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SimperingToad
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2016 5:14 pm

Well, another reason EBay sucks.

Due to the Pad Sale, I had let the items already in EBay's system sit a while so I did not have to worry about conflicts between the two.

Last Sunday, I started relisting up to my monthly maximum to keep the stuff in the lists (as anything over 60 days gets scrubbed). I waited a bit in the hopes that I would get a 'special' and relist the rest during the week. No go there, so I go to relist the remainder today (even though it would cost me insertion fees), only to discover the items are no longer in the system. I had a couple of days remaining.

Now I have to redo every one of them. :evil:

It may have been small-fry compared to some of you guys (about 35 items) but it's a pain to write everything up again.

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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2016 10:19 pm

If anyone is interested... Here is a video interview with Tim Kask, one of the early founders of TSR, Inc.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/392463727462667/

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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2016 11:46 am

Oooh, that feeling you get when the owner of the local comic book store calls you and tells you that they just found a large box of D&D modules in their warehouse and is holding them for you to get first crack at it...

:-)

~throwi

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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2016 12:33 pm

Nice!

I had the local comic book store call me a couple years ago, said he has someone at his counter looking to trade in one those old small D&D box sets and did I want to talk to him? I missed the call, got it on vm, and by the time I got back to him, the fella was long gone

I hope you have better luck!

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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2016 12:49 pm

throwi wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:Oooh, that feeling you get when the owner of the local comic book store calls you and tells you that they just found a large box of D&D modules in their warehouse and is holding them for you to get first crack at it...

MUST....BE...NICE!!! :evil:

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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 12:18 pm

throwi wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:Oooh, that feeling you get when the owner of the local comic book store calls you and tells you that they just found a large box of D&D modules in their warehouse and is holding them for you to get first crack at it...

~throwi

One of my favorite found items stories, the guy who runs the local comic book store knows I was always out looking for D&D stuff. So he calls me one day and says a guy is in and wants to trade or sell a huge pile of D&D items. He said he made an offer but the guy didn't want to deal, so I was welcome to come up and make an offer myself. By the time I get there, the guy is gone. The guy who owned the comic store said he offered him about $60 for 100+ items and the guy left, insulted, saying he was going to the local Half Price Books. The guy who runs the store also says the items were all shrinkwrapped

But the dude left a phone number....I call it, and the guy with the modules says he's sorry, he just sold them all to HPB a couple hours ago. I zip up to the local HPB store just in time, the staff there is pricing them. I told them to price them and I would take them all, no matter how much it ended up being. Ended up being a copy of every regular TSR module ever published in SW, including the R and RPGA series, supermodules, and lots of extra goodies (lots of SW boxed sets including World of GH, City of Greyhawk, Bloodstone Pass, etc). It was pretty much everything from 1979 up to 1990ish, still mint in SW. Came to about $1000, and I had a 20% off coupon... :lol:

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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 12:36 pm

Awesome story Mike! Wish I could be so lucky!!

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Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2016 2:10 am

oh shit!

Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height!

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Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2016 9:55 am

red_bus wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:oh shit! 8O

Where? Where?!? I don't want to step in it!

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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2016 3:01 pm

throwi wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:Oooh, that feeling you get when the owner of the local comic book store calls you and tells you that they just found a large box of D&D modules in their warehouse and is holding them for you to get first crack at it...

~throwi

The follow up: There was a good sized box of early AD&D and Marvel Super Heroes, including 4 MSH boxed sets I needed. I got the box at a reasonable price for the 30 or so items in it, but nothing in there too exciting. A few highlights: A Greyhawk Wars boxed set (complete and unpunched), a MSH Advanced set complete, several early AD&D mods (various conditions), including Ravenloft, Lankhmar (w/ map and booklet), Mystery of the Snow Pearls (w/ viewfinder), and a dozen or so books in poor condition that I'll sell for $5 or less. All in all, a fun find but nothing amazing like Badmike's story.

If anyone is interested in anything listed above, let me know. They will otherwise find their way to the FB auction page in the next few weeks.

~throwi

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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2016 3:12 pm

throwi wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:They will otherwise find their way to the FB auction page in the next few weeks.

~throwi

¿Que? FB "Auction" page?

throwi
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2016 6:23 pm

MadCatUSA wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:
throwi wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:They will otherwise find their way to the FB auction page in the next few weeks.

~throwi

¿Que? FB "Auction" page?

Yup. Check it out. https://www.facebook.com/groups/RPGAuctions/

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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2016 12:06 am

throwi wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:
MadCatUSA wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:
¿Que? FB "Auction" page?

Yup. Check it out. https://www.facebook.com/groups/RPGAuctions/

Thanks much! Did not have that one on my list.

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Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 9:53 am

The first 3 items up on the FB Auction page:

Greyhawk Wars Boxed Set
Marvel Super Heroes Advanced Set
Marvel Super Heroes Webs

Later in the week I'll have several mods including Ravenloft, Mystery of the Snow Pearls, and a handful of other less expensive items.

Also, anyone interested in a crunchy 4th Alpha print of a Monster Manual? Spine and cover damage but interior is very nice.

~throwi

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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 12:35 pm

A joke for your long (well, in the US at least) weekend...
"What do vegetarian zombies eat?"
"Graaaaaaains...."

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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 12:49 pm

MadCatUSA wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:A joke for your long (well, in the US at least) weekend...
"What do vegetarian zombies eat?"
"Graaaaaaains...."

Grooooans.

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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 7:15 pm

Say, did you hear about the Scarecrow that won the Nobel peace prize?

He was outstanding in his field.

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On the Arizona plains

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Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 3:29 pm

throwi wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:Check it out. https://www.facebook.com/groups/RPGAuctions/

Can't. I wasn't foolish enough to sign my life away to a guy who considers his users to be 'stupid f***ers'. :evil:

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