grodog wrote in New Candidate: Silliest Auction Price of the Year:This lot seemed to go pretty high to me; other than the Spellcaster's Bible in it, did I miss anything else interesting?:


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Allan.

Night Below should be a whole lot more than $25 if it is complete. $75-$100 depending on the reseller. Maybe the DMG is special?

benjoshua wrote in New Candidate: Silliest Auction Price of the Year:
Oh, I agree, and probably many of the rulebooks would go for more than $10.  The reason for my low valuations is that given the seller has no reputation, and the likelihood of damage occurring happening during shipping, especially for the boxed sets, and there being a possibility of smoke or water or rust damage, I estimated values on the low side.  This auction win has numerous risks.  

Everything ibn that cpollection looks a bit rough, but a big risk is completeness. Night Below has a lot of parts. An incomplete copy is a much harder and lower value sell. Writing, coloring torn and missing pages. T1-4 without map books, or with pages falling out or missing (a common occurence with the poor binding on t1-4). That collection is a crapshoot.

Maybe it was posted before, but I am not particularly impressed with  
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given the sheer damage to the boxes and the likelihood none are actually complete. I think $500 could be spend better elsewhere.

What am I missing here???

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$499.85   * sold *   (fixed price)        
ended     Sun Aug 25th 2019  1:03pm EST
Seller:  collectons

dbartman wrote in New Candidate: Silliest Auction Price of the Year:Do you mean this sale from the seller collectons?


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Other than it was for 5 of Strategic Reviews, nothing appears to be special about them.  High sales price was probably due to it being a run of #1-5.

Yes... this one... There has seemed to be a HUGE upswing in the value of these recently...

Sir Kill Alot wrote in New Candidate: Silliest Auction Price of the Year:
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Decimal in wrong spot?

-SKA

$500 is probably a bit steep but with shrinkwrap it's anybody's guess sometimes. On the flip side $49 would be a steal IMO. CD cases alone often sell for that and with a good condition box even more. I bet you could get $200-250 for that in time.

The seller has sold quite a few items, so there must be enough demand for the seller to list them at these prices.

Check out some of the past sales:


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Not sure they actually sold for those prices, but there is no "Make Offer".

Seller must have a pretty big collection, or perhaps a store, as there have been multiple copies for sale.

I did a deeper dive into these three, because I wanted to test my code that displays Best Offer sold prices.  There's an eBay API call that (supposedly) shows what an item truly sold for -- for all three of these, it said that while Best Offer was enabled on the auctions, that they sold for full price.  (As a caveat, I wouldn't put it past eBay to be deceptive, for whatever reason, about details of a sale).

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