faro wrote:
"Please add $10 to the total if you have to use paypal."
- Pity the profit margins...

Ebay can shut down the auction for that little statement.  Why not just charge $10 more for the item?  

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faro wrote:No extra $10 on Tim Kask's 4th print;  
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After several emails to-and-fro with Tim, it's somewhat amusing to see the wrong ref. sheets in that re-auction...



aside: The pics from the original 2nd print auction show faults on the other books, too, in addition to that noted on the current listing. Nothing particularly serious, though, and it's still a very nice set regardless of the profiteering (IMO) BIN "ask".

For reference the mark up on the 4th print is even more excessive than the 2nd print set.  



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Wise words on copies of Jade Hare. I know that Cougarrinard is actively promoting the sale of photocopies - i.e. I recently got an email from him offering one   , so I would be doubly careful.

Oh, surprise.....



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deimos3428 wrote:This shouldn't surprise anyone.  There are very few of these sets, and prices have been spirally upward.  Not so long ago, they used to end at $2700, not begin there.  People are starting to get opportunistic.  

$10k would be optimistic for this year, but not for late 2007-early 2008, by my guess.  My timeframe might be off, but it's inevitable that a $10k auction will occur unless people start bidding more conservatively.

No look at who is bidding.

ShaneG.

deimos3428 wrote:This shouldn't surprise anyone.  There are very few of these sets, and prices have been spirally upward.  Not so long ago, they used to end at $2700, not begin there.  People are starting to get opportunistic.  

$10k would be optimistic for this year, but not for late 2007-early 2008, by my guess.  My timeframe might be off, but it's inevitable that a $10k auction will occur unless people start bidding more conservatively.

I disagree.  There still is a very limited number of folks out there that are willing to spend that much on any single item(or a lot of items for that matter).  The problem that these people always run into is that you can't outbid someone on an item that is that high profile and for that much money, and then 1 month later jack up the price over $500 and expect that same person(s) that you just outbid for the item to purchase the exact same item from you at that much of a mark up.  It just doesn't work that way IMO.

A perfect example is our trusty store owner creep1962 and those R modules that he bought and stuck in his store for over 9 months and a substantial mark up.  He was eventually successful at selling them, but at substantially reduced price from where he originally had the listed for.  He won the auction for something ~$670 and finally ended up selling them at a BIN price of $800.  When you take into consideration the fact that all the listing fees he had to pay to put them in his store as well as the several times they went through 7 day auctions without any buyers.  Then when you factor in the Ebay fees when they finally did sell and the Paypal fees for accepting a Paypal payment, I am guessing that he probably netted no more than $50 at absolute best. Factoring in the labor that you have to put in listing the auction/store listing, taking pictures, answering questions, packaging up the items for shipment once they are sold and so on and so forth, there wasn't much profit to be had in the end when you consider everything. Just my $.02.

Metamorphosis Alpha...seller alos has some different fanzines....




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First three OD&D supplements in one lot....




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Woodgrain set. I am not sure this is the one others had posted about earlier today or another one. If it is a repost I would ask forgivness but that is never given here  




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