Ak'Ptui wrote:I'll send you one for free!  PM me your mailing address.  Are you going to open it or did you plan on keeping it sealed?

Thank you very much!!

This is a good point, am I going to open it? Humm I am very curious but I am a collector too... It is like when you get a rarity in SW... You always hesitate to open it or to keep it sealed. I think I will decide in front of the envelope

I PM you my mailing adress!

I just can't believe this price



http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... K:MEWAX:IT



Open auction WOW



Only two bidders though

Uh...  




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Might as well shrinkwrap a dog turd.

Castles and Crusades madness on Amazon . . .

The Castles and Crusades Castle Keeper Screen is OOP.  But is it really worth 10K?

. . . http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1931275637

Not to be outdone, I have increased the price of my Hackmaster The Temple of Existential Evil to 20K:

. . . http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1594590044/

Dark Chateau seems a bargain at $99.99!

. . . http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1931275696/

Or the C&C version of The Mysterious Tower for $40!

. . . http://www.amazon.com/Castles-Crusades- ... 0977641805

JohnGaunt wrote:Castles and Crusades madness on Amazon . . .

The Castles and Crusades Castle Keeper Screen is OOP.  But is it really worth 10K?

. . . http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1931275637

Yes, but the $10K seller is actually undercutting TSCBooks' price of $11,441.72 .  It must be a bargain!

FormCritic wrote:Yes, but the $10K seller is actually undercutting TSCBooks' price of $11,441.72 .  It must be a bargain!

Ah, TSCBooks.  I once saw where someone questioned them about a number of not-yet-released books that they had listed on Amazon for several thousand dollars.  TSC's response was to state that their automatic listing software automatically jacks the price up to an unreasonable amount if it thinks the ISBN may be corrupted so as to prevent anyone from buying the book -- rather than, you know, just not listing the thing. (Which also ignores that ISBN's have a check-sum digit, and it's therefore highly unlikely to get a mangled ISBN that still registers as a valid one.)

I've long since come to the conclusion that they just have a DB of ISBNs and list everything in it at outrageous prices.  If somebody actually buys it, then they can track it down and buy it elsewhere (probably at a substantial profit), or refund the money and respond that it was a listing error and they don't actually have it.

(And yes, some people do buy books listed at ridiculous even if the price is above Amazon's own listed one.)

TheHistorian wrote:Given how much of a pain it is to find a copy, that may not be too far off.

I enjoy checking my Amazon inventory and seeing that my price of 20K is still the lowest price.  

If another seller would put one up for cheaper, then we could have a price war.  Maybe even get down to a realistic price, whatever that is.

TheHistorian wrote:
Around $60.

It's easily the hardest Hackmaster item to find.

It is also complete crap. Little Keep on the Borderland is excellent, then WotC made them spoof everything up. Thank God the hacked greyhawk supplement never saw print, though there must be a manuscript mouldering around.

I have only been buying HackMaster books for the last year or so hence my perspective on the pricing/availability is somewhat limited; however, the ToExE almost never shows up on Ebay.  I remember a few copies in 2008, but my collection creep had not progressed sufficiently for me to pull the trigger.  The only copy I have seen this past year was available on Noble Knight's site in June for $75.  I think it was listed for three or four weeks, and then it was gone.

$60 seems like a fair price; however if you have the cash and don't want to wait, the one on Amazon for $20K is an absolute steal.