Nice price! I just logged on and saw argyre's message, jumped to his site but too late!

nevcoup wrote:It's been a while since I've worked on my collection. Been in Iraq  

I'm pretty happy with the contents of this lot. Unles I'm mistaken I just picked up a decent copy of AC5. Other decent items as well, but the AC5 is the nice find!



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I agree, that is a pretty good steal - assuming half the sheets aren't missing or used already.

benjoshua wrote:Somebody had a fun find! :o


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And the seller has some other lots that probably won't last the weekend.  Not that too many of us would find them interesting, but who knows? :)

These came in today. As with any number of collections a good number of these items were incomplete.



1)Ruins of myth Drannor missing 8 MC sheets

2)Menzoberranzan missing 1 cardstock sheet(Pregenerated Character #1)

3)Ruins of undermountain - missing 8 MC sheets

4) City of Splendors - missing the 16 page secrets book

5)Campaign Setting Black Box - Missing 8 MC sheets, 1 poster map has corner torn off, a hand sized piece missing.

6)The Moonsea - missing its poster map

7) Volos Guide to Waterdeep - missing poster map



Cormyr - Found the missing map



I have found missing maps to be the most common problem in these collections. Waiting to hear back from the seller.

benjoshua wrote:
That's a lot of missing stuff.  That turns a fund find into a not so fun find.  Sorry to hear about it.

I'm pissed, but I haven't heard back from the seller. I've also been picking up collections for over 20 years and I'm not shocked to find that the seller didn't check their items before putting them up for sale. I do recommend that anyone wanting to buy anything from this seller contact them and make sure that the items being offered are complete.

napoleonsdad wrote:
Most of these sellers either don't know, don't care to know, or pretend not to know if their items are complete.  Even asking specific questions doesn't guarantee an accurate or honest answer.  I once bought a bunch of Al-Qadim box sets and the seller was adamant that they were un-used and complete.  LSS, they were neither un-used nor complete.

You know, much of the missing items in you lot were MC sheets.  It may be worth your while asking the seller if he stuck them into one of those MC binders.  Worked once for me.

This collection had a number of boxed sets and those regional FR supplements that all came with poster maps. Found the bulk of the maps in a greybox FR core set, though only one of the four maps for that core set. When I checked the Black box FR set I found the maps for the grey box set. The MC sheets I'm not too worried about because the can be copied, the missing card stock sheet from Menzo is annoying, and the booklet from City of Splendors. I did come across a merp module (sans map, though it may not have come with a map) but poster maps are the bane of these supplements and collections. They cannot be easily or cheaply copied and finding loose ones is tough. Out the 31 three of the items were useless (2 damaged rulebooks, and a partially used character record sheet for 2nd edition) Out of the remaining 28, 7 are damaged or incomplete including 4 of the most desirable boxed sets, Menzo, Ruins of Undermountain, Ruins of myth Drannor & City of Splendors. I'm still very pleased with it as a good deal, but not that the boxed sets were incomplete and misrepresented, even unintentionally.

argyrebasin wrote:JZ,
PM me. I probably have an extra City of Splendors booklet and might have some of the maps you're looking for in my "oddz and endz" collection.
Arg

Thanks everyone for contacting me with replacement parts. If anyone if looking for odds and ends replacement parts themselves please let me know. I don't have much in the way of maps and paper parts anymore but I have boxes of minaitures of all sorts from things like Heroquests, warhammer quest and advanced heroquest.

The seller contacted me right away and found the two missing poster maps and the city of splendors booklet. What I still need are some MC sheets and a cardstock sheet from the Menxo boxed set.

lawrenson wrote:Hi,

after only 13 years, I've completed my collection of UK TSR foil Greetings cards.

I got the first 7 (of 8 different ones) in our local games shop, but had never managed to find the missing design, until now.

Its a happy day

Cheers,
Malc

I know the feeling, and it does feel good.  I was able to acquire 8 issues of Dungeon magazine I was missing with two auction wins.  One a deal:




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And one not:




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IF these auction wins arrive safely, I'll only have seven issues to go:

55, 56, 67, 77, 110, 111, 113.  I'm in no hurry, but I'm looking forward to that day.

islestrike wrote:Based on the price this 3rd print Outdoor Geomorphs attained:


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Would people say I got a good price on this one:


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It actually came with Geos 2 and 3 as well.  The thing with the Outdoor Geos is that it was kept together over the years with a staple (you can see in the picture) and that staple rusted, leaving a bit of rust on the front cover and pinching the paper a bit.  Interior was pretty minty, and if not for the cover flaw I would think it would rate a Fine or NM.

Surprised it kinda went uncontested.

Cheers!

I think you got a great price regardless of the other auction. That seller is involved in far too many "private" auctions for my tastes....I'd never bid on anything they sold.  There are no guarantees things there aren't shilled to high heaven....I don't think you can use that one auction as an example of anything, I'm pretty sure it was shilled, like most of the other auctions by the same seller.



Mike B.

islestrike wrote:Based on the price this 3rd print Outdoor Geomorphs attained:


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Would people say I got a good price on this one:


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It actually came with Geos 2 and 3 as well.  The thing with the Outdoor Geos is that it was kept together over the years with a staple (you can see in the picture) and that staple rusted, leaving a bit of rust on the front cover and pinching the paper a bit.  Interior was pretty minty, and if not for the cover flaw I would think it would rate a Fine or NM.

Surprised it kinda went uncontested.

Cheers!

The initial photo just shows the box..and the title gives nothing away. I think many of us are guilty of glossing over stuff when we see another "Basic" box set up for auction....but congrats, you got a good deal.



Mike B.