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HermitFromPluto
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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 3:18 am

[quote="The Fringe Dweller"]Judges Guild "Dark Tower" - I always liked Judge Dread myself :lol:

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http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Dungeons-Dragons ... dZViewItem

I contacted the Seller on this one and can confirm it is actuallya 4th print. Given the three hole punch, it is not worth much.

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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:17 am

HermitFromPluto wrote:
The Fringe Dweller wrote:Judges Guild "Dark Tower" - I always liked Judge Dread myself .

** expired/removed eBay auction **

I contacted the Seller on this one and can confirm it is actuallya 4th print. Given the three hole punch, it is not worth much.

Bid on it anyway.

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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:18 pm

HermitFromPluto wrote:
The Fringe Dweller wrote:Judges Guild "Dark Tower" - I always liked Judge Dread myself .

** expired/removed eBay auction **

I contacted the Seller on this one and can confirm it is actuallya 4th print. Given the three hole punch, it is not worth much.

you would be daft for not snapping up a dark tower for that much man!

Al

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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:53 pm

Well. Let' see. I will put in another bid at the end. However, according to our JG subweb. We have 4th print fair condition valued at US$5 or $6.50 Australian. You both clearly think it is worth more than that? It may be just that I have a seething dislike of three-hole punched items!!!

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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:07 am

HermitFromPluto wrote:Well. Let' see. I will put in another bid at the end. However, according to our JG subweb. We have 4th print fair condition valued at US$5 or $6.50 Australian. You both clearly think it is worth more than that? It may be just that I have a seething dislike of three-hole punched items!!!

Librarians destroy old books, by wrapping them in plastic, stamping them and gluing in bits of paper. Roleplayers destroy great old items by punching holes through them!

1) The Acaeum JG subweb price is obviously not accurate in this case. Not accurate even by 200%....maybe 400 to 500%. 1000%? 2000%? Hell, that price quote of $5 is nuts and I can only assume that it doesn't mean what it appears to mean. I have no idea why it says $5 for an item that should routinely be expected to sell for $30 to $50 or more.

2) I love to purchase former library copies...I like the special covers on the paperbacks and the repaired binding on the hardbacks that makes them totally useful. Hell, if I had had access to librarian craftsmanship back in the day, I might have had all my D&D books re-bound by them. Librarian binding would have saved many lives in the 80's...tragically lost to exploding copies of Oriental Adventures...possibly the most poorly bound game book ever made by someone besides Games Workshop. Just think of how many Second Edition AD&D books might have lived had they had expert binding help!

My copy of Heroic Worlds is a former library copy...purchased just for that reason.

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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:07 am

Well, you've convinced me to bid on it again. Obviously I should have hit the BIN when it was $12.

But down here in Australia we are roleplaybibliophilatelically-challenged. Tiny market, few items. Although I am involved in monitoring JG prices, I have little concept as to what they are worth. Also having got a Mint Installment W and some of the early newspaper journals for a few bucks over here a couple of years ago, I am finding myself surprised at the growing interest in JG as a collectible. I suspect the sub-web here is contributing. It used to be so hard to figure out what bits and pieces one had with JG

I'll raise the low price of that Dark Tower with the Board!!!

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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:22 am

HermitFromPluto wrote:Well, you've convinced me to bid on it again. Obviously I should have hit the BIN when it was $12.

But down here in Australia we are roleplaybibliophilatelically-challenged. Tiny market, few items. Although I am involved in monitoring JG prices, I have little concept as to what they are worth. Also having got a Mint Installment W and some of the early newspaper journals for a few bucks over here a couple of years ago, I am finding myself surprised at the growing interest in JG as a collectible. I suspect the sub-web here is contributing. It used to be so hard to figure out what bits and pieces one had with JG

I'll raise the low price of that Dark Tower with the Board!!!

if i lived in the same country as the $12 BIN, i would have snapped it for that. as its hard enough to get hold of. if you havent got a copy of dark tower, its good enough until you get a better copy or are happy enough with that one. a much better condition one, you are going to be swamped with peeps bidding against you anyways and don't forget, you are getting an additional item too, which is also worth a few $ too.

