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mickey...=item3f2fb82261
While not actually Skylands, it is Disney Infinity, look at all the Mickeys.
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#895 Posted: 19:51:14 26/01/2014
Quote: a cat
That's prob cause he came out today at Walmart, I'm actually in Walmart buying mine. |
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#896 Posted: 20:02:38 26/01/2014
Quote: a cat
That's an epic thumbs up. Mickey rocks.
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#897 Posted: 22:25:37 26/01/2014
Gee, I wonder why the character will be "rare" soon Mr Ebay Seller...it can't be because you and anyone like you are buying 40+ of them to horde them for ripoff resale prices can it? No wayyy.....I've seen him in stores, and so far as I can tell, he's not rare! I don't know who this guy is kidding....
Seems no matter what happens, the one constant is that there will be liars and scalpers on ebay. Cheers for the New Year.
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#898 Posted: 12:42:10 27/01/2014
Quote: Matteomax
Thanks for the heads-up. I reported this listing for counterfeit/replica selling. A lot more people will also need to report it for the same thing if you actually want eBay to do something about the listing, though. Also, Matteomax ... I have to call you out on this: weren't you were one of the people defending a certain user here a month or so ago when he listed a "custom painted" Skylanders variant replica on eBay? If so, you're being hypocritical.
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#899 Posted: 12:44:53 27/01/2014
Quote: BahamutBreaker
Not again.. At least the custom green variants were actually listed as customs. This one only mentions it in the description.
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#900 Posted: 12:49:27 27/01/2014
you're splitting hairs, Matteo.
The only reason I brought this up is for you to see that maybe, just maybe, you were acting in a biased fashion during that whole debate about Skylanderex's eBay listings for counterfeit Skylanders. Counterfeit is counterfeit. Replicas are replicas. It shouldn't matter who created them, whether it was your best friend or a total stranger. Just something to consider.
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