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Quote from: freezestime on March 07, 2019, 12:26:19 AMQuote from: glitterball on March 06, 2019, 11:49:24 PMQuote from: Gonatcha on March 06, 2019, 03:42:15 PMQuote from: Taffeta on March 06, 2019, 08:01:48 AMAlso MIP ponies via the GSP is risky anyway. I think it'd have to be a lower price for me to risk it.What is the Global shipping programme and why is it risky? /Swedish collector being out of the loop for a looong time ;-)In short, the seller pays ebay to do the sending to your country via their agent - the risks are:1* very expensive for you as a buyer (you pay extra shipping for the agent service PLUS import duties)2* the packing agents see something in a box (MIB) and de-box the item so it fits in their packing boxes. 3* Or they bend your items in such a way that they are no longer considered mint. so, not a popular shipping choice for those worried about the quality of the care of their purchases!Quote from: Noasar on March 07, 2019, 12:09:27 AMI messaged the seller about GSP and they said the next batch won’t be sold via GSP. I also asked if I won an auction and pay can they just NOT send it through GSP and they said yes.If GSP is bad, is there an alternative?Yes just normal international shipping.
Quote from: glitterball on March 06, 2019, 11:49:24 PMQuote from: Gonatcha on March 06, 2019, 03:42:15 PMQuote from: Taffeta on March 06, 2019, 08:01:48 AMAlso MIP ponies via the GSP is risky anyway. I think it'd have to be a lower price for me to risk it.What is the Global shipping programme and why is it risky? /Swedish collector being out of the loop for a looong time ;-)In short, the seller pays ebay to do the sending to your country via their agent - the risks are:1* very expensive for you as a buyer (you pay extra shipping for the agent service PLUS import duties)2* the packing agents see something in a box (MIB) and de-box the item so it fits in their packing boxes. 3* Or they bend your items in such a way that they are no longer considered mint. so, not a popular shipping choice for those worried about the quality of the care of their purchases!Quote from: Noasar on March 07, 2019, 12:09:27 AMI messaged the seller about GSP and they said the next batch won’t be sold via GSP. I also asked if I won an auction and pay can they just NOT send it through GSP and they said yes.If GSP is bad, is there an alternative?
Quote from: Gonatcha on March 06, 2019, 03:42:15 PMQuote from: Taffeta on March 06, 2019, 08:01:48 AMAlso MIP ponies via the GSP is risky anyway. I think it'd have to be a lower price for me to risk it.What is the Global shipping programme and why is it risky? /Swedish collector being out of the loop for a looong time ;-)In short, the seller pays ebay to do the sending to your country via their agent - the risks are:1* very expensive for you as a buyer (you pay extra shipping for the agent service PLUS import duties)2* the packing agents see something in a box (MIB) and de-box the item so it fits in their packing boxes. 3* Or they bend your items in such a way that they are no longer considered mint. so, not a popular shipping choice for those worried about the quality of the care of their purchases!
Quote from: Taffeta on March 06, 2019, 08:01:48 AMAlso MIP ponies via the GSP is risky anyway. I think it'd have to be a lower price for me to risk it.What is the Global shipping programme and why is it risky? /Swedish collector being out of the loop for a looong time ;-)
Also MIP ponies via the GSP is risky anyway. I think it'd have to be a lower price for me to risk it.
I messaged the seller about GSP and they said the next batch won’t be sold via GSP. I also asked if I won an auction and pay can they just NOT send it through GSP and they said yes.
Is anyone else having trouble getting the 2nd page of ponies on Ebay to load? I can see the first page just fine but the 2nd page doesn’t show the ponies on it. I can still find them by searching by individual pony names but not by clicking the 2nd page on “See seller’s other items. Sweet Scoops is almost $900 now. Ponyfan
Quote from: Sunset on March 06, 2019, 07:35:51 PMWow! This is so crazy. Very much like actual dreams I’ve had except I always wake up before actually getting to posses the ponies. I was hoping that I might get to snag a couple of these for decent prices with the market basically being flooded at the moment. But the Baby Firefly thing is concerning :/ and I just looked and it looks like that bidder only has 1 feedback. Very scetchy....I actually messaged them on eBay and informed them about our suspicions, they responded with the fact someone had informed them earlier of the "trickster" so they're gonna change the rules next pony batch.
Wow! This is so crazy. Very much like actual dreams I’ve had except I always wake up before actually getting to posses the ponies. I was hoping that I might get to snag a couple of these for decent prices with the market basically being flooded at the moment. But the Baby Firefly thing is concerning :/ and I just looked and it looks like that bidder only has 1 feedback. Very scetchy....
Quote from: freezestime on March 06, 2019, 07:56:29 PMQuote from: Sunset on March 06, 2019, 07:35:51 PMWow! This is so crazy. Very much like actual dreams I’ve had except I always wake up before actually getting to posses the ponies. I was hoping that I might get to snag a couple of these for decent prices with the market basically being flooded at the moment. But the Baby Firefly thing is concerning :/ and I just looked and it looks like that bidder only has 1 feedback. Very scetchy....I actually messaged them on eBay and informed them about our suspicions, they responded with the fact someone had informed them earlier of the "trickster" so they're gonna change the rules next pony batch.But wouldn't the most likely cause of this be shill bidding? Where the seller is artificially raising prices? Because I can't think of any reason for a normal bidder to inflate prices like that...
I'm just going to sit back and watch what happens. I've been able to get several mib ponies for good prices here, on FB and from local collectors so I'd rather not overpay because of a frenzy.
Are we all screenshotting photos of these for wiki pages? We should get permission from the seller. Especially as some of these have never been seen MIB/MOC are may not be seen again!
What has never been seen MIP before though? I haven't seen anything yet that hasn't been on ebay in the past at one point or another? They're US carded ponies, which are much more common than MOC packages from any other place, probably due to the size of the country. There's some really rare stuff in there, but nothing that hasn't come up before. (I want to emphasise that before anyone sells their soul to buy a pony xD)
QuoteWhat has never been seen MIP before though? I haven't seen anything yet that hasn't been on ebay in the past at one point or another? They're US carded ponies, which are much more common than MOC packages from any other place, probably due to the size of the country. There's some really rare stuff in there, but nothing that hasn't come up before. (I want to emphasise that before anyone sells their soul to buy a pony xD)Admittedly I'm far from being the font of all pony knowledge but I personally have never seen a MOC BH Dazzleglow or SSSN in boxes so it was nice to see them on card. I know that many of them have been seen before, and people already probably own many of them MOC If there are any photos missing from Wiki pages now would be the time to add them, whether or not they've been seen before!
Blue heart MOC Dazzleglow's pictured on my website O.o.
On another note, I think Twilight's bubble has been retaped at the top. It looks like discoloured tape.
Blue heart MOC Dazzleglow's pictured on my website O.o. It's true the SSN haven't come up MIP for a very long time. They are super rare MIB. They have been up before but it's probably been more than ten years, now I think about it. Like with the Dream Beauties - in the early 2000s there were loads of those MIP but now they hardly come up. That's why I suspect this collection was put together then rather than now, when those things were more available.I think it's sad thinking how much we took for granted and didn't save in the past that now is not seen as much as it was then. I know there were several big MIP collections back then, and I strongly suspect when the Delaneys sold Helen's stuff and then their own stuff most of these items came up including the ones you mention. The good thing about that is that there are other examples xD And that we have an opportunity to fill those gaps on the other sites that do still exist to include them.It's the UK and European ponies that are the problem. There are sole surviving examples of those and some we've never seen MIP yet.
I've got permission to use the photos for the Wiki