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red_bus wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:This looks nice

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... and of course as it turns out I would not have won (or indeed have been terribly close) with my top bid  :)


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Post Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 7:49 pm 
 

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red_bus wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:This looks nice

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... and of course as it turns out I would not have won (or indeed have been terribly close) with my top bid  :)


That's too bad.

I was watching that auction as well. For such a high priced item in which the reserve wasn't even met at the time, I was conflicted between my wants and needs. Ultimately (and regrettably), the latter won out.

I'm hoping to try my hand at it though if another copy appears in an auction.

  

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Post Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 7:56 pm 
 

red_bus wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:
red_bus wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:This looks nice

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... and of course as it turns out I would not have won (or indeed have been terribly close) with my top bid  :)


Wow. Prices are going up.   8O


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Post Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 9:30 pm 
 

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red_bus wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:
... and of course as it turns out I would not have won (or indeed have been terribly close) with my top bid  :)


Wow. Prices are going up.   8O


It looks like the third booklet is the smaller variant booklet that has a different cover stock.


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The Collector's Trove wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:It looks like the third booklet is the smaller variant booklet that has a different cover stock.

(Good eye, having been there before?). Don't let that get in the way of a $5k sale, though.

Yes, that's the later printing: I posted the diagnostic on another thread here 7-ish(?) years ago.

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Post Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 12:40 pm 
 

It was a handsome looking 1st Print ! ... I wonder if it was someone here who won?

(unfortunately it most certainly wasn't me  :D )


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Post Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 1:16 pm 
 

cdenham wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:
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... and of course as it turns out I would not have won (or indeed have been terribly close) with my top bid  :)


Wow. Prices are going up.   8O


That's for sure.  The trend will be evident, for a lot of items, when the latest valuations come out.

This was a really nice set too.  Not many come up like that any more.

  

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Post Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 9:31 pm 
 

red_bus wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:It was a handsome looking 1st Print ! ... I wonder if it was someone here who won?

(unfortunately it most certainly wasn't me  :D )


Kudos to whoever won the 1st Print.  I was in the top 3 and might have bid a bit higher but I could not see the entire condition of the box.  The bottom edge appeared to be a little rough.  The books, even as a beta print, appeared to be in amazing condition.  Well played whoever snagged it.

  


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Melnibonean wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:
red_bus wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:It was a handsome looking 1st Print ! ... I wonder if it was someone here who won?

(unfortunately it most certainly wasn't me  :D )


Kudos to whoever won the 1st Print.  I was in the top 3 and might have bid a bit higher but I could not see the entire condition of the box.  The bottom edge appeared to be a little rough.  The books, even as a beta print, appeared to be in amazing condition.  Well played whoever snagged it.


I was a bit wary of the auction myself. I was afraid that this might have been some sort of fake or reproduction due to the seller's low feedback. Even the same seller sold a Chainmail 1st print for three times the amount it's normally sold, which I found odd.

Most of all, I found the auction about a week before it ended, and was surprised to see that there was no mention of it on this site (until of course red_bus brought it up here on this thread a day before auction end) or any other RPG forum really.

  

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Post Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 3:59 am 
 

1st Chainmails aren't "normally" found in that condition and certainly not at $1k recently, as far as I recall. $3,200 was definitely on the high side, though, due to that bidding war.
Thankfully no fake woodgrain sets... yet. :)


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Post Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 8:22 am 
 

faro wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:1st Chainmails aren't "normally" found in that condition and certainly not at $1k recently, as far as I recall.
$3,200 was definitely on the high side, though, due to that bidding war.
Thankfully no fake woodgrain sets... yet. :)

hmmm I missed that one.
$3,200 for a 1st Chainmail does seem a little high, but certainly not 3 times its value (assuming a nice copy and not trashed)
If I did not already own one; I would be willing to plop down $2k for a very fine or better copy of a 1st print chainmail.
A BIN at $1k for a VF or better copy would not last the time it would take someone to post the listing here.....


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Post Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 7:59 am 
 

This is a nice 1st Edition Boot Hill.


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Post Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 1:15 pm 
 

$2K would not be an unreasonable price to pay for a 1st in that condition.  There have not been a lot of sales recently, and I suspect when they do come up, they will continue to be in high demand.

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faro wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:1st Chainmails aren't "normally" found in that condition and certainly not at $1k recently, as far as I recall.
$3,200 was definitely on the high side, though, due to that bidding war.
Thankfully no fake woodgrain sets... yet. :)

hmmm I missed that one.
$3,200 for a 1st Chainmail does seem a little high, but certainly not 3 times its value (assuming a nice copy and not trashed)
If I did not already own one; I would be willing to plop down $2k for a very fine or better copy of a 1st print chainmail.
A BIN at $1k for a VF or better copy would not last the time it would take someone to post the listing here.....

  

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Post Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 1:20 pm 
 

Yep, but the starting bid and BIN price will put off most people.

Seller has a few decent items up right now, but they are all listed perhaps a bit optimistically.

Melnibonean wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:This is a nice 1st Edition Boot Hill.


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Post Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 3:45 pm 
 

dbartman wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:Yep, but the starting bid and BIN price will put off most people.

Seller has a few decent items up right now, but they are all listed perhaps a bit optimistically.

Melnibonean wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:This is a nice 1st Edition Boot Hill.


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Agreed.  Now that I look back at the history, these are more common than I thought. Some nice quality first editions have been going for less than $100 if you are patient and maybe $150 if you are more anxious.

  

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dbartman wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:Seller has a few decent items up right now, but they are all listed perhaps a bit optimistically.

Even the reduced BIN on the Arduin box set was optimistic but someone pulled the trigger at $229. The two most expensive sets out of the last three have sold, the cheapest - at a fraction of the price - didn't; go figure...
Their 2nd Chainmail also went for $87.34 more than a couple of weeks ago. ;)

Regarding the Boot Hill, I think that's been listed three times(?) now. A little more often, if another decent copy doesn't come up cheaper, they might yet pull a price-shift trick as happened to WoM all those years ago. i.e. "list something often enough and sooner-or-later that's presumed to be the going rate, even if it doesn't sell".
As it stands, I'd've expected a nice 1st print of the Bristol rules-set BH was ripped from for that money. Those are rare.

(and back on-topic *jk*) I guess the additional brick in the wall might also be part-justification for the CSIO price, but still...


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Post Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 7:56 pm 
 

faro wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:As it stands, I'd've expected a nice 1st print of the Bristol rules-set BH was ripped from for that money. Those are rare.

(and back on-topic *jk*) I guess the additional brick in the wall might also be part-justification for the CSIO price, but still...



How do you distinguish the Bristol rules set from the others?  Boot Hill was one of the very first RPGs I played along with D&D.

  
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