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Post by waysoftheearth on Apr 5, 2009 21:22:18 GMT -6
Codeman, I see that white-box auction ended at $91. Did you "get the goods"?
Looks like a great buy if you did!
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Post by codeman123 on Apr 6, 2009 2:11:01 GMT -6
Actually i quit on the bid... Coffee graciously offered to sell me an extra set of his and i took him up on it.
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Post by machfront on Apr 6, 2009 3:44:29 GMT -6
Exactly. I found a copy of The Traveller Book for something like five dollars, but the three (!) other listings for it all started at like 20 or so. Amazon is weird. Plus, they tick me off because you can't just search for an author. At least, I can't. You get that author, sure, but he's buried in among every other author with either of his names (this is much worse if they're common names). But sometimes it's the only way to find a certain book. It is odd, but I think it's because anyone can 'open' a listing. So if someone is selling a specific item and they don't think the existing listing suffices somehow, or if they just don't take a look around, they end up creating another listing for the same product. As far as searching for authors, the only way I've found that doesn't bury you in cookbooks, self-help guides and romance novels is to find a product that you know for a fact the author wrote. Usually they'll have the authors name as a link. Click the link. You'll still have a number of unrelated peoples, but not as many as you would typing in the name into the search field. |
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Post by stonetoflesh on Apr 6, 2009 15:08:19 GMT -6
I picked up a decent OCE box there for $20 last year. Erm, that's crazy-cheap. I'd've thought dealers were a bit more likely to carry out at least a casual check on prices, but between that and the woodgrain box set listed at $75 I'm not so sure, sometimes... That's the thing -- the seller wasn't a savvy game or book dealer, it was a RPG-clueless private party who (I think) was selling off stuff from an estate. Bargain-basement "garage sale" prices like that certainly aren't common, but they're out there... |
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