Posts from dukefan1 in thread „Ebay What Do You Think“

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Originally posted by The Ringo Kid@Oct 10 2006, 01:05 PM
Speaking of Avalon Hill games. I used to have a few like; Squad Leader & The Red Baron. I loved playing both games. Also, I think there used to be one that was about or was "fought" at Stalingrad. A friend of mine had this one and I the first time I ever played this one, I smeared him. This guy boasted of never losing that game. I was in charge of the Red Army and he was in charge of the German Army.

I sure do miss those games and wish they would again, would be sold on the market.

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Hello Ringo, glad you enjoyed the games. When they sold to Hasbro, they were mainly switching over to computer games. They were almost like the board games, you just played on the virtual bord on your computer.

If you type Avalon Hill into ebay search, you will still find allot of these games, some are unpunched and never played.

Mark

Hello Robbie,

I haven't sold much in the last two years, but I did have good success selling there before. It all depends on what you have to sell. If it is a desirable item, it will get bids. If you are sellng something that can be purchased anywhere, I doubt you will get many looks or bids.

I use to work in the printing division of a war game and fantasy board game company called Avalon Hill. We use to print a gaming magazine titled The General. I saved a copy of every issue I printed and a few of the board games that I printed the boards for and some of the older games that were given to me by my boss.

Avalon Hill war games were and still are very popular with war game enthusiasts. After the company sold out to Hasbro, I started putting my issues of The General and the board games up on ebay. I was shocked by the responce and some of the higher bids on the stuff. One older board game actually went for $150. I ended up making over $1200 dollars on what I thought wouldn't get many bids.

So, like I said, if you have something that others want. Something that can't be gotten in allot of places...you can make a splash on ebay. That's the experience that I had on ebay. Anyone else have luck or not on ebay?

Mark