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Alexander
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 7:33 am

bclarkie wrote:Nice, I just got outbid by Frank Mentzer:

cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem& ... 5174015139

How many of you all can say that.

Somthing tells me though, that is not the last bid on this thing.

WOW! THE Frank Mentzer! 8O :D . I just wrote him asking for an interview...

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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 7:43 am

Sotterraneo wrote:
bclarkie wrote:Nice, I just got outbid by Frank Mentzer:

cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem& ... 5174015139

How many of you all can say that.

Somthing tells me though, that is not the last bid on this thing.

WOW! THE Frank Mentzer! . I just wrote him asking for an interview...

Yep, the one and the only. :wink:

harami2000 wrote: [There ya go... Less than one bid increment, if you're still interested.

Well it looks like Marlinth took a shot at him too, but it still feels kind of weird bidding against one of the creators of the game. Almost like its disrespectful or something.

I mean, Christ he probably helped to create the feckin thing and here I am, some schmuck who just buys all this stuff, trying to outbid him. Maybe I am being to nice and I need to get meaner, kind of like he was a shiller or something. :twisted:

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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 8:11 am

bclarkie wrote:Well it looks like Marlinth took a shot at him too, but it still feels kind of weird bidding against one of the creators of the game. Almost like its disrespectful or something. I mean, Christ he probably helped to create the feckin thing and here I am, some schmuck who just buys all this stuff, trying to outbid him. Maybe I am being to nice and I need to get meaner, kind of like he was a shiller or something.

Yeah, that's the spirit.

Think of him as a shiller...especially if the item is something he wrote in the first place :!: Or blackmail him. Say if he'll make another couple of copies of the pre-pubs (and sign and number em), you'll back off. :twisted:

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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 11:02 am

Not disrespectful at all. The few years I went to Origins he and I ended up in bidding wars on a few items. Everything from a first print Monster Manual that had notes in it from one of the play testers (can't for the life of me remember their name right now) concerning changes that needed made, to an unpunched War of the Rings game. Just to set the matter straight he won in all of these :cry:

Not a shill, just hoping that was his limit. I guess it wasn't . :x

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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:19 am

First Quest cassette. Yes, that's right, I said "cassette" 8O .

UK auction. £5 start. 5 days left.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 4710030566

(sits back and watches ensuing bunfight :twisted:

)

I did ask THE question. The buyer said yes, £25. But then they withdrew the offer before I could accept

. Interest from other Acaeum members I suspect :( . But it's an improvement on the flat refusal I usually receive I suppose :D .

And can the eventual winner please update the following poll

First Quest Album rarity

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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:10 pm

Early print DMG, though the condition isn't the best. Description states it was purchased at GenCon. Maybe a true 1st?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 93185&rd=1

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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:31 pm

Howdy,

afoolandhis$ wrote:Early print DMG, though the condition isn't the best. Description states it was purchased at GenCon. Maybe a true 1st?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 93185&rd=1

A'yep! That sure is. It is the second one I have seen where there is a confirmed purchase of the DMG from GenCon XII. I think that such examples pretty much cinch-up the chronology on the 1st print of the DMG. Another I have seen is autographed by Gygax and dated by him as August 1979.

I am suprised that the myth of the MM-bound-in DMG as the true 1st print has been perpetuated - by TSR people (Kim Mohan and Harold Johnson) no less! However, both of them started their employment in July of that year, just when the 1st print was coming off the press.

But then again, I doubt anyone would remember a printing that went without any glitches vs. one that was ridlled with them.

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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:44 pm

Yeah, plus it makes for a great story.

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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:35 pm

bunch of books autographed my jeff blaine!!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 61824&rd=1

why do people fucken write in there books?

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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:34 pm

johnhuck wrote:First Quest cassette. Yes, that's right, I said "cassette" .

UK auction. £5 start. 5 days left.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 4710030566

(sits back and watches ensuing bunfight )

I did ask THE question. The buyer said yes, £25. But then they withdrew the offer before I could accept . Interest from other Acaeum members I suspect . But it's an improvement on the flat refusal I usually receive I suppose .

And can the eventual winner please update the following poll

First Quest Album rarity

John, I am beginning to think that might you have a mean streak in you, just waiting to come out and play....

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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 3:59 am

johnhuck wrote:First Quest cassette. Yes, that's right, I said "cassette"

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 4710030566

(sits back and watches ensuing bunfight )

I did ask THE question. The buyer said yes, £25. But then they withdrew the offer before I could accept . Interest from other Acaeum members I suspect . But it's an improvement on the flat refusal I usually receive I suppose .

*g*. Almost set that up for you, John...

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From: [email protected]

To: [email protected]

Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 9:57 PM

Subject: Question from eBay Member

Dear ilflet,

Re: FirstQuest cassette (4710030566).=== Yup, that's a rare enough item. Will be looking to put in a bid of £20-25. Hopefully no-one will ask if you're willing to put a "Buy It Now" price against the auction less than that

Best wishes, David. <harami2000>

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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:18 am

harami2000 wrote:*g*. Almost set that up for you, John...

Thanks.

But I wasn't really interested in the item. It's just getting someone to offer me that elusive BIN.

If I get my timing right, the acceptance will be from someone advertising "STI Up the Graden (sic) Path" :wink:

harami2000 wrote:Yup, that's a rare enough item. Will be looking to put in a bid of £20-25. Hopefully no-one will ask if you're willing to put a "Buy It Now" price against the auction less than that Best wishes, David. <harami2000>

I suspect that this might well push £40+ given its new found publicity. The auction counter more than doubled within a few hours of the posting here.

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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 3:52 pm

Noteworthy by its new spelling :? (for all you auctionsieve fans :D )

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 5175767986

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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 4:02 pm

johnhuck wrote:Noteworthy by its new spelling (for all you auctionsieve fans )

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 5175767986

:oops:

How they managed to write-up the rest of the description with only one typo, I really don't know!

(thx for the smile, John).

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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 4:27 pm

johnhuck wrote:Noteworthy by its new spelling (for all you auctionsieve fans )

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 5175767986

I hate it when my cat walks across the keyboard just as I'm pressing the "submit listing to eBay" button ...

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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 5:55 pm

Wyrm's Footnotes #1. Same seller. Not quite as nice.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 5175865656

#2

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 5962829603

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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:22 pm

First Quest LP:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 5175850571

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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:49 pm

Hmmm, anyone make an offer the seller couldn't refuse on this?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 5174595897

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