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Cicciograna
2011-05-20, 12:03 PM
Recently I bought a copy of Magic Item Compendium in great shape for just 16,50€ == 23,40$. I deem it one of my best purchases.

Have you got some stories of great bargains to share?

dsmiles
2011-05-20, 12:30 PM
My best bargain: AD&D Deities & Demigods (with Cthulhu and Melnibonean Mythoi) for $90 (USD)! Mint! It's worth so much more than that. Especially to a collector. :smallbiggrin:

Morghen
2011-05-20, 02:18 PM
A friend and I happened across a ton of 1st Ed stuff in a used-book store. I don't even remember what all we got, just that we spent about every penny we had on us.

Combat Reflexes
2011-05-20, 03:01 PM
My all time best bargain was at a jumble sale at Koninginnedag (Queen's Day) last year:

A complete set of almost unused D&D 3.5 core rulebooks (PHB, DMG and MM) for €1 each.
...
Yep, that's 3 euros (= $4.27) for over one thousand pages, many of them illustrated.

I do love me some jumble sales :smallwink:

Cicciograna
2011-05-20, 03:33 PM
My all time best bargain was at a jumble sale at Koninginnedag (Queen's Day) last year:

A complete set of almost unused D&D 3.5 core rulebooks (PHB, DMG and MM) for €1 each.
...
Yep, that's 3 euros (= $4.27) for over one thousand pages, many of them illustrated.

I do love me some jumble sales :smallwink:

You won. Recently I had to buy a PHB in Italian: the best price I could find was 15€. You definitely won.

Knaight
2011-05-20, 05:00 PM
I managed to pick up Legend of the 5 Rings used, for a grand total of $5. It was the best $5 I've ever spent.

Calmar
2011-05-20, 05:16 PM
During the last one, two years before 4E, when the Euro became strong and the Dollar weak, I bought most of my D&D (about ten books) for about 2-8 Euros each. That's the marvel of global economy: You barely can afford to spend a day in the city with your friends, or to get a new pair of trousers, but you can buy lots of stuff from other continents over the internet. :smallbiggrin:
Now the 3.5 stuff has become rather expensive, though.

Cicciograna
2011-05-21, 05:38 AM
During the last one, two years before 4E, when the Euro became strong and the Dollar weak, I bought most of my D&D (about ten books) for about 2-8 Euros each. That's the marvel of global economy: You barely can afford to spend a day in the city with your friends, or to get a new pair of trousers, but you can buy lots of stuff from other continents over the internet. :smallbiggrin:
Now the 3.5 stuff has become rather expensive, though.

In my experience it's the shipping fee the real killer: I found books on Amazon costing less than 3$ but with shipping costs of more than 15$...

Tetsubo 57
2011-05-21, 06:28 AM
I found a copy of an Ars Magica magic book recently at Goodwill for $3.

I have found two copies of the classic 1E Deities & Demigods for a $1 at two different yard sales. I sold them for around $140 profit total. I actually stumble upon gaming books fairly frequently at yard sales & flea markets. But I go to a lot of them. I sell or give away what I don't want to keep. I just last week gave away a 1E MM and Fiend Folio and Wilderness Survival Guide to a British gaming friend.

His unboxing video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqkhF25o6NA

Gaming portion near the middle bit.

Combat Reflexes
2011-05-24, 04:22 AM
Now the 3.5 stuff has become rather expensive, though.

really? You should seek out all the Ebay stuff and such, there are tons of players that sell their 3.5 books and buy 4.0 (the poor souls :smalltongue:)

Stevielash
2011-05-24, 07:48 AM
Two players handbooks and a DMG for 3rd edition plus 2nd edition players handbook and forgotten realms guide for £10 at oxfam (charity shop). Gurps basic set+horror+supers also for £10. I was a happy man on those days :smallsmile:.

Jarawara
2011-05-24, 07:19 PM
I've got a friend who's got us all beat, when it comes to bargains.

He collects miniatures, especially the old Grenadier ones from the late 70's, early 80's. He's got quite a few box sets of them, but some of the sets are missing a few out of them. He and I are always on the look out for a spare stash of them being sold at goodwill or whereever.

So he walks into a gamestore in Lynnwood, sees a bag of miniatures in the glass case - totally unorganized and unlabled, just a grab bag of old miniatures - priced at $15 bucks. He thinks he sees one or two that might go with his set, so he buys the bag and takes it home.

Opens it up to find over a dozen rare and valuable minatures, several of which complete some of his hard-to-find box sets, total value of them could be listed in the hundreds to the right buyer (and I should know, as *I* am that right buyer and have easily spent that kind of money to complete a set).

Then he looks over the rest of the miniatures in the bag, decides he doesn't want the flotsom and jetsom, and takes it up to a gamestore in Everett to see if they would buy it from him. They do.

The price they offer him? $20 bucks. He actually made $5 dollars on the extras, after taking out all the valuable miniatures from the bag.

Gah... lucky bas***d.... :smallmad::smallwink:

*~*~*

(And I won't even admit to how much I paid when I bought the completed sets from him!)

Aidan305
2011-05-24, 07:24 PM
All of the Planescape books (sans adventures unfortunately) and the novels for €70.

some guy
2011-05-25, 10:04 AM
My all time best bargain was at a jumble sale at Koninginnedag (Queen's Day) last year:

A complete set of almost unused D&D 3.5 core rulebooks (PHB, DMG and MM) for €1 each.
...
Yep, that's 3 euros (= $4.27) for over one thousand pages, many of them illustrated.

I do love me some jumble sales :smallwink:

What?! And here I was thinking Koninginnedag sales would yield nothing in the department of D&D. I should go pay more attention to them. Do you have any special techniques, places to look that you can share with us?

Combat Reflexes
2011-05-25, 11:23 AM
What?! And here I was thinking Koninginnedag sales would yield nothing in the department of D&D. I should go pay more attention to them. Do you have any special techniques, places to look that you can share with us?

Snatching a bargain doesn't require skill at all :smallfrown: it's just a matter of being at the right place at the right time, AFAIK. Seek, and thou shalt find!

edit: wait, there is a technique. When at a jumble sale, be sure to be one of the first people (if not the first) attending. The cool stuff always goes first.