Sir Kill Alot wrote in POD's on eBay:Now sellers are shrinking POD's?  I have a secret I want to share... It's a fake and it will never hold a value.  ...puts soapbox away...

Dragonlance Classics: Vol 3 Licensed REPRINT, New & Sealed, AD&D  | eBay

Edit: The picture of the back shows a 'real' UPC.  Knockoffs usually have a different one.  Reproductions upping their game?

-SKA

This does look like an original that the seller has mistakenly described as a reprint.  The original has the pricing on the back lower left corner, plus the UPC is correct.  It also appears to have the original SW for the module.

To be sure, it would probably have to be examined directly and compared to an original.  If it is an original in SW, that's a really good price.

Sir Kill Alot wrote in POD's on eBay:Now sellers are shrinking POD's?  I have a secret I want to share... It's a fake and it will never hold a value.  ...puts soapbox away...


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Edit: The picture of the back shows a 'real' UPC.  Knockoffs usually have a different one.  Reproductions upping their game?

-SKA

Interesting.  The first two pictures (including the one with a ‘real’ UPC) seems to have taken while the book was on a different surface than the third picture.  Perhaps they’re photos from a different listing?

Sir Kill Alot wrote in POD's on eBay:Unless the entire listing is botched like everyone mentioned.

If I understand this thread correctly, in the 1990s, TSR published some 2E updates to 1980s 1E modules, which they described as "reprints" on the back cover. Decades later, the best & brightest of D&D collecting scholarship is still arguing about what is a reprint better described as an obsolete update, or a reprint better described as an obsolete update which has subsequently been mistaken by the seller as a modern POD reprint, or a modern POD reprint of a reprint better described as an obsolete update, or a modern POD reprint being mis-represented by an unscrupulous seller as a reprint better described as an obsolete update from the 1990s.

It is at trying times such as these when we may turn to the wisdom of the Holmes blue book, wherein it gently reminds us the the word "level" can have a number of meanings depending on context, mainly due to the terrible writing of the game's previous authors, or the fact that terrible writing with no regard to context would continue to plague this publishing house all the way until its eventual bankruptcy decades later. Holmes was a brave, brave, man to ever attempt to make sense of it all.

Sir Kill Alot wrote in POD's on eBay:Now sellers are shrinking POD's?  I have a secret I want to share... It's a fake and it will never hold a value.  ...puts soapbox away...


** expired/removed eBay auction **



Edit: The picture of the back shows a 'real' UPC.  Knockoffs usually have a different one.  Reproductions upping their game?

-SKA

Looks like an original reprint from 1994. It matches mine exactly.

Mike

OR... it can be a POD he did himself through Lulu or another POD site, using a pdf which has the prices and PUC on the cover (and these kind of POD are sent shrinkwrapped).
But of course the better way to really know is to ask directly the seller ^^