JohnGaunt wrote:If these are limited printings or part of a build-as-you-go set, then the first volume should see some price appreciation.  OK, even I don't believe that.

I'm just saying that 97000% profit seems unlikely.

To me.

But what do I know?

The top price is actually UP since I posted.  A lot.

Rich!  I'm rich I tell ya!

List it for a buck less. I am sure there are plenty of sheeple out there who will think it's a bargain.

Database typos and price update/sale script errors.  And software that allows you to undercut competitors by a penny.

I wouldn't complain.  Almost everyone here has probably bought a mint s/w something or other for less than a beat up copy missing parts because the same software undercut a competitor but wasn't sensitive to condition.  

It goes both ways, when they use scripts and software without understanding it well.  

If one were truly gaming the system (and had questionable ethics) one could list moldy copies of some things for $10 and wait on large vendors (with clueless employees) to use software updates to undercut the price by a nickel.  I haven't tried it, but expect it would work.

JohnGaunt wrote:One price could be a typo.  The other two are beyond logic.  An Amazon computer error?  Listing software run amok?  Too much crack?

For that price, they better ship some of the crack with the book!

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faro wrote:Not a good time of year to be selling, to be honest, but even for $ prices down 20%, say, that's still a slight increase in £ terms.
Far from everything is suffering pricewise; e.g. several good, well described white boxes doing pretty well:
$230 OCE  
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OCEs still doing rather well over in this part of the world judging by that recent $171 price-tag on a water-damaged box; http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0372502423

Shouldn't be any problem for  
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faro wrote:
OCEs still doing rather well over in this part of the world judging by that recent $171 price-tag on a water-damaged box;  
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Yes, $171 but in fact you should read 115 €.

The weakness of the USD makes a great distorsion. The price for an OCE in France, and in € currency, is still at the same level, around 100 €.

And this is not the first time that the seller try to sold it, I have seen this OCE on ebay.fr many times this year...

misterspock wrote:$199 for the animated series poster?!?


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I've seen a couple of these go for more than $100.  Seller may be just a bit optimistic with his starting price but you don't see them come up very often.

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Just because the 4E Village of Hommlet release was huge doesnt mean that everything else the RPGA puts out from now on will be as well.  How is 4E Hommlet doing lately?  Didnt the last couple of auctions go for less than $30?

Yeh, the way it seems to go for promos (including Khyber's Harvest and TOEE)is that they come out of the gate very strong (Khyber's Harvest was selling for $25 or more at one time) and slowly fade.  The best advice if you have one is to dump it quickly, then wait a few months and pick up another copy for half or less what you sold it for!



Mike B.