I recently came across one in good/VGC I mean these are as rare as the 1st print box sets right?  only 1,000 were printed, I don't think I have ever seen one on ebay.........  How many die hards have this?

bbarsh wrote:There is set on ebay right now. I'll break the silence on it because I am sure everyone here is already got it on their watch list.

I am guessing it will go for $300 plus.

You're probably right, but it sort of surprises me that this blatant TSR money grab is worth anything today.  I could make my own compilation, minus the not-so-snazzy case, so I don't see what's the big deal.  

Rarity does not always equal value, and these items are overrated.  I remember them when they came out, and I didn't buy them then.  I wouldn't buy them now, unless I needed to stock up on modules.  (I wouldn't buy the newer anniversary stuff either!)

draco76 wrote:no 30th anniversary leather PH for you? lol its only $50  

Actually, it's even $75. That is the price given on the WOTC homepage.

That would be impossible. The rate we are going, there won't be any trees by then.

I can't find it anymore either. I thought I had it on my watch list, but not there, either.

I am sure I tagged it...     ... It had X4 and others.

It is possible it got pulled, but I think it would have stayed on my watch list. It is possible I did not tag it...damn it...but planned on going back. Anyway, I found it a four or five days ago and it had several days to go...

ya i was watching that one that guy had a ton of rares up this last week...
r1-4 ext

I've entered it onto that page as a separate version.  It doesn't have a stock number, so it's hard to confirm. (I'm also slowly getting the impression that TSR tossed everything they could find into a Combo Pack of some sort.  They probably sold about three).

Foul

This probably isn't much help, but when I lived in Colorado Springs there was a shopowner who was religious about ordering 1 of each TSR release, no matter how popular or trite.  He'd only order more after he'd gotten multiple requests.  Anyway, one day in the 80s I walked in and there were 1 each of the 10th Anniversary Packs (not the set, just the bundles); I thought they were the most pathetic things I'd ever seen.  If they didn't sell the first time, don't unload on us!  But the point of this ramble is that I remember at least 15 different kinds of packs, from D&D to Gangbusters.  I wish I knew the specifications of each, but my memory isn't that sharp.  But I'm almost certain there was a G1-2-3 one with some other stuff in it as well.

These items are situational rares - their packaging establishes provenance that they're available in considerably smaller numbers than individually shrinkwrapped items.  Paradoxically, it's the fact that so few were bought, because they were silly, that makes them valuable now.  Once you open the package, even with the yellow tag, you have a pile of mint common modules worth about $5-10 each.