My purchase? The 2012 Troop Surge
I picked up 684 Dreamblade minis in factory sealed cases and 1,345 assorted Mage Knight minis for the price of $143.00.
The Dreamblade minis are awesome but it takes significant effort to unbase them. I ignored the advice of using a hot knife - a Dremel with a rotary cutting tool is better for the task for all but a minority of them, overall.
I have a lot of rebasing to do. I'm going with Litko 3mm plywood 20mm, 25mm and 50 mm bases, Alenes Tacky Glue, black primer for the bases and Minwax polyshade for a brush dip on the minis where necessary.
For the Mage Knight minis alone, for $143, it was the best gaming dollar I ever spent. The odds of a deal as good as what I got coming up for you on ebay are unlikely. I watched for quite a while for that one to pop up, which as it happens, came up for sale on ebay.ca and was not locatable in a search of ebay.com. That's why they went for about 1/3rd to 1/4 the current going price for Mage Knight mini lots of that size.