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lokiwookie
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:53 pm

I don't know if it is an Acaeum member who won this lot but it is a very nice find

** expired/removed eBay auction **

Courting madness in the lot... I wanted to bid at least $100 but seller refused to accept my bid

mnw
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:59 pm

lokiwookie wrote:I don't know if it is an Acaeum member who won this lot but it is a very nice find

** expired/removed eBay auction **

Courting madness in the lot... I wanted to bid at least $100 but seller refused to accept my bid

HOLY COW! KingOfPain really let me down on that one! Not a mention in the interesting items thread...zip!

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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:58 pm

Yes, this is the lot that I missed out on thanks to eBay's Paypal integration screw-up :evil:

I had the winning bid beaten by quite a bit if necessary....

Allan Grohe ([email protected])
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:32 pm

lokiwookie wrote:I don't know if it is an Acaeum member who won this lot but it is a very nice find

** expired/removed eBay auction **

Courting madness in the lot... I wanted to bid at least $100 but seller refused to accept my bid

Ah, yes, Nightlife . . . you are talking about the Nightlife book, aren't you?

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Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:35 am

From the buyer:

Thanks for your question. The books that I am keeping from this lot are: Courting Madness (I actually bid [about double grodog's failed bid of $278] on this lot, because of this item - the last time it was listed on eBay by itself, it sold for $700) and Dark Designs.

So, I feel a little better now, knowing that I was blown out of the water by the winner and not by eBay's screw-ups.

Allan Grohe ([email protected])
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Kingofpain89
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Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:44 pm

megnelwil wrote:
HOLY COW! KingOfPain really let me down on that one! Not a mention in the interesting items thread...zip!

Sorry about that. Been kinda sick for the last few days. Must have missed that one.

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Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 5:02 pm

more than telling you my finding, i would understand if this:

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is really rare as i have read... apparently it doesnt seem to be...

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Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 5:26 pm

aia wrote:more than telling you my finding, i would understand if this:

** expired/removed eBay auction **

is really rare as i have read... apparently it doesnt seem to be...

The FASA published Book of Mars is the more common one. The rare one has a red cover with yellow lettering and is published by Image Game Company as is seen here.

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Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 5:49 pm

I sure was happy with this price:

Megatraveller Starship Operators Manual Vol 1 | eBay

Even though MegaTraveller prices seem to be falling like bricks lately I couldn't win one of these for less than 30 or 40 bucks six months ago. And if I had checked just a bit earlier I would have picked up a World Builder's Handbook for the same price. Oh well.

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Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 7:49 pm

Kingofpain89 wrote:I sure was happy with this price:

** expired/removed eBay auction **

Even though MegaTraveller prices seem to be falling like bricks lately I couldn't win one of these for less than 30 or 40 bucks six months ago. And if I had checked just a bit earlier I would have picked up a World Builder's Handbook for the same price. Oh well.

Wow, that's a great price. I suspect the falling Traveller prices lately are due to one or two fanatical buyers who aren't driving the price up, perhaps having purchased everything they need....

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Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:08 pm

I just received my CoC Beyond the Mountains of Madness (sans map) I bought off-a-d-Bay for ~ $50. Better shape than it seemed, and I think not a bad deal, though I do need to find those freaking map(s). At least I didn't have to spend nearly 4x as much for the ones currently BIN that are available... damn.

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Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:32 pm

Kingofpain89 wrote:
The FASA published Book of Mars is the more common one. The rare one has a red cover with yellow lettering and is published by Image Game Company as is seen here.

[ Image ]

It also has all the chapters, where as the white version is missing the last few.

This week I've been mostly eating . . . The white ones with the little red flecks in them.

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Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:44 pm

serleran wrote:I just received my CoC Beyond the Mountains of Madness (sans map) I bought off-a-d-Bay for ~ $50. Better shape than it seemed, and I think not a bad deal, though I do need to find those freaking map(s). At least I didn't have to spend nearly 4x as much for the ones currently BIN that are available... damn.

I'm almost positive that Chaosium sells the maps on their site, but the site's down for BRP shenanigans.

There are no bad editions of D&D, just Boring Players and Unimaginative DMs.

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Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:15 pm

MrFilthyIke wrote:I'm almost positive that Chaosium sells the maps on their site, but the site's down for BRP shenanigans.

I'm not certain it's BRP-related shenanigans.

I think that somebody did an update to their software that didn't take as well as it should have, as their site was returning the default "Congratulations on installing Apache" page last night.

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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 6:05 pm

Chaosium site seems back up, sort of. Did not like working for the shopping...

But, on other things, I did just manage to win an auction I thought would be sniped to hell, so I'll be getting a Necromican and a R'nokks Spellbook, which I really wanted.

Yay!

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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:22 pm

I received an email from Dustin Wright indicating that the main website had been hacked.
In my reply to him I mentioned that it would be a good idea to post a message to dispel (or confirm) if any customer data was compromised.
There has been a discussion already on one of the yog-sothoth threads about that subject.

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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:25 pm

** expired/removed eBay auction **

I finally won a copy of Thieves Guild 2nd Edition for a reasonable price.

I also got a copy of City of Haven in the deal.

Unfortunately, they're both shrinkwrapped...so I won two really nice posters...possibly knicknacks.

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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:46 pm

Badmike wrote:I suspect the falling Traveller prices lately are due to one or two fanatical buyers who aren't driving the price up, perhaps having purchased everything they need....

Mike B.

Could it also be the imminent Mongoose (re-)release?

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