DungeonDelver wrote:WHat what what? I'ma gonna get rich you bastiches! Yeah, one day my beat up old Moldvay BD&D booklet will be worth something and then my kids'll. Wait, why are you laughing? Shaddap! I'm serious here!

Deadlord36 wrote:There will be no more cheap rares. The field is saturated with moneyed collectors at this point. I just thank my lucky stars I got in years ago.
When I cut loose most of my rares, I tried to work out private deals, for two reasons. One is that money is not a huge issue for me, I won't be taking it to the dirt nap and I have enough to be comfortable. Two is that I have no control over who gets the items. Everything I sold went to long-time collectors who had no intentions of reselling them in the near future, and that was my goal. Not because I don't want to see anyone make a profit, but because I remember the way things USED to be, when people collected for the joy of owning an item. I've seen so many rares disappear into the woodworks that it turns my stomach. Many of them are sitting in bank vaults as an investment, and in a field as esoteric as ours, it hurts us as a whole when someone buys up an ST1 to hang on to it for 10 years and hope it increases in value.
Hence my decision to sit on the 2nd print woody for a bit. It will never hit eBay. I would either trade it for something I'd like to have, or I will give it away.

Deadlord36 wrote:which would put the rarity of ST1 below that of Fazzle/Inverness/Tamo.

killjoy32 wrote:

faro wrote:Yeah, but on the one above, who even confirmed there were any remaindered ST1s?).

david, you on about the box i mentioned or others? the one i mentioned, i have absolutely no doubt whatsoever of the validity of it. my mate works in a job where his honesty is paramount (i cant tell you what he does) and he literally has letters validating this!! he knows the guy personally and has done so for like 20+ yrs. from what i can remember, the guy picked em up at the end of the festival when they didnt hardly sell at all and got em real cheap.

killjoy32 wrote:all i can say, is that if he did that, i would be immensely surprised if others were not picked up in the same way.

guess there is no real way of knowing unless they suddenly come out of the woodwork somehow.

faro wrote:They were as likely to be flogged off cheap, rather than remaindered and/or pulped; and if that end-date for sales at the Garden Festival was before Games Day, any spares were as likely to head in that direction.