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Yea, I've seen that and thought about picking it up. The real question is if I would ever actually run it.Can't help you with the original Tyr edition, but Bushido is still available directly from FGU as an all-in-one softcover (there might also be a PDF option):
Yea, I'm glad I got a replacement one in 2005 when it was maybe $20 at Powells. Back in 1990 or so I sold all my AD&D books except my PH which no one bought. In 2005, I got re-interested in AD&D and a player gave me a DMG and I bought the MM (and I got MM, PH, DMG, FF, UA. MMII in PDF form as well as OD&D, Holmes, BX, and BECM).$139.99
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Yea, I'm glad I got a replacement one in 2005 when it was maybe $20 at Powells.
Sad if this is really the case. I don’t know the last time I dealt with them, whether direct or via eBay, but I found them to be good & reliable at the time.They may also have a few satellite sellers who list the same items they do, but at higher prices so the Nobleknight items seem like better deals. I've noticed that when these items sell, the other sellers suddenly delist their copies of the same item.
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Plus, back many years ago, you could order from NobleKnight and rest assured the item you got would probably be in better condition than they had graded it. But the last couple of times I ordered from them, I got stuff that was... not in acceptable condition and certainly not of the grade they had stated. Their customer service became bad, so I stopped dealing with them.
Oh, are you in the Portland area? I also got a lot of used stuff from the store that used to be in Tualatin and a little bit from Bridgetown Hobbies.Powells used to be my go-to for used RPGs. They had a fantastic selection back in the early aughts
Powell's also has a really strong online retail presence, but I do love the downtown location. Hopefully they are able to weather COVID.Oh, are you in the Portland area? I also got a lot of used stuff from the store that used to be in Tualatin and a little bit from Bridgetown Hobbies.
I just want to mention that NobleKnight games has really changed in more recent years.
Now, to be fair, they always had a tendency to go a bit crazy on pricing for collector's items like this. I'm not realy talking about that.
But I've seen them do some stuff on ebay which seems... odd. Like they seed the Completed Listings for rarer items with abnormally high values and then try to sell the same items. They may also have a few satellite sellers who list the same items they do, but at higher prices so the Nobleknight items seem like better deals. I've noticed that when these items sell, the other sellers suddenly delist their copies of the same item.
Maybe I'm seeing patterns where they don't exist, but there's just fishy stuff that goes on with their listings.
Plus, back many years ago, you could order from NobleKnight and rest assured the item you got would probably be in better condition than they had graded it. But the last couple of times I ordered from them, I got stuff that was... not in acceptable condition and certainly not of the grade they had stated. Their customer service became bad, so I stopped dealing with them.
I've noticed the same. Used to be you could bite the price-bullet for the sake of getting a game in good condition, but that seems to no longer be the case.Plus, back many years ago, you could order from NobleKnight and rest assured the item you got would probably be in better condition than they had graded it. But the last couple of times I ordered from them, I got stuff that was... not in acceptable condition and certainly not of the grade they had stated. Their customer service became bad, so I stopped dealing with them.
Oh, are you in the Portland area?
Yea, it's a great store. I don't get there as often as I used to (and not at all since the stay at home orders). Over the years the RPG section has become less interesting though. I assume that more people recognize the value of the good stuff and either never bring it to Powells in the first place, or it gets snapped up fast. Guardian Games does have a huge number of older RPGs, but the last time I went there is was overwhelming to actually try and look for stuff I might be interested in.I was at the time, lived there for 3 years (well, most of the first year in Salem, OR). Powell's is one of those places I've always missed since leaving though.
Powell's also has a really strong online retail presence, but I do love the downtown location. Hopefully they are able to weather COVID.
$250.00 - SOLD
Listing says “very rare”!
If you collect antiquarian books this sort of stuff shows up all the time. There's a few books on eBay at the moment going for >$500 that I know I could get for around $2 in a nearby bookshop. I remember another a while back that was like >$1000 that I got a copy of for $10.
It's not exactly the same as the RPG case, but similar factors are at play with eBay sellers essentially guessing the worth based on items that are similar on a surface level analysis.
Yea, I'm glad I got a replacement one in 2005 when it was maybe $20 at Powells...
I've got a friend who sells used books over Amazon. She scours the local thrift stores and library sales looking for 'winners'. Sometimes I help her enter them into her shop, which involves checking prices to see if it's worth keeping. She does a cursory look online while buying them (usually for small change)... but she'll tell me that something is 'very valuable' and I'll look it up to find one crazy person selling it at the 'very valuable' price and everyone else selling it for 1 cent plus shipping. So she ends up throwing a lot of them back to the charity shops, since she doesn't have the space to keep them all hoping for suckers.It's not exactly the same as the RPG case, but similar factors are at play with eBay sellers essentially guessing the worth based on items that are similar on a surface level analysis.
I do your process in reverse.Yeah, as a book collector my usual process is find something I want on Amazon, then check Ebay, Abebooks and a hundred other online sellers, before driving around town to all the used shops in my area, before deciding on the best price. I've saved myself thousands over the years via that. Before Covid, I also used to hit the book section of thrift/secondhand clothing shops on a regular basis. I've found so many gems in those places for pennies on the dollar.
As someone in the market for this game, I'm trying to figure out what a fair market price for it is. At least that one is still sealed. And personally, I can see a high demand box set in NIB condition meriting a price like that. For whatever reason, DC Heroes 2e doesn't seem to pop up on ebay often. At least it hasn't for the past year.
I mean, if I hadn't just made a high dollar purchase in another area of interest, then I could see at least entertaining that price for that item.
That said, the past several months on ebay have gone insane for some things. DC Heroes is one of the games affected. Just six months ago, sellers couldn't even give away DC Heroes 1e stuff. I got two complete and unused 1e sets for about $60. Now people are listing beat up and incomplete sets for $100.
I had been doing a lot of RPG ebaying right before COVID hit and now that I'm returning to it, I see a lot of prices have spiked.
I do your process in reverse.
Huh. I wonder what my White Box is worth. Some of those prices are pretty crazy.
I remember seeing this in my local Waldenbooks in 1984. I didn't buy it because I could tell it was the same thing as this, which I already had. A few months later it was taken out of print and replaced by a different set of sheets. I remember being mildly annoyed a couple decades later when I found out that the 1984 version was considered to be collectible (presumably because it was only in print for a few months and sold poorly, so it's rarer than other items of that era), because had I bought it I'd have been happy to sell it for a tidy profit.There's no way anything from 84' could be that rare.
Yes and see this is where having a wide array of interests helps too. A wide,deep hobby list means deals can be found regularly.Yeah, I have ongoing ebay saved searches. One of the things I do is also save searches for mis-spellings. These are more common than you think. With minis, especially, I also will look up the names for them in other languages and save searches on Ebay France and Ebay Germany. Sometimes it takes a while,, but eventually a deal comes around. There's a mini that I've been looking for for 5 years now at a decent price, the C28 Citadel Death Demon from the early 80s, as I want to convert him for a Skaven mount. Normal prices range upwards of 100-200 GBP when he shows up. Just last month I snagged him for 20 GBP just because of one such saved search. If you're willing to play the long game, eventually a deal will come around...
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