I’ve only backed 5 KS projects and unfortunately, 2 came up fine, 1 didn’t deliver anything and the guy disappeared, and the other 2 kind of delivered some goods over the course of many years, so it’s not something I’ll go in with again either

This just wastes everybody's time.  


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No, not as new. Nor is the white box set you have up "museum quality".


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Seller already has one -ve feedback specifically to do with poor quality as well.

And yet, and yet... bids and bids.

Aha!! ... you are less sleepy than me this morning. I wondered why the bids were still rising.  

stylean wrote in Shady Dealers:
For those of us not paying attention to dice collecting, can you spell out how this rates as shady?

The dice are lo-impact. If the buyer tries using them, they might be disappointed to find the plastic wears down without the benefit of modern polyhedral technology. If they try using the Holmes-era D4 as a small caltrop, their enemies might charge over them unhindered. No one wants that mentioned in Ebay feedback.

red_bus wrote in Shady Dealers:
Agree. I have been using modern d4s for home defence, quite successfully, for some time now. They need to be pointy!

Better defence than Lego

Hello People and Others,

I know I don't post much but rest assured I have been here more days than not, learning from you bunch of passionate collectors. Sadly I am preparing to sell a large portion of my collection because - finances. I am not the savviest seller on ebay but I can manage. One thing I wanted to do was update my Blocked Buyer list from the "you know whos". To some they would be happy to hear that I used the search function! Several times, and for multiple things! Amazing what one can find. Anyway I copied and pasted the list into ebay and I thought I would offer that a few ID's are no longer in service:

Your blocked bidder list has successfully been updated with new information you submitted. The following user(s) were not valid and therefore not added to your list.

littleprincessfreya :        Invalid User Id
moneyforoldrope2010 :        Invalid User Id
lisas_stuff_too! :        Invalid User Id

I've read some very good discussion for and against having a sticky with an active list of Shady Types. However if someone has had wanton and negligent dealings with a particular buyer please feel free to let me know so I can add them to my list. I'm starting small with the listings and working my way up to the more "interesting" stuff. Once I get my listing up all make a note in the Classifieds.

dbartman wrote in Shady Dealers:This seller makes me mad.

"For example in picture #2 what looks like a stain is from the original copy and not a real stain on this book."

How often do we get to appreciate a good dog-vomit stain, without all the unpleasantness of actual dog vomit? The seller is performing a service.

dbartman wrote in Shady Dealers:Another seller looking for an angle to sell reprints masquerading as legitimate originals in SW with dice, in an effort to make the item more appealing:


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Listed as "Used".  Nowhere does it state it's a reprint.

Some of the sellers other items at least state they are reprints, but they are listed for a considerable amount considering.  They are in "SW" though.

Some past sales:

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Thoughts?

I  think all this pod reprint selling is a nasty scam that hurts the hobby.

mbassoc2003 wrote in Shady Dealers:Hurts the hobby of D&D or hurts the hobby of Collecting?
I do agree that unless the module is labelled as a reprint, then it could be interpreted as misleading, but as far as I'm aware there isn't anything that says you have to label legitimately purchased and printed products as being in any way fake or not legitimate products.
That's a problem for educating collectors, and will probably result in a lot of collectors finding out that they have bought reprints, but the obligation is on the collector to research and find out what they are collecting. In fact that's a lot of the draw towards collecting for me.
If a buyer makes a few $20 mistakes or overpays $50 for a reprint they could have commissioned themselves a lot cheaper, then they learn, but I made substantially greater mistakes in the early years of my collecting career, and I suspect many of us have. SO I don't think collectors will be put off. I think they'll learn quickly enough.
As for playing, anything that gets product into the hands of players I think is a good thing.
Possibly the presence of reprints lowers the price of common collectables, but the rares are rare and I don't think they'll be harmed.
Wait until you get high quality minty woodgrains flooding the market at $100 a pop.

Surprisingly PODs and PDFs actually help the collectable part of the hobby. One of the things about the PODs is that they are lower quality. Everything in a POD is bound together, maps are cut into page sections, sometimes to the point of uselessness. The binding quality can vary greatly.

The point is that the selling of PODs at collector prices is a scam, allowed or not, but the misrepresentation of PODs as originals is fraud. Reprints help the hobby, scams hurt it.