1969 Barnabas Collins Dark Shadows Board Game UNOPENED!!

[Mysterious Benefactor]

1969 Barnabas Collins Dark Shadows Board Game UNOPENED!!

$3,500?! Slightly more than the $47.61 the other listing is asking. 

In the '80s/early '90s prices were so inflated that someone might have actually paid $3,500. Today, somehow I doubt it...

[Gerard]

Do these sellers just pull these prices out of their head or do they research the market value?

Gerard

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I could be wrong, but somehow I suspect it's been decades since anyone has gotten anything near $3,500 for the game, even an unopened one.

Time was people listed reasonable prices on eBay - and then if during the bidding the final price paid was inflated, well, that was on the bidders. Nowadays listings like $3,500 are ridiculous. Though there is the "Make Offer" button, so perhaps if the seller is willing to accept a reasonable offer, things might actually go for a lot less than originally asked. Who knows? It's been years since I've followed anything on eBay...

[Gerard]

Like I said before, MB, we original fans aren't getting any younger.  We have to watch our finances.  Because of you-know-who, the franchise not been passed to younger generations (there are exceptions). 

Do I, who has to pay for my utilities, have over three-grand for a game?  Will a twenty-something pay that for a game?

Again, I blame you-know-who for the collapse. 

Gerard

[Mysterious Benefactor]

For some people it's not really about the money. If they REALLY want something, and if they have the amount of disposable income to afford it, they'll buy it whether what they're buying is worth the price or not. Possessing it is what gives them the pleasure and the money is simply a means to that end.

[The Doctor and K9]

For some people it's not really about the money. If they REALLY want something, and if they have the amount of disposable income to afford it, they'll buy it whether what they're buying is worth the price or not. Possessing it is what gives them the pleasure and the money is simply a means to that end.

If my wife and I made, say triple what were bring in now. I'd probably buy an unopened Barnabas Collins game to have as a kind of museum piece. I understand the desire to own something like that, and cost is relative.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Gee, I see where the price has been dropped to $2250. Though I still have my doubts it will sell - I suspect they'll have to go a lot lower than that, even for an unopened version...

[Gerard]

Kinda reminds me of theBig Bang Theory episodes where they buy "unopened" Star Tek collectibles and chaos and mayhem always ensue. 

Gerard

[Brandon Collins]

What a price! Though, I'm more surprised that they have an original, unopened package given how people price things on eBay these days. I remember scrolling through eBay a lot back in the late 90s, early 2000s when I first got into DS and wishing I could buy some of the stuff that was listed. Over the years I've managed to collect some things, and have even thought about getting rid of them at one point, but something won't let me part with them.

[Gerard]

My biggest hobby has been collecting things from classic passenger ocean liners.  When I was in Paris at a flea market, I bought a complete ink-well set from the most magnificent ship ever built, the Normandie, that was in her First Class Writing Room.  Cost me $50.  I had it appraised (and this was the nineties) at over $5,000.  I won't bore anyone as to why this is so valuable - the Normandie can be researched on-line.  But I'm a fanatic about that glorious ship - nothing was like her before and nothing after.  I will be buried with that ink-well set 

Gerard

[Brandon Collins]

That is a very intriguing collector's focus you have there, Gerard. A far cry from something a simple as coin/money collecting, which is something else I am interested in. Though I must admit I don't actively look to purchase things for my collection because buying money is expensive!

[Gerard]

I know what you mean, Brandon.  We collectors obsessed with our interests will hunt and search for stuff we can afford.  I have lots of DS stuff.  As for my ocean liner fanaticism I have an original crew member's hat from the Queen Mary now preserved in Long Beach.  I have a complete silver-service set from the first class dining room of the United States rusting away in Philadelphia as we preservationists are trying to save her).  But getting stuff costs money.

Gerard

[Brandon Collins]

Gerard, you continue to intrigue with your ocean liner collection! I've been going through my various collectibles over the course of this year and deciding what I want to keep and what I don't. I had a ton of TV on DVD that I've sold because of the availability of streaming now. I'm talking things I never considered selling before, but now it just doesn't seem worth saving and cluttering up my house. Especially because the amount of times I watched these shows before compared to now is vastly different.

However, every time I consider getting rid of my DS DVDs I can't do it. Though, I do have three DS VHS tapes that I've been trying to giveaway. Surprise, surprise--no one wants them