davidvanwie wrote:This is a tough room! I'm an idiotic millionaire building a house of white boxes. Ah, well. I've been called worse.
davidvanwie wrote:I'm an old D&D player with more money than sense, that I'll freely admit. I am exploring something I love, knowing ahead of time that I can either spend money or take time to come up to speed. This thing, this time: I decided to spend some money to learn.And, I've learned a lot. And I'm still learning. I was curious what the real price of white boxes is right now. I figured that if I won a bunch of auctions in a row, I would get a good feel for the market. It worked! Low feedback bidders tend in one direction, high feedback bidders in another. Together, they make a very interesting market.
dathon wrote:Hey Paul, I think everyone's waiting to snipe for your current auctions since the folks who had high bids in the final hours last time almost all lost. Hopefully you get good final bids... it should be interesting.
dathon wrote:And since you're in touch with David Van Wie, can you tell us, if it's not private, his motivation behind wanting so many copies of the white box? I don't recall ever seeing anyone who kept bidding on the same item every time it came up when he's already won four copies of it previously. He's not even picky about the condition, and could have bid more to get your woodgrain but didn't. It's a bit perplexing.
So, what direction do low feedback bidders trend? High feedback bidders? I assume an obvious observation would be that those with low feedback are new to the market and tend toward higher bids.
tclayton wrote:Alright. Sorry if I came across too strongly. I appreciate the follow-ups and the emails. In retrospect, you are right. I did get too carried away on some of the items. I guess the bidding is addictive... I am planning on cataloging my rpg stuff. It will be interesting to review the items against the information here on the site. I still love some of the things even if they don't have any real value (like the silly AD&D coloring book).Side question. I was in a comic book shop looking for bags or anything that would be good to protect the books/supplements/boxed sets/etc. They mainly had things that were too small. Any suggestions on what you use? I saw the article here on the site <http://www.acaeum.com/Library/Storage.html>, but I was curious which of the suggestion others here have used and had good sucess with.Thanks,Todd
The obvious difference is that the first auction is a Fourth printing in excellent shape, which is relatively rare, while the second is an OCE (later printing) with a box in mediocre shape
I am curious why you would be so interested in the White Box sets. I suspect most of the collectors here would consider them a distant second choice to any woodgrain set.
Deadlord36 wrote:I HAVE IT!He is snagging all the Whiteys to corner the market, kind of like someone we know with shrinked orange B3's......... He'll wait 10 years, then sell 1 a year to keep the price high, like a D&D version of OPEC. Am I right?
He is snagging all the Whiteys to corner the market, kind of like someone we know with shrinked orange B3's......... He'll wait 10 years, then sell 1 a year to keep the price high, like a D&D version of OPEC. Am I right?
Didn't the Hunt brothers try doing that with the silver market years ago? I don't think it worked out quite the way they anticipated...
I disagree with you on the 5-10 year forcast. Comic book collection hit its high when the demographic was in the 25-35 year-olds. And comic books were much more mainstream than rpgs. That is about where D&D/TSR is now. Just reveiwing the demographics of this forum validates this point. People may overpay now for items that they percieve as rare (they really are not), but that will end. Values will also cap. Now if you can find something to buy for relatively low dollars today, it might pay in the future. However, spending hundreds to purchase a low quantity of inventory is doomed to failure.