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le Rahib
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:59 am

beasterbrook wrote:
I believe that this was the reserve on the auction, it was automatically bid up to the reserve not as a bid above the next highest bidder..

Brette:)

Yes Brette, you are right.

What a reserve price, it is totally crazy to think that a seller put that reserve and more insane to see that someone has reached it.

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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:20 am

I cant believe anyone posted a snipe bid that high in any case.
Reserve or not.

However, is it worth that much?
I do not recall ever seen an English language version of that item, much less a French language version.

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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:44 pm

No, it is not worth that much.

:lol:

The quality isn't good, I have read them

and it's very poor. It is far behind the average quality of standard US comics (even if I am not a specialist).

There are several different comics.

That's odd, but frankly, you won't have any pleasure to collect them.

With some patience you can find them on ebay.fr for a view bucks but on ebay.com, it is more unusual, that is right and absolutely logical.

I am totally agree with you John, I can't believe that someone put a snipe bid that high. That is very strange.

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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:00 am

For anyone interested in seeing a bubble in action: http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... 0245956222

It used to be that the Who's Who supplements were the most expensive DC Heroes items, with these coming in third behind the core rules -- you could probably expect between $10 and $20 each, depending on the buyers and condition.

The Watchmen trade-paperback collection was through the roof a while ago ( You know, the one you can walk down to the bookstore and buy? Yeah, I dunno either.

) and has since dropped in price, but the effect of the trailer seems to have spread to other items. I'm curious how long the prices will last.

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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:12 pm

g026r wrote:The Watchmen trade-paperback collection was through the roof a while ago ( You know, the one you can walk down to the bookstore and buy? Yeah, I dunno either. ) and has since dropped in price, but the effect of the trailer seems to have spread to other items. I'm curious how long the prices will last.

The Watchmen miiniature set is also uber-expensive.

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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:34 pm

I didn't even know there were a Watchmen minis.

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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:46 pm

g026r wrote:I didn't even know there were a Watchmen minis.

Here's a set that was BINned for $49.99:

. . .
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and one that went for $95:

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[edit: edited original post and added second auction.]

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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:18 am

g026r wrote:For anyone interested in seeing a bubble in action:
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It used to be that the Who's Who supplements were the most expensive DC Heroes items, with these coming in third behind the core rules -- you could probably expect between $10 and $20 each, depending on the buyers and condition.

The Watchmen trade-paperback collection was through the roof a while ago ( You know, the one you can walk down to the bookstore and buy? Yeah, I dunno either. ) and has since dropped in price, but the effect of the trailer seems to have spread to other items. I'm curious how long the prices will last.

I just sold my average condition original set of Watchman comics for a jaw dropping price....silly bubbles! The DC modules that used to pop up all over the place seemed to have dried up recently.....

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Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 9:07 am

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and
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The Avalon Runequest Players' and GameMaster's boxes, $38 and $40 respectively. Quite high, considering that I've seen shrink-wrapped copies go for less.

Of course, one of them already has a bidder, so it just shows that one never can tell. :roll:

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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:45 pm

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I didn't realize Green Ronin had any books worth more than $100.

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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 3:05 pm

MY NEW POLICY

For items which are priced waaay high, is to politely ask if they would be interested in a waaay lower offer.

for example, for this MERP Hands of the Healer...

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I asked "Hi there, would you accept an offer a little less than your buy-it-now price? I was thinking of about £10. Or maybe £15 at most. thanks!"

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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 3:38 pm

This just seems insane to me:

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

I put a bid or two in... but I had no idea it would get this high.

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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 5:08 pm

TheMilford wrote:This just seems insane to me:

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I put a bid or two in... but I had no idea it would get this high.

What a find

great price actually, would have went higher if he broke it up. Really would have went higher if I new about it

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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 5:18 pm

Wow, that was one heck of a collection of MIB minis! I've never seen a lot in such nice shape before. It comes down to about $40.00 a box, which might be a little high for some of the boxes but not for a lot of them. They are awfully hard to find in SW and so many in one lot!

That definitely was the way to pick these up. What a rarity to see so many together!

I wish I would have known about it. I would have liked to upgrade some of my box sets

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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 12:10 pm

Holy Sh!t....

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KNG have been selling these for years at $9.99 (They still are. Grab them while you can.)

http://www.nobleknight.com/ViewProducts ... GenreID_E_

And check this out...

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This week I've been mostly eating . . . The white ones with the little red flecks in them.

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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 2:27 pm

good result dcc20.5 $128
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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 2:32 pm

Rakeesh sah Tarna wrote:good result dcc20.5 $128
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Very good result. Congradulations.

I have mine up at under $80 BIN if anyone's interested...

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This week I've been mostly eating . . . The white ones with the little red flecks in them.

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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 2:34 pm

was not hinting

had not seen lance $271 ptolus few days ago
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