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faro
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Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 8:20 am

Yep; good guess: sometimes seller cluelessness vs. visible stock gives the game away even before checking for background information, eh?

*g* I guess "hundreds of dollars" is vague enough.

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Gnat the Beggar
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Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 8:21 am

faro wrote:Yep; good guess: sometimes seller cluelessness gives the game away even before checking for background information, eh?

*g* I guess "hundreds of dollars" is vague enough.

Indeed...

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Doug Williams
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Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 8:26 am

Yep, I would never do well on Antiques Road Show.

"Well, sir, this table would be worth anywhere from $1000 to $10,000 at auction." ;-)

SimperingToad
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Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 1:29 pm

The Amazon Effect takes another victim.

http://cgi.ebay.com/TSR-AD-D-1st-Editio ... 3a5c2d7125

That's over $35 a piece.

Tharizdun
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Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 3:18 pm

"The Amazon Effect takes another victim."

The books all look really nice at least

Ask me about my new M16!

Gnat the Beggar
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Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 3:24 pm

SimperingToad wrote:The Amazon Effect takes another victim.

** expired/removed eBay auction **

That's over $35 a piece.

Rediculous.

A person could shop E-Bay buying ONE book at a time at average E-Bay prices using one seller at a time and pay seperate shipping for each book one at a time and once finished getting those seven books would still save over $180 from the cost of that listing.

"Guys, I am starting to think Tegel Manor might be haunted..."
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Shingen
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Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 4:20 am

I love the Birthright setting, but this is ridiculous.

SimperingToad
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Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 11:59 pm

I can top that. Apparently, a sob story makes things valuable.

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ashmire13
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Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:00 pm

** expired/removed eBay auction **

A snip at £19.99

Rolls a '3'

"Did I hit.....?"

SimperingToad
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 1:14 pm

Yikes! Wish I could get stuff to sell like this.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... K:MEWAX:IT

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Keith the Thief
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 2:39 pm

Jesus!! I've got two Duchy of Ten modules right here.

(Well, actually they're over there by the dog, but that's irrelevant.)

Had no idea I could sell them for $80 or $100 each o_O

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JasonZavoda
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 4:08 pm

SimperingToad wrote:Yikes! Wish I could get stuff to sell like this.

** expired/removed eBay auction **

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You have to have the special 'collectors item' editions (and of course a damn fool with too much money or a shill bidder)

evanevanevans
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 5:39 pm

SimperingToad wrote:Yikes! Wish I could get stuff to sell like this.

** expired/removed eBay auction **

** expired/removed eBay auction **

Potential warning here as this seller charged me $20 to ship one module to New Zealand ... I've had similar shipped for less then $10 several times before. I tried to explain that to him but his attitude was "pay or I'm puting a non-pay strike against you". Its not arrived yet - I'm expecting some spectacular packaging ...

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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 6:58 pm

evanevanevans wrote:

Potential warning here as this seller charged me $20 to ship one module to New Zealand ... I've had similar shipped for less then $10 several times before. I tried to explain that to him but his attitude was "pay or I'm puting a non-pay strike against you". Its not arrived yet - I'm expecting some spectacular packaging ...

He should be expecting a spectacular neg and all 1's for DSR's in return.

SimperingToad
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:00 pm

evanevanevans wrote:Potential warning here as this seller charged me $20 to ship one module to New Zealand ... I've had similar shipped for less then $10 several times before. I tried to explain that to him but his attitude was "pay or I'm puting a non-pay strike against you". Its not arrived yet - I'm expecting some spectacular packaging ...

Just out of curiosity, which shipping method was used for the under $10? First-class, or Parcel? Priority Flat-rate envelopes are now US$13.45.

SimperingToad
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Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 12:10 am

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dbartman
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Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 6:15 pm

Wishful thinking - you never know though...

SimperingToad
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Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 7:31 pm

Oh, absolutely. Just had a Dark Sun - Veiled Alliance in shrink sell in a bid war for $13 after no activity the first three times it was listed for almost nothing.

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