Another EPIC Star Wars Sale

Bought: $45.00 Sold: $199.99 Fees: $18.97 Profit: $136.02

This is the second time I've sold a copy of this board game. It is rare and hard to find, especially complete considering there are 31 miniatures as part of the game. This is a game to always be on the lookout for. Even if incomplete, you could piece it out and make some money. Now, the story on how I acquired this is a bit of a rant, so feel free to skip it.

I am a member of a facebook group for trading/selling board games in Ottawa. I am mainly a member to try and sell some of my finds, since always easier to sell locally than online. I've had some success with it, but realistically the board games I'm selling, and the prices I want, are not fantastic for local buyers. That being said, I still keep an eye on the group to see if any thing worth buying shows up that I can buy cheap and flip on eBay. One day a guy posted a photo of his closest which was full of board games, literally filled, and he wrote that he wanted to get rid of them all, and to message him with what you want and an offer and that he wouldn't turn down any reasonable offers. I looked at the photo and noticed three games worth money: this one, a WoW board game and a rather uncommon one from the 1980s. This one was the most valuable, so I decided to make an offer on it and see how he reacted. If he agreed quickly, I'd offer to buy the other two as well. I messaged him within minutes of the ad going up, and offered him $40 for the game. He responded immediately saying that someone had offered him $60 already. I was quite skeptical of this since the ad had only been up literally for minutes, and I figured he wanted me to come back and make a higher offer. I wasn't prepared to get into a bidding war with a fictional opponent, so I just messaged back saying that I was glad he found a buyer and left it at that. I was disappointed, since it was a nice flip, but I thought that was the end of it. The next day the same guy posted another ad in the group with a picture of just the three games I identified to myself, and wrote "these three games are the three with the most interest, selling each for $60" and then he quickly changed it to "these three games are the three most valuable." So this guy had sat and let people tell him which games were the most valuable by seeing which got the most offers, and likely for the most money, and then didn't sell to any of those people but decided to charge a higher amount than anyone offered. This really annoyed me, as he could easily have looked up the values online beforehand and so he was being lazy, but more importantly, he was being conniving and he was lying. He never had any intention of selling the games with the most interest for people's offers, despite saying he would accept any reasonable offer, and he was clearly lying when he told me he had an offer of $60 for this game. I was really annoyed and was tempted to call him out on it on the group, but decided to let it go. The next day he messaged me saying that the buyer offering $60 backed out, and it was mine for $60 if I wanted it. I was tempted to respond and tell him to go fly a kite, but I knew there was money to be made, so I responded and said that my offer of $40 still stood but $60 was more than I was willing to pay. He countered with $50, and I countered with $45, which he accepted. So I got the game in the end, for a higher price than I wanted to pay but less than he was asking. I get the irony of this that I sold it for much more, but I never made any false impressions or statements. I was clear that I wanted to buy it, and made what-was-to-him-a-fair-offer. Anyways, long story short, I am glad it sold.