Sorry, should have posted this one earlier — it's almost over:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... RK:MEBI:IT

And it's not even complete (missing box).

I still say the bottom is going to fall out of the Dragon archive market in a few months. It's not that rare of an item, it's got a user-unfriendly interface, and it's really not worth the prices it has been commanding in the past three or four months.

My prediction is that some of these buyers will gladly be taking 50 cents on the dollar in about six months ...

There's a computer games store in the UK called Game, and they were selling these at £24.95 this summer in the sales.

And all five CD's fit really nicely onto a single DVD, and the autoboot and menue system continues to work just fine. You can even insert the errata (omitted inserts downloaded from the W0TC website) because the .pdfs haven't been locked.

I'd rater have a DVD that 250 issues of Dragon. But then in 25 years my CD's will only be worth $10 'cos the .pdfs will be in some Yahoo Group, and your copies of Dragon will be worth the same as my house. Lol

Here is a few more from the same seller.

GET'EM WHILE THEY'RE HOT!!!        

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bclarkie wrote:I think I may have a winner here.

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Just think only $10.00 a magazine for those "VERY RARE!!!" Best of Dragons....

I'm going to disagree.

Granted, the opening bid is high (although note that there is already a bidder), which is a strategy I question. I would have opened lower and hoped to attract a bidding war.

More importantly, though, is the fact that the seller is offering a complete run of BoD in what appears to be very nice shape. As a serious Dragon collector, I can tell you that I've lost count of the number of totally thrashed BoDs I've bought, sold, traded, etc., over the years; this seller has some of the nicer copies I've ever seen. I think this listing will appeal to Dragon/D&D collectors who prize condition above other factors.

Is it worth a $55 bid? That's definitely open to debate — again, I think this seller is aiming too high with some of his listings. But is it the "silliest" price of the year? Not even close.

bclarkie wrote:I mean obviously its not a Deities and Demigods with $1,000.00 opening bid, but I think i paid like $12.00 for my 5 BoD's on Ebay, so it seemed really high to me.

Oh, man, that guy deserved his own thread: Stupidest Listing in eBay History.

What's funny is that he never even blasted Whitey with a negative. So there he sits with zero money, no revenge on Whitey, negative feedback, and a lot of time wasted trading insults with members of this forum (to be fair, I should point out that the second e-mail he sent me was polite and thoughtful, if not particularly intelligent).

For those who missed it ... prepare to go into shock:

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mbassoc2003 wrote:How much would you pay a copy of Q1? Third/Fourth printing - been through the washing machine...

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I have a copy of A1 that fell out my bag one rainy night. I didn't realise until I walked past it the following day. It looks like hell. Maybe someone will give me 50 bucks for it.

I'm inclined to think this one is shilling gone horribly wrong...

Ralf Toth wrote:A very optimistic candidate from ebay Germany:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 80598&rd=1

Kara-tur box for a starting bid of $128? And it's not even mint or shrinkwrapped...

He says its new in the description!!

Xaxaxe wrote:

bclarkie wrote:I mean obviously its not a Deities and Demigods with $1,000.00 opening bid, but I think i paid like $12.00 for my 5 BoD's on Ebay, so it seemed really high to me.

Oh, man, that guy deserved his own thread: Stupidest Listing in eBay History.

What's funny is that he never even blasted Whitey with a negative. So there he sits with zero money, no revenge on Whitey, negative feedback, and a lot of time wasted trading insults with members of this forum (to be fair, I should point out that the second e-mail he sent me was polite and thoughtful, if not particularly intelligent).

For those who missed it ... prepare to go into shock:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... eName=WDVW

Fucknut never got paid?  Shocking!  Why hasn't Whitey paid the guy?  Maybe he folded up ten $100 bills, stuck them in an unlicked envelope, and they got lost in the mail....

Mike B.

Shilling? I don't know what this means.