Hey Deathboy...
B. Hamill
might not have noticed...
1. A s/l copy of Gunslinger went for $5150, with DT II and III s/l's with
the same number going for about $1500 each individually to different
people...
2. While somebody else sold a DT I-V matching number set for $7000 for the
whole thing! Missing that auction (it was a buy-it-now and the auction was
won less than three hours after it was listed, for obvious good reason) will
bother me for quite some time...that was like being handed free money for
the winner.
So one guy overpays for one book (in my opinion anyway), while another
seller lowballs himself out of probably $5K mimimum just because he must
have been in a rush for money...funny, that's all...
deathboy
"B. Hamill" <NOS...@NOSPAM.COM> wrote in message
news:0wFTb.207267$I06.2306538@attbi_s01...
> Two listings on Ebay recently from opposite sides of the spectrum that you
> might not have noticed...
>
> 1. A s/l copy of Gunslinger went for $5150, with DT II and III s/l's with
> the same number going for about $1500 each individually to different
> people...
saw this one, was pretty dismayed by someone paying that much for DT3 when i
couldnt get more than $2600 for a matched 3 and 4 back in august.
>
> 2. While somebody else sold a DT I-V matching number set for $7000 for the
> whole thing! Missing that auction (it was a buy-it-now and the auction was
> won less than three hours after it was listed, for obvious good reason)
will
> bother me for quite some time...that was like being handed free money for
> the winner.
oh damnit i missed it!!!!! i would have bought that in A SECOND!!!!!!
selling off the duplicate books i already own of the series would have
practically paid for it damn it damn it damn it damn it damn it and damn you
for telling me so now i can go around kicking myself lol
deathboy
another odd thing... the books were #455, my incompelte set is #450, thats
the closet numbers to mine ive ever seen. damn it what the hell was i doing
on thursday night? oh yeah i was sititng here at the computer like always,
why the hell i didnt i check e-bay though!?
B. Hamill
"deathboy" <t...@deathboy.com> wrote in message
> another odd thing... the books were #455, my incompelte set is #450, thats
> the closet numbers to mine ive ever seen. damn it what the hell was i
doing
> on thursday night? oh yeah i was sititng here at the computer like always,
> why the hell i didnt i check e-bay though!?
>
>
it was only a three hour window (and even less, considering ebay auctions
don't show up right away)...and it was that guy Shibus too...he doesn't
deserve a great deal like that, not because he's a bad guy, but he's a
reseller not a collector...I would have felt a little better if someone I
thought was a collector had gotten it.
Of course, who am I kidding...I have a set with mixed numbers I would have
sold to recoup what I would have paid for a matching set, so I guess I'm a
reseller too...
As far as the prices on the individual I-III, I think that was
overexubernace on somebody's part...and the odd part is the guy who won the
Gunslinger was not the high bidder on all three books. At that point, you've
got to get all three with the same number no matter what it costs, or don't
bother getting any of them.
deathboy
and now a week later we have this madness-
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3585822204&category=1116
thats just nuts, theres another seller whos been trying to get 12K for a set
repeatedly over the last year or so and has always failed. 23K is totally
nuts! funny thing how this is 445 though. last weeks set was 455, and like i
said my incomplete set is 450.
>
B. Hamill
"deathboy" <t...@deathboy.com> wrote in message news:o42dnYM944-
> and now a week later we have this madness-
>
>
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3585822204&category=1116
>
> thats just nuts, theres another seller whos been trying to get 12K for a
set
> repeatedly over the last year or so and has always failed. 23K is totally
> nuts! funny thing how this is 445 though. last weeks set was 455, and like
i
> said my incomplete set is 450.
>
>
expecting $20K, that's too high, but I think it has a chance of going for
$15K (even though that other set didn't sell for $12K). I wonder if there
will be any sort of flurry of action, now that the release date of VI has
been moved up?
deathboy
as nuts as things sometimes get, i think this seeing 15K might be a new all
tiem level of nuts. especially seeing as how hes not taking credit cards. i
mean whether the books are actually even worth it or not, how many people
have that kind of cash laying around? one also has to question the sanity of
paying the reserve auction fee on 12 or 15k! thats got to be 200-300 dollars
or better, and even at 12k, with his terms being what they are, i think the
chances of a sale are slim.
B. Hamill
all
> tiem level of nuts. especially seeing as how hes not taking credit cards.
i
> mean whether the books are actually even worth it or not, how many people
> have that kind of cash laying around? one also has to question the sanity
of
> paying the reserve auction fee on 12 or 15k! thats got to be 200-300
dollars
> or better, and even at 12k, with his terms being what they are, i think
the
> chances of a sale are slim.
>
I agree. I mean, it's no different than buying a car for cash...oh, wait, it
is different, you can't drive these books...
Seriously, though,the actual market for a full set of these books is very
limited. It's the same subset of collectors who could afford a 1st edition
Hobbit or Lord/Rings...there's not many of them. I'm glad I started getting
these books when I did...if I was a new collector now, there's no way I
would be interested in getting involved, it's just too much money to put out
there.