bbarsh wrote:Let the insanity continue...

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Dungeons-an ... dZViewItem

and

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Dungeons-an ... dZViewItem

SHILL ALERT!

lokiwookie wrote:

bbarsh wrote:Let the insanity continue...

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Dungeons-an ... dZViewItem

and

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Dungeons-an ... dZViewItem

And everytime this guy is in the bidder list    he bought a DMG for $71

When I first noticed this I thought that "3olivesdirty" was shilling as I noticed other auctions ( for normally common items ) being pushed up to silly amounts by this bidder ( especially since they had a zero FB ) .  I would more likely write them off as un-informed as they have bid ( and won ) on alot of stuff in the past week or so:



http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?V ... =25&sort=3



even a Volvo   If they just did a little research...............

lokiwookie wrote:

Lordan wrote:
even a Volvo   If they just did a little research...............

Waouh, who want to buy a Volvo nowadays?!  

Only thing I will give him is it's the "classic"  70's coupe style, at least it wasn't the freaking god awful ugly Volvo 70's Hatchback....always think of pacer/gremlins when I see those  

Taste shmaste!  Who buys a car on EBay?  Apparently, it happens a lot!  Good lord!

    This guy obviously has more money than sense and has decided that when he wants an item he does not want to lose the auction.

Mark  

An amazing eBay story with a happy ending:

At my last job, I worked next to a guy who one day decided he just had to have a '71 Barracuda so he could re-live the classic days of the muscle car. So, off he goes to eBay, where he thinks he spots a good deal.

Now, picture this: my co-worker has zero feedback, the seller has zero feedback, the car is literally 2,500 miles away, and the seller is requiring that the buyer arrange for all transportation. So, my co-worker comes to me for some general eBay advice, and I say "Red alert! Your money is going to disappear; you'll never hear from the guy again."

And I was wrong. They did the deal, my buddy flew back there and drove his new toy home, and both parties are, apparently, very happy.

Too scary for me, though; when he pressed the button to send the guy thousands of dollars, I just about had a stroke. I have a hard enough time sending someone $100 for a TSR super-module or a boxed set. You'll never see me on eBay Motors ...

The time period between those two events (the purchase and the transport was pretty extensive — a couple of months, at least. It took a lot of logistical juggling to make it work (including my buddy trying to pull it off without missing any days of work).

And the seller, IIRC, was pretty cash-shy and desperate for some immediate liquidity (a divorce, possibly? that part is a little hazy ...)

NetRodent wrote:Is the Viking Gods minigame really worth $89?  

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 8791297249

I certainly wouldn't pay that much. Looks like a bidding war between two bidders...although their feedback is not that low. Maybe it hasn't been offered in a while in unpunched condition? The seller has nice photos as well. The same seller has a few others up....Remember the Alamo is currently at $49.



I like the cover art of these mini-games - the classic TSR artists: Otus (Vampyre), Dee (Attack Force/Antares), Holloway (Alamo/Viking Gods), Willingham (SAGA). Correct me if I am wrong on any of those. I can't tell who did Pleasantville or Icebergs (a Tom Wham game, by the way). I bought an unused, NM Vampyre about 5 years ago...for about $10-15 IIRC. The others seemed to go for about the same but I never got around to buying any of them.

The minigames go through surges and dead spots just like other categories, but $89 for a single game seems high, especially one that had a wide distribution from the industry's leading company.

I've seen $90 minigames sales before, but those (and they are not at all common) have been for things like unpunched copies of the first edition of Metagaming's Chitin I, a game that had spotty distribution and was almost always punched and played.

This seems like a pretty obvious bidding war (and I hope neither bidder is a shill). Frankly, this sort of thing is one reason I never use a BIN price.

Xaxaxe wrote:
This seems like a pretty obvious bidding war (and I hope neither bidder is a shill). Frankly, this sort of thing is one reason I never use a BIN price.

Since I always use a BIN, I think that is why I very, very seldom get ridiculous prices (or I'm just unlucky   ) .  However, once your sales volume gets up there, then I think you make out a little better with selling 30 BINS, vs. one "out-of-hand" auction.