Al

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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:01 pm

FormCritic wrote:
1) The Acaeum JG subweb price is obviously not accurate in this case. Not accurate even by 200%....maybe 400 to 500%. 1000%? 2000%? Hell, that price quote of $5 is nuts and I can only assume that it doesn't mean what it appears to mean. I have no idea why it says $5 for an item that should routinely be expected to sell for $30 to $50 or more.

Have you looked at the price for this on the site? The $5 quote was for the low end of the 4th print spectrum..you'll see the NM values to be much higher then that.

The Valuation Board has only had about 3 months to collect data, so yes in the beginning somethings maybe off, but time will slowly correct the oddities.

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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:13 pm

Don't take offense, Shane...

Actually, no I haven't looked at it.

That's what I meant when I said that the value quoted could not possibly mean what it appears to mean.

There is no way the JG valuation board could have been so wrong...so it stands to reason that there is a deeper meaning to the $5 quoted price.

Mark

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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:52 am

Rakeesh sah Tarna wrote:- Really nice OCE:
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** expired/removed eBay auction **

anybody else have oce with chits??

I have a 1980 basic [blue book] D&D box with chits. Looks like this one, but not folded, the text is is all on one side, & there is no mailaway offer. However despite now being the same size as the OD&D version in the auction picture, it looks like maybe something was scissored off by the former owner. The back of the box illustrates two blocks of chits, not just one, so perhaps the mailaway offer was on another folded half. I'd like to hear more from anyone who knows about the chits. My OCE, bought new, had none.

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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:59 am

zhowar wrote:
Grodog, is this new information for your tournament page? I see you have some Gen Con South listings but not this one.

I can't make out the author's name on Witchstone. Can some with Polyhedron 21 look it up?

I'll look it up and add it when I update the site next, sometime after I return from CA this week. Thanks for the heads-up, zhowar!

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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:41 am

Concerning the Dark Tower:

I have made a bit of a fool of myself on this one and it should not reflect on the others helping out on Shane's Judges Guild sub-web.

As we don't get as many visitors down in the Judges Guild forum, let me drum up some support here:

I never realised what an immense job it is to build these sites and work out the valuations. Shane (Plaag) has done an amazing job creating the sub-web. Currently there are a number of us trawling meticulously through all the sales of JG products we can find on the web. These are all going into the database to give the current valuations. I think for many products, no one really knew what they were worth before, but this is giving the first indication of the true market value. Obviously, there are a few products that could be considered 'well-known rares', especially by some of the veteran collectors. So please, everyone, check in from time to time and give suggestions. As Shane has mentioned, it will take a while for the values to even out. In these early months, one particularly low or high price can bias the initial results.

I believe this whole exercise is bringing more attention to Judges Guild as a collectible and will probably help to increase the value of JG products as a collectible over time. I also firmly believe the sub-webs strengthen the position of The Acaeum as the preeminent RPG collecting site on the web! :cheers:

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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:20 am

I would suggest polling members to ask what their valuations are.

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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:25 am

B2 7th printing with cardboard header:

** expired/removed eBay auction **

Opening price seems a bit high...but I dont have any idea what these have normally gone for in the past.

War Of Wizards (3rd print?)

** expired/removed eBay auction **

Seller states it is missing the dice though.

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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:51 am

sauromatian wrote:
I have a 1980 basic [blue book] D&D box with chits. Looks like this one, but not folded, the text is is all on one side, & there is no mailaway offer. However despite now being the same size as the OD&D version in the auction picture, it looks like maybe something was scissored off by the former owner. The back of the box illustrates two blocks of chits, not just one, so perhaps the mailaway offer was on another folded half. I'd like to hear more from anyone who knows about the chits. My OCE, bought new, had none.

I had never seen (or heard) of an OCE with chits before this one showed up....

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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:16 pm

IttyBitty wrote:
I had never seen (or heard) of an OCE with chits before this one showed up.... 8O

I'm sure it's just a folded over sheet from a Basic Set that someone put in the box.

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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 12:11 am

1st ed Gamma World + screen:
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 1:54 am

This lot is interesting:

** expired/removed eBay auction **

Interesting that the seller has snuck in some silver anniversary edition with original ones to complete the set.

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