aia wrote in Interesting Non-TSR Items Currently on eBay:http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/Oakes_Spalding
Before purchase i d like to understand if these books are worth or not...

I was not deeply impressed with them, Axel.  Unless you can get them on the cheap or with a nice discounted Lulu coupon, I don't think that they're very noteworthy.

Allan.

Seller with many hackmaster modules and low starting bid :

eBay listings

Yeah, you had a bunch of crap in there, aia.    I cleaned it up.

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The price seems high, but it's almost impossible to find a copy of it nowadays.

Luckily i already own mine

dbartman wrote in Interesting Non-TSR Items Currently on eBay:This popped up today, then disappeared:


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Then it was back, at a higher price:

Palace Of The Vampire Queen   | eBay?

It appears to be a really nice copy.  Looks like one from Doug's collection?  Should be on some Acaeum member's list...

Does look incredibly nice.

What concerns me about this item are the lack of any specifics about the actual item in the description (apart from a generic PoVQ description) and the "brand" being listed as "North Texas RPG Con".

Has anyone asked the seller any questions about condition, provenance, etc.?

bombadil wrote in Interesting Non-TSR Items Currently on eBay:

dbartman wrote in Interesting Non-TSR Items Currently on eBay:This popped up today, then disappeared:


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Then it was back, at a higher price:


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It appears to be a really nice copy.  Looks like one from Doug's collection?  Should be on some Acaeum member's list...

Does look incredibly nice.

What concerns me about this item are the lack of any specifics about the actual item in the description (apart from a generic PoVQ description) and the "brand" being listed as "North Texas RPG Con".

Has anyone asked the seller any questions about condition, provenance, etc.?

I did. I'm the one who "won" it for $400. I had some concerns about it myself due to the lack of description, as well as the ""North Texas RPG Con" that's listed in the original post, although admittedly I brought it up after I BIN'ed it.

He claimed when he finally got back to me that his wife had listed incorrectly, so he cancelled the sale. I can't be sure if it he was telling the truth or if perhaps my querying after the fact caused him to look further.  In his favor though, he has at least a couple other auctions with some legit early items, so I have no reason to think he lied other than I kind of got porked, but that's why it got reposted.

One thing though I'd like to deal with is this, as a result:  I know that there was a digest sized PotVQ that was sold at the NTRPGcon back in 2011? I have yet to be able to find much information about it, let alone a decent picture of it.  Aaron has one for sale, but his scan is worthless. It's blurry as hell and it looks just like the original.  Does anyone have a couple of decent pictures, as well as a decent list of differences between the two?  That's what initially cause my worry when I started asking. I knew that there was "reprint" from ~2011 out there, I just had no idea what it looked like other than it was digest sized., of which a far away picture and/or a scan would not let me know the difference.