Re: [SWCollect] Dang, is the book something special?

[ceforman]

I can't imagine it being the book.  I've seen them up on eBay, Half,
Alibris...  The 3rd edition is not uncommon at all.  It looks like there was
one newbie and one more experienced eBayer who should have known better.

- Original Message -
From: "Stephen Emond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Dang, is the book something special?


> OMG! I'm hoping it's the book since I have it (and the second edition...
and
> two versions of the third edition...). I DON'T however have that
particular
> KQ Collection. I'm glad the Sierra collections are valuable, I just wish
> they'd refrain from hitting insane prices until *after* I get them all :)
>
> Steve
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Hugh Falk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 10:17 PM
> Subject: [SWCollect] Dang, is the book something special?
>
>
> >
>
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3045965082&category=27251
> >
> >
> >
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Re: [SWCollect] Old Infocom and Lucasfilm games

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> They are in grey boxes... flat boxes I might add.. guess we can still
label
> them as boxes though :) Dont know anything about old Infocom games so...
> have no idea how many different releases there were.

It sounds like you have the Commodore 64 folder packages.  Depending whether
they are the large or small version, and if they are crushed, they would
probably fetch around $10 - $20 (less for the small folders, which are far
more common).



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Re: [SWCollect] Ultima 11

[ceforman]

Except Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2.  It has no soul.  B-)

- Original Message -
From: "Marco Thorek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 7:08 AM
Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Ultima 11


> The Japanese believe that everything has a soul. So if that is so, I
> guess that any game in its right mind knows where it'll have a good home
> ;-)
>
> Marco
>
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
> >
> > It's the game, drawing us to it.  I've long speculated that we don't
find
> > the games, the games find US.  B-)
> >
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Re: [SWCollect] Ultima 11

[ceforman]

It's the game, drawing us to it.  I've long speculated that we don't find
the games, the games find US.  B-)

- Original Message -
From: "Edward Franks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Ultima 11


>
> On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 09:13  PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Whoa.  I had JUST marked this very auction to watch, like 10 seconds
> > ago.
> > Cosmic.  B-)
>
> Great minds think alike?  ^_^
>
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Re: [SWCollect] Ultima 11

[ceforman]

Whoa.  I had JUST marked this very auction to watch, like 10 seconds ago.
Cosmic.  B-)

- Original Message -
From: "Edward Franks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 8:43 PM
Subject: [SWCollect] Ultima 11


>
> Gotta love auctions --
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/
> eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2750965793&category=4610 -- with text
> descriptions like "ULTIMA 11 IS THE SEQUWL TO THE BEST-SELLINH
> FANTASY-ROLE PLAYING GAME ULTIMA!"  :-D
>
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Re: [SWCollect] (SWCollect) Reshrinking issues, SSI collectors look this way :)

[ceforman]

I've seen this also with Wizardry titles that 
appeared to be in original shrink except the bottom box piece was 
upside-down.  When I opened them, the materials were mint.
 

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 12:47 
  AM
  Subject: Re: [SWCollect] (SWCollect) 
  Reshrinking issues, SSI collectors look this way :)
  In a 
  message dated 09/01/2003 8:03:00 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
writes:
  Suffice it to say that the ones where the box was put on 
upside down is MOST DEFINITELY a re-wrap. I do not 
  necessarily agree with this. In fact I bought a bunch of new C64 games from a 
  former C64 dealer and got a "new" Windwalker where the back was upside down. 
  All the games were new (he did not sell used merchandise) so I'm guessing it 
  was ok, the guy who bought it from me told me they DO come like that 
  sometimes, he was a serious collector of shrinkwrapped 
  games.TomVisit my web page for many games for sale/trade and 
  screen shots of Ultima Escape from Mt. Drash,  Tom's Ultima, 
  Infocom and RPG page 

Re: [SWCollect] Ebay trader experiences

[ceforman]

SW&M have been around for a long time.  
They are two people, Tony and Paula.  They run a small shop out in CA and 
apparently have a warehouse of older software.  They also get some of it 
from at least one supplier, though I've never gotten them to divulge any 
details.
 
For awhile the biggest problem with them was the 
question of whether their shrinked items were original or rewraps.  One of 
their suppliers put reshrinks on used games, and SW&M at the time didn't 
fully understand the collector market.  And they were in a bit of a 
position, they couldn't just ask their supplier to stop reshrinking because 
known originals were more valuable, or they'd get their prices raised.  
They weren't always terribly good at identifying reshrinks and I think 
disappointed a lot of collectors, though, to be fair, they did take the 
reshrinks back and offer refunds.  They still use a system of "rating" the 
wrap: D=definitely new, P=probably new, something like that, which I've never 
understood: If you're not certain, open it and take the loss if there is 
one.
 
