harami2000 wrote:I'd be inclined to ask the underbidder whether the minis alone would've been worth the money...

Most of the minis inside the blurry picture appear to be Greandier AD&D Gold Box minis from the Adventurers and Orcs boxed sets.  Alone they are not worth the final bid price, but they're still nice to have; one can never have enough Grenadier AD&D Gold Box minis.  
The box looks like something the RPGA might have come out with back in the day but I don't have my old Polyhedrons handy to check so I took a chance with a somewhat tepid bid.  Perhaps Frank Mentzer would know... I was kind of relieved to be outbid in the end as the more I look at it, either it's just an RPGA sticker attached to a generic minis foam box, or it's a genuine RPGA product that's really kind of lame.  The RPGA slipcases are much nicer.  

Jeff, that was a GREAT win on the PoVQ.  Congratulations!

Seller has a couple of shrinkwarapped items going right now going only for a song:

jken316 in Toys & Hobbies > Games| eBay

Badmike wrote:Most people don't realize what this is or how hard it is to find

they do now

Gus Landt wrote:Burnie effect indeed! Last time I put this module up, it only went for $20. His went for like $80. Now I can't even break $10?!?!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 8745073822

You'll break $20 now...I just put a bid in.  :P  I'm still chuffed (as our UK friends would say) that Ian got one of my copies for $25  :)  I'd buy up as many as I could get for $20-$30.

Mike B.

Chuffed means pissed.

Deadlord36 wrote:Chuffed means pissed.

UK chuffed means "really pleased"

you yanks i dunno - opposite of everything correct

Deadlord36 wrote:Chuffed means pissed.

over here pissed means drunk.

e.g. "last night I went to the pub with a mate. I was really only going to stay for a few drinks, but in the end we stayed until closing and I got completely pissed.  My girlfriend was raging when I eventually crawled home."    

Deadlord36 wrote:So I'd be chuffed if I was pissed?

absolutely - and miffed if you weren't

(especially if that was why you went to the pub).  :)

killjoy32 wrote:

afoolandhis$ wrote:Hey, you guys had your shot at contributing the language of empire a couple of centuries ago. Now it's our turn.

oh you think

color instead of colour
armor instead of armour

you lot got something against poor little U or something

Have you seen that hilarious piece by John Cleese, a declaration of revocation?  Absolutely hilarious.  I like this line:

You will learn that the suffix 'burgh' is pronounced 'burra' e.g. Edinburgh. You are welcome to re-spell Pittsburgh as 'Pittsberg' if you can't cope with correct pronunciation.