Valhalla Games was, as Brette said, an Australian shop, here in Perth.

The shop itself had quite a good selection of gear, however there were a few major draw-backs.

The first was: there were 2 owners IIRC. One guy was great, as well as the guys who manned the counter. They knew roughly what something was worth and sometimes adjusted the price that was listed on the gear, and occassionally let you look through it as it came in, before being priced. One of them said he weren't a big fan of how the other owner worked out his prices on some items.

The other owner, even back then, used to be on the net continuously checking out the price on items and adjusting them up in the store with a substantial markup. Guy wouldn't budge on prices and at one stage wanted around $AUD73.40 for a D1-2. A friend sold some items to them (against my advice) - had to leave the items there, and had to wait ages for a reply. The offers to buy were rediculously low. When they went on the shelf you would have thought they were platimum plated with the prices listed.
Which leads me to the next point..

Secondly: had a bad habit of re-shriking items. Have bought a few items from them (not for the price listed though) which have been hole-punched had a price sticker placed on them, then re-shrinked and tried to be passed off as near mint/shrink  

Shop was forced to close by the State Government to allow the new underground train system to be built- most of the businesses got screwed there big time and had to seek compensation, and he hasn't had a chance to set up his actual business shop-front again (that I've heard). Original site still caught up in the construction.

Be very careful with the descriptions to make sure you know what you're getting, and if it's marked as shrink look closely at the photos. Personally I think you'll get better value in general auctions.

It could have been post in the non-TSR interesting items but for this price definitively not!



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2 books are pictured but only one is sold.



Does anyone know the difference between CoC anniversary book with red sign and the one with yellow sign?

Thank red_bus for this very interesting informations

gyg wrote:Should I have been surprised?

Our very own Traveller is who I defer to in these situations ... I'm sure he'll be by soon.

Take it away, Trav!

Valhalla Games again... man, what?



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I just took a snapshot of Valhalla's listings after sorting by price. I admit to total confusion:

1. If this guy is serious ... well, those can't be over-the-counter drugs he's taking, right?

2. If it's just some sort of joke or prank (a theory discussed elsewhere here), what's the punch-line? I mean, it does cost actual money to list items on eBay, whether you're kidding around or not.

Maraudar wrote:What ever he is smoking I want some..

Maraudar

Drugs are bad..Mmmkay!
*bad Southpark character impression*

ShaneG.

He says he sells them in his store at that price. I explained to him that when people in Australia eventually get the internet down there, and they can buy them at a fraction of that price his sales will drop quickly. So until Australia gets online he might as well make a mint out of the local economy. He paint a pretty backward picture of how advanced his fellow countrymen are.

In his blurb he lists that he's now opened a store in the suburb a couple over from mine (he's in a light industrial). He's supposedly open over the weekend so I might pop in for a very good laugh  

I doubt he's sold much recently as the community isn't huge over here and word of mouth gets around real quick.

The truly sad part he's now flooded EBay.com.au's D&D page with his over-inflated cr@p and new bidders/listers will see what he's asking and possibly raise their reserves or pay much higher than they should.   Hopefully not.

Keep in mind we only have a few hundred items listed on EBay here regularly. With the timeframes he's listed some for they're going to be there a while..

Luckily we don't have the internet here in Australia yet, so all this typing is just a figment of your imagination & I can also tell me wife that I haven't actually spent a truck-load of money as well.......