Boef Preview fetching 400$ on Ebay

[hellbender]

Um, unless it was a very old Silver Certificate it is not any more valuable than any federal reserve note. They don't print Silver Certificates anymore. nor can you exchange them for minted silver dollars (which are worth more than a dollar due to their silver content) or silver bullion (which you could for a while). They are simply unusual dollar bills. Sometimes you can still get them at banks, and you get them at face value.

I cannot recall the actual year, in the '50's somewhere, I believe. I don't care what it is worth, if some shill will give me more than $5 for a $1, it's gone, the more the merrier. The dollar I had looked like a regular bill, except the words Federal Reserve Note were replaced with Silver Certificate and the ink was a bit darker in some areas, enough to stand out to the casual observer. I believe the only value is in nostaligia and/or the rarity of such notes.

hellbender

 

[Nifelhein]

They did.

At least they asked for a lower price... no bid up to now... I guess there is some hope of delaying doom...

 

[Silver Moon]

EBay is inherently based on the old axiom that "one man's trash is another man's treasure."

A friend of mine literally proved that during the last presidential election. We live in New Hampshire, with its "First in the Nation Primary." He and his wife took the campaign literature they recieved in the mail and posted it on EBay as political collectables, and sold all of them! Most sold in the $ 3 to $ 5 range, but one mailing from the Forbes campaign that included a video actually netted them $ 26. I think I may try that this upcoming December and January.

 

[Jeremy757]

A friend of mine literally proved that during the last presidential election. We live in New Hampshire, with its "First in the Nation Primary." He and his wife took the campaign literature they recieved in the mail and posted it on EBay as political collectables, and sold all of them! Most sold in the $ 3 to $ 5 range, but one mailing from the Forbes campaign that included a video actually netted them $ 26. I think I may try that this upcoming December and January.

There are people out there that seriously collect presidential campaign paraphernalia. So much so that someone decided to publish a book about it: http://www.hakes.com/book.asp?item=6

I also know at sometime in recent memory I saw a pbs show about it.

 

[Nifelhein]

A friend of mine literally proved that during the last presidential election. We live in New Hampshire, with its "First in the Nation Primary." He and his wife took the campaign literature they recieved in the mail and posted it on EBay as political collectables, and sold all of them! Most sold in the $ 3 to $ 5 range, but one mailing from the Forbes campaign that included a video actually netted them $ 26. I think I may try that this upcoming December and January.

Would they want Brazil's president campaign paraphernalia? Because I can get a hell lot next campaign... the downside of this is that it would be three years before it happens...

 

[BrooklynKnight]

I wonder if someone would wanna buy dandruff.

 

[jaerdaph]

I might be willing to pay $400 to never hear about the BoEF again...

 

[Nifelhein]

I might be willing to pay $400 to never hear about the BoEF again...

I think that the people at Valar's project are just wondedring if everyone else would do the same... they could just accept all those people paying 200 times the price of the book and never sell it... <joke mode off>

Okay I am not gonna make this a discussion of it again, everyone I saw became flame war and even though I would like to know why i am not gonna ask.

Don't answer this message, please!
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[BrooklynKnight]

come to the gameday and maybe i can arrange that

 

[tetsujin28]

I might be willing to pay $400 to never hear about the BoEF again...

I'm right there with you, man.