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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 6:48 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/TSR-AD-D-2-NEW-Forgotten-Realms-modules-2nd-Edition_W0QQitemZ8749370884QQcategoryZ2545QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/TSR-AD-D-2-NEW-Forgotten-Realms-modules-2nd-Edition_W0QQitemZ8749365964QQcategoryZ2545QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

These items were not distributed in shrinkwrap, as far as I know. Plus the shrinkwrap seems a bit odd in the picture. Therefore I believe they were shrinkwrapped by the seller (or at least not in factory).

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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:33 pm

guerret wrote:http://cgi.ebay.com/TSR-AD-D-2-NEW-Forgotten-Realms-modules-2nd-Edition_W0QQitemZ8749370884QQcategoryZ2545QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/TSR-AD-D-2-NEW-Forgotten-Realms-modules-2nd-Edition_W0QQitemZ8749365964QQcategoryZ2545QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

These items were not distributed in shrinkwrap, as far as I know. Plus the shrinkwrap seems a bit odd in the picture. Therefore I believe they were shrinkwrapped by the seller (or at least not in factory).

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They were probably shrinkwrapped by the seller or someone else down the line. Wyrmskull throne was definitely not SW'd

Mike B.

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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:49 pm

From seller:

We use to shrinkwrap all our rpgs that weren't shrinkwrapped when they arrived. It became too mush work so we stopped in 2002

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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:18 am

Deadlord36 wrote:From seller:

We use to shrinkwrap all our rpgs that weren't shrinkwrapped when they arrived. It became too mush work so we stopped in 2002

Have you been drinking, Deadlord? Your speech is slurred. :lol:

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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 2:42 am

Yesh, I hav bin jest a bit...
This is part of the reason I never collected shrinked items. Had someone not picked up on the fact that these were never shrinked to begin with, we never would have known the seller was a rewrapper. How many beat-up modules do you think he's sold as "shrinked"?

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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 6:18 pm

Speaking of fakes and fraud....

Last night I surfed Amazon.com with a search for "Gamelords." The result was a Thieves Guild #9 priced at nearly $40.....and a copy of THE COMPLETE TAVERN, for which no picture was posted.

Sound familiar? :evil:

Mark

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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:38 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/TSR-D-D-NEW-Monster ... dZViewItem

correct me if i'm wrong, but i don't think these items where ever distributed shrinkwrapped either...

-dave

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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:44 pm

dsaunders wrote:http://cgi.ebay.com/TSR-D-D-NEW-Monster ... dZViewItem

correct me if i'm wrong, but i don't think these items where ever distributed shrinkwrapped either...

None of them.

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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:44 pm

MShipley88 wrote:Speaking of fakes and fraud....

Last night I surfed Amazon.com with a search for "Gamelords." The result was a Thieves Guild #9 priced at nearly $40.....and a copy of THE COMPLETE TAVERN, for which no picture was posted.

Sound familiar?

Mark

Uhm... actually, no. Am I just dumb or I missed something?

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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:43 pm

Recently, a seller hawking copies of The Compleat Tavern appeared on Ebay. He was selling copies with a strange, pink cover and obviously photocopied interior pages.

Asked to give a provenance for his multiple copies of this item....the seller just got pissy. He also re-listed the item without a picture.

After multiple complaints from Acaeum members to Ebay, this item disappeared from Ebay.

Now, another post for the same item appears on Amazon and there is no picture.

Sounds familiar.

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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 1:20 am

Don't forget the photocopied Montie Hauls, same seller.

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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 5:29 pm

I've flagged up the Gamelords fakes on my site. If I come across other fakes of anything I've listed and I can get a photo, I'll post those fake warnings as well.

This week I've been mostly eating . . . The white ones with the little red flecks in them.

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