MShipley88 wrote:Is Strategic Review #7 a rare?
I have one around here somewhere.

Cat. "4" are also "rares" by the list.

But that's always open to personal interpretation, too, IMO.

SR#3 is more like a "3" in terms of overall numbers for sale on eBay (over 100 in the past couple of years) whereas there's a strong case for the Ozzies mods, GH 2nd, OD&D 4th(-), UK MM 1st/2nd and various others being on a "rare" list.

bclarkie wrote:He, of course the figure *100* includes a sizeable majority of a not so popular online reseller with a large amount of which is still in stock and currently for sale.

indeed!

Hey, I have a "block" of mint copies, too; bought quite some time ago. (And I do mean "Mint", IIRC).

Thanks, Stephen. I'm still playing "guess who contributed"!

Interesting on the number of 1st vs. 3rd print woodgrains

bombadil wrote:It will go to the grave with me! In fact, it already has...

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*prepares to enact Tomb Raider of the Lost Tamo (and Inverness)*

bombadil wrote:Yes, one of the nice spinoffs of doing something like this is that it gets you thinking about the relative rankings of the rares.

Yeah. Even though that's still far from complete, there are some interesting numbers (relative and absolute) in there!
Would certainly be interesting to see that expanded to cover some of the "not currently appearing on the main list" items, too.

One item that caught my eye was that you'd split-off the MM Errata sheet. How scarce is that really?
(Had also been told by one owner that that was included loose inside their purchase, contrary to the assertion here. Maybe that's why they're so "rare"? ).

Other than Adam, d'you mean?

Darn! Please don't reply so quickly when I'm trying delete my message, Brian!

"10th Anniversary Collector's Set" vs. "10th Anniversary Collector's Pack"

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(And yes, there are many more Sets around the community here than just that one... Hrmm...).

faro wrote:*g*. Just realised (again) that after campaigning for the vinyl First Quest to be downgraded from a "5" to a "4" that there has only been one for sale on eBay in ages, to the best of my knowledge.

Is still a "4" anyhow, in my book. Just a long gap between tracks.

Well, considering that there was run of at least 5 or 6 in 3 months time last spring, at the time it seemed to appear almost common.

Alright, I am letting the kitty out of the satchel.



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Being that they also have a seperate listing up for 3 more, who still thinks SR #3 is a rarity 4?



<edit> oh yeah and then there is these too:



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And Badmike has one up in his store also.

dbartman wrote:Why the heck are there so many of these available but not of the others?  Did they accidently run 20,000 instead of 2000?  I know it was the first stapled issue but that hardly explains it unless they went to a different printing company and got a volume discount.

*vbeg*. Is as good a theory as any other I've heard. There are a large number of high-grade remainders of #3, whatever the reason.

No-one responded when I asked back in 2004; viewtopic.php?p=9441&highlight=#9441
My copies came from a hobby-shop remainder stock sold at GenCon, so it could be that TSR blitzed the distributors with that one, judging by the relative scarcity(?).

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Mailed copies of #3 (and the others) are still very scarce, however; even if the last lot- including #1- sold for a pittance!