Ok I retrieved my questionable books. One Star Frontiers module has some worn corners and browning that appears to be on the plastic and not the book. Another Star Frontiers modules only has corner wear. The other three, 2nd ed. DnD books, are still wrapped tightly with no apparent wearing or damage. I cannot detect any odors from the books or magazine sleeves I stored them in. I also bought an Alternity book that wasn't SW but isn't new and is worn along the edges and corners.

I think I will open the potentially bad SF module and discard if necessary.

I will contact the seller to see if he is willing to offer any kind of refund.

beasterbrook wrote:seems very cheep..


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Brette:)

Troll & Toad kept my money for four weeks before cancelling this sale... if they were legitimately out-of-stock, then that is unreasonably long period of time...

bamajon1974 wrote:Gamma World/Star Frontiers modules had rusted staples.

There was another seller a while back who was selling a old TSR stuff in shrink.  The big trouble with shrink is that you really don't know what is inside.  This particular sell sold a lot of old stock.  I think a few people from here also bought a bunch of it and a bunch to resell.  I opened a few of the items that I picked up (SF and GW) and all of them had lots of staple rust.  The staples are on the inside of the folder so you can't tell if they are rusted or not without opening the shrink.

I have often wondered how copies of TSR modules that "mint in shrink" really have rusted staples inside.  As a personal guess, I think it is probably in the 50% range.

davidc wrote:
Troll & Toad kept my money for four weeks before cancelling this sale... if they were legitimately out-of-stock, then that is unreasonably long period of time...

Refunds do seem to be an issue with T&T.. offering them seems to be the main issue when there is a problem with the order..

Brette:)

An offer to refund or otherwise make good.  Sounds totally fair to me.

FormCritic wrote:An offer to refund or otherwise make good.  Sounds totally fair to me.

The problem is that he lists all this clunky SW stuff as new and unused when it is actually worn, possibly water damaged, bent, bumped, insect damage and generally in terrible shape.  Then when you get the package o' junk and complain he offers a partial refund.  This is a very shady practice.

List it honestly!

mbassoc2003 wrote:I've bought from Hamilcar many times over the years, and never had an issue with the quality of the stuff he sold me.

I am glad you have had great dealings with him.
I have purchased items from hamilcar over several years and until this week had few issues; and those were resolved in one way or another.
Well enough that I never felt the need to talk about him here, or to leave negative feedback on E-Bay.

However, my latest purchase from him was this $4 Judges Guild book and I am VERY peeved this time....


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The book arrived this afternoon.
Water damage throughout the entire book.
EVERY SINGLE PAGE... including both covers.
And it aint new damage, as the stains are quite obviously old ones.
Additionally it was shipped in a 11"x14" padded envelope with no backing board.

Description.

You are bidding on a rare and out of print Spies of Lightelf by Judges Guild for the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Roleplaying game by TSR games.  
This game product is new and complete with all inserts maps, etc.

It seems to me that this seller does sometimes ship things that do not equate to the very generic descriptions in the listings.

The Price I paid of the book is NOT relevant either.

With the OBVIOUS water damage that this one has I would never have made a bid at all if I had known.

Not even at the starting bid (Which was IIRC $1).

A description in the listing that does not match what is shipped is no different for a $1 item than for a $25 item.

And to not mention Water Damage... ?

Well that simply sucks folks and IMO there is NO possible (valid) excuse for that omission.



I have bought, sold and/or touched literally THOUSANDS of Judges Guild items over the years and there is no way in H E L L  that I would have sold this book at all, much less stated it was in new condition.

It should have been thrown in the garbage...



I know another big E-Bay re-seller who is also a member here and has Thousands of items in stock and sales in the tens of thousands on E-Bay through the years.

He would have tossed this book in the trash and not even blinked....

Certainly would NEVER have listed the book as new!



I am VERY peeved about this... in case some of you missed that in the wording above.

Everyone I have ever dealt with on here has been very lovely, though admittedly, it started as an off eBay thing so maybe that helps?

Over all the years and thousands of transactions I have had on E-Bay; I have only had two problems that were never worked out by both parties.

Hamilcar has offered a full refund for the listing mentioned above.
Once that full refund is sent I will leave feedback and post a note saying as much here.