From:	Steve Collins einan@*********.net
Subject:	[OT] RPG antiques (was: Gaming in the Media)
Date:	Mon, 26 Jun 00 10:05:09 -0500

On 6/25/00 10:30 pm, Josh Harrison said:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: Jan Jaap van Poelgeest aka nevermelt <jjp@******.nl>
>> Jan Jaap van Poelgeest, Perpetually Searching For A Cheap UB To Snap Up
>
>Since thip topic came up, I thought I'd be a minor-league jerk and gloat
>over the fact that I made a deal with a guy to get a over twenty first ed.
>SR sourcebooks in near mint condition (including UB!). And my own personal
>collection of RPG material is sizable, with a value (based purely on book
>cover price) of over $5000. If I were to actually account for the
>collector's value of some of the stuff, I could probably add another 50% to
>that total.
>


If the Book Cover Price is equal to $5000 You would be lucky to sell them
for $2000. A rare book or two may have more Value than it's cover price
but overall most of them have little to no value left and you'd be lucky
to get 10% of list for them. Remember just because a book is old does not
make it valuable, it must also be scarce and in demand. Take for example
the Comic Book Industry, there are issues from the 1950's of popular
titles which are worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars, yet there
are other titles from the same storyline and time period which are
scarcely worth more than the cover price because for whatever reason
there are more existing copies than there is demand for them. With RPG
books most of them will fall in to the second category and not the first.


Steve