http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

I'm calling this one on myself.  I'm mpb5 on ebay.  This copy just does not warrent the price, but I wanted it.

Sorry for what?

I'm sorry for running up the price on some of these items.  I just don't think the copy of Rahasia I bought is worth $188.  It's not hugely overvalue but if you want something, with the popularity of collecting, your going to have to pay a premium for it.  I just do not like setting the bar this high.

yeah i wanted that. my limit was $170. would have gone higher, but didnt feel the condition was good enough for me to justify my bid going higher than that. another will come along yet, so i will just bide my time.

good win tho!  :D

Al

I need an H1, but you will not see me bidding on one from that guy.  

I have to admitt that I figured that the high end bid would be around $180 for Rahasia so I made my max bid of $190.  I'm feeling pretty good about being able to figure the top price for these items.

reindeergamez,

As soon as I get Rahasia I will post a condition report in this thread.

Not bad!

Think I'll be giving the Rs & RPGAs a miss the way prices are nowadays, though.
(Best deal I've seen in the last year was from a seller in Japan I'd decided I wasn't doing business with and since then the prices have been generally forging ahead).

Considering they were ditched on the UK general public cheap, that was a difficult one to get my head around until too late...

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Footnoting that, my $800 copy arrived today.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 5201969513
Very comfortably a NM copy with just the tiniest rub at the bottom right. (Superb packing btw, Jim. )
(Well worth "sacrificing" a cheap, large format hardback for, even though I'd not normally suggest such a technique!).

Unfortunately this auction seems to have dented the new estimated values, since the only other two graded copies were both above the $810 they're now "rated" at for VF...
No complaints, though!

Prufrock wrote:harami2000,

I saw that auction about 5 minutes before you must have. I just did not have the $800 to spend or that one would have been mine. Beautiful copy from what i could tell from the auction picks.

prufrock

*nods*. Know exactly what you mean.
Am sure the same goes for your RPGA1, too, for others; with regards budgets.

If I hadn't mentally committed to a similar-priced purchase which fell through when the seller changed their mind (or rather, was told to change their mind) a few days before, I would certainly have thought twice, too.
(Probably more than twice, if I'd still been hunting for woodies, Chainmail, PotVQ, etc.  None of which had cost that much...).


Happy hunting, whatever your budget, y'all!

(Just don't go picking up an oC1 or oC2 for $10 BIN and expect me to smile and say "congratulations" without biting my lip! )

Harami, you forget my copy for $525 at auction last year.