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Mars
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:54 am

I don't understand why these keep selling for the price they do so I thought I would record this bunch here:

Wilmark Dynasty

Escape from Shadowland $112.50
Journey to the Center of the Circle $34
Chivalry Lives $42.51
Lake of Parity $41.51
The Burgundy Pit $104
Melanda $56.50
Vampyre's Mirror $35

I guess they might have run out of Roomscapes or they just disintigrated before they could take them out.

Phaedran
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:22 pm

If I'm not mistaken, the same guy bought all of the Wilmark Dynasty modules.

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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:19 pm

Ai-yi-yi!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=019

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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:28 pm

yaya wrote:Ai-yi-yi!!!

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Its the only one seen so far, and Bill Owen owned it.

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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:15 pm

Plaag wrote:
Its the only one seen so far, and Bill Owen owned it.

ShaneG.

I wonder how many he has? Another one up now....

Demand of them whither they should comme to devide the worlde with the Emperour? And as they answered, he tooke up his shirte behinde and shewed them his buttocks, sayenge unto them, drawe your Lyne throughe the middest of *this* place.

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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:18 pm

guessing this next one will be less than $150 (and the one after that less than $75 :lol:

)

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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:42 pm

When they get to under $20, I'll grab one.

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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:18 pm

probably no 5 or 6 (I'll hold out for number 12 -$3+ shipping!)

(Only joking really - I wouldn't be surprised if there are a max of 3 or 4)

You can never have too much of something you didn't need in the first place.

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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:59 am

This is an absolutely ludicrous price - Harn Tharda for $99. I recently recently picked up an identical item for about $15. What worries me when big Sellers do this is that they'll lead other re-sellers to buy up cheaper items and then freeze the market by over-pricing them.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... SS:US:1123

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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:29 am

HermitFromPluto wrote:This is an absolutely ludicrous price - Harn Tharda for $99. I recently recently picked up an identical item for about $15. What worries me when big Sellers do this is that they'll lead other re-sellers to buy up cheaper items and then freeze the market by over-pricing them.

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I wouldn't worry too much, this guy's prices are always absolutely over the top, he sells very little except for Heroquest and Warhammer items. That item will sit in his store for years gathering dust.

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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:50 pm

mdr003 wrote:
I wonder how many he has? Another one up now....

Its all he could find right now, and I suspect this one will go for more then $150

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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:38 am

Hi. My name is ElurÃn. Recently I discovered MERP books. I'll buy them at all costs, so I can read them in the forest while eating my lembas.

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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 11:58 am

I know it's the holy grail of comics, but come on. It is 93K+ and still hasn't met the reserve. I have never really been into comics so maybe I just don't know what I am talking about, but I just can't see paying this for a comic when I could buy half of a house with it. What do you think the reserve actually is? After reading the item description, I am guessing 500k?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ACTION-COMICS-1-VG- ... dZViewItem

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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 7:14 pm

Plaag wrote:
Its all he could find right now, and I suspect this one will go for more then $150

ShaneG.

Well I was wrong, but then I didn't bid figuring I'd know the winner.
Man have I mellowed :lol:

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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 8:09 pm

coastiemike8 wrote:I know it's the holy grail of comics, but come on. It is 93K+ and still hasn't met the reserve. I have never really been into comics so maybe I just don't know what I am talking about, but I just can't see paying this for a comic when I could buy half of a house with it. What do you think the reserve actually is? After reading the item description, I am guessing 500k?

** expired/removed eBay auction **

"THE ARCHIVAL TAPE CAN BE REMOVED WITHOUT DOING DAMAGE TO THE PAPER"

Who is he kidding? The thing's got more stitching than Frankenstein, and he's valuing it at "Very Good+"? Ha! And he's quoting Overstreet. Yeesh.

It is indeed the Holy Grail; Steve Geppi (the guy who owns Diamond Comic Distribution and Alliance Distribution, among other things) has a standing offer of $1,000,000 for a mint cherry copy. Not that such exists anymore, but he keeps hoping. Someday I hope he finds it, it would be awesome if such existed.

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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 9:41 pm

jamesmishler wrote:It is indeed the Holy Grail; Steve Geppi (the guy who owns Diamond Comic Distribution and Alliance Distribution, among other things) has a standing offer of $1,000,000 for a mint cherry copy. Not that such exists anymore, but he keeps hoping. Someday I hope he finds it, it would be awesome if such existed.

He'd have better luck looking for a unicorn...

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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 9:43 pm

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I think I paid maybe a tenth of what he's asking for a copy that didn't suffer from "minimal storage scuffing and creases" a couple of months ago.

Actually, looking at the storefront, a number of his prices are, in my mind, very optimistic.

And also speaking of way up there:

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A number of hamilcar's Cthulhu auctions ended higher than I expected. There were a couple of bidders who didn't seem to have any upper limits set, no matter how often the item comes up for lower. This one was the most surprising to me though. (Well, this one and the water-damaged Tales of the Miskatonic Valley that went for almost $30.)

And finally:

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What's that? That's not that high for a new book? Well, it is once you consider that you can buy the same book direct from Chaosium for $3 less and at half the shipping cost. :lol:

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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 9:51 pm

jamesmishler wrote:... has a standing offer of $1,000,000 for a mint cherry copy.

I hope he's not holding his breath. We'd never see such an issue in a thousand lifetimes.

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