Badmike wrote:FYI....got an email today from drivethrurpg:[i]You Have One Day Left To Purchase The Serenity And Battlestar Galactica RPGs from Margaret Weis Productions!That's right, after 1/31/11 they will no longer be available and these classic Cortex books will be gone for good. MWP has slashed prices and is offering some amazing deals on these awesome sci-fi adventures, but you have to act fast, because once they are gone, they are gone[i/]Might be a future collectible since they are OOP and soon the downloads will be unavailable.Mike B.
MetamorphosisSigma wrote:Anyone think these are going to go up in value?
Mars wrote:"Up in value" meaning more than cover price? No. They were mass produced enough and have been available for a long time so anyone wanting them for cover price will have bought them. I'm sure there will be a bit of a price jump right now but in a few months, they will be back down. I liked the show and wouldn't mind picking them up but it would only be at less than half of cover price (realistically I would want them for 25-30% of cover price). Amazon has a lot of copies for sale in the 30% off cover price as well so no shortage.
Mars wrote:Obtaining a status where books sell for more than cover price is very rare. Out of all the niche stuff, the only two examples I can think of are the Dune RPG book and the Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG The Magic Box - only the 1 Buffy book the rest are easy to find for less.The various Star Trek RPGs, Farscape, newer LotR, etc all sell for much less than cover. Even most D&D stuff sells for less than cover price. Its only a few rare items (probably less than 1% of all RPG stuff) that commands more than cover.
Badmike wrote:There are always exceptions though. All the MERP stuff by ICE goes for premium prices now. The Star Wars RPG, both d6 and d20, can go for cover or more (much more for some rarities). There are actually a few 1E Star Trek books that go for quite a bit.I think more telling than the genre, is was it a system that people enjoyed and played? Are they STILL playing it? In the case of MERP and WEG Star Wars, the answer is yes. The novelty items, however, as you mentioned are left to gather dust.Mike B.
NMilty wrote:WFRP, 7th Sea, Star Wars, MERP, World of Warcraft, Ravenloft d20, Kult are just a few that I can think of off the top of my head.
Mars wrote:With all of these lines (MERP being the exception), there are only 1 or 2 books that sell for more than cover in a line of many - even for these lines it is probably 5 out of every 100 books. I think the notion of "plenty" is a wrong one. I think there are plenty of people who try and sell these books for more than cover price but I think run on an open auction, very few books sell for more than cover price. Most of these lines peaked near the end of their publication dates. 7th Sea had Pirate Nations and Montaigne that were out of print first and could command $75-$100+ each while the other books were still in print. I bought 3 of each at cover price from a store in Canada to resell on Ebay. But now, they are fairly easy to find for less than cover. Only the last 3 or 4 books seem to get any kind of value nowadays.Maybe there is a difference in definition here. I consider a book to "sell for more than cover price" when the majority of sales (maybe even 60-70% of sales) are above cover price. There are plenty of examples where every once in a while a book will sell into this range but if the typical sale is below then I don't count it.
NMilty wrote:Might as well give it all up....Take advantage of the lull in Merp prices and especially Decipher Lord of the Rings Rpg Books (I know it's crap)!! When the hobbit movie hits the theaters in 2012, look out. I did this with Indiana Jones and Star Wars when the last group of those movies came out. All of their respective rpg books were easy to find at retail or cheaper, especially the WEG line for Star Wars, and prices appreciated 2-3x in short time. The hobbit will be huge, and great for fantasy genre items as well. Along the same lines, the Game of Thrones will premiere on HBO in April. It's not the same as a blockbuster theater release, but it could have some impact on it's products.