g026r wrote:While I admit it's easy to pick on Troll and Toad, and maybe other people won't get as much amusement out of this as I did, but:Atlas of the Young Kingdoms Volume 1: ** expired/removed eBay auction **Cost to purchase from Troll and Toad and have shipped to Canada via 1st class mail: $26.84Cost to purchase direct from Chaosium and have shipped to Canada via 1st class mail: $13.61Not quite double, but getting close...
FormCritic wrote:Now it says $15.34 for first class to Canada.They must have read your post.
g026r wrote:Nope. That's the price it was when I did that up. $11.50 for the item + $15.34 for postage vs. $5.00 for the item + $8.61 for postage.
GreyM wrote:Someone really wanted "The Toughest Dungeon in the World" so Al...you might want to put your copy on Ebay nowThe Toughest Dungeon in the World --> ** expired/removed eBay auction **$102.50 USD by Lofenlocblew my $10.00 bid out of the water
GreyM wrote:maybe, but I've been wanting a copy since its the only one from JG for T&T that I'm missing...and it was in the states already without having to import one from Al....but I might have to go that route unless he multiplied his prices x10 after reading this
GreyM wrote:as for lofenloc, he's been on a Tunnels & Trolls kick recently (as I'm trying to finish the last few I need )Dargon's Dungeon $102.50 --> ** expired/removed eBay auction **Overkill $58.57 --> ** expired/removed eBay auction **Weirdworld $41.00 --> ** expired/removed eBay auction **Funny thing is he's outbid me on some of these before so I figured I was relatively safe
bclarkie wrote: he seems to be a one of each item collector, so its not like he is always bidding the same stuff up after he wins the item, he seems to be pretty much one and done.
beasterbrook wrote:You have to remember that lance is only winning the item a couple of dollars more then the second highest bidder.. so there has to be at least another out there that wants to spends that sort of money.. in the long run he may save himself say $10-$50 (maybe more, maybe less) on some items but once he has an item you rarely need to get another (I see that he has bought a couple of Fist of Emirikols, and phb/dmg's as well though) For someone that is earning good money, an extra couple of $$ is no big deal and then I would average out the overpayment as well so it doesn't look too bad.. then factor in the savings of getting a couple of items at the same place and the savings on shipping make it all the more worthwhile, shipping is the killer in these sort of things for those of us overseas and every item he has to purchase singularly costs/saves him about $12us each to ship.. Brette:)
bclarkie wrote:Brette, you are most certainly correct about someone else having to be out there bidding the item up, athough its usually not the same person. Lance is the here in the US though, the US dollar hitting the sh*t can hasn't affected all of us.
HermitFromPluto wrote:Anyway, speaking of lurch-deann's interesting auctions...I put a token bid on this. Is it rare? Does it come up often? What is it worth? ** expired/removed eBay auction **