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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:13 am

Sweet that they were inspired and took the time to create (*cough* trace) that line art from the original color illo.

Personally I love it, even if the contents are likely to be "of dubious saleability" in addition to that rip...

(Better value for amusement than their somewhat grubby, spine-rolled copy of The Dragon Crown?)

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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:14 am

FormCritic wrote:It looks like people thought they were getting a treasure.

Sometimes I wish I was less scrupulous. Anyone remember the guy awhile back who was selling the detached City State inserts from Pegasus magazines for a tidy sum? And people have been selling Dragon magazine inserts (including modules, games, monster and treasure supplements, etc) for as long as Ebay has been around.

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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:18 am

(And it can be a pain to find copies of Imagine that /haven't/ been mutilated...)

Hey, Mike; what about those adverts cut from the 'zines? Never did check to see how many of those actually sold.

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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:44 am

faro wrote:(And it can be a pain to find copies of Imagine that /haven't/ been mutilated...)

Hey, Mike; what about those adverts cut from the 'zines? Never did check to see how many of those actually sold.

I know there was a guy who did pretty well on Ebay BITD selling the adverts cut out of magazines for a couple bucks apiece, funny thing was you could practically get the entire magazine for the same price....

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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 12:28 pm

My favorite was the guy who placed a previously unseen publication...photocopied onto brown parchment paper...in the picture for his Ebay listing.

He did not mention the publication (which looked like an old-school gem of some sort) in his listing. He just included the parchment paper in the picture and let it simmer in the minds of whoever wanted to bid.

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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 1:29 pm

faro wrote:Sweet that they were inspired and took the time to create (*cough* trace) that line art from the original color illo.

Personally I love it, even if the contents are likely to be "of dubious saleability" in addition to that rip...

Yes, I think that it was interesting as an effort to create something original with photocopy. I was even going to bid on these homebrew items. But I was going to bid 5 bucks, no more, at least to see if he created a original "mock-up" by cut/paste Dragon mag' articles.

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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 12:15 pm

Paizo's auction is off course not silly but look at those prices with still 6 days to go :

eBay listings

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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 1:04 pm

xRalphx wrote:Paizo's auction is off course not silly but look at those prices with still 6 days to go :

eBay listings

Well it is to help Japan.

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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 2:56 pm

Charity auctions can't and shouldn't be measured on any sort of normal scale. One hopes the prices get silly!

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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 8:51 am

xRalphx wrote:Paizo's auction is off course not silly but look at those prices with still 6 days to go :

eBay listings

Considering that there's less than 100 of these Limited Edition books, I'd say it's a steal at that price.

I wouldn't be surprised if the prices on these books his $1,000.00.

It's the new brown box.

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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 9:26 am

I read the other day instead of nuclear waste suits workers at the plant are using plastic garbage bags to "protect" themselves. Hopefully the money raised will go to buy new hazmat uniforms!

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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 10:17 am

Invincible Overlord wrote:
It's the new brown box.

For many people who never played the older versions of the game that could be true indeed.

And I could see Paizo take over from Wizards completely in a couple of years. At least over at the local gamestore Pathfinder seems to be immensely more popular than 4E.

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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 6:22 pm

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I think I picked up my complete, partially punched White Bear Red Moon for less than this . . .

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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 3:13 pm

hi,

this is a tad hopeful:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3E-Eberron-Books- ... 33671cd923

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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 4:29 pm

lawrenson wrote:hi,

this is a tad hopeful:

** expired/removed eBay auction **

Cheers,
Malc

15 books at 10 euros each. Would that be...what...twice the price? If it were dollars would it make more sense?

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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 5:28 pm

FormCritic wrote:Would that be...what...twice the price?

Hah - maybe a 3 years ago. A British pound is only about a $1.60 now. Still ambitious auction though.

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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:25 am

http://cgi.ebay.com/Wraith-Overlord-sof ... 43a6be1cbc

Yeah, I know a lot of Toads e-Bay stock is WAY overprice, but Even for the Toad, this one is simply insane.

And I thought the SWed copy that recently sold for just Above $60 was a tad high. :lol:

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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:43 am

Gnat the Beggar wrote:
** expired/removed eBay auction **

Yeah, I know a lot of Toads e-Bay stock is WAY overprice, but Even for the Toad, this one is simply insane.

And I thought the SWed copy that recently sold for just Above $60 was a tad high.

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