harami2000 wrote:Getting a good deal is one thing. Buying for $100 (again picking a number out of thin air) what you know you can immediately sell again for $1,000 is another; in my book, anyhow.
ymmv

Did you have a price in mind yourself, John?

Actually, the board hardly got a look in before I posted here. View count has more than tripled, since then. (We get a lot of lurkers, it would seem...).

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Oh, btw, did I miss anything in that silver box aside from the "Book of Sorcery"? Couldn't really justify the price for one item, here, I'm afraid.
Congrats on that, at least, even if it's "not the same".

I did have a price in mind if he had asked.  But I would have been perfectly happy to take his, had it been less.  

Can't reveal it yet, as it hasn't reached that figure yet.  But I suspect that your pockets are much deeper than mine.

And sell again for $1000?!?  You've got to be joking.  In the unlikely event that I win, I'm driving down to Cambridge to collect in person and make sure it's legit before it is locked away in my rare safe.

Put a snipe in a little while ago on the silver box.  Upped it the final night.  Wish I hadn't!  Probably a bit too much.  Thought you might have cancelled yours after the other win.   But bid mainly for the supplements and the Book of Sorcery.  No idea what it is btw.  Some of the supplements might be replacing my existing ones if better.  The box is destined for eBay.  Will be lucky to fetch £25 in that condition I would have thought.  

johnhuck wrote:

harami2000 wrote:*g*. Looks like I guessed the next bid right, too, even if ya did come in more aggressively than I'd expected...

At least, for a moment, it was mine!  

I'll give you that, John!
(And am tempted to juggle my "could have beens" with PoVQ, too )

Feel free to outbid me. Please... *lol*

The undervalued Strategic Review 1-6.  Be warned, USA only.  And this guy means it.  I won another of his auctions and have had to get it shipped to someone in the USA so they can forward it on.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 5923754223

And not sure what this is by the same seller

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 5923753014

johnhuck wrote:

harami2000 wrote:
Feel free to outbid me. Please... *lol*

OK  

*falls over*

This from the man who wouldn't bid me past 471 *dollars* for that 2nd print woodgrain.

(Hey, remember there's still that 3rd print (with the adverse grain) on sale for $900
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 5921053349  )

Yikes! Didn't I get my brown onion torn up for asking about BIN's a few months ago?

Deadlord36 wrote:Yikes! Didn't I get my brown onion torn up for asking about BIN's a few months ago?

Might just be something to do with the fact you actually got the seller to agree, Frank!

johnhuck wrote:
And not sure what this is by the same seller

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 5923753014

If you're referring to the book on the left, I believe it's an old T&T solo adventure called "Labyrinth".

On the subject of Boot Hill... I notice that the edition currently up for auction is slightly different than the one I won a few weeks ago. Mostly in the art work on the front cover. I'm going to guess that mine was the earlier edition based on the fact that it's artwork is poorer, but can anyone tell me about Boot Hill editions/printings and their differences?

Current auction: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 5923753014

My auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 5916712388

Regards

Mike

mdr003 wrote:On the subject of Boot Hill... I notice that the edition currently up for auction is slightly different than the one I won a few weeks ago. Mostly in the art work on the front cover. I'm going to guess that mine was the earlier edition based on the fact that it's artwork is poorer, but can anyone tell me about Boot Hill editions/printings and their differences?

ah, I just presumed that other auction was the same edition, for some reason. Hmm.... looked too quickly.
You've got the first edition, I'm fairly sure. Saw another copy on Titan Games ($100) and on a French website, some time back. Can't find those again, now.
Don't know what the date for that other one is, though. Sorry can't be of further assistance.

(aside: Some reprints of other early TSR goodies are far more difficult to tell, I think. For EPT, you have to ask the seller about the items on the catalog inside the back cover...).

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ah, Whitewash City -  Game Rules Page ...

I thought the later edition date mentioned elsewhere (1979) was too late. Would guess that one up for auction is 1977, then...??
(Still rather late for a GK monogram, and not a "collector's edition" *g*)