goldendboy82 is a person on eBay from Italy who sells mediocre recasts (at best) of rare HQ miniatures, and he lures people to his eBay auctions via a FAKE advertisement of every HQ set ever made all in one deal for $10.000,-. Which nobody will ever buy, and I seriously doubt he even owns. He simply counts on it that nobody on Earth will buy it from him, but meanwhile look at his other auctions, and see relatively cheap recasts (relatively cheap in comparison to $10.000), and decide to buy those instead.
My advice: Avoid at all costs.
Buy from billdask if you want plastic recasts, or from patroclus if you want metal ones. They are far superiour to goldenboy's crappy casts. Both are good fellas from our own forum, both from Greece.
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billdask wrote:I've seen goldenboy selling recasted minis in the original box, with cards and tiles in a ridicules high price.
chaoticprime wrote:Billdask's are identical to the originals in detail. Goldendboy's are actually more expensive, but are of tragically inferior quality. The miniatures HeroQuest uses barely have any fine detail to begin with, and his replicas lessen that even further. There's practically nothing left to paint, at that point.
Goblin-King wrote:I've said it before and now I'll say it again. At those prices I'd rather just buy the complete expansion!
Edit: And I see it's from our friend Goldenboy! That guy is becoming legend! In a not-good way
Blackthorn wrote:I believe the Barbarian and Elf Quest Pack can be found at semi-reasonable prices if you persevere, but eBay is usually not the place. Goldenboy's auctions are fun to look at (he must have been stocking up on HQ stuff for years), but his prices often exceed market and his recasts are sub par. Then there's the shipping from Italy.
knightkrawler wrote:A word on goldenboy:
I WILL NEVER freakin' EVER buy from a guy who sets up EMPTY HeroQuest boxes on ebay for TENFREAKINGTHOUSAND whatever-the-currency-might-be-for-the-day just to lure people on his website where he sells below average quality reproductions for prices I could get the originals for.