[GenCon/Origins Auction] Time to Unload!

[Assenpfeffer]

The time has come! With Origins fast approaching, it's time to make some tough decisions about what to keep and what to get rid of forever. So far, the Must Go list consists of:

GURPS: I have about 220 books. I'm keeping all the GURPS Traveller, a core book, and half a dozen others. About 25 products in all. To be sold in three-book lots.

Hackmaster: If I want to play 1st Edition AD&D, well, I've got the stuff to do it.

Triplanetary, Belter and Double Star, from GDW.

Barbarrossa: Army Group North and Typhoon, from GMT.

Fortress Europa, On to Richmond, Stonewall in the Valley, The Guns of August, Stellar Conflict, and Freedom in the Galaxy, from Avalon Hill.

World in Flames: a huge lot of everything up to America in Flames. Ought to go well.

Starsoldier (unpunched in the flat,) The Sword and the Stars, Outreach, and five unpunched S&Ts, from SPI.

Empire Builder and 1835 from Mayfair.

Apples to Apples and the expansions.

Deluxe Illuminati and Deluxe Car Wars, from Steve Jackson.

Various Crap RPGs: Imagine, Palladium Fantasy, Man, Myth & Magic, and maybe some others.

Everything will be hauled down to Origins (where the wargames will fetch prices comparable to eBay,) and disposed of. I'm looking at around 100 lots total, about 30 of wargames and board/card games, and around 65 of GURPS. This will all be very tiring, but not nearly so much as posting all this junk on eBay and chasing people down for the money.

 

[HellHound]

Hey!

Drop by our booth (We'll be at the Mystic Eye Games / Bastion Press booth) at Origins, and we'll pay close to retail for Apples to Apples and the expansions.

The kids, Denise and I LOVE that game.

 

[hong]

I am unloading RIGHT NOW and oh geez, is that the time?

 

[Assenpfeffer]

Hey!

Drop by our booth (We'll be at the Mystic Eye Games / Bastion Press booth) at Origins, and we'll pay close to retail for Apples to Apples and the expansions.

The kids, Denise and I LOVE that game.

It is a great game. Better played in the company of adults and copious amounts of liquor, in my experience.

Looking at it, I've only got the main set and the first expansion. If you're interested, I'll make every effort to drop by. Who should I ask for?

I will have many, many lots (each of which costs a buck apiece to enter in the auction,) so I'm looking at dropping a load o' cash just to get this stuff put up. Still, I'm pretty sure I can walk out on sunday with a couple hundred bucks from the wargames alone. And 60 lots of GURPS, assuming an average selling price of $5 each (which is probably low - I like to plan on getting shafted, so if I don't I'm pleasantly surpised) should net me another $300 easily.

 

[HellHound]

Ask for Denise or Hound. We'll be there all day all weekend. I'll be out for most of Saturday, hopefully, playing paintball, but Denise will still be there.

And yes, it is a GREAT drinking game!

 

[Mark]

My FLGS does an auction twice a year. Anything like that in your neck of the woods?

 

[Assenpfeffer]

My FLGS does an auction twice a year. Anything like that in your neck of the woods?

Yes... run by me, in fact. My next one will be on Sept. 6 at Goblin Trading Company in Cleveland.

I don't generally sell at my own auctions - I prefer to avoid any potential conflict of interest. Instead, I stock up and wait for the big cons. In this case, it's worth hauling the stuff to the big auction - it will make hundreds of dollars in difference.

I'd take it to GenCon (and we were talking about doing it as a Saturday - Sunday thing this year) but it turns out I can't go - a friend of mine is getting married that weekend.

In small auctions, D&D stuff generally goes pretty well - so does GW stuff, depending on the auction and the audience. Sometimes White Wolf will move well. Smaller games don't do so well, and in my case, it'd be really, really unlikely that I could liquidate 218 GURPS books for anything like what I'll get for them at Origins.

 

[Mark]

I wonder if there are Gencon goers who frequent the auctions who act as agents for people who cannot be there themselves...?

 

[Assenpfeffer]

I wonder if there are Gencon goers who frequent the auctions who act as agents for people who cannot be there themselves...?

Is that a hint?

 

[Mark]

If the thread stays alive long enough, who knows who will turn up. I'm sure there must be someone on these boards going to the convention and interested in the auction. I've seen some folks at those auctions (though I only breeze through and check out the bargain table) that seem to almost make a living at the pursuit.

Add "(Gencon Auction?)" to the thread title and see what happens...