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deimos3428
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:55 am

Blackmoor wrote:
It makes you wonder if he is photocoping them!

It wouldn't be that difficult, if the buyer hasn't seen one before. (That'd be most buyers, I suppose...why would you want two?) It wouldn't fool anyone that has, mind you. I grow increasingly suspicious, especially with that horrible pic. :roll:

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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:02 am

Blackmoor wrote:It makes you wonder if he is photocoping them!

If it's white, and not the original yellowish, then he certainly is.

And the picture is certainly white.

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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:08 am

Wasn't his 'pedigree' confirmed ages ago as having stashed a box away that's being sold off periodically?

If it's not him who was it?

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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:10 am

ExTSR wrote:
If it's white, and not the original yellowish, then he certainly is.

And the picture is certainly white.

notice in the txt it says "Scan didn't process the color correctly --- it's actually a buff cover."

yeah i think it was DL36 who mentioned last time who it was - someone certainly did too, but i cant remember.

Al

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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:13 am

ExTSR wrote:

Blackmoor wrote:
It makes you wonder if he is photocoping them!

If it's white, and not the original yellowish, then he certainly is.

And the picture is certainly white.

Copy I received from him a while ago is the 'yellowish' colour and definitely looks authentic.

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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:20 am

I don't know the guy personally, but he has sold several of them, and IIRC he told me long ago that he had a few stashed away. He intended to pull a NK and sell one every once in a while.

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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:48 am

Deadlord39 wrote:I don't know the guy personally, but he has sold several of them, and IIRC he told me long ago that he had a few stashed away. He intended to pull a NK and sell one every once in a while.

I'm just saying he should take some of the profit and put it into a digital camera and/or scanner. That picture looks as shady as it gets, and if he's legit he doesn't need that hassle. It doesn't take more than 5 minutes to get a half-decent scan of that item, there's no real excuse.

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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 12:43 pm

I spoke to him back in Dec 05 when he sold one (to wade168) and he told me that he had 'a few' left and was going to sell on every 6 months or so. Of course, although somewhat reassuring, that doesn't actually prove anything.

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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:08 pm

red_bus wrote:I spoke to him back in Dec 05 when he sold one (to wade168) and he told me that he had 'a few' left and was going to sell on every 6 months or so. Of course, although somewhat reassuring, that doesn't actually prove anything.

If he has a case of 100 left then this extremely rare item is no longer that. For now Im am staying away from this item.

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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:27 pm

He only has 2 or 3 left. It's still plenty rare.

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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:38 pm

Deadlord39 wrote:He only has 2 or 3 left. It's still plenty rare.

Your right it would be, do you think that's all he has left?

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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:17 pm

price a bit high on this OCE & set?

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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:33 pm

red_bus wrote:price a bit high on this OCE & set?

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At $267 (2 bids only!), $75-100 high already, IMO. What on earth was the minimum bid on that?

Saving grace is the box color (i.e. white); uncommon even for a 7th. Trimmed scans don't help and at least two supps. with label residue.

Still looks very sweet, though...

(Corey's set finished where it opened, at $99 - looked almost as good, and was a 6th, I think; even allowing for dodgy photo!

Add to that the one Allan picked up at ~$84 which only required re-SWing plus bagging & boarding of the books/ref sheets to make an excellent presentation/trophy item).

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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:09 pm

OCE books....later edition than seller describes but still going fairly cheap but is just the books it seems....

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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:12 am

supermodule with an honest BIN (not extremely cheap, but it's one of the cheapest i've seen lately) and few hours to go:

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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:54 am

Well someone paid $475 for the 4th ...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... %3AIT&rd=1

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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:59 am

obiter wrote:Well someone paid $475 for the 4th ...

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yes, but it came together with two notes... (it's anyway difficult to justify the purchase...

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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:13 am

Yeah,

One from Kaskoid wishing the buyer joy in adding this to his collection ... way back in mid-April 06 ....

or he could just slap on a huge surcharge for the unsuspecting buyer

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