TheElderEye wrote:Until recently I was under the delusion that shrinkwrapped D&D material was rare, but in the last few months I have been able to find tons of it for sale and up for auction. Where the heck does it all come from? Is there a secret warehouse somewhere run by former TSR employees who have pallets of old modules they release through a system of secret agents??? Really though where should I look? WAY back in the early 1990s I use to run newspaper ads in the "Want to Buy" section and would get some calls, but in the last six months I've run an ad or two several times and gotten ZERO calls. So where does everyone go looking for collections, shrinkwrapped stuff and such - other than the reseller, ebay, or websites like this one. Has the the world changed that much in 15 years where everyone sells online and I have no chance of finding stuff in RL???
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TheElderEye wrote:Well I'm heading down to the "Souths Largest Flea Market" this weekend, maybe I'll turn something up. Thanks for the advice, it kind of what I figured had happened to the market. Oh well I guess I'll never find another guy that will sell me his collection for $20, like back in 1993.
Lordan wrote:TheElderEye wrote:Well I'm heading down to the "Souths Largest Flea Market" this weekend, maybe I'll turn something up. Thanks for the advice, it kind of what I figured had happened to the market. Oh well I guess I'll never find another guy that will sell me his collection for $20, like back in 1993.That $20 bucks reminds me of the guy in Wakefield Mass that had a "box" of D&D stuff & Dragons listed in the Want Ad for $25. Called him and he said someone was coming to buy it now and I left my # incase it fell through....he called the next day because the guy passed as it wasn't 2nd edition stuff and to "old" for him.....that day I went up to look at the stuff which composed of Dragons #3-40 ( missing about 10 inbetween 15 and 40 ), a collectors set, all the supps and all the mono mods with hardcovers ( don't recall what prints ). Not the greatest deal I ever had but it was surely a memorable one Good luck at the Flea Markets
burntwire brothers wrote:Wow, it looks like A3 in shrink just lost alot of value
Lewisexi wrote:Nearly given hope of finding anything interesting in any stores round me. There's a guy in the next town to me (only about 10 miles away) who is a large D&D re-seller and I guess he finds the stuff before I do! In five years of searching I've discovered one rather crusty old DMG in a charity shop and that's it! I bought the poor thing - at a silly price in retrospect - on principle to give it a loving home in case it got thrown away...I'm curious as to where the UK sellers pick up their stuff to sell from? Do you guys go to car boot sales or just advertise in the local press or what? I don't want a slice of anyone's business (I'll always be a buyer - I'm too much of a horader by nature to sell!) but just for once I'd like to find something, anything for sale! Did think of trying carboot sales when (if?) the weather improves. Are these worthwhile?I think you guys over the pond seem to have more gaming stores than we do in general even discounting the population discrepancy. I can honestly say that apart from Ebay and it's related stores I've never seen or heard of a place to buy second hand rpgs in any shop. If there is one I'd love to visit
Badmike wrote:That's pretty sad. I guess we take it for granted here in the US, almost any used bookstore has at least a small percent chance of a shelf or a box of used gaming material. Any halfway decent comic store has a section of used games also. I guess we just have more of those in the states than in England.Mike B.
