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Avurax
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 9:53 am

The description struck me as humorous:
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Ebay Seller wrote:I haven't played in years and have been lugging these things around for some time now. They have gotten quite heavy so I have decided to lighten my load. The book is gently used, but old, I have taken pretty good care of it and it's last few years have been packed in a box.

Emphasis mine. The "old" item in question: a 3.5 Players Handbook from 2003.

JohnGaunt
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 7:46 pm

Sharp-edged RPG dice lot . . . with two of the other kind of roleplaying dice. Could make for an interesting tabletop encounter:

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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:04 pm

Odd description.

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#3 SOMEONE HAS SINGED THEY'RE NAME

Perhaps it were a bardish ROUGE.

FormCritic
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:08 pm

JohnGaunt wrote:Sharp-edged RPG dice lot . . . with two of the other kind of roleplaying dice. Could make for an interesting tabletop encounter:

. . .
** expired/removed eBay auction **

Look at the shipping price!

This is the sort of shipping rip-off seller you have to watch for.

"But I have watched the dragons come, fire-eyed, across the world."

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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:29 pm

FormCritic wrote:Look at the shipping price!

This is the sort of shipping rip-off seller you have to watch for.

Bid low and zing him on the shipping DSR. Works for me.

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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:46 pm

JohnGaunt wrote:Bid low and zing him on the shipping DSR. Works for me.

$8 for shipping already well exceeds the value of the dice in the auction.

I tried going through the Ebay procedure for reporting a shipping ripoff but the process has gotten tricky.

You have to choose topic headings to make the report. The headings form a flowchart of secondary headings. None of the available choices seems to lead right to a shipping ripoff report.

"But I have watched the dragons come, fire-eyed, across the world."

Blackmoor
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 11:11 pm

FormCritic wrote:
$8 for shipping already well exceeds the value of the dice in the auction.

I tried going through the Ebay procedure for reporting a shipping ripoff but the process has gotten tricky.

You have to choose topic headings to make the report. The headings form a flowchart of secondary headings. None of the available choices seems to lead right to a shipping ripoff report.

$25.00 to ship to Canada

So expensive it could be a Noble Knight auction :evil:

Games can get you through times of no money but money can not get you through times of no games!!

Guy Fullerton
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 11:37 pm

FormCritic wrote:$8 for shipping already well exceeds the value of the dice in the auction.

Value? Perhaps.

But I think it will actually fetch closer to $12-15 + shipping.

I've been following used mixed rpg dice lots a little bit the last couple months, and they go for quite a bit more than I originally thought they would. Roughly speaking, about .10-.25 each for d6, plus about .30-.50 each for other polyhedrals, give or take based on condition, with lower per-dice prices on larger collections, and possibly slightly higher prices for the precision-edge stuff.

Here are some examples:

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Guy Fullerton
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HermitFromPluto
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:52 am

Oh Man, can anyone make sense of this????

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/rpg-d-d-books-dn ... dZViewItem

JasonZavoda
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 3:19 am

HermitFromPluto wrote:Oh Man, can anyone make sense of this????

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Well maybe if we knew exactly what drugs this guy was on.

Thunderdave
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:24 am

mix d&d books & shadowrun its just not same sine they took my swords off me send an email and ill mail more pic out any qs ?

i know there a lot of theys books out there cc price but theres all so a lot of cash if not sold they will be bond fire tineder do think im jokeing ?

D&D she she cut me real deep

troubling...

I draw the line at collecting... D&D beach towels.

Shoulda been: ".. from Pangreenia to Floratopolis, from mystical Treeonia of spectral Forests to Schruborial dimensions." - The Forests of Leng

ashmire13
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:58 am

HermitFromPluto wrote:Oh Man, can anyone make sense of this????

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You crazy Aussies with your barbies, Fozzies and crazy hot weather... surely it must do something to your brain! :wink:

You'd never get anything crazy like that from us Brits.... :lol:

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Invincible Overlord
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:55 am

HermitFromPluto wrote:Oh Man, can anyone make sense of this????

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I can.

4 piss-poor condition D&D books and a piss-poor copy of a 2nd Ed Monster Manual binder (with monsters), AND a fancy Rebok bag for $200AU.

I'm suprised there aren't more bidders on this hot item...

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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:23 am

think I've found someone who rivals TrollToadies descriptions...

Just looked up a rare(ish) board game that I am after and found the description listed as being in 'Good' condition, but "not all parts are guaranteed to be present and is sold as seen"... the only picture of which is a photo of the outside of the box.... :roll:

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g026r
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:32 am

ashmire13 wrote:think I've found someone who rivals TrollToadies descriptions...

Just looked up a rare(ish) board game that I am after and found the description listed as being in 'Good' condition, but "not all parts are guaranteed to be present and is sold as seen"... the only picture of which is a photo of the outside of the box....

Seller name?

"Reader, Carthegena was of the mind, that unto thoſe Three Things, which the Ancients held Impoſſible, there ſhould be added this Fourth ; To find a Book Printed without Errata's."

ashmire13
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:30 pm

*antiquesandcollectables*

sorry.
better image of the contents is now shown, but its still not showing everything..

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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 4:22 pm

Here are those Dragon Magazines with the ultra-rare alternate covers

http://cgi.ebay.com/LOT-OF-17-DRAGON-MA ... 286.c0.m14

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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 5:01 pm

misterspock wrote:Here are those Dragon Magazines with the ultra-rare alternate covers

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Geez...I came to your post via an email link and didn't read the "Laughable" category.

I thought you were serious.

Alternative covers? Zowie! :oops:

"But I have watched the dragons come, fire-eyed, across the world."

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