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PM-Knight
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Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:02 am

Here is "doozy":

http://cgi.ebay.com/Dungeons-Dragons-Mo ... 0081749377

Does it come gold-plated or maybe it will be hand delivered or signed by E. Gary Gygax himself.

BTW, doesn't his last name, Gygax, sound just like a D&D character name. Of course I like to use the name Ernest :wink:

(That is his first name, right?)

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Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:11 am

Does it come gold-plated or maybe it will be hand delivered or signed by E. Gary Gygax himself.

You'd think you could at least get free shipping for that price :!:

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Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:59 am

napoleonsdad wrote:
You'd think you could at least get free shipping for that price

At the very minimum, it should be Mint condition in original SW :!:

"Okay, we turn the corner and see a Purple 'WHAT' !?!" . . (the DM rolls a 20 or so he says) . . It all went black right after that.

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Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:10 pm

PM-Knight wrote:Here is "doozy":

** expired/removed eBay auction **

Does it come gold-plated or maybe it will be hand delivered or signed by E. Gary Gygax himself.

BTW, doesn't his last name, Gygax, sound just like a D&D character name. Of course I like to use the name Ernest (That is his first name, right?)

One inch above his item description is this:

Similar items from all eBay sellers

TSR AD&D - Module G3 -- HALL OF THE FIRE GIANT KING -- US $3.00

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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:37 pm

must be a typo

well one can hope

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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:32 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... &rd=1&rd=1

Wow. I have seen a few go for $110 or so, but never this high.

And I could've bought these damn modules off the 1$ rack!!!

New modules for your Old School game http://pacesettergames.com/

Everything Pacesetter at http://pacesettergames.blog.com/

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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:40 pm

bbarsh wrote:
** expired/removed eBay auction **

Wow. I have seen a few go for $110 or so, but never this high.

Plenty of underbidders there, too.

More has been asked, but those have tended to go to offers.

e.g. http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dl ... 0082184626

(Remember: "*** Member IDs have been partially hidden to keep users anonymous"

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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:46 pm

faro wrote:
http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dl ... 0082184626
(Remember: "*** Member IDs have been partially hidden to keep users anonymous" )

Is this some new varient of the protect the bidders identity ... I hadn't seen this before is it only in the UK.

If you click on the feedback you can't see any of the auction details.

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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:47 pm

improvstone wrote:
Is this some new varient of the protect the bidders identity ... I hadn't seen this before is it only in the UK.

If you click on the feedback you can't see any of the auction details.

Yet, when you look up red_bus's ID through Ebay you can still see everything.

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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:50 pm

improvstone wrote:Is this some new varient of the protect the bidders identity ... I hadn't seen this before is it only in the UK.

If you click on the feedback you can't see any of the auction details.

Beats me, Mike... we seem to be the trial-zone for goodness knows how many half-assed ideas that eBay comes up with.

Presuming you can see the same "partially hidden" userID that I can, you've gotta admit that's in no way "anonymous", either.

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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 5:00 pm

Wow, that's new and strange (to me, at least). Is this a new variation on the "$200-and-over" rule, or did I miss a memo or something?

One thing I've never understood about eBay's whole strategy here ... why not just eliminate second-chance offers? Seriously, the site got along just fine without them for many years; it was only after eBay formally introduced the second-chance deal that the phishing scams went up by about 1,000%.

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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 6:36 pm

faro wrote:Beats me, Mike... we seem to be the trial-zone for goodness knows how many half-assed ideas that eBay comes up with.

Presuming you can see the same "partially hidden" userID that I can, you've gotta admit that's in no way "anonymous", either.

I have notice that the UK tends to trial all the lame ideas :lol:

Although Aussie eBay took away the reserve feature for auctions. They put it under the guise of stats show that starting low without a reserver will get better results. I suspect the real reason was reserves reduce the number of successful auctions and we can't have that because eBay's profit would suffer. :roll:

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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 12:21 am

Yeeaahh Riiiiigghht......

http://cgi.ebay.com/Dungeons-Dragons-19 ... dZViewItem

....or is it?

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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:15 am

Kosh Vorlontay wrote:Yeeaahh Riiiiigghht......

** expired/removed eBay auction **

....or is it?

I didn't realise PGX were grading D&D items now ...

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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:52 am

improvstone wrote:
I didn't realise PGX were grading D&D items now ...

"PGX" ??

Who or what is PGX?

(Not somehow related to @$#!^&%@*$ Cougerrinard

I hope!!)

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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:10 am

I don't know what the heck PGX is, but that booklet could be as new as the day as the day it was printed and it still isn't worth 1/5 of what they are asking for it. :roll:

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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:31 am

I love the question... (Yeah, and the box fits in neatly behind...

)

Has that slabbed copy not been up before?
Applying comic grades to RPG items strikes me as being a really bad idea.

ed.: Well, bad idea for comics, too, but that's just my personal opinion...

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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:32 am

bclarkie wrote:I don't know what the heck PGX is, but that booklet could be as new as the day as the day it was printed and it still isn't worth 1/5 of what they are asking for it.

PGX (Professional Grading Experts) is another one of the slew of "professional" grading services like CGC that have sprung up recently to take advantage of the comics buyer that wants a "guaranteed" graded comic. This foray into RPG items can only be seen as hilarious...It's very obvious by the description they don't know just what was graded. However, I would be warned you'll probably see more of this type of thing in the future, I'm surprised Creep hasn't already decided it's the "future of RPG collecting" and gotten all his stuff graded....

http://www.pgxcomics.com/

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