El Diablo Robotico wrote:This auction seems strange to me:

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Especially when you consider that this one went completely untouched:

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Am I missing something?!?

lol, I was interested in the one that was not bid on, so I asked the seller if she was going to re-list and if so, was she going to place a BIN on it.
She did relist with a BIN and I used it.

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Well, it DOES appear to be in a good condition  :roll:

Aneoth wrote:Yes, but at $89, I need to list the rest of mine. I still have six of them with the "forbidden Mythoi". Yep that sure is some rare stuff, better get your copy while you still can.....
Before they get to $1000 each.

I think I see the "problem" - it's listed as "AD&&D" - Advanced Dungeons and and Dragons.

The extra cash is going towards that extra "AND".  Y'see.

 :lol:

From the kitty store.

cougarrinard has this Cthulhu book up and he is getting a mint for it....

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Cthulhu with sticky PLASTIC film on the cover...............
28 Pounds Sterling ($52.51 US Bucks) with 14 hours left.

Better bid now, or you will miss your chance.

I need to buy some of that plastic film so I can get this kind of smack for my copies of Cthulhu too.

Some people are simply crrrrrazyyyyyyy

Aneoth wrote:From the kitty store.

cougarrinard has this Cthulhu book up and he is getting a mint for it....

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Cthulhu with sticky PLASTIC film on the cover...............
28 Pounds Sterling ($52.51 US Bucks) with 14 hours left.

Better bid now, or you will miss your chance.

I need to buy some of that plastic film so I can get this kind of smack for my copies of Cthulhu too.

Some people are simply crrrrrazyyyyyyy

The only thing more crazy than the description vs. condition is that people are throwing that kind of cash at it!!!!  8O  8O Guess you could remove the plastic..er...and the cover to boot!!!

ya I have a bunch as well..... I've sold a couple got 80-100 per for the better condition ones.

jhstissot wrote:i bought a whole bunch of the cthulhu deities in varing condition ranging from 16 to about 30 ++ now they are reaching over 80 what a return for three or so months
jeff

Nice copies were selling at $100+ a few years back; prior to the eBay explosion.

As with the OCEs is showing cyclic tendencies, perhaps.
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At the highest prices, there simply aren't enough buyers /on eBay/, although there may be other people IRL who would be willing to pay such a price through private sales lists.
Would be interesting to see whether it's possible to spot tendencies (on the falling cycle) at which resellers and/or horders begin to step back in, in force, which slowly arrests then rebounds the market (sometimes a bit too rapidly).
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This might only apply to some degree to high-popularity/visibility items for which there is a ready supply (Cthulhoid D&DGs and OCEs seem ideal in that regard).
Trying to draw a straight line through historical realisations on a short term basis is perhaps an exercise in futility for those.

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Anyhow; buying good copies when they hit as low as $25-30 would appear to be almost risk-free, if so.
So long as they're not "GOOD CONDITION AS PLASTIC COVERED". (*eeps*; $58 and still unsold).

jm-02 cents observations, anyhow.

jhstissot wrote:the one thing i have noticed with both the dieties and the oce is that there are multiple copies being sent auction almost on a weekly basis. right now it is a suppily and demand issue every time there is a good price over 40 for dieties and over 100 for the oce you get people suppiling them to ebay.

*nods*. And "popularity" definitely helps.
They always seem to rebound, if the overall hobby has any vitality left in it at all.

The worry is, perhaps, for those rarer and/or less "popular"/"interesting" items.

If they fall out at the bottom of a cycle (either individually or as a particular company's product), few people are likely to want to sell their items if they're uncommon, if it's likely they will sell for a pittance.
(And yet, such items may still command a decent price in non-time-limited private sales).

For example, that original "M" Modron issue, perhaps.

jhstissot wrote:it is also a good that both these items stay at these prices i think this is a good time to be combing ebay as well as yard sales etc. prices will start to increase albeit slowly that seems to where we are going.

*nods*. I think so, too. (now those people who trade on eBay have readjusted to that).
Especially for OCEs; regardless of condition, it would appear. But it's still a very difficult longer-term trend to try to pin down.