Spelljammer Boxed Set Sells for $91 on E-Bay!

[CanadienneBacon]

There is no justice in this world. My husband just got done selling our entire collection of 1E and 2E material. We grossed about a thousand dollars, so we did well even after postage and fees.

One thing, though, has my head in a total funk. Would you believe that the itty bitty Spelljammer original boxed set Adventures in Space went for nearly THREE TIMES what our mint-condition boxed set of Rod of Seven Parts went for?

Yup. Not only did every single Spelljammer and Dark Sun item sell first time up without having to be relisted, the Spelljammer boxed set went for US $91.

Ditto our Birthright and Ravenloft boxed sets...all beat out "standard" setting items by about a two-to-one price margin.

Just goes to show a person...what we think is valuable/popular isn't necessarily so.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

Yes but all those non-core settings are also hard to find now.

So everybody who got rid of them back when they weren't special (raises hand) and realize we shouldn't have find the supply =/= demand.

I so wish I hadn't gotten rid of my old Planescape stuff. But at least I hung onto my Albedo, that's so rare now it isn't funny.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

I initially scoffed at my husband when he was putting up the Spelljammer and Dark Sun. I believe my comment ran something in the vein of, "Spelljammer?! We have that?! I don't know who in their right mind would want that." This, accompanied by the silent thought that we'd probably loose the e-bay listing fee when the item did not sell.

I was wrong.

And, as further evidence would indicate, I have no clue who rpg items are "worth." The Ruins of Undermountain II boxed set that we sold went for around $33. That's Ruins of...II. I could see the original Undermountain boxed set selling and selling really well, but the second re-make? The "deeper deadly" levels? Sheesh. Certainly not to the tune of the $30+ bucks that it went for.

 

[Cergorach]

You also need to be a bit lucky, 5 years ago I sold BattleForce 2 (an not so popular BattleTech boxed set) for $172,50, about a month later I sold another one for $81. Same quality (completely new sealed), that's a big difference in price! I bought 3 for $5-$10 a piece (if not less), I still have one to be sold (need to do that one of these days). My own copy they'll have to pry out of my cold dead hands ;-)

A lot of the D&D material took a price dive when scanned copies turned up on the internet (Karatur is an excellent example), when WotC started the ESD project, it started plunging. With the release of 3E, the 2E market got flooded. With the 3.5 release, the 3.0 got flooded and their value became very low. Even now, 3.5 books in the second hand market aren't worth very much. I stopped buying D&D and D20 a while ago in book form (bought some pdfs), if I create some more shelf space (not that I'm getting rid of anything), I might complete my collection when 4E is out and everyone is dumping their 3.5 material...

 

[CanadienneBacon]

You're right. We did have ten or so items that turned out to (unexpectedly) fetch lots of cash, but the bulk of our inventory sold for under four dollars per item. Many items sold for a dollar or two dollars. I think out of 100+ items that we've sold, only four or five needed to be re-listed, but everything that was re-listed sold its second time out on e-bay.

I personally was saddest to see Demihuman Deities and al-Qadim go. My husband sniffled a bit over the Birthright (he never even got to play it due to lack of players interested). Still, it is nice to have cleared our shelves a bit right before we make a trans-Pacific move.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

We hung on to one PHB, DMG, and MM (2E), the 1E Unearthed Arcana and Fiend Folio, and the 2E Night Below boxed set.

Hopefully someday my dwarf fighter/cleric will make it through The Night Below. I think we've tried to run that campaign twice since we've been married, and poor old husband has tried two or three times before meeting me to get that one to fly.

 

[Cergorach]

Still, it is nice to have cleared our shelves a bit right before we make a trans-Pacific move.

That's one of my worst nightmares, needing to move, all those books weigh a ton! I have too much stuff, I am a bit of a packrat (allright, maybe dwarves learned hoarding from me ;-)

Good luck with the move!

 

[jdrakeh]

Yes but all those non-core settings are also hard to find now.

Not really. If you have an internet connection, stuff like the Spelljammer box set can be easily found.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

(allright, maybe dwarves learned hoarding from me ;-)

Impossible, dwarves learned from dragons, and those overblown lizards are just imitating me.

Also I just realized that I literally have 853 pounds of books I should know because I'm expecting to move next year and have begun repacking them in water resistant containers, and have to weigh them so I can spread out the load on the floor.

 

[jdrakeh]

We hung on to one PHB, DMG, and MM (2E), the 1E Unearthed Arcana and Fiend Folio, and the 2E Night Below boxed set.

Hopefully someday my dwarf fighter/cleric will make it through The Night Below. I think we've tried to run that campaign twice since we've been married, and poor old husband has tried two or three times before meeting me to get that one to fly.

I picked up Night Below on Saturday (for $21, even) as I heard that it's very good. I've been reading it and, while overall great, it seems to have pacing issues in several places (i.e., the pacing is horribly off kilter). Since you've played it (several times, even) I figured I would take this opportunity to inquire -- what derailed the campaign for you and your husband?