Dull, blurred or cropped photos tend to indicate the seller either has no interest in the item they are selling (and therefor is unlikely to take care with packaging or protecting the item), or is trying to hide damage and will package badly to be able to pass off damage as postal damage.
mnw wrote:Last 3 prices were all just shy of $600, 2 in 2007 and 1 in 2008. £120-£130 would have been a steal, I'm surprised I missed that one.
Here in the UK we have Walmart too, but it's called Asda.Walmart. They sell cheap stuff to the lower socio-economic occupants in society, and can be hilarious if you like to see the types of freaks that bread at that end of the spectrum. It's one only store I know of where you can find shoppers in dressing gowns dragging their spawn around by the hair, or a drunk guy giving his bitch a slapping. They open '24 hours' here, but Asda.Walmart define '24 hour opening' as 'between '6am and Midnight'. That's because most of their clientelle cannot read or count anyways.
lokiwookie wrote:I didn't remember how many years ago it was. Perhaps 3-4 years. More ... 5-6 year actually.. I can't remember, time is running too fast. Market price was very high for D&D related items but not for CoC. Insane prices were rather rare. Or perhaps I found the only cheap DX box
mnw wrote:I've bought and sold a few of these now and this price is about $100 down on the norm, the last four all went for over $500. I agree, the exclusivity does tend to raise the price well beyond the regular ten-a-penny standard boxes, I guess somebody wanted to complete their collection. Good luck to them, hope they enjoy it. Some call it silly, others call it supply and demand.
mnw wrote:Well that's good to know MB, I'll bear it in mind as I go about my own business. Here's my ebay feedback, lots of comments about the packaging you can use to reinforce your incontrovertible points. My ambition is to provide packaging very much as good as your own (which is excellent). I was relieved when the several hundreds of pounds worth of items I bought from you arrived in great shape. Thank you for that.
mnw wrote:LOL, those lower socio-economic types, what can you do with them?
lokiwookie wrote:The sole 1st ed. boxed set that I remember going for over $400 is the 1st 1st print ever made, sold 3 years ago (more?).
mbassoc2003 wrote:I'm sure we are all educated enough here on what is a collector's forum to know what is expected when one collector sells an item to another, and I would be surprised if anyone here received a poorly packaged item from another collector.
mbassoc2003 wrote:Shoot them. It'd be a start. But then JK would be out of a job.
mnw wrote:5-6 years would be outside the window I followed these things.
faro wrote:(aside, for ref./context)Plateaued at $650; ended at $810. Only the "first out of the box" - as usually the case, owing to lack of intervention at the printers!
mbassoc2003 wrote:I was pointing out that photography and presentation is an indicator symptomatic of a certain type of seller and level of care, and if you want to ensure that you are not percieved that way, do not present your product that way.
Kingofpain89 wrote:I dont agree with this at all. I've purchased items from quite a few people over the years that didnt use photographs or scans and couldnt have been happier with the product I received. Badmike didnt start putting photos on his auctions until he realized that he could make more money by doing so.
Badmike wrote:Yeh I was a late holdout there. And I was still hauling all my packages to the post office for postage instead of printing out shipping at home. Dumb, dumb, dumb.... Mike B.
Invincible Overlord wrote:Printing out your shipping is cheaper than sending it to the post office?
mbassoc2003 wrote:Probably not relevant to collectors here, but this mini is going through the roof.... ** expired/removed eBay auction **