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Post Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 11:08 pm 
 

Holy cats!!! I just noticed Troll & Toad just put up almost 35,000 items. Any ideas? Going out of business sale? Just hurting for cash?

I had been wondering where they've been, not that I was buying.

Are things getting that bad? A sign of things to come in the biz?

Don't mind me. Just a bit shocked.  8O


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Post Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 2:21 am 
 

Woo hoo!    :D

Everyone gone to GenCon?  :?

Big dogs either saving for the auctions or out of cash afterword?  :?

35,000 new listings from one seller?  :?

Buyer's market dude!  Time to SHOP!  8O


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Post Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:02 am 
 

Ah! I think I see what happened. It appears to have been an EBay glitch. I was checking out the usual search in new listing order last night, to wit  Home > Buy > Toys & Hobbies > Games > Role Playing Games  when I noticed that instead of the roughly 7-10,000 items normally appearing, there were over 55,000.

It looks like there was an EBay snafu of some type which tossed up everything in seller stores on the main search page. Everything appears to be back to normal now.

Still, it's mind boggling that T&T has that many items online. If you were to put up one item per minute nonstop, it would take over 24 days to list everything.

  

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Post Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:49 am 
 

If you look at their web site http://www.trollandtoad.com/ they claim to have 773760 items in stock.  8O


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Post Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:29 am 
 

Which might go some of the way to explaning the complete disdain they exhibit for the prices they list things for.

Perhaps they feel that soon enough the Toads will be the only option for what you are looking for.

With nearly 800k items, that might seem like a Monopoly to them.


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Post Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 2:09 am 
 

700,000+   8O

Must be something I want in there!


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