I can't believe the Knowing Darkness deluxe went for almost 1200 bucks. I bought mine for 400 including shipping from a member here.
I wanted the EOTD proof and intended to snipe it, but the alarm I set on my phone wasn't loud enough, so I missed the end of the auction by 2 minutes. Friggen Laaaaaaaaaaaame. Oh well, next time
Looking for:
- Philtrum Press Eyes of the Dragon RED #165
- Fine Viking Eyes of the Dragon proof
I'm sure if there is intelligent life somewhere out there in the universe, they are wise enough to stay away from us.
And the people bowed and prayed, to the cell phone god they made...
Triplo (?)! Zuber is a drop ship seller - they don't host their own inventory and when somebody buys a book they source it elsewhere and have it shipped to the buyer. For lots of non-book items, it works OK. For books, it means that you are almost never going to get the edition you are buying in the condition you expect. I believe that someone here actually received some eyeliner (or was it mascara) in the place of the book they ordered...
It's really annoying - they show up in my King and Centipede Press searches all the time.
The deluxe Knowing Darkness has made a lot of gains in past year or so - $1200 isn't crazy any more. I think you got an *amazing* deal at $400, which is what the much smaller non-signed version can fetch these days...
Knowing Darkness at $1200 I think is just crazy. I paid $400 also for one. It seemed there was an unlimited supply on Ebay for some time. George Bheam was the one selling it. I also got the regular edition from him for $85 if memory serves me. I have never heard of that edition doing more than $200. You know of sales of $400 or more?
HELP ME FIND
Insomnia #459
ANY S/L #459
What is? That I don't want to argue over something silly? My point was ONE person paid $1200 , not two or three. I thought that was crazy and so did others. I was simply sharing what I got mine for and trying to gather information on sales of the lower one in the $400 range. Having a bad day mate?
HELP ME FIND
Insomnia #459
ANY S/L #459
Kris, are we having this conversation here or on PM? I can’t keep up. I asked a simple question with no guile or ill intention whatsoever. Is the price really crazy or not when multiple people bid up that final price? Perhaps look at your responses to me before calling my day into question.
Looking for Mister Slaughter S/L #78
Whatever conversation you have, please stop quoting the other posts. The scroll rate is annoying.
"A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King
"A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King
George sold out his copies ~3 years ago. I bought one of the last of his stock. I got the deluxe edition with the acrylic slipcase for $399 and the slipcased version with prints for under $100. Great deal! Thanks again, George!
The price has risen slowly since then. I haven't seen too many of them on the market. The deluxe was worth ~$600 two years ago.
$1181.43 is more than I expected one to go for. I was thinking it would go for around original asking price.
I've seen the slipcased version go for ~$300. I haven't seen $400.
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Adam, there were two bidders that went above £500.00 on the deluxe version.
"One day you're going to figure out that everything they taught you was a lie."
28 in 23 (?)!!!!
63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
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The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
I’ll have to learn how to check all the bids on an auction. I was going off the logic that it takes at least two bidders to get to a final price, and that it was possible there could’ve been more than two people competing. If there were only two, and based off what you guys (including Kris) are saying, $1200 does in fact seem a little crazy. Thanks.
Looking for Mister Slaughter S/L #78
"A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King
The last sales for the signed version that I'm aware of are:
$750 - Betts sale, date unknown (according to Mr. Rabbit Trick)
$900 - what I paid for my copy in 2017
$1150 - what Mulleins sold his copy for (not sure of the date, 2017 I think)
$1180 - what this most recent copy went for in 2018
As the other bidder was willing to go up to $1150, I think this puts the market price of the S/L version around $1k.
As a side matter, the traycase alone just sold for $270.
For the non-signed version, here are the most recent auction results:
Dec 2017: $320
Jan 2018: $388
Apr 2018: $389
May 2018: $250
May 2018: $350
Jun 2018: $350
Jun 2018: $400
Jul 2018: $250
So somewhere in between $250-400 is the going rate, with 3 sales in the last 6 months hitting the $400 mark (or $389-$400 to be pedantic).
We had a similar conversation about this back in April (starting with this post: http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...=1#post1099990).
In general I think that Knowing Darkness is undervalued on TDT because of the number of people who got their copies for less than list price from George Beahm over the course of the many years he was selling them (I also bought an unsigned copy from him in 2014 for $100). For a number of years, he was single-handedly driving the market and pushing down the price because he was the only seller and he had a bunch of copies. After his copies dried up, it took about a year for the market to tighten back up and now the unsigned version is going for almost what the signed version went for, and the signed version is hitting $1000+.
EDIT: From my post in the other thread -
On a side note, I have never seen one of the deluxe versions (of which I think there were ~25 and that retailed for ~$4-5k), and would love to see it if someone here has a copy!