New auction for July at Mandarake.... anyone interested?

beatrush · Post by **beatrush** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:56 am

currently still winning mine, we'll see what happens in 2 days though.

Captain Haddock · Post by **Captain Haddock** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:30 am

Yay I one my Burn Up cel I was bidding on!

http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/auc_e/item ... 3430100001

Krafty · Post by **Krafty** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:55 am

Nice one Mr Haddock! I was tempted to bid on that myself but wouldn't have gone past 8,000-9,000y since I don't actively collect from that series, (only Burn Up Scramble).

beatrush · Post by **beatrush** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:16 pm

Captain Haddock wrote:Yay I one my Burn Up cel I was bidding on!

http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/auc_e/item ... 3430100001

I was gonna go after it also but had a change of heart.

Congrats on your win !

Princess Nadia · Post by **Princess Nadia** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:39 pm

genomexec wrote:That KOR cel is astounding...

Breath taking

I'm a little shocked at the ending price though

Captain Haddock · Post by **Captain Haddock** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:10 pm

Aww thank you Krafty and Beatrush, I just realised it also happens to be my first bw win as well. There is another nice one of Rio up if either of you are interested, but I've got to hope not to win the other auction I'm embroiled in on a certain Miss Aoi of DNA2 fame.

Sorry for the bad luck on your auctions Krafty, I saw that Virus one and thought you might be in there voting for it even before I'd seen your post about it.

kathpatty · Post by **kathpatty** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 7:16 am

Quite a battle in the last minutes

http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/auc_e/item ... 3080100001

beatrush · Post by **beatrush** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 7:51 am

I lost my auction.

Oh well, more cash for other things.

ginga123 · Post by **ginga123** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 9:42 pm

Out of curiosity, did anyone see a winner for that great original SM moon tiara action attack cel? I was being nosy that friday afternoon and saw that it was fairly priced with 7 hrs to go b/f it ended with no bidders.

I know what your going to say.... curiosity killed the cat.... but you can't blame me for biting back. j/k

majinuub · Post by **majinuub** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 9:50 pm

https://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/auc_e/ite ... 2140100003

I cannot believe this one ended at such a cheap price.

Keropi · Post by **Keropi** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:55 pm

ginga123 wrote:Out of curiosity, did anyone see a winner for that great original SM moon tiara action attack cel? I was being nosy that friday afternoon and saw that it was fairly priced with 7 hrs to go b/f it ended with no bidders.

You can see all the auction results by clicking "Before/Opened Auction-Closed Auction" drop down choices at the top of the screen that's next to the "Big Web Auction".

Angelic-Lair · Post by **Angelic-Lair** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:13 am

Got what we were trying for

Cordelia · Post by **Cordelia** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 9:07 am

Is it me or do the prices on BWA tend to be higher than usual? The prices seem to be defying the economic recesssion. I mean wow, this has got to be one of the most expensive anime artwork:

http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/auc_e/item ... 4600100004

Still there were lots of beauties this time round, congrats to those who won.

kathpatty · Post by **kathpatty** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 1:51 pm

LunaArt · Post by **LunaArt** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:40 pm

Congrats to everyone who got what they wanted!!

Yay! I got the two items I was after. I'm very happy, however my wallet is in tears.

Which brings up a question . . . my bill is going to end up being around the $4K mark.

I live in the US and usually we don't have to worry about import duties on our cel purchases, however I got an email from Mandarake asking if I wanted to declare the full amount or not because my items were so expensive. That got me to start worrying about it. Is there some limit over which import duties will start to be charged? I can't remember if I have ever spent so much on one shipment before and if I have, it was probably through a deputy service. I'm debating on whether to have them declare the full amount or not. Has anyone recently received a shipment declared at such a large amount?

Can anyone help me out with some advice?
Thanks!!