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Deadlord
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:25 am

Al, why is he sitting on the case of 15?

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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:39 am

I am no investor. I use my collection. I do think, however, that most of us also share a concern for finding and preserving the history of RPG's. If we don't respect our shared cultural niche then who will? :?

Creep1962 proclaiming that he left real estate investing and now wants to dominate the game collecting market is just silly. What market? EBay is an international marketplace, and yet the list of major RPG sellers adds up to about...what...20? Some people are making money, but they ain't nobody gettin' rich.

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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:37 am

Deadlord36 wrote:Al, why is he sitting on the case of 15?

frank, his words (told to me through my biz mate who knows him personally) and i quote "i am holding onto them for a rainy day, close to my retirement. when i need some money i will sell one"

i already tried to buy one and got quickly turned down flat

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Prufrock
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:18 pm

Okay Al this is what we do. You get his address, I'll hop over the pond and you and I will go to his house and pull a double Killjoy Technique. I'll grab 3 copies (one for bclarkie) I'll hop on your back and you run like hell.

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Deadlord
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:30 pm

Ah, see, this is what I was saying, Al. They are a nest egg. I'm sure it will be ages before they even hit the market. So they sit in a box somewhere and collect dust. A shame.
Don't get me wrong, they are his and he is obviously free to do whatever he likes with them. I'm not a rare collector anymore so it doesn't affect me in the least. It's just unfortunate that there are tons of other items just like his that will sit in non-collectors' possession for God knows how long.
His box brings up a good point. Obviously not all of the remainders were pulped (I'm sure he didn't buy a BOX of them at the fair). I think it is a strong possibility that there are other cases of 15 out there on the island somewhere, which would put the rarity of ST1 below that of Fazzle/Inverness/Tamo.

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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:53 pm

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.

Sage words.

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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 2:07 pm

Pretty nice looking set of monochrom G-series mods (though not 1st print), but it's the ebay id of the current high bidder that's really cool:

AD D ADVANCED DUNGEONS DRAGONS MODULE SET G1 G3 | eBay

faro
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:24 pm

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

Thought we already knew that to be the case, Frank

(Agreed with those comments of your's at the foot of the previous page, of course...
Yeah, but on the one above, who even confirmed there were any remaindered ST1s?).

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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:37 pm

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.

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.

Al

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faro
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:51 pm

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.

That's what I was aiming at (for those sold, there).
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.

More were sold at Games Day, though, judging by the numbers coming back to my university anyhow.

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.

Have already made clear my thoughts on the current "value" placed on that mod. And those still haven't stopped people bidding higher!

Cheers, Al.

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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:57 pm

faro wrote:Have already made clear my thoughts on the current "value" placed on that mod. And those still haven't stopped people bidding higher!

Cheers, Al.

yeah no probs chummer....in fact i almost had a moment of madness buying one but am very glad i didnt anyway really, as the mod is shite. i would have only wanted to read it anyhow and i dont understand its value tbh. the other rares imo are far more interesting.

Al

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a2jeff
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:12 pm

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.

Flogged off cheap.... I love it! Would that be like whipping folks with a cat o' nine tails to buy them?

faro
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:25 pm

a2jeff wrote:
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.

Flogged off cheap.... I love it! Would that be like whipping folks with a cat o' nine tails to buy them?

More likely a bunch of daffodils. :lol:

Deadlord
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:11 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 8763679416

R1 and 2 in this lot.

MrFilthyIke
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:09 pm

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons | eBay

Is this a 1st or 2nd print MM?

There are no bad editions of D&D, just Boring Players and Unimaginative DMs.

bclarkie
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:12 pm

MrFilthyIke wrote: Advanced Dungeons and Dragons | eBay

Is this a 1st or 2nd print MM?

Its a 2nd. :wink:

Good spot though, I missed that one.

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MrFilthyIke
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:04 am

bclarkie wrote:
MrFilthyIke wrote: Advanced Dungeons and Dragons | eBay

Is this a 1st or 2nd print MM?

Its a 2nd. Good spot though, I missed that one.

Glad to help, I've been lucky lately, I scored a 1e DMG and FF, but am having a bitch of a time w/ the MM (and keeping it $6 or under).

There are no bad editions of D&D, just Boring Players and Unimaginative DMs.

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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:39 am

$15.00 for shipping/handling is a little steep though.

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