Aneoth wrote:Contrary to popular belief, I do not spend all of my spare time cruising the RPG listings on E-Bay.
mbassoc2003 wrote:Looks like Titan Games is getting a friend to shill their auctions. Either that or these two don't have a clue what they are bidding on.Anyone see why this is goung so high? or do Titan Games just need to prop up they're feedback and sales?cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIte ... 6&rd=1
jkason wrote:Aneoth wrote:Contrary to popular belief, I do not spend all of my spare time cruising the RPG listings on E-Bay.Hey Aneoth...If you don't spend all your spare time cruising, how come I can't win against you. (A couple of times )**Edit - Damn,screwed up the quote.****Edit - Damn,screwed up twice.**
bclarkie wrote:mbassoc2003 wrote:Looks like Titan Games is getting a friend to shill their auctions. Either that or these two don't have a clue what they are bidding on.Anyone see why this is goung so high? or do Titan Games just need to prop up they're feedback and sales?cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIte ... 6&rd=1I think its just a good ole fashion stupid a$$ bidding war. The bidders seem to be legit and neither is anywhere near the seller. undercvrunicorn is from Florida and raskal999 is actually from France. It must be the misprinted cover thing, but seriously $200.00. Also, look at its description its listed as EXTRA FINE . Not only is it feckin hammered, but its also not even complete. WTF?! Talk about a complete and total misrepresentation of grading. God is that irritating.
Aneoth wrote:jkason wrote:Hey Aneoth...If you don't spend all your spare time cruising, how come I can't win against you. (A couple of times )**Edit - Damn,screwed up the quote.****Edit - Damn,screwed up twice.**Do you use sniping software? If not, then that is how you can most often beat me. That is how harami and some of the others who use it beat me, they often outbid me in the last moments of an auctions listing.
jkason wrote:Hey Aneoth...If you don't spend all your spare time cruising, how come I can't win against you. (A couple of times )**Edit - Damn,screwed up the quote.****Edit - Damn,screwed up twice.**
mbassoc2003 wrote:Where is the misprint on the cover? Anyone?
Traveller wrote:mbassoc2003 wrote:Where is the misprint on the cover? Anyone?Unless I miss my guess, I believe the misprint has to do with the red text being shifted up and to the right of center, possibly due to the book shifting positions when the red was being printed.Unless the misprint is the coffee stains.
rosenkav wrote:Traveller wrote:Unless I miss my guess, I believe the misprint has to do with the red text being shifted up and to the right of center, possibly due to the book shifting positions when the red was being printed.Unless the misprint is the coffee stains. Agreeing with Traveller. Checked mine, and the cover it's printed in two colours, red and brown. To make them overlap without them showing over the other, you have to "dig" a white area in the darker parts of the image to have the lighter colour stand out.If you print them, and the printing plates nudge somewhat, as in this case - a thing that happens generally when you mount the plates, print the first copies, look at the results and manually tweak the plates to get everything going - you obtain a cover like this one.Generally, you dig the first copies... but sometimes one slips through the quality control process.But sincerely, 200 bucks is too much to get for a "misprint" like this.
Traveller wrote:Unless I miss my guess, I believe the misprint has to do with the red text being shifted up and to the right of center, possibly due to the book shifting positions when the red was being printed.Unless the misprint is the coffee stains.
mbassoc2003 wrote:It's not a first edition copy. It's a second edition copy and the second edition was published with surplus stock from the first edition reprinted covers after they added the $7.98 price tag. So both print runs of this cover were for 96 page books, and this one is the later 64 page reissue.I don't see it as a missprint. I see it as a lousy photo and coffee damage, and I get TAG knows it.
rosenkav wrote:mbassoc2003 wrote:It's not a first edition copy. It's a second edition copy and the second edition was published with surplus stock from the first edition reprinted covers after they added the $7.98 price tag. So both print runs of this cover were for 96 page books, and this one is the later 64 page reissue.I don't see it as a missprint. I see it as a lousy photo and coffee damage, and I get TAG knows it.I'll explain it better from a techie point of view. When I said "first copies", I wasn't meaning in terms of collectionism, but just in time terms regarding the print run - so the first copies printed in THAT print run.The first copies of EVERY print run are going to have this kind of problem (nudging and overlapping areas of colour with white showing in other areas), unless the printing press staff know how to do their work extremely well, minimizing this time and material loss while they adjust the plates to print as they should.In fact this is not a misprint, but rather a copy of the cover that should have been thrown away. Complete with coffee stains, bad treatment and lousy photo to boot.
mbassoc2003 wrote: To stoke the fires further, the 64 page edition was always printed with a $7.98 price on the cover. This one does not have the price, and yet the remainder of the plate is present? Looks like a dodgy forgery that is trying to be covered up with a bad photo and coffee to me.I wonder why Titan Games wouldn't specify what the misprint was, or answer any questions? Looks like Tony Ass Wop is up to his misselling tricks again.
rosenkav wrote:Uploaded the two side by sideYahoo!Click on RPG stuff, then the image is arneson.jpg