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Deadlord
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Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 7:39 pm

Yes and no, Bill. Character sheet pads have multiple sheets of the same thing, which I would define as used; a module missing pieces or a boxed set missing dice is literally incomplete. From a collecting standpoint, though, it definitely could be viewed as incomplete.

If you hit a Rowsdower, you get to keep it.

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Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 11:43 pm

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Posted: Tue May 09, 2023 8:21 am

Sir Kill Alot wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:$8,100 was the final price. Congrats to winner, they got a very nice module.

-SKA

Thanks. It arrived exactly as described and pictured, with the original baggie and all. Also got the Palace of the Vampire Queen(1st) from the same lot, although condition was much much less pristine (and missing the copyright page unfortunately).

Will the Acaeum Valuation board ever take these non-ebay auctions into account for items?

~K

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Posted: Tue May 09, 2023 9:26 am

We do add in (verified) non-eBay sales to the values of very rare items, though this is not comprehensive, since we rely on either seeing the sale ourselves or being told about it. This sale (of Tsojconth) was added. We much prefer to add sales that resulted from an auction, rather than a Buy-It-Now type price, as the former resulted from a competitive process where the market set the price.

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Posted: Thu May 11, 2023 4:18 pm

Very nice...

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Edit: I would love to know how many of these are possibly still floating around like this. Not only were they probably expensive to produce vs regular modules and accessories, but packaging them for shipping must have been 2 to 3x more than normal as well. Curious if Frank or anyone else could shed some light on these.

-SKA

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Posted: Tue May 16, 2023 12:34 am

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...are the smarties included with the book?

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Posted: Mon May 22, 2023 10:22 am

10th anniversary chess set:

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Rare opportunity to pick one of these up, if you don't care about the stratospheric price. Maybe they are worth that price now?

Last one that I'm aware of selling went for $3,563.28 in 2021, which was a big jump from most previous sales.

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Posted: Mon May 22, 2023 3:04 pm

dbartman wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:10th anniversary chess set:

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Rare opportunity to pick one of these up, if you don't care about the stratospheric price. Maybe they are worth that price now?

Last one that I'm aware of selling went for $3,563.28 in 2021, which was a big jump from most previous sales.

I bought one a few months ago for a bit more than your 2021 sale. It was posted on this website. Given the rarity I would say the asking price is not off. However rarity has to be considered along with popularity, and those sets are not as well known.

Just like Stratochamp's tagline is "shrink is not a condition" I'd like mine to become "Rarity alone does not drive price, popularity does"

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Posted: Mon May 22, 2023 11:11 pm

gregory wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:Just like Stratochamp's tagline is "shrink is not a condition" I'd like mine to become "Rarity alone does not drive price, popularity does"

In the wargaming field the late Richard Berg came up with a similar concept as Berg's Paradox - there are some wargaming items that are so rare it's hard to sell them for much, because too few collectors have heard of them.

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Posted: Mon May 22, 2023 11:19 pm

tool wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:
In the wargaming field the late Richard Berg came up with a similar concept as Berg's Paradox - there are some wargaming items that are so rare it's hard to sell them for much, because too few collectors have heard of them.

Exactly

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Posted: Wed May 24, 2023 6:42 am

tool wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:
In the wargaming field the late Richard Berg came up with a similar concept as Berg's Paradox - there are some wargaming items that are so rare it's hard to sell them for much, because too few collectors have heard of them.

Given the prevalence of links to this community and ebay sales that straight up use descriptive text (and prices) from the site - I'd say that The Acaeum does a lot to stop that from happening in this little corner of the gaming market.

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Posted: Thu May 25, 2023 10:22 pm

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Did someone hack Clay’s account, or is this what people believe OB3 is worth now? And it doesn’t even include shipping?!

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Posted: Thu May 25, 2023 11:03 pm

Skullhammer wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:
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Did someone hack Clay’s account, or is this what people believe OB3 is worth now? And it doesn’t even include shipping?!

Trying to top this one:

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Posted: Fri May 26, 2023 3:13 am

Should have just done it as an auction. We'll see if it sells.

The condition is not great. Also has the fairly common warpage problem these modules can have when they are left in the SW.

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Posted: Fri May 26, 2023 8:07 am

Skullhammer wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:
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Did someone hack Clay’s account, or is this what people believe OB3 is worth now? And it doesn’t even include shipping?!

When I saw this first thing I thought about was BadMike's comment on FB after the other one sold, something like "I have a SW on I'll sell for 20K if interested" (assumed it was partly in jest)....Figured Clay just took that comment and ran with it.

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Posted: Fri May 26, 2023 7:24 pm

This is pretty cool...Looks to be in great shape. Been watching this seller, they've had some really nice stuff.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-TSR-AD ... ect=mobile

-SKA

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Posted: Fri May 26, 2023 7:57 pm

Indeed. Arthur Neckermann's collection was quite impressive.

That's one of the items from his TSR vault page, discussed elsewhere:

https://www.veltd.net/pages/arthurs-tsr ... eview-page

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Posted: Fri May 26, 2023 8:07 pm

Sir Kill Alot wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:This is pretty cool...Looks to be in great shape. Been watching this seller, they've had some really nice stuff.

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-SKA

I’ve been waiting for some of the good stuff to come out.

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