Frostmourne goes for $20k

by Mike Schramm Apr 3rd 2008 at 3:30PM

So yes, Frostmourne is a sweet sword, and yeah these real-life replicas are great (like a couple of thousand dollars great). But $20,000? That's how much the winning bidder put up in the Weaponmasters auction to get a limited edition low number sword, a gaggle of extra goodies, and of course the real reason someone would spend five figures on a collectible: membership in the Arthas' Army of Disciples club. That's a lot of cash.

Blizzplanet has a list of all the bidders (for public humiliation purposes?) -- the "winner's" (if you can call someone out $20k a winner) name was Xeophonix, apparently from Italy. Only the first two bidders went all out -- there's one more $20k bid, and then it drops to $12k, $5k, and then on down from there to the much more reasonable bids around $500. But grats to Xeophonix -- hope the $20,000 sword is worth it. And watch your back -- we don't know exactly how you kill a Lich King, but if Weaponmasters didn't quite get Arthas' sword away from him for good, you might have an angry Menethil/Ner'zhul showing up at your door.

[Via MMO Champion]

Tags: arthas, auction, frostmourne, lich-king, xeophonix

Filed under: Items, Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Odds and ends, Wrath of the Lich King

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cvpuck Apr 3rd 2008 3:40PM

weapon masters site says..

Our price $379.00
Quantity On Order from Manufacturer
Due in Stock: May 1, 2008

http://www.weaponmasters.com/shopping/FROSTMOURNE-p-17293.html

Unless im reading it wrong. It still comes with all the stuff... except for the arthas club thingy... hmm

Adorable1 Apr 3rd 2008 3:43PM

This'll go wonders with his Dell laptop. ; )

Naix Apr 3rd 2008 3:51PM

Ahh yes. Money well spent on a sword that will never be used in battle. It will sit over his fireplace only pulled from it's sheath when friends come over or when he is home alone and naked. Sure swords are cool, but for $20,000 I would have bought some other stuff.

peaglemancer Apr 3rd 2008 3:54PM

"will never be used in battle."

Er, you talk about it like there are swords you might buy to "use in battle". Not sure which century you're living in, but we've moved on a little bit.

Naix Apr 3rd 2008 4:44PM

"Er, you talk about it like there are swords you might buy to "use in battle"

I would be willing to bet this sword is not folded metal with a sharpened edge to a point. So yes there are swords sold battle ready still today.

Stormtamer Apr 3rd 2008 3:53PM

It is the first in the world, so its abit more special than the $379 one, even if it is the same.

And we know how some WoW players feel about world firsts.....

Xcelsior Apr 3rd 2008 4:06PM

What interests me are that a little less than half the bids (44%) are for less than the retail price of the sword. Makes me wonder if, as nice as the sword looks, the price is a bit too high. Of course, with an average price of over $1000 per sword for that auction, they seem to have done ok. :)

kalar Apr 3rd 2008 4:21PM

you still have to pay the initial cost to join the auction, the people who bid $100 are paying that on top of the other cost...

vak Apr 3rd 2008 4:27PM

no Sulfuras, no care! :P

David(Postal) Apr 3rd 2008 5:08PM

You know what they say, there's a sucker born every minute

Blackhorn Apr 3rd 2008 5:14PM

Here's a thought:

You're not rich. Some people are. If you have the means to buy a sword for $20,000, congratulations. If you're driving around in a $450,000 car, and park it next to several others, what's a $20,000 sword on your visa bill?

I doubt this is some snaggle-toothed basement dweller who now has to put of plans to move out of mama's house because he just spend his mortgage downpayment on a sword.

Blackhorn Apr 3rd 2008 5:15PM

Go Go Gadget typo correction machine!
....

Damn gadgets never work.

Faar Apr 3rd 2008 9:53PM

While I agree with you entirely; this buyer is more than likely someone with more money than he knows what to do with, I can't help to be entirely and thoroughly disgusted by this whole auction thingy.

It reeks of nothing but sheer greed plain and simple. If the auction had been for a noble purpose, such as helping civil war victims in Darfur province of Sudan for example then I'm sure they might very well have got bids even higher than 20k (just look at what some people have donated to the Child's Play charity), and everybody could have felt happy about it instead of making snide posts about rich people dropping 20 large ones on a useless toy sword.

However this does not appear to be the case, and instead the auction is about nothing except gouging computer gaming geeks - affluent ones in the case of the ~top 5 bidders - but still geeks. Ripped-off geeks.

I'd feel embarrassed and ashamed to entice people to pay 20k for a numbered hunk of junk metal and then pocketing the entire wad of dough, regardless that this person probably won't miss the money spent on it. It's unethical, plain and simple and the people behind this auction deserve a firm kick in the nads for being such a bunch of greedy tw@s.