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Post Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 3:52 pm 
 

It feels nice that I don't want to own any of those things.


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Post Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 6:09 pm 
 

TheHistorian wrote in Record Prices for a Few Items:It feels nice that I don't want to own any of those things.


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Post Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 6:12 pm 
 

TheHistorian wrote in Record Prices for a Few Items:It feels nice that I don't want to own any of those things.


Feels even better owning most of those items :)


BTW I sold two Palace of the Vampire Queen black folders (very nice copies) one for $1900.00, and one for $2100.00 a few years back

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Post Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 7:04 pm 
 

Thanks Jeff!


Blackmoor wrote in Record Prices for a Few Items:BTW I sold two Palace of the Vampire Queen black folders (very nice copies) one for $1900.00, and one for $2100.00 a few years back


I'll see if I can add that, do you remember the year and are those exact amounts?


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Post Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 9:11 pm 
 

The Collector's Trove wrote in Record Prices for a Few Items:Thanks Jeff!




I'll see if I can add that, do you remember the year and are those exact amounts?


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I can't remember the exact year (5-7) years ago but I do remember the exact prices :)


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Post Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 9:53 pm 
 

I think you flipped the prices for following:

Palace of the Vampire Queen 1st Print by Wee Warriors: $2,035.45
Rahasia 1st Print by Daystar West: $1,725

The Daystar West Rahasia has sold for more, but not through straight-up auctions.

  

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Post Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 1:05 am 
 

So there is no orange B3 sold at a value higher than the lowest here? I have no data points but it seems not reasonable...


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Post Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 5:28 am 
 

Mars wrote in Record Prices for a Few Items:I sold my 1st print Chainmail for $5500 today.


I was looking at that too (nice copy). Congratulations!!


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Post Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 6:36 am 
 

aia wrote in Record Prices for a Few Items:So there is no orange B3 sold at a value higher than the lowest here? I have no data points but it seems not reasonable...

$5860 is a pretty good chunk of change for a module that easily has 50, if not a hundred, extant copies still floating around!  Regardless, it's the highest sale price we recorded, of an item that went to auction (we don't record private sales, nor do I remember hearing about a higher private sale amount).  We've recorded 32 sales of orange B3 over the last 18 years.

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FoulFoot wrote in Record Prices for a Few Items:$5860 is a pretty good chunk of change for a module that easily has 50, if not a hundred, extant copies still floating around!  Regardless, it's the highest sale price we recorded, of an item that went to auction (we don't record private sales, nor do I remember hearing about a higher private sale amount).  We've recorded 32 sales of orange B3 over the last 18 years.

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Hello Scott, apologies as i missed it within the list!

Let me add that i clearly remember the lowest price of these sales since i missed it for a bunch of minutes... It was a BIN of 50 dollars...


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Post Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:25 am 
 

$50 would be a record of sorts :)


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Post Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 4:28 pm 
 

Didn't some come out of a dumpster? Wouldn't the record be $0? ;)


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Post Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 4:29 pm 
 

benjoshua wrote in Record Prices for a Few Items:Some people like cardboard crack, and some don't.   To each his own.  8)


Oh I like cardboard crack... just a different flavor.


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Post Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 11:09 pm 
 

Thanks Doug. I'll get it fixed.

dbartman wrote in Record Prices for a Few Items:I think you flipped the prices for following:

Palace of the Vampire Queen 1st Print by Wee Warriors: $2,035.45
Rahasia 1st Print by Daystar West: $1,725

The Daystar West Rahasia has sold for more, but not through straight-up auctions.


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Don't forget this one, Paul:  

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Post Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2019 2:19 pm 
 

In looking through Rares Formerly on eBay, there's a few corrections/additions:

Palace Vamp Queen: $2500
Ghost Tower Inverness: $6072
RPGA1 Rahasia: $2075
RPGA2 Black Opal Eye: $2500
R3 Egg of the Phoenix pre-pub: $2830
10th Anniversary Set: $1495
1975 Character Sheets (goldenrod): $2247
Greyhawk Reference Sheets: $4173
Dungeon Masters Guide 2nd prt Alpha: $1426

The corrections I missed earlier because these were buy-it-nows, and not recorded by the VB.

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Post Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2019 4:34 pm 
 

I once bought a minty copy of Ghost Tower of Inverness for $5. Several other high-end items on the cheap as well. I wouldn't count sales like that, though. It was over a decade ago and the collecting mania was still in its infancy.


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Post Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 7:11 pm 
 

Howdy Scott,


Thanks!

FoulFoot wrote in Record Prices for a Few Items:Dungeon Masters Guide 2nd prt Alpha: $1426


I can't find this one. Do you have a date for it? Or is it the one that ended at $1,301.89 in 2019?


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