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Post by philsadler on Oct 18, 2021 20:04:10 GMT
Who on earth is going to pay 500 for that?
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Post by stevendoig on Oct 18, 2021 20:06:41 GMT
Someone who would hope to get double the amount next year probably!
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Post by a moderator on Oct 19, 2021 11:59:16 GMT
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Oct 24, 2021 18:08:12 GMT
Frankly astounding prices if the following is to be believed as a genuine sale. Four hundred quid for Magehunter earlier this month and not even pristine condition. That's twice in two days I've been wrong. Oh, phew! Nope, I'm ok.. It's not the normal one - it's the ultra-rare one by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone about Vampires.
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Post by a moderator on Nov 2, 2021 10:17:29 GMT
Anyone looking for a Mongoose books reissue of Lone Wolf 15 and got £1500 going spare? If so, you could go here, but don't get your hopes up too high - that price doesn't include P&P.
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Post by philsadler on Nov 2, 2021 10:58:17 GMT
No way am I buying that without free shipping.
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Mar 22, 2022 19:48:37 GMT
Incredibly variable Hunger of Sejanoz prices, people will have paid more for the book over the years... Ok now I want you imagine you are the buyer of the top copy... and then see what it went for earlier in the year. I'd be sick as a parrot seeing that sort of price. But for all I know, someone bought it for a fiver in January and sold it for literally hundreds later on in the year.
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Post by kieran on Mar 23, 2022 8:23:35 GMT
Wow I don't think I've ever seen Hunger of Sejanoz go for less than triple figures. Whoever saw it going for 4.99 and snapped it up was one lucky bugger.
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Aug 10, 2022 5:45:00 GMT
As of August 10th, 2022, the highest asking prices on eBay...
eBay Australia
*1st "Fighting Fantasy Gamebox" (A$299.95) *Allansia (A$255) *Wizard #2,3,5-10 (A$159.95) *Robot Commando (A$120) *Trial of Champions (A$120)
eBay UK
*Books #1-52 + other assorted titles (£1299.99) <-- This one is located in Ireland *77 books (£899.99) *Books #1-56 (£800) *Books #1-50 (£749.99) *Books #1-22+ FFRPG (£545) *Magehunter (£499.99) *Moonrunner (£410) *1st "Fighting Fantasy Gamebox" + signed books (£399.99) *26 books (£399.99) *Revenge of the Vampire (£349.99) *Revenge of the Vampire (£329.99)
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Post by CharlesX on Aug 10, 2022 9:03:21 GMT
Those are asking prices. I recall the true story about how after one collector paid about £1000 for a Disney Diamond VHS (his motivations remain unclear), every Tom and Harriet out there offered prices in the high hundreds for their Disney VHSs. But they weren't getting responses, EBay is full of these ridiculous offers which no one actually says yes to.
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Post by misomiso on Aug 23, 2022 14:09:49 GMT
Do we know the price of: - 1) A first edition warlock of Firetop Mountain 2) The Special anniversay edition published a few years ago? ty
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Aug 24, 2022 4:18:39 GMT
Do we know the price of: - 1) A first edition warlock of Firetop Mountain 2) The Special anniversay edition published a few years ago? ty Do you mean the price when originally published, or what they are worth now? The first can be found here: linkThe second will be found in Jamie Fry's 2022 update to his FF Price Guide, due out before the end of the year.
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Post by misomiso on Aug 24, 2022 6:11:13 GMT
@the Editor (Alex B) I mean what they are now? Are there any 1st editions or special editions for sale anywhere? I checked Ebay for the Special Anniversary and the price seemed a lot higher than what was on the price guide.
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Post by a moderator on Sept 4, 2022 21:07:39 GMT
While the issue here isn't the price, I think the 'eBay madness' factor is enough to merit a mention. If you're of the opinion that most FF reissues just don't make enough changes, maybe this is the book for you. Judging by the title, this one has been abridged with a severity that mid-1990s Puffin editors could only dream of. Yes, it's Steve Jackson's classic The Wac F.
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Post by hallucination on Sept 5, 2022 7:36:43 GMT
11 hits on eBay!
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Post by Dungeoneer on Sept 8, 2022 12:36:36 GMT
Ok not eBay, but how about the copy of Deathmoor on Amazon for $3284 AUD (about £1919) lol. I noticed someone in New Zealand found a copy in the wild recently.. rather envious of that!!
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Post by lee on Oct 7, 2022 2:26:18 GMT
Bought a 6 book ff lot off ebay for about £15 a few years back which incuded a mint deathmoor.I think it completed my main series puffins at the time.A couple of years later I sold most of my ff's above #40 when I saw they were fetching fantastic prices of over £20 each in some cases.
