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This one is not on Ebay exactly, but it is a Dark Tower for $30 including shipping, in case anyone here is interested.  

Oh, Geez.  Good catch, Jason.

Sorry everyone     Not worth it.

I was tricked because the search engine that got me there was linked to the name "Jaquays."

Paul Jaquays' name does not appear on the first D20 try at Dark Tower.  The publishers acted like Jaquays did not even exist...a discourtesy to an author that seems well nigh inexcusable.

The Maltese Falcon is in there.  It is much less common of late.

JasonZavoda wrote:
I loved that book (and the movie, and the spoof)

But this is the Maltese Clue.

Right again, dangit!  

Just keep on correcting me, Jason.  I'll pretend that I meant to set you up...like a comedy team.  

This seller has a bunch of JG items up including a Dark Tower, but some of the listings say "sealed"???

eBay listings

The "seals" seem genuine to me. For instance, his JG items appear to have the sort of looser S/W I've noticed as characteristic of Judges Guild items I've purchased in the past (and those I can vouch for as new, I always remove S/W). The S/W on the TSR mods looks right too, as does that on his Role Aids stuff (too tight, F'ed up).

Yeah that's Judges Guild shrink wrap.

ShaneG.

Don't think so. Think they are Arduin.

Plaag wrote:Yeah that's Judges Guild shrink wrap.

ShaneG.

As I remember it, we got quite heavy plastic bags that were heat sealed with this little machine that had a guillotine arm that caused the the two heated strips to come together. It was one of the first capital expenses we had. Bob Jr reminded me that the first Selectric typewriter was leased not purchased.

My father had bought several Selectric typewriters for the travel agency in the past because it allowed us to type through the 7 copies of airline tickets and still be legible--that got us a surprising amount of business because typically the travelers couldn't read handwritten tickets. Anyway, they were around $1000 per typewriter so think $3800 in today's money! Talk about a barrier to getting into business.

Indeed they were not run through a shrink wrap "tunnel". Because with relatively few pieces of paper, I figured they would buckle without a cardboard sheet. And why spend the gamers' money on useless packaging? We were really gamers and not big business men or professional publishers so perhaps we did some pretty weird stuff by comparison.

Ready Ref sheets were in a paper envelope. And then later they were re-released as a booklet because it eliminated all the collating and handling and we could provide more sheets for no more money.

That became the standard MO where possible (i.e. no separate maps). And eventually after I left the cost was reduced further by making the covers be "self covers" i.e. not separately printed and stitched onto the web(s) of 16 page sections.

It may not be much of a disclosure but the darned covers were a relatively high proportion of the physical cost of the product. But with just 2 colors of ink they usually looked nice. And I say physical cost because it omits the cost of the work the author and graphics people!