Ditto, but this time is on the other side of the Atlantic:


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...d'oh!

Thankfully, you can spot the Cyclopedia reprint from orbit by way of the white border.  The original has a white border only on the left (spine) side.

Foul

I'm really hoping the buyer wasn't duped for this sale... It's a PBR listing.


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-SKA

Tszii wrote in New Candidate: Silliest Auction Price of the Year:I hope you have other hopes that come true.

Lol. I need a life.

-SKA

Hi! Welcome to August of 2024 updates.


Average condition, mid and late printings, of MM, DMG, PH are $200+.

Average condition DMG First Print are $750+.

Average condition PH MM First prints are $3000+.

All NM modules are $100+ and less common modules are $250+.

Have a nice day!

And yea, I cant believe that trail map went for 2018 OCE prices.

Edit:  jeffsea, you're right that is a crazy amount.  Sometimes people get caught up in the auction I guess.  It is in fabulous condition.  Didn't a SW copy go for 'only' $800 not too long ago?

For some reason, this one surprises me...


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-SKA

I bid $2,300 for that box AND I got that last SW box you mention for under $1K indeed. I guess that makes me either totally qualified or totally unqualified to comment, lol.

I was just having fun at the auction frankly but would pay if I won. I did, but ended up leaving it to someone who bid more albeit too late, because I felt he needed it more badly than I wanted it.

Prices have a lot to do with the marketplace (Facebook is a sellers market for those who can play it right), marketing and whether someone looks at it short or long term (aka risk profile). I felt that I could market the box back easily given the condition, if I ever needed to. And I do take chances.

Was it a silly price for today's market? Yes. Will it be in a year or two? I bet against it, personally. I could be the guy who is wrong but has a SW box

We used to tell these in Virgin and HMV in the 90's. We'd bust them open for people to browse through, or find them already opened on the shelves, and then put them behind the counter and re-wrap them and put them back on the shelves. People buy things and them return them because we had a 30 day no questions asked returns policy.

There's a difference between a module on it's 1980's TSR hanger, and a boxed set. It's not 'in its original shrink'. It's probably been opened and read by more people than you care to be told about. People wonder why boxed sets have missing dice, missing flyers, maps or whatever when they are 'brand new' bought from a shop. They think it's bad QC by the publisher when a lot of these things were shipped without shrink to retail in the first place.

Even in relatively recent times. I bought a dozen copies CZ:UW in two batched when they were published. The six I bought from NKG game shrinkwrapped (and partly crushed on the corners due to a retard operating the shrinkwrap machine, and the six I bought from TLG came with no shrinkwrap. Likewise, there is no such thing as 'in original shrink'. If I bought a copy today and took it to a friend and had him shrinkwrap it, I could then sell it as 'brand new in original shrink', and I could be pretty guaranteed that no-one would ever open it or complain, and all I had done was wrap a multi-hundred dollar lock onto it.

These are newbie mistakes. I'm sure many of us have made them. We only make them once and we brush ourselves off and move on. By the sounds of it, it could have been far worse, so congratulations on that score.

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In regard to price, what you are describing is investing in the greater fool prospect. Someone in the future will be foolish enough to buy higher, and the product will not find it's intrinsic value. I hope you are right, and with depreciation in the value of the dollar it may well be so. But if I were to hedge against inflation, I'd be inclined to hedge into smaller and more liquid assets. I'd have asked myself, how many buyers am I likely to have for a shrinkwrapped boxed set in ten years time, versus some of the limited print run or small press good quality OSR products, or the rare collectable non-TSR products. Trying to sell 10 books that you bought at $46 a piece for $100 each is far easier than trying to sell one boxed set at $1000 in a contracting market with a depreciating currency, and you have the opportunity to spread risk over multiple products.

My view is actually that prices currently are way too low, given the contributions of TSR and related pioneers to the fantasy genre, which is a multitrillion dollar industry.

Certainly there are still silly auction prices though, when compared to market prices. Some however have a reason to be - I think the point of this thread is to differentiate them.