I do not know much about the newer RPG books. I guess it would depend what one can buy the lot for. There are 475 books. If one got the entire lot + shipping for around $500 - it would only be $1 a book. You could sell them off slowly on Ebay. Even at $5 a piece, which shouldn't be too hard, you'd make a reasonable profit.

If you could get the whole lot for a silly price you could sell it on, maybe quickly enough to avoid shipping costs altogether. I wouldn't want to hang onto a big box like that unless it was stuffed with goodies. Anyway, the shipping probably comes to half a million dollars if current eBay charges are anything to go by.

JohnGaunt wrote:Getting $5 for some of those books is a stretch.  d20 products are the RPG version of the black-and-white comics explosion; some are gems, and some are paste.

The photos show some Fast Forward Games products, and those are slooow sellers.  I paid $0.99 apiece for the past three that I have bought through eBay sellers.  The retail on those were probably $20 - $30 apiece.

A list of the publishers and their approximate mix would help determine the actual value of that lot.

Unless they are Necromancer, Goodman, Kenzer, etc, they are just going to sit and gather dust.  If you could get it for under $200, you might have a deal (note the $200 shipping).  I would have to say that at under a buck a book, even crap might not be that bad...you might be able to get your money back on some of it at HPB for that cheap (some Half Prices overpay for gaming stuff, if you know which ones.....) or sell it at a convention in a bargain box.  But personally I wouldn't pay a penny over $200 (hint, hint).
 Also note the shipping method..how much of that stuff is going to be beat to hell when it reaches you, stuffed in that ridiculous giant box with no padding...

Mike B.

Badmike wrote:
Unless they are Necromancer, Goodman, Kenzer, etc, they are just going to sit and gather dust.  If you could get it for under $200, you might have a deal (note the $200 shipping).  I would have to say that at under a buck a book, even crap might not be that bad...you might be able to get your money back on some of it at HPB for that cheap (some Half Prices overpay for gaming stuff, if you know which ones.....) or sell it at a convention in a bargain box.  But personally I wouldn't pay a penny over $200 (hint, hint).
 Also note the shipping method..how much of that stuff is going to be beat to hell when it reaches you, stuffed in that ridiculous giant box with no padding...

Mike B.

yeah youre prb right mike!

Al

g026r wrote:Valley Forge, anyone?


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(Out of curiosity: is that game just the rulebook, or is there supposed to be more?)

Just the rulebook.  Not that it really matters...check out my last post in the "Silliest non-TSR auction" thread.  If the current bidder wants it he is probably going to get it.

killjoy32 wrote:i wouldnt mind getting the MTG cards
Al

Theres something rather fishy about those magic cards I think...


Mrs Malcolm

lawrenson wrote:
Theres something rather fishy about those magic cards I think...


Mrs Malcolm

yeah i think youre right too

Al

simrion wrote:
The listing cites USPS Media Mail...I don't think that box would even fit in my Mail Lady's truck and I've never seen her deliver anything using a pallet jack   Gotta imagine the winner would get a bunch of boxes?

Cardboard most likely and by the time they got to you (IF they did) they would be torn to pieces.

 

Not me, not even during my MAD collecting days .... way back when .......

 

Yet another 2nd edition Chainmail:




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These things are like coming out of the woodwork now.