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jasonw1239
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Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:46 am

g026r wrote:Invest in your own shrink-wrapping machine, then you can be justified jacking them up fourfold.

Here you go, guaranteed to boost your eBay profits... :wink:

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Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:02 pm

g026r wrote:Invest in your own shrink-wrapping machine, then you can be justified jacking them up

Also known as a $15 hair dryer. Besides the possibility of a scammer doing it, many individual retail stores do it themselves. Someone could buy & sell a SW item without realizing it's not factory packaging.

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Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:04 pm

sauromatian wrote:Also known as a $15 hair dryer. Besides the possibility of a scammer doing it, many individual retail stores do it themselves. Someone could buy & sell a SW item without realizing it's not factory packaging.

One of the local stores does it to everything they get. (Jason will know the chain I'm talking about, as they have a branch down his way as well.)

Makes buying anything from them a crapshoot, as you can never tell what the interior quality is like.

"Reader, Carthegena was of the mind, that unto thoſe Three Things, which the Ancients held Impoſſible, there ſhould be added this Fourth ; To find a Book Printed without Errata's."

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Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:07 pm

All-Star Games, a fairly well-known store in Diamond Bar, Calif. (nice and centrally located in the greater L.A. area) used to do this, too. It was absurd. Every single thing in the store â€” used, new, RPG's, boardgames, wargames, magazines, comics, whatever â€” was shrink-wrapped.

And don't get me started on the fact that their machine usually wrapped stuff way too tightly ...

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Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:17 pm

Xaxaxe wrote:All-Star Games, a fairly well-known store in Diamond Bar, Calif. (nice and centrally located in the greater L.A. area) used to do this, too. It was absurd. Every single thing in the store â€” used, new, RPG's, boardgames, wargames, magazines, comics, whatever â€” was shrink-wrapped.

And don't get me started on the fact that their machine usually wrapped stuff way too tightly ...

Xax, is All-Star worth checking out? I've seen them come up on the WotC store listing a number of times, but I'm all the way up near Santa Monica. I went over to The Last Grenadier in Burbank a couple of weeks back, they had a bunch of stuff jammed down in boxes covered in dust, I picked up a very ratty ready ref sheets and some well worn BECMI books, but otherwise it was pretty much a bust. The dice selection was meh. Fine if you're looking for the usual mechanically polished dice sold everywhere.

It's a great store for old military books, it seems, as they had shelves and shelves of stuff.

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Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:37 pm

My understanding is that it's either closed or quite different. Sadly, the owner and owner's wife both passed away within weeks of each other a few years ago, leaving the store (as I understand the story, anyway) in the hands of a manager and some part-timers who were not prepared to run a game store. I had moved back to Nevada by that time, so I'm fuzzy on the details.

I liked All-Star, FWIW. The location was great, the store was clean and well-stocked, and the people were nice enough. I would have definitely been okay with a bit more of a personal touch ... I spent thousands of dollars there from 2000 to 2004 and never got so much as a 1% discount on anything. Oh, and the shrinkwrapping, of course: as mentioned, I thought they really jumped the shark in that department. But, overall, a game store I remember fondly.

You'll definitely want to call first or do a Google search. Santa Monica/Diamond Bar would be a long way to drive just to find that the address is now home to a dry cleaners or something.

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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:24 pm

This Seller is hoping to get $65 for Assassins of Dol Amroth.

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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 10:18 pm

Speaking of catalogs, by the way....

Since they are often given away for free I make a point of picking them up whenever I run across free copies.

I bag them up...you never know.

(I also snagged 6 or 8 copies of the free comic book newspaper covering the assassination of Captain America. Got em on ice...you never know.)

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Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 6:52 am

There has to be an accidental 9 in this one. Ridiculous:

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$199.99

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Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 8:51 am

I e-mailed him to ask if I get Tolkien's bones with it. I'll keep you posted.

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Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 11:24 am

$199?!?! DO I get Tolkien's bones with the book?

Lol, yeah that's a lot of dough, I realize...maybe just his pinky toe bone!
Truth is, these books are highly collectible - I routinely sell MERP supplements to collectors for $150-200, especially to European buyers. I know from past experience that if I wait, it will sell at asking price or near to it within a few weeks. Also, eBay market value is set based on other items of similar condition and these are the only ones of their kind for sale on eBay right now. I just listed them last night and there's already been considerable interest in them. There is a "Best Offer" feature - all serious offers are considered.
I've got a ton of MERP Supplements that I'll be listing in the next several days - are you interested in any thing specific?
Looking forward,
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Seems like he's rooking you guys on the other side of the pond..........

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Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 9:07 pm

Deadlord39 wrote:I e-mailed him to ask if I get Tolkien's bones with it. I'll keep you posted.

I offered him $7.

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Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 9:09 pm

Deadlord39 wrote:$199?!?! DO I get Tolkien's bones with the book?

Lol, yeah that's a lot of dough, I realize...maybe just his pinky toe bone!
Truth is, these books are highly collectible - I routinely sell MERP supplements to collectors for $150-200, especially to European buyers. I know from past experience that if I wait, it will sell at asking price or near to it within a few weeks. Also, eBay market value is set based on other items of similar condition and these are the only ones of their kind for sale on eBay right now. I just listed them last night and there's already been considerable interest in them. There is a "Best Offer" feature - all serious offers are considered.
I've got a ton of MERP Supplements that I'll be listing in the next several days - are you interested in any thing specific?
Looking forward,
-=AA

Seems like he's rooking you guys on the other side of the pond..........

Wait...Frank...are you the seller?

Talk about ruined fun.

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Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 10:26 pm

FormCritic wrote:Wait...Frank...are you the seller?

Talk about ruined fun.

No Frank is not the seller. Continue fun.

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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:49 am

Deadlord39 wrote:Truth is, these books are highly collectible - I routinely sell MERP supplements to collectors for $150-200, especially to European buyers.

There used to be a valuation site on MERP and I used to follow that data. While the values have perhaps appreciated 50%, most of the modules are still pretty common. I can understand trying to get $200 for Umbar, Ardor, or the Grey Mountains, but the regular modules are usually available for $20 - $30 bucks. Denizens of the Dark Wood is one of the more common modules.

However if you sell them to unwitting Europeans for those prices, why not

It probably seems cheap given the value of the Euro!

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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 6:44 am

I would not pay $20 for any of the mods unless they were MINT. They're just not that rare.

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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 3:54 pm

Mars wrote:
No Frank is not the seller. Continue fun.

Except that the seller sent me a nice reply, stating that he would keep my offer in mind in case he did not get a sale...and asking me if I knew more about pricing on these items.

Which makes me a jerk for teasing him.

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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 8:39 pm

Nah, believe me, he knows what they are worth. Maybe he thinks you're from overseas.........

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