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guerret
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 4:58 pm

I think I found the silliest auction price of the CENTURY...

See, I'm looking for a shrinkwrapped HHQ1 and HHQ3, and I sometimes search on Amazon also. What I found this time is really amazing...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/ ... 081&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/ ... 097&sr=8-1

Look at the bottom of the pages.

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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:21 pm

b1 RARE $35 not finish yet
** expired/removed eBay auction **
+ g123 $28
** expired/removed eBay auction **

who are other people quoted from all reports
** expired/removed eBay auction **
has 3 to sell :lol:

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Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 4:01 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/DUNGEONS-DRAGONS-MO ... dZViewItem

Looks pretty beat-up as well. And I just doubt this is a first print. It could be, but I instinctively doubt it.

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Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 4:09 pm

JasonZavoda wrote:
** expired/removed eBay auction **

Looks pretty beat-up as well. And I just doubt this is a first print. It could be, but I instinctively doubt it.

It's got the "TM Reg Applied For" on the cover, so it looks like a first print. Hard to tell about the condition, but if it isn't too bad, the price doesn't seem that crazy to me.

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Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 4:24 pm

Bracton wrote:
It's got the "TM Reg Applied For" on the cover, so it looks like a first print. Hard to tell about the condition, but if it isn't too bad, the price doesn't seem that crazy to me.

I do see the lizard man logo, but not the TM applied. The picture gets pretty blurry when you zoom. The cover looks worn.

What does a good condition copy go for?

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Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 5:04 pm

JasonZavoda wrote:
I do see the lizard man logo, but not the TM applied. The picture gets pretty blurry when you zoom. The cover looks worn.

What does a good condition copy go for?

You can't read it, but the line of red text under the "Dragons" in the "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" at the top is the "TM Reg Applied For" (and even looking at my copy in person, it's somewhat blurry). There's nothing there in the subsequent printings. I don't think I've seen a first print where the cover wasn't worn to some degree; might have been something in the material they used.

I haven't seen a first print up on eBay recently, so I don't have any up-to-date information. But if the prices here are still good, over $100 wouldn't be unreasonable.

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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:38 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/AD-D-Dangerous-Jour ... dZViewItem

Does Crazy Egor know something here or just trying to prove he's crazy?

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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 4:23 pm

JasonZavoda wrote:
** expired/removed eBay auction **

Does Crazy Egor know something here or just trying to prove he's crazy?

Nope... He's just crazy...

guerret
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:36 pm

Oooook...

You know those times you think you're bidding crazy? Just because you want an item so much you would be ready to pay 5 times its value?

Well, now what when you get outbid as well?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0262187085

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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 10:40 pm

guerret wrote:Oooook...

You know those times you think you're bidding crazy? Just because you want an item so much you would be ready to pay 5 times its value?

Well, now what when you get outbid as well?

** expired/removed eBay auction **

I bid on the same seller's copy of H3, the only Bloodstone module I am missing. And lost to the same buyer.

Guess maybe the economy isn't so bad after all.

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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 10:49 pm

Bracton wrote:Guess maybe the economy isn't so bad after all.

for a few people + for shrinkwrap economy which has not yet burst its bubble. third bidder was long way off the pace

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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 12:39 am

Same seller, big price for this one

http://cgi.ebay.com/DRAGONS-OF-GLORY-DL ... 911.c0.m14

Games can get you through times of no money but money can not get you through times of no games!!

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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 1:36 am

Blackmoor wrote:Same seller, big price for this one

** expired/removed eBay auction **

Good grief....I picked up the entire lot of Dragonlance modules in near mint (not shrink) condition for less than that. One of these days I am going to invest in a shrinkwrap machine. :twisted:

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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:53 am

It's even got a small tear in the SW!

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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 12:59 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/Dungeons-and-Dragon ... dZViewItem

Would this even have cost this much new?

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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 1:05 pm

Assuming approximately $30/book new (I'm just guessing here), then you'd be looking at about $720 new.

So the BIN is no deal, that's for certain. Then again, neither is the opening bid: almost $20/book, with some of those (particularly the 3.0 stuff) worth considerably less.

"Reader, Carthegena was of the mind, that unto thoſe Three Things, which the Ancients held Impoſſible, there ſhould be added this Fourth ; To find a Book Printed without Errata's."

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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 1:49 pm

JasonZavoda wrote:
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Would this even have cost this much new?

Regardless, there's no way he's going to get 450.00. If he was that concerned, he should have put a reserve on it (to at least get a feel of what's available). Would have hit somewhere in the 200.00 range maybe...

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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 5:23 pm

Blackmoor wrote:Same seller, big price for this one

** expired/removed eBay auction **

And same buyer, too.

Too bad when you're pointing to an item but there's a RICH guy around...

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