RPG stuff in Oxfam shop

[ffutures]

The Oxfam book shop in Portobello Road, London, has a lot of RPG material at present - GURPS 2nd edition modules, the Exalted RPG, Traveller modules, some Call of Cthulhu, etc., in a box near the door. Cost seems to be £3.99 or £4.99 for all of the books I looked at. Condition varies from pretty good to well used.

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[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Opening stock will be my own collection. It occurred to me a while back that I really should value it for insurance purposes. I already had everything catalogued, so it took me a long weekend of trawling through eBay and places like Noble Knight to work out replacement costs for each item.

When I added everything up, it came to £35,226.

And then I thought...

That could be £35,226 of collection. Or it could be £35,226 of opening stock. I won't put everything up for sale. There are some things that I couldn't bare to part with (mostly Traveller) and wouldn't be replaceable*. But there are many items that I would sell, or would sell at a certain price and later look for a cheaper replacement.

And since my wife and I run a web development / online marketing company, I'm probably in a better position to easily create an online shop and promote it than most people.




* Probably the one item I'm most proud of is the second copy ever printed (verified and signed by Marc Miller and Loren Wiseman) of the boardgame Imperium, which was the first game to feature the Official Traveller Universe (before the Traveller RPG).

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Crikey, that's impressive.

My old CoC stuff is worth a bit these days, but it's all very used. Handouts cut out. Margins written in. It never crossed my mind back in the day that it might be vaguely collectable one day.