I did a column article on them (just explaining 
all this so collectors would know, nothing like my counterfeiter pieces) 
which got them a bit upset, but I also gave them advice on how to spot 
reshrinks, and I still buy from them today occasionally.  I've always had 
good service, never rude responses from them.  I was kind of surprised to 
hear they'd been rude to you.
 

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Stefan Lindblom 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 9:23 
  AM
  Subject: [SWCollect] Ebay trader 
  experiences
  
  Ahoy mates!
   
  Just curious about a certain trader on Ebay who 
  seems to be alot into vintage games, with over a 1000 feedbacks. The traders 
  Ebay name and mailadress is [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
   
  And I was just wondering if any of you have had 
  any experiences with him/her/them.. and if so, what they are? The reason I 
  ask.. well, I won a few of their auctions, including a high prized SSI one. I 
  was outbid on one however, but was approached later by them asking if I wanted 
  to pay my highest bid for another copy they had. My highest bid was more than 
  double the listed starting price so I asked if we could come an agreement with 
  would mean a 7$(from 32$ to 25$) cut in my offer. Listing price was 15$ 
  so I thought that was a fair offer. No risks for them, no time waiting, and no 
  ebay fees.
  I got a very short and rude reply.
   
  Surely more than one of you guys have dealt with 
  them before.. what have your experiences been?
   
   
  /Stefan, wearing out the hangover in front of 
  comp

Re: [SWCollect] Ebay trader experiences

[ceforman]

> Also, as a psychological matter, when a buyer has indicated how high
> they would go with a bid it becomes very difficult to retreat from that
> monetary amount.  I've personally only been able to do it once (IIRC)
> and that was in eBay's early days.  The seller has the advantage over
> the buyer in this situation.  There is just no incentive for the seller
> to retreat from that high bid -- the buyer has gone so far as to place
> a bid for that amount!  The whole 'can I get more money now or later?'
> line of thought seems to just go down the drain, which kind of screws
> the buyer looking for an after-auction deal.

This is a very good, and interesting, point.  A lot of sellers would see
this as you having made an offer, now you're trying to back down.
Personally if it were me, I'd've let the $7 go and sold it to you for $25:
eBay can be notoriously inconsistent, and something that sold for $32
yesterday might only net you the starting bid of $15 today, it all depends
on the competition.  If you wait until they relist it, you may even get it
for less, and they'd be the ones getting stuck.



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[SWCollect] Latest Shoppe Column Is Up

[ceforman]

Latest column is up, on the latest peddler of fake crap:

http://www.yois.biz/column.php



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Re: [SWCollect] Lost Treasures of Infocom inventory

[ceforman]

Yes, it sounds like yours has everything, Lee.

- Original Message -
From: "Lee K. Seitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Lost Treasures of Infocom inventory


> Marco Thorek stated:
> >
> >Amazing that Activision bothered to reproduce the parchment at all, when
> >you remember how bad the pdf files were that came with the Masterpieces.
>
> This is all very interesting, but do I take it since no one's answered
> my question, I'm not missing anything and should be thankful to have
> the ZZ parchment reproduction?
>
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Re: RE: [SWCollect] Lost Treasures of Infocom inventory

[ceforman]

(Sorry about the blank reply.  Stupid Outlook.)

> I'd say that Activision used up leftover stock of those parchments  from
> Infocom and when they ran out simply didn't bother to reproduce it for
> the rest of the boxes.
>
> Would be interesting to know if the parchment that came with the LTOI
> was the same as with the original Zork Zero.

No, it wasn't.  The original parchment in ZZ looked like an actual scrap of
paper, with uneven edges, etc, plus the printing was in color.  The LTOI
version was like a Slash reproduction on white paper.

I can't say for sure which packages have the parchment and which don't.  It
seems to be about half and half.



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Re: [SWCollect] Lost Treasures of Infocom inventory

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- Original Message -
From: "Stuart Feldhamer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 7:57 AM
Subject: RE: [SWCollect] Lost Treasures of Infocom inventory