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Post by mooncat on Jan 2, 2024 22:42:09 GMT
$978 CAD. That's almost 600 quid. Getting ridiculous now... Attachments:
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Post by a moderator on Jan 3, 2024 2:02:25 GMT
$978 CAD. That's almost 600 quid. Getting ridiculous now... Unless you bought the book, this belongs in the 'Price Madness Thread' rather than the 'What's the most you've paid?' thread.
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Post by mooncat on Jan 3, 2024 2:33:22 GMT
$978 CAD. That's almost 600 quid. Getting ridiculous now... Unless you bought the book, this belongs in the 'Price Madness Thread' rather than the 'What's the most you've paid?' thread. Ah apologies, I'm still relatively new to the forum, didn't realize there was a thread for ebay madness!
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Post by Per on Jan 3, 2024 19:58:49 GMT
Someone put up non-pristine copies of the Swedish editions of Lone Wolf 11 and 12 for 2000 SEK each ($195, €178, £154), along with the other books averaging out to roughly one order of magnitude below that.
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kieran
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Post by kieran on May 6, 2024 9:21:07 GMT
Strewth!
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Sept 4, 2024 19:14:14 GMT
More varying prices from recent times. Magehunter again, looks like someone got it for less than a fiver including p and p. The other two sold for the more reasonable price of between two hundred and three hundred pounds.
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Post by vastariner on Sept 5, 2024 18:49:46 GMT
More varying prices from recent times. Magehunter again, looks like someone got it for less than a fiver including p and p. The other two sold for the more reasonable price of between two hundred and three hundred pounds. View AttachmentView AttachmentI am guessing that the Magehunter at £1.99 was started off at £1.99 or best offer, and someone pre-empted the inevitable duel by putting in a £50 or so, which was then accepted. But the price shown would be the last "public" price. I think that's how it works anyway.
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Post by Wildy on Sept 6, 2024 10:12:09 GMT
I am guessing that the Magehunter at £1.99 was started off at £1.99 or best offer, and someone pre-empted the inevitable duel by putting in a £50 or so, which was then accepted. But the price shown would be the last "public" price. I think that's how it works anyway. True that, I just bought myself Moonrunner after sending quite a low offer compared to the asking price and was incredulous that it automatically got accepted. When checking the product page, it still shows the initial price.
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Sept 6, 2024 19:32:12 GMT
More varying prices from recent times. Magehunter again, looks like someone got it for less than a fiver including p and p. The other two sold for the more reasonable price of between two hundred and three hundred pounds. View AttachmentView AttachmentI am guessing that the Magehunter at £1.99 was started off at £1.99 or best offer, and someone pre-empted the inevitable duel by putting in a £50 or so, which was then accepted. But the price shown would be the last "public" price. I think that's how it works anyway. good to know, thanks.
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Post by Wildy on Oct 11, 2024 11:54:34 GMT
I've been after Revenge of the Vampire forever since it's the last book from my childhood that I'm missing but this is just silly: I think you can pay back the debt of some countries if you had a stash of those in your attic... Attachments:
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Post by pip on Oct 19, 2024 19:42:54 GMT
Revenge of the Vampire seems to be the Bitcoin of FFs (as in, you wish you had a time travel machine to invest in that back then). Along with others like Magehunter and Werewolf.
The first one you posted is particularly awful, it claims the book is in "mint" condition, but a quick look at the cover reveals it's obviously not true.
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Post by CharlesX on Oct 20, 2024 17:25:44 GMT
Revenge of the Vampire seems to be the Bitcoin of FFs (as in, you wish you had a time travel machine to invest in that back then). Along with others like Magehunter and Werewolf. The first one you posted is particularly awful, it claims the book is in "mint" condition, but a quick look at the cover reveals it's obviously not true. So it's like Bitcoin in other ways, being something of a cheat\scam in this instance. I could labour the cheap pastiche analogy by saying Bitcoins were unreliable and Revenge Of The Vampire is full of errors etc. etc. but that isn't worth it.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Oct 20, 2024 22:58:54 GMT
Revenge of the Vampire seems to be the Bitcoin of FFs (as in, you wish you had a time travel machine to invest in that back then). Along with others like Magehunter and Werewolf. The first one you posted is particularly awful, it claims the book is in "mint" condition, but a quick look at the cover reveals it's obviously not true. I did a Best Man's speech last year which mentioned that due to a holiday packing incident the groom had to complete their PhD using source books which were liberally soaked in mouthwash.
Maybe that's the mint condition this seller had in mind.
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