SR on EBAY Alert, Somethings are just too good to be true |
SR on EBAY Alert, Somethings are just too good to be true |
Sep 10 2003, 02:58 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 218 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Raleigh/Durham, CAS Member No.: 149 |
Ok, cruise through the Duels (Lot's of Kellen Colts for those of you that diddn't get her the first time around) and Video Game stuff (there was a Mega Drive CD, Japanese only game?) and all the cheaper novels (not one of the "Must Reads" that everyone on this board has aggreed upon) I found a 1st Ed Hardcover for $2.00 and a BABY (#827 of 1000) for $210.
A BABY is the all black HC book with the blue foil "Super S" logo, right? |
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Sep 10 2003, 03:06 AM
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Prime Runner Group: Retired Admins Posts: 3,929 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .ca Member No.: 51 |
Yes.
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Sep 10 2003, 03:13 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 218 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Raleigh/Durham, CAS Member No.: 149 |
Thanks Adam.
Sorry if I'm being a pain. It's been a long time since I was on the boards. I've been out serving the country and all and only had the mailing list to keep me company. |
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Sep 10 2003, 07:32 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 439 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .se Member No.: 625 |
Isn't this where all us BABY owners chime in and brag about what number we have on our copy? :)
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Sep 10 2003, 04:54 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 123 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,205 |
No.
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Sep 13 2003, 12:48 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,129 Joined: 11-June 03 From: Tir Tairngire Member No.: 4,712 |
Ouch. I got one of those on Ebay for $86. |
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Sep 13 2003, 12:27 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,451 Joined: 21-April 03 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 4,488 |
Query..."BABY"?
The Abstruse One |
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Sep 13 2003, 02:04 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 588 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 227 |
Yep, BABY. I guess I get to claim responsability for that one; afaik, I was the first to propose it, on the SRmail list.
Stands for Big All Black Yearbook. My highschool's yearbook had a very similar binding / cover, and at Gencon 2000 (?) everybody was signing them just like at highschool graduation. With the way people were treating them, "BABY" seemed an appropriate name, or at least was funny enough at the time to (sort of) stick. |
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Sep 14 2003, 07:55 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,451 Joined: 21-April 03 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 4,488 |
Okay, that explains the origins of the name...now what the hell is it? And who do I have to kill or screw to get one? :P
The Abstruse One |
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Sep 14 2003, 07:59 AM
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Not a Moderator Group: Members Posts: 1,075 Joined: 26-February 02 From: BrizVegas, Australia Member No.: 904 |
One of the Thousand people that have one... |
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Sep 14 2003, 08:09 AM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
The hardcover edition of the SR3 rulebook. :) |
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Sep 14 2003, 10:26 AM
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Not a Moderator Group: Members Posts: 1,075 Joined: 26-February 02 From: BrizVegas, Australia Member No.: 904 |
Does anyone know if there are any fake BABYs out there? I mean, anytime there is a buck to be made, there is always the chance of a fake appearing...
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Sep 14 2003, 04:12 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 138 Joined: 1-September 02 From: France Member No.: 3,208 |
The hardcover edition of the original/english SR3 rulebook... the french edition are always hardcovered :P |
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Sep 14 2003, 11:39 PM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
True, but since when do the French count? ;) :D |
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Sep 14 2003, 11:50 PM
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Beetle Eater Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,797 Joined: 3-June 02 From: Oblivion City Member No.: 2,826 |
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Sep 15 2003, 06:52 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 439 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .se Member No.: 625 |
Well I know for a fact that there are unnumbered BABY books out there, so my guess is that there are actually more then 1000 books.
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Sep 15 2003, 06:55 AM
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Not a Moderator Group: Members Posts: 1,075 Joined: 26-February 02 From: BrizVegas, Australia Member No.: 904 |
Are they fakes or legit? |
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Sep 15 2003, 02:47 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 296 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Usually under a cat Member No.: 864 |
The unnumbered ones are definitely legit. They were sold the year after the numbered BABYs went on sale, at the Shadowrun booth at Gen Con. Turns out they found a box of them they'd overlooked the previuos year and decided to sell them. I still remember them lining us all up for the sale, which was to have stringent rules about only a certain number would be sold each day, and as it was about to start they couldn't find the box of books. Many people left, but some hung around. When they finally found the box about an hour later, Mort Weisman himself said he didn't want to screw around with the whole thing anymore and said, "Sell 'em all now."
I don't know how many there are, but my guess is not too many. |
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Sep 15 2003, 06:02 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 97 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Caledonia,WI,UCAS Member No.: 885 |
Hey,
How much do you think a #324 of 1000 BABY is worth. Trevor |
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Sep 15 2003, 06:38 PM
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The Sewer Jockey Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 857 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Kent, United Kingdom Member No.: 1,197 |
un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept... much the same as the rest of us, I presume... And just a question: is this "Baby" any better than the normal books? I know content is king, but in these hard-backed copies, do the pages actually STAY IN THEIR PLACES? |
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Sep 15 2003, 07:59 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Retired Admins Posts: 3,929 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .ca Member No.: 51 |
I'd suggest under 100 for sure, most likely under 50. That fits within a typical print runs margin of error. |
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Sep 15 2003, 09:49 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 326 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Vigo (Spanish Kingdom) Member No.: 1,446 |
Amercian's don't have the core books in hard cover? We do too here in Spain, all of them are hardcovered... in fact, it's easy to know how much does any spanish player play on each game, judging by the estates of their corebooks.
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Sep 16 2003, 01:25 AM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
Note that I didn't ask how they counted. :D |
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Sep 16 2003, 09:30 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 439 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .se Member No.: 625 |
I do not know how many unnumbered books there are, I just know that I happened to own one of them. So since I don't have a number to brag about I guess I have to call mine the Stealth Baby or something :)
I have not had any pages fall out yet. OK so I don't really use that book while playing but instead a normal paperback copy. @JTNLANGE Not more then say #325 or #323. For it to be a bump in price it would probably have to be some "special" number like say 1, 100, 1000 or 666 (don't know why but you never know there might be some kind of horror summoning spell on it). The other way to increase the value of it might be to get it signed by people that worked on it (i and many others have theirs signed). Somewhat related to this discussion is the hardbound Earthdawn books (the red one with gold print on the cover). Don't recall now but was that a limit series of around 1000 to? I think it was. So are they valued about the same as the SR one? |
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Sep 16 2003, 04:30 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 23-June 03 From: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 4,794 |
One nice thing I did with mine was to track down as many artists as I could and get their signatures in the book.
I found that the Artists would often do a quick sketch as well when they sign something that big (which was unexpected) that makes the inside cover of mine very nice. It also is the way I use to tell which baby is mine quickly other than flipping to the number page (we have three in out group) |
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