prb at tomeoftreasures.com you can find some more auction history...
cheers
axel

Mars wrote:Tough to say if the last copy (sold at $177) indicates that most collectors now have copies and the price is coming down again or it just wasn't a very desirably copy.

I suspect their camera didn't help - describing the copy as "yellowed" when, from a scan through their pics, at least part of that was down to the manner of taking their photos.
Playing down the /good/ condition points while highlighting "faults" such as the non-standard price sticker on the front, bent corners, thumbmarks in the upper margin, etc., might've cost the seller $25-50 IMO but a big thumbs up for honesty.

The one I bought was included in a lot. I valued it at $200. I had heard others sold for $400 - 500, which I thought was rather ridiculous. Personally, I'd value it, like I said, at $200.

Ave -

Appreciate the info.

For what it is worth (no pictures, I am on the other side of the state at the moment), my copy is still in the envelope it came in when I bought it through the mail.  Probably as 'mint' as is possible (no markings, yellowing, price tag).

I had forgotten I had it until I was looking through a closet for some other gaming items.  Probably opened it and glanced through it once (twice now).

Thanks again.

James

P.S.  Presume the Troll and Toads $356.00 buy it now is based on those past $400.00 sales.  They seem to rum a bit high.

You should do well if you're selling, James: not so easy to replace in that condition...
Worth asking, too, as to whether that's just a plain envelope it's in?

goragrad wrote:P.S.  Presume the Troll and Toads $356.00 buy it now is based on those past $400.00 sales.  They seem to rum a bit high.

A good number of Troll & Toad's higher-end sales have been cheaper than they should have been, thanks to general cluelessness.
$356 for that copy is probably a bit on the low side vs. other sales in the past few years, especially if it's Ken Fonarow provenance since his higher end items were generally sweet.
The risk, of course, is that T&T actually send you a copy of Eldritch Wizardry in error and lose the WoM down the back of a chair.

I'd agreed with the "WoM is overpriced" camp in the past, not least that the bulk of the price increase was caused by a single seller holding out for a very high price (eventually someone thought they'd seen a copy sell for that amount before!), but it does have a good number of plus points for "future potential"; not least that it clearly is a "RPG".

tiro wrote:Honesty definitely incurs its own costs, but the alternative is no less expensive:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article ... =pmcentrez

Nice hook, Stephen, but given the gender bias around here I'm not so sure about the applicability.

tiro wrote:I have a special weakness for Hildegunn, though. She's beautiful, smart, and very charming. Couldn't resist bringing her into this.

Where's a Warriors of Venus thread when you need one?

Ave -

Sorry, should have taken the time to note that the envelope is not from TSR (Wargamers Digest???, it has been a couple of weeks),  Came in the same envelope with a copy of Angriff (contents noted on envelope), not sure where that is now.   It was 76 or 77 though, would have to look at the postmark to be sure.

Had I known then....

Thanks again -

James

And is your PDF copy missing pages 48 and 49?