> What's the deal with the parchment? My copy, the CD-ROM version, bought
off
> the shelf when it came out, never came with the parchment, and I remember
> going back and forth with Activision about it for over a year(!) via email
> before I finally found out that it wasn't just my copy and that the text
of
> the parchment was on the IF-Archive. (Activision proved too stupid to ever
> be able to send me a replacement parchment.) Now I see through this post
and
> Chris's update yesterday that some copies did indeed have a parchment...
> anyone know which ones did and which ones didn't?
>
> Stuart
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Lee K. Seitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 1:48 AM
> To: Software Collecting
> Subject: [SWCollect] Lost Treasures of Infocom inventory
>
>
> I found a copy of Lost Treasures of Infocom at a thrift store for $3.
> Needless to say, since my Infocom collection is quite small and mostly
> my originals for the Apple II, I'm quite happy.  The only downside is
> the price was written with permanent marker.  But it was also 20% off.
>
> Everything appears to be there, but can someone tell me if I'm missing
> anything?  It has:
>
>* five (of five) 3.5" disks (untested as of right now)
>* manual
>* hint book
>* Zork Zero Parchment
>* 19 maps
>* Leather Goddesses of Phobos order card
>  (There's no expiration date on it, maybe I should send it in! 8)
>* registration card
>* Attn:  DOS USERS card
>* Reference card
>* 1993 Activision Catalog
>  (I can't believe they didn't release River Raid and Kaboom! for
>  the Super Nintendo!  There's screenshots and everything!)
>* Oh, and the box, of course.
>
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[SWCollect] Wizardry Character Data

[ceforman]

Anybody here have info on the layout of character 
data for the PC version of Wizardry?  This guy would like to know how to hex-edit the files on the Ultimate Wizardry 
Archives, to port his old characters over from his original version of the 
game.  His e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED].
 
Thanks in advance to anyone who can 
help.
 
 
- Original Message - 
From: Dale Hayes 

To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 6:19 PM
Subject: [spam score 3/10 -pobox] Ye Olde Infocomme 
Shoppe

Hi Chris, You have a nice site here. My name is 
Dale. I purchased Wizardry I years ago. I recently bought the Ultimate Wizardry 
CDROM. I am trying to find a way to use my characters that I have built up in 
the 5.25" version in the CDRM version. Would you happen to know how they they 
were able to get the scenario disk copied off to a .dsk file. Also, I have 
corrupted my scenario disks. Would you happen to know anyway to get them fixed? 
I have searched everywhere for a utility to do this but I have been 
unsuccessful. 
 
Thanks for any help
 
Dale Hayes
 
P.S. I put in an offer to buy Wizardry IV. Lemme 
know what you would sell it for.

[SWCollect] Fw: Help us evaluate eBay and receive $50 and an eBay pen for your efforts

[ceforman]

BWA-HA-HA-HA!

Take a look at this thing I just got, supposedly from eBay.  I actually
filled part of it out, until I got to the question where they asked if I'd
be willing to use my real bank and credit card information when
participating in the survey.  The instant I said no, they told me I didn't
fit the profile for the type of person they were looking for.  Heh, no D!  I
bet they weren't even really going to send me the pen!  B-)

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[SWCollect] Fw: Fw: Help us evaluate eBay and receive $50 and an eBay pen for your efforts (KMM87345328V93365L0KM)

[ceforman]

Yeah, they did respond, with this.  Still ain't buyin' it.

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Hi,

I got this and I don't think it's from eBay, they're asking if I'd mind
using my eBay ID/password and credit card info to participate in their
survey.

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Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 6:58 PM
Subject: Help us evaluate eBay and receive $50 and an eBay pen for your
efforts



Dear eBay Member,

You have been selected to participate in a very important eBay online
study,
which is being conducted by NetRaker Corporation on eBay's behalf.


The study involves completing 8 tasks on the eBay web site, including
buying and selling tasks, and answering questions about your experiences
as
you go along. The estimated time to complete the study is between 45 and
120
minutes. In appreciation for your time and input, $50 and 2 eBay pens
will
be sent to you within ten business days of completing the study.

During the study, you  will be asked to purchase 2 items on eBay, and to
list an eBay pen for auction, even if you have never sold anything on
eBay
before. Again, the pens will be sent to you within ten business days of
completing the study. One is to ship to the winning eBay bidder if the
pen
successfully sold, and the other is for you to keep.

Since buying, paying, and selling will take place on the live eBay Web
site
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password to log into the site when prompted. If you have never sold
items on
eBay, you will also be required to enter your credit card and bank
account
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[SWCollect] Ebay's proposed fee increases are unjustifiable. Petition

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I doubt it'll do much good, but I still recommend that everyone who sells on eBay sign 
this just to make your opinion known.


Title: 
Ebay's proposed  fee increases are unjustifiable. Petition
















 
Ebay's proposed  fee increases are unjustifiable. 


 



 





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To:  ebay

Ebay is becoming Greedy.  After anouncing massive profits for it's last quarter it has anounced fee increases.  We belive that these fee increases are unreasonable and call upon Ebay not to go ahead with the proposed increase until it has properly consulted with it's users!


Sincerely,

The Undersigned












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The Ebay's proposed  fee increases are unjustifiable. Petition to ebay was created by Members of the ebay community/ and written by Damon Trott.   This petition is hosted here at www.PetitionOnline.com as a public service.  There is no express or implied endorsement of this petition by Artifice, Inc. or our sponsors.  The petition scripts are created by Mike Wheeler at Artifice, Inc.  
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