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You don't save that much on Hachette collections


We've recently been hit with the news that Hachette are launching a new magazine collection, Warhammer 40,000: Combat Patrol.

 

As someone that bought the Imperium Magazine collection (in it's entirety), let me tell you this - you only save money if you're going to paint and play every single model. If not, you'll breakeven at best and, most likely, lose money.

 

Let's say you only wanted one or maybe two combat patrols from the set. You still have to sell off all the rest. Here's how it'll go:

Straight away, the models aren't worth as much as an officially boxed and sealed combat patrol. It doesn't matter that they're sealed in magazines - it just ain't the same.

 

That doesn't matter anyway, right? Because people usually don't want to buy complete sets - they just want certain units from a set. Yeah that's true, but even then you have, what, 100+ sprues you need to package up and ship out. It all takes time.

 

You can always find someone to buy, but everyone wants a deal. If you were going to list it all on eBay, people don't want to pay the same price as they could pay on a site like Wayland Games - they want to pay less.

 

Why? Because they can probably get it online with free shipping. You could offer free shipping yourself but that eats into the amount of money you get back in the end. 

Then there's the competition. Think about how many people could be doing the exact same thing, who have a load of other sprues sat round they want to get rid of. Maybe they'll throw in some models from their pile of shame, too. 

Suddenly there's a lot of models on the market and, people being people, they'll start dropping their prices. So even though you know a model or a unit is worth £x, it'll end up selling for £y (minus the fees). You can sell in Facebook groups but you end up with some initial interest that drops off whenever you start talking prices - or they try to shave some extra cash off.

 

This isn't just speculation - I went through all of this myself. My honest opinion is that all the extra time and effort involved simply isn't worth it. Just buy the models you want in your army, paint them up and spend more time playing the game. 

Edited by iplay40k.com
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iplay40k.com

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Took me a while to trawl through my phone and find some evidence - here is the heap of Imperium stuff that I bought last year for the same as the purchase price

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TheArtilleryman

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Can’t argue with this at all. At first it looks like an amazing idea, but then you actually think about the things you actually want and realise they aren’t in the magazine. Worth picking up the odd issue if you can, but otherwise, nope.

Noserenda

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Eh. I've never struggled to sell unwanted models for more than I paid for them myself. And believe me I can't afford not to! It does vary based on what models you are selling, some of the Necrons I easily made more than double on, some of the marines I did end up donating but they were the significant minority.

iplay40k.com

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4 hours ago, Noserenda said:

Eh. I've never struggled to sell unwanted models for more than I paid for them myself. And believe me I can't afford not to! It does vary based on what models you are selling, some of the Necrons I easily made more than double on, some of the marines I did end up donating but they were the significant minority.

 

It's always surprising to me how much resale value the models hold. Talking from my own personal experience, I think it ultimately depends on how long you're willing to sit on what you have until you find a buyer at the price you want. As I mentioned in the article, people will undercut prices in a marketplace to try and get a quick sale. 

Also right now, in the time of so many different models not being in stock anywhere, values of certain models are going up - as you pointed out. Supply and demand is real!

14 hours ago, TheArtilleryman said:

Can’t argue with this at all. At first it looks like an amazing idea, but then you actually think about the things you actually want and realise they aren’t in the magazine. Worth picking up the odd issue if you can, but otherwise, nope.

 

For sure, I think that's going to be my approach to this collection - if I can snag a couple of issues which have the models I want, great. If not, no big loss.

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