Killer Rabbits

Bought: $6.77 Sold: $132.00 Fees: $11.41 Profit: $113.82

So, board games. I'm not talking about board games like Monopoly, or Life, or even Risk. Board games are a huge thing now - and they are complex, and expensive! I've always been an avid board game player, and my brother collects and plays a lot, and I hear about them from him. I am always on the lookout for modern board games. Most modern board games run $50-70 new, so finding them used would be a steal. Even if not complete, most involved unique pieces or cards that make the game impossible to play without, so buying an incomplete game to sell the parts would likely still turn a profit. Something else about modern board games - expansion or boosters. 

Essentially people want more, and so companies realized "updates" to the games, whether by new versions of the game, or more commonly, expansions. Now expansions usually require the original game to play, it is just more cards or pieces to create a different/longer/better game. For some reason, game publishers often create expansions in limited runs, meaning if you miss out, you are out of luck, unless you can find it used somewhere or online like eBay. This means it can often get expensive if you join the game late (pardon the pun) and want to catch up on back expansions. I know my brother has bid online for expansions that were only made available included in subscription to a German board game magazine, meaning anyone else who wanted one had to buy them online.

All to be said, when I saw a expansion pack, I grabbed it right away. It was still factory sealed! That was awesome. I had never heard of the game before - Killer Bunnies - but I knew that it had to be somewhat modern, along the lines of Cards Against Humanity. A quick eBay search in the store showed sales over $100. I was shocked, and made sure not to let it out of my sight as I wandered the rest of the store. Once I got home I did some research into why this expansion was so valuable. It turns out that it was for a number of reasons: 1) it was out of print (or OOP), which is not surprising for board game expansions, 2) it was published in 2003 (so it is 12 years old and still factory sealed), and 3) Killer Bunnies expansions are stupid. Why are they stupid? Well, it turns out that if you want to use the 10th expansion, for example sake, you need expansions 1-9 to do so. Meaning even if you had every expansion but one, any after that one would be unplayable. And this one? The red booster set? It is number 3. So, a lot of people would need it to play later expansions. 

Long story short, there are people out there who will pay $100 for pieces of paper. What a world we live in.