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[csmhoff]

so who won this massive lot? Are you planning on removing the horrid paint job? Let us know successful you are.

from Bidder 1 , haha

http://offer.ebay.co...em=330466777702

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Edited by csmhoff, 13 September 2010 - 07:58 AM.

[Strontium Dog]

It was won by the person who wins all the BEB auctions. He hasn't posted here since his underhanded dealings were exposed by myself back in June.

Shame about the unremovable acrylic paint, else the price would have been considerably more than £360.

http://cgi.ebay.co.u...em=330466777702

Here's the image for posterity. What on earth possesses someone to do this to their toys?

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[DarrylWestley]

£360 Wow! I am speechless that someone would pay that
for those figures with that paint job ;/ Acrylic paint is very tough
to remove.

Does this work?

Edited by DarrylWestley, 13 September 2010 - 08:10 AM.

[csmhoff]

Arr, well.

I queried the paint type- acrylic may be able to be removed with the right solutions and a lot of time.

I thought the hideous paintwork would send buyers away, £36 a pop is a lot, although they could be plain painted i guess if unremovable. Yeah if unpainted would of been 500-800 i guess.

Theres definatly more being spotted these days- the 2 yesterday i was bidding on have already been pulled and relisted.

Which reminds me, must take some more beb pics and send soupie my bad eggz photo archive for his cool website.

[Daxel101uk]

Arr, well.

I queried the paint type- acrylic may be able to be removed with the right solutions and a lot of time.

I thought the hideous paintwork would send buyers away, £36 a pop is a lot, although they could be plain painted i guess if unremovable. Yeah if unpainted would of been 500-800 i guess.

Theres definatly more being spotted these days- the 2 yesterday i was bidding on have already been pulled and relisted.

Which reminds me, must take some more beb pics and send soupie my bad eggz photo archive for his cool website.

God if only I had kept all my bad eggz toys, only found two and already sold em a while back. Some ppl put a lot of money into collecting these little things.. maybe one day i'll stumble on a load at a carboot with someone that doesnt know how much someone else would be willing to pay 4 em Im nice like that

[LaRata]

Im a Miniature painter , i know to much techniques to remove acrilic paint on plastic figures

[SmokinGun]

I not a BEB collector. I do like these figures alot. I think they look pretty sweet. But with there rarity, I had to say its a bad move to paint these figures.

I think Csmhoff is right. Unpainted would have fetch a little more.

Edited by SmokinGun, 13 September 2010 - 05:01 PM.

[Ericnilla]

Some people just dont know any better, plus who knows when he painted these~? could have been years ago.

[BaltanII]

This isn't the first time they've been listed. I've heard laments over these BEBs before.

[deadfishlake]

I still gotta say I'm surprised at how much they went for, considering the paint job. It comes out to like what, $50 per figure? Jeez, I remember not that long ago when $50 could get a good condition, hard plastic bad eggz. The prices now are just depressing.

[Strontium Dog]

About $55 a figure I think. Mint condition figures are fetching around $100 a piece now. It just goes to show how in these extremely niche markets, a single aggressive collector can skew prices upwards dramatically. It's quite remarkable

[Ericnilla]

crazy, the first one i bought was for $20 three years ago

[ChristianG]

Gold was $600 per oz in 2007.

Its now $1200 per oz.

Looking at that bad eggz don't seem so bad.

[bigazzhead]

Gold was $600 per oz in 2007.

Its now $1200 per oz.

Looking at that bad eggz don't seem so bad.

Ha! thanks for the perspective.

[TwoHeadedBoy]

crazy, the first one i bought was for $20 three years ago

Mine was £1.99, eighteen years ago