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Post Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 7:25 pm 
 

It's a bit of a no brainer though.... just add the shipping to what you are prepared to bid.

If the shipping charges are up front then caveat emptor. Though it's almost cheaper to jump on easyjet from Belfast and pick the stuff up. :lol:


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Post Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 9:13 pm 
 

This guy is a bit optimistic....



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Planescape may be hot right now but this borders on the creep1962 realm of stupidity.  8O   I looked at some of the other stuff in his store...it gets even better.  :?
  

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Post Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 12:52 am 
 

He's not optimistic. He's a phuqing idiot.


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Post Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 2:37 am 
 

Watch...someone will pay.

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Post Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 7:28 am 
 

MShipley88 wrote:Watch...someone will pay.

Mark   8)


Uhm, there surely ARE idiots out there, but not that desperate.
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Post Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:34 am 
 

guerret wrote:
MShipley88 wrote:Watch...someone will pay.

Mark   8)


Uhm, there surely ARE idiots out there, but not that desperate.


Someone should bet me say $190 USD that no one will   :wink:  ...have to cover shipping costs    8)


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Post Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:07 pm 
 

well after how many times re-listing, etc someone finally took the bait and are running with one of the cougies H1 auctions :roll:  :



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Post Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:54 pm 
 

Lordan wrote:well after how many times re-listing, etc someone finally took the bait and are running with one of the cougies H1 auctions :roll:  :

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Thats the guy who bids high on a lot of auctions.



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Post Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 5:08 pm 
 

A prime example of what can happen when 3 newbs get together...



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Post Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 6:06 pm 
 

seeyouinescrow wrote:A prime example of what can happen when 3 newbs get together...

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Sheesh!




More and more this is becoming common, maybe we are just seeing a price increase!  It seems unlikely but you never know :?


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Post Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 6:22 pm 
 

It has Caves of Shadow in the lot.


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Post Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 7:52 pm 
 

I know I say it a lot...I must do so again:

2006 - 35 = 1971

1971 + 16 = 1986

Prices will go up.

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Post Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 7:57 pm 
 

MShipley88 wrote:I know I say it a lot...I must do so again:

2006 - 35 = 1971

1971 + 16 = 1986

Prices will go up.

Mark   8)


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Hmmmmm  :wink:


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Post Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 10:31 am 
 

MShipley88 wrote:I know I say it a lot...I must do so again:

2006 - 35 = 1971

1971 + 16 = 1986

Prices will go up.

Mark   8)

Maybe I'm just having a dumb moment, but I have no idea what you're on about here.  Please explain.  
(I checked the math, it's fine.  In fact, 35+16 = 51, the current auction price.  Coincidentally, 2006 + 1971 = 3977, the year Fiend Folio will become rare.)

Prices for those three books will never go up, as there is no significant demand compared to the vast number of available copies.  You'd have to be burning them constantly.  The exception to the rule would be specific (rare) printings.
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Post Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 2:55 pm 
 

deimos3428 wrote:
MShipley88 wrote:I know I say it a lot...I must do so again:

2006 - 35 = 1971

1971 + 16 = 1986

Prices will go up.

Mark   8)

Maybe I'm just having a dumb moment, but I have no idea what you're on about here.  Please explain.  
(I checked the math, it's fine.  In fact, 35+16 = 51, the current auction price.  Coincidentally, 2006 + 1971 = 3977, the year Fiend Folio will become rare.)

Prices for those three books will never go up, as there is no significant demand compared to the vast number of available copies.  You'd have to be burning them constantly.  The exception to the rule would be specific (rare) printings.


   My point is that a gamer who was 16 in 1986...and thus would have been a junior high gamer through the latter part of the Golden Age....would be 35 this year.   Now, with money and stability and a mid-life perspective, these gamers will be coming back to the game as collectors.  

   For the immediate future, the prices will go up as these gamers turn into collectors and compete with each other for what we would regard as silly prices.

    The prices have gone up noticeably since I started only a year ago.

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Post Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 3:09 pm 
 

seeyouinescrow wrote:A prime example of what can happen when 3 newbs get together...

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Sheesh!




Here they are again...now this is just silly... :roll:



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Post Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 4:37 pm 
 

seeyouinescrow wrote:Here they are again...now this is just silly... :roll:

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Yikes! And that's not even a good copy. It's got a tear on the cover... Dang.
  

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Post Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:24 pm 
 

This was available at my local game store just a few months ago



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