They were both damaged to some degree. The Sandtrooper I knew was damaged when I bought it about a year ago, but I recenly bought another one that is in better condition, so I sold it. The Vader got damaged in transit after I bought and paid for it. The seller refunded me a fair bit of it to me so it worked out well.
FYI, I had a reseve and a BIN on it. Does that make me balless???
I did notice the reserve there, but I guess it was pretty reasonable since it was met. What'd you have the BIN's at though? I assume lower than what they ultimately went for, huh? I didn't read through the rest of your auction descriptions there Simon, to notice that these things were both a little less than mint, so I guess that's not quite the "actual" market value on some mint ones after all. Bummer, since I was happy to say they'd dropped a good amount more, and was finally getting close to taking a sniff of them!
And yeah, Brian, don't sweat those carded pieces, or even the chase/secret figures. If you just grab the regular wave of 6 Kubrick figures for each series, they can be had for under $50 (less than $10 each), if you're patient. Not too bad, really.
As for Robby.jp, I guess I'll just be sticking with my original HLJ order, I think. I dunno...