Blackmoor wrote in Old Candidates: Silliest Auction Prices of the Year:stylean wrote in Old Candidates: Silliest Auction Prices of the Year:Rare sure, but those ending prices were a bit ... over the top. They even blew out the regular shrink buyer we all know and love and he usually goes big. There was a noteable missing party in the bidding, but the $500+ ends on some of the 2 packs were LOL.I agree, the two packs were overbid by like double!!
stylean wrote in Old Candidates: Silliest Auction Prices of the Year:Rare sure, but those ending prices were a bit ... over the top. They even blew out the regular shrink buyer we all know and love and he usually goes big. There was a noteable missing party in the bidding, but the $500+ ends on some of the 2 packs were LOL.
dwarf wrote in Old Candidates: Silliest Auction Prices of the Year:I totally agree with the fact they are rare BUT the final prices are totally inflated for most of them. To my opinion, the rarest pack is the one with the dungeon masters screen. The Gamma World pack is not common, but it ended not very high in comparison to AD&D packs. I do not scan Ebay every day, but the Dungeon Masters Screen pack does not come so often. Nevertheless, $1225 for this one is just unbelievable. Some packs got more reasonnable prices but the easiest to find packs such as the L1/L2 should end below $150. I think I bought mine even below $100 one or two years ago. It is the easiest to find at reasonable price. $521 for this one is just irrealistic ! As said, 10th anniversay packs are not easy to find in a so nice condition, so perhaps one or two collectors wanted to get the whole series in one shot. I would have been happy to buy some packs missing in my collection, but not at this wild price.
throwi wrote in Old Candidates: Silliest Auction Prices of the Year:dwarf wrote in Old Candidates: Silliest Auction Prices of the Year:I totally agree with the fact they are rare BUT the final prices are totally inflated for most of them. To my opinion, the rarest pack is the one with the dungeon masters screen. The Gamma World pack is not common, but it ended not very high in comparison to AD&D packs. I do not scan Ebay every day, but the Dungeon Masters Screen pack does not come so often. Nevertheless, $1225 for this one is just unbelievable. Some packs got more reasonnable prices but the easiest to find packs such as the L1/L2 should end below $150. I think I bought mine even below $100 one or two years ago. It is the easiest to find at reasonable price. $521 for this one is just irrealistic ! As said, 10th anniversay packs are not easy to find in a so nice condition, so perhaps one or two collectors wanted to get the whole series in one shot. I would have been happy to buy some packs missing in my collection, but not at this wild price.I was logging these for the Valuation Board last night (I have the 10th anniversary 'group') and my loving wife, who whole-heartedly supports my addiction/collection, looked over my shoulder and shockingly asked, "You're not buying *those* are you?" These are not on my radar for sure, even if the price was much lower.The prices paid were so ridiculous, I was laughing as I recorded them...~throwi
Blackmoor wrote in Old Candidates: Silliest Auction Prices of the Year:throwi wrote in Old Candidates: Silliest Auction Prices of the Year:I was logging these for the Valuation Board last night (I have the 10th anniversary 'group') and my loving wife, who whole-heartedly supports my addiction/collection, looked over my shoulder and shockingly asked, "You're not buying *those* are you?" These are not on my radar for sure, even if the price was much lower.The prices paid were so ridiculous, I was laughing as I recorded them...~throwiThis is a really hard set to complete (Please a show of hands of anybody who has a complete set ), the dungeon masters screen set is stupidly rare. Don't be surprised if these prices stay consistant over the coming years!!
throwi wrote in Old Candidates: Silliest Auction Prices of the Year:I was logging these for the Valuation Board last night (I have the 10th anniversary 'group') and my loving wife, who whole-heartedly supports my addiction/collection, looked over my shoulder and shockingly asked, "You're not buying *those* are you?" These are not on my radar for sure, even if the price was much lower.The prices paid were so ridiculous, I was laughing as I recorded them...~throwi
throwi wrote in Old Candidates: Silliest Auction Prices of the Year:No doubt they are rare, but to echo a previous statement, it's for the SW and the yellow piece of paper. Purist collectors no doubt want them (and I can appreciate that), but when the individual items in the set cost less than 10% of these set's final prices, it's hard to get motivated to open the wallet. These sets are, at the moment, intentionally missing from my collection list of needs. I'd rather spend that money on the Gazetteers or Planescape sets I'm missing.
stratochamp wrote in Old Candidates: Silliest Auction Prices of the Year:well i understand why you would rather spend your money on gazetteers or planescape sets. i however had only been missing three items from having a complete collection of all tsr frp items in english (10th anniv. set w/ dm screen, jade hare w/cover & greyhawk ref sheets) when Curt Gould (god bless him) arranged for the TSR archived copy of the 10th anniv. set w/DM screen to be brought to the Gencon auction last august. well i was willing to go to $2000. and frankly if anyone else had been crazy enough to spend that much, i suspect i would have kept going. that i won it for much less was great. for those scoring at home yes i have since picked up the other two. but i digress. i completely understand why Blackmoor would be willing to spend what he spent to knock off one of his small number of remaining items (that are all probably quite rare).
throwi wrote in Old Candidates: Silliest Auction Prices of the Year:stratochamp wrote in Old Candidates: Silliest Auction Prices of the Year:well i understand why you would rather spend your money on gazetteers or planescape sets. i however had only been missing three items from having a complete collection of all tsr frp items in english (10th anniv. set w/ dm screen, jade hare w/cover & greyhawk ref sheets) when Curt Gould (god bless him) arranged for the TSR archived copy of the 10th anniv. set w/DM screen to be brought to the Gencon auction last august. well i was willing to go to $2000. and frankly if anyone else had been crazy enough to spend that much, i suspect i would have kept going. that i won it for much less was great. for those scoring at home yes i have since picked up the other two. but i digress. i completely understand why Blackmoor would be willing to spend what he spent to knock off one of his small number of remaining items (that are all probably quite rare).Although I have been collecting on and off for years, I've really just begun to go after much of it in the last five years. I'm no where near those items on the "collecting fringe" yet, with my focus on the core items from OD&D, D&D and AD&D. If I can ever get to that point, I'll need to assess how much further I'm going to go. I suspect I'll keep going, and have to be willing to pay a bit more (or lots more) than I've had to in the last few years. Even now, with about 50 or so items left in my list, I'm having to spend more for rarer items. It's not like I need B2s now. ;-)Thanks for your perspective. I'm not at that point yet so it's hard to wrap my brain around it.~throwi
Serian wrote in Old Candidates: Silliest Auction Prices of the Year:JUST A SET OF USED/WORN DICE ?!?!?
