Peter.
Let me first apologize for not giving you enough benefit of doubt.
And thanks again for removing my ignorant bid and then ending the Auction. Without question, your actions in this situation have given me great respect for your honesty and integrity.
BTW: What the heck are you other people talking about??
Why must Peter re-list his box set? His life is his own to live and his choices are his own to make; E-Bay is not lord and god of the world! At least not yet anyway...
What is NOT on E-Bay is perfectly OK to sell, trade, buy, or barter in any way that the people involved choose. Peter's Box Set is no longer on E-Bay, so what he chooses to do with it is his right!
If he wants, he can toss it in a fire, or allow his dog to have it for a chew toy!
(PLEASE DON'T DO THAT THOUGH)
E-Bay does not control our lives and they cannot control what we do off of E-Bay. You who say he MUST re-list the box set are giving E-Bay far more power than they either deserve or warrant. Especially in this case, wherein the seller admitted errors in the auction and pulled it from the block. THERE IS NO AUCTION NOW!
I do not believe that it would be a problem for Peter to sell, or trade the box Set off of E-Bay after he ended the auction; of course he would still be required to pay the fees from the auction that he ended early.
What some of you are saying with your comments seems to be that we as individuals MUST abide by E-Bay rules or die no matter the reasons for doing so.... truly, I feel that you are taking those rules even further than E-Bay intended them to go. Although I suspect that they would not argue with you on the matter, since your strange protracted interpretations of E-Bay listing riles favors them in every possible way! Are you guys shareholders in the company???
I truly see no reason why anyone should not be able to sell, buy, trade or barter for anything off of E-Bay when an auction is no longer on E-Bay. Yes, while an auction is ongoing that is all totally against E-Bay policies and rules, not to mention not being morally sound. But this item is no longer part of any on going Auction. That auction is over with, ended, done!
I choose to live my own life and I will buy, sell, trade, or barter in any way I feel appropriate whenever I want, wherever I want, and in whatever way I want to, and I will not ask E-Bays permission to do so......
Peter, I will double again what draco76 has offered.... 40 bucks!!
lol, only kidding.
Now as to the value to give your set:
The following are MY opinions alone and do not reflect in any way the opinions or stance of The Acaeum, or its staff; everyone is perfectly within his/her rights to shoot me down with ballistic missiles and disagree with me and if you do disagree with me, I wont even report you to E-Bay.
Peter; what you actually have, and all here seem to agree with the facts of this are the following items:
1) An Excellent to Near Mint condition Wood Grain Box (IMO; it is still Unconfirmed which Print Run);
2-3) Near Mint to Mint copies of each of the Volume One and Volume Two from the First Print Run of the Wood Grain Box Set (The only certainty in the set);
4) Good to Excellent copy of Volume Three from a later box set (Unknown which set, but certainly Not a First Print);
5) Correction sheet from a later box set (Unknown which set, but certainly Not a First Print, and not really relevant).
The following are my explanations of the overall value of each item, based on the pictures and your own descriptions:
The damage to the upper left portion of the third book seem to indicate that at some point someone's dog DID thing the book was a chew toy. This is obviously very bad for THAT books overall value, not to mention the fact that the book is certainly NOT an original book for the First Print run of the Box Set.
Which brings me to my next point; The First Print Wood Grain Box Set that you have is not a complete box set. It is missing fully one fourth of its overall value by the fact that it is missing Volume Three. Realistically speaking, the third book in the set that you have now is nothing more than an extra book added as filler for convenience to the future owner.
However, there is still the Excellent condition Box (Unconfirmed which Print Run). I am willing to conscientiously believe (Unless proven otherwise) that the box is indeed part of a First Print Run Wood Grain Box Set.
Volume One and Volume Two have seemingly been confirmed to be a part of a First Print Run of the Wood Grain Box Set. As such, there is no doubt that those two books are quite valuable by themselves, especially since they are in Mint condition, but that does NOT make this set a complete First Print Run of the Wood Grain Box Set even if we were to stretch our the imagination to extremes.
I would therefore value the incomplete box set at or about the grade of Very Good to Excellent, based on the Acaeums lists. There is no way I could place a value anywhere near the top listed value shown on that list for recent sales of similar Box Sets. Those were to my knowledge ALL complete sets.
So, after this long-winded script, what is my final conclusion?
I am afraid that the set that you have is quite unfortunately, incomplete. And that is truly tragic.
As I was perfectly willing to accept the wrath of my wife and put myself to the curb with no roof over my balding head for a First Print
Woody.
Tragically, your set is much like the set of Wood Grain Set Books with NO box at all, which sold on E-Bay (Along with several other rare books included in the auction) for less than $150 less than a month ago. I know, I was bidding on it just for the
woody books alone. Someone here (I forget who) can attest to this as he won the auction by sniping me!
No box = No box set.
Only two books with a box = No box set.
There you go.... my 2 coppers worth....
