I wouldn't use ebay as my first go to shop for minis. Most iconics are still available on the paizo website and the ones that aren't are probably still available for a more reasonable price on website devoted to miniature and board games sales.
I would also suggest you visit the Plasticrypt site. They have a trade forum that has been a real help to me so far to find both Pathfinder and DDM figures at reasonable costs or reasonable trades.
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What are the chances of seeing a re-issue of sold out singles? The iconics are going for like $50 on ebay. It's giving me chest pains. Is the goal to make these collectibles or to give us something to game with?
While these are gaming minis first and foremost, we also recognize that there is a collectible aspect to them, and we want to preserve the investment that collectors have made. Which means we won't be taking a rare mini and making it common—at least, not in exactly the same form.
Normally, a good solution to this problem would be a repaint—issuing the same figure with a new paint job—but that really doesn't work for the iconics. People who don't have Seoni want "real" Seoni, not "weird blue dress Seoni."
This means we have to do *resculpts* to solve the problem. But sculpts (and new molds) are expensive, so WizKids needs to know that if they put out new versions of the iconics, they can sell enough of them to justify those high costs.
This is something that we're actively thinking about. We recognize that we need to get prepainted plastic minis of our iconic characters out there to more people, and I believe that we will have a solution in the near future. But it won't be reissuing existing figures.
What about another set specifically for iconics? I don't know how well the last one sold, but when I saw the first one I had to immediately buy it. I'm sure it works well for people who want to use the pre-generated characters for adventure paths and PFS modules.