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Firgured I would give this one its own thread. Post your estimates and comments.



My overall opinion on th is auction has nothing to do with price. This guy probably spent a long time collecting that stuff. He may be a new age collector and bought it all in the last ten years or he could be like me, and bought off the shelf when the stuff was published.



Either way, it is a sad thing to have to dump your collection.

As a quick run through on "value" (from someone who hasn't really collected TSR stuff for years) I think some conservative estimates are:

$150 for basic/expert/comp/mast/immortals boxed sets
$50 AC series
$40 BSolo, B1-B7
$100 B10, B11. B12
$100 XL-1, X1-X9
$100 X10, X12, X13
$100 CM Series
$30 IM series
$10 O series
$400 for GAZ series
$30 Hollow World series
$50 DDA series
$20 Misc rest of stuff
$200 RPGA 1 Rahasia
$1000 Orange B3
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$2380

Rakeesh sah Tarna wrote:what is high for those??

My high on these would probably be

$15 1001 Basic Box Set
$15 1011 Basic Box Set (Purple Box)
$25 1012 Expert Box Set x2
$10 1011 Basic Box Set (Red Box)
$10 1012 Exper Box Set (Blue Box)
$25 1013 Companion Rules Box Set
$40 1021 Master Rules Box Set
$50 1017 Immortal Rules Box Set
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$190

$325  for 13 GAZ at $25 each
$50 9232 GAZ8 The Five Shires
$50 9236 GAZ9 The Minrothad Guilds
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$425

These ones might not be so conservative

It'll be interesting to watch the ensuing bloodbath over this lot . . .

The Egg

My $2225 bid just bumped it up to $2250  

What are we guessing?  $2400+ ?

bbarsh wrote:. He may be a new age collector

New age - what you mean he has dream-catchers at the windows, and a 'my other cars a camper van' bumper sticker?!  

Ahh, I love the speculation...

I gotta think the 'lot' sale is going to temper the price somewhat... a collector looking for an OB3, for example, probably would be picking up duplicates... that must affect the bids, right?

Lot of nice items in any case.
Too bad he did not have the patience and adnanced E-Bay/RPG selling knowledge to seperate much of it into smaller group lots.
He would have made FAR more money that way.

Like aneoth says...  at least this auction's getting the publicity it deserves... here's hoping wherever it ends up, the buyer & seller both get a good deal  

I guess someone has already warned this chap against the ctard and his various guises??

That is one hell of an impressive collection and such a shame he has to sell up, but I guess that's a necessity with the fella's situation...  

I think some of you are way over estimating the total value of the auction of some of these items.  To note, outside of the 2 valuable items in that lot, there is a total of 83 individual items.  Considering the per item value, that's $12.05 per item to just get it up to $1,000. That's almost unheard of in any large common item lot.  In most cases, the larger the lot, the less value per item you get and that is why it's almost always better to sell things individually then as a lot.

Then, when you consider that quite a few items such as the green B3,  B2, X1, XL1, X3, X5(which looks pretty rough on its own), the 5 Hollow World modules, the Art Book, the Monster & Treasure Assortment, 2 of PC sheets(the newer ones AC6 & REF2 and really depending on how many sheets are left the blue covered older one  possibly as well) all are likely not even worth $4 each themselves, its starts to push the per item value for the other items up even further.

Just looking at the lot, the only items by themselves worth $12 or more each if auctioned individually would be:

• Immortal Rules Set
• Master Rules Set
• Companion Rules set(maybe)
• B10
• B11
• B12
• GAZ1-GAZ4 (all maybes.  I have seen them go for more, I have seen them all go for less)
• GAZ5-GAZ14
• X9 (maybe)
• X10, X12, X13
• CM7-CM9
• CM5 (maybe)

That's only 25 items, several of which(7 to be exact) could just as likely go for less than $12 on their own as I have seen them do so on many occasions.  Also of that 25, only 8 routinely go for more than $20 on their own(Immortal Set, X10, B10, GAZ5, GAZ8, GAZ9, GAZ10 and CM9).  And again, that doesn't even factor in the general rule that the larger the lot, the less per item value that occurs 99.9% of the time.

If this auction didn't include the Orange B3 and the RPGA module, this thing would have a hard time reaching $1,000 on its own.  Don't get me wrong, it's a nice collection, but the Orange B3 and the RPGA1 is what is what driving this auction without a doubt.  

I'll be really surprised if this thing pushes much higher than its at right now, I am thinking no more than $2600-$2700 and to be honest would be the least bit surprised to see it end at the total it's at right now.  Time remaining on the auction is not a guarantee that it will continue to push higher. Anything more than $2600-$2700 and you are going to start looking in the silly range, because at $2700, you are looking at $1400 for an opened and used Orange B3 and $300 for RPGA1(which is usually what it gets on its own by itself) and $1000 for a bunch of common items that would likely never get that high without the 2 rares in the auction.