• Deroan •
United States
Cameron
Montana
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My oldest son is back from school for the summer, and he hadn't seen the game first hand yet.
I personally love War of the Ring, and the Collector's Edition just really was the icing on the cake for me.
While looking at it and talking, my son asked me "so how much is this worth?" so I told him how much it cost, but then said it was worth much more to me personally.
That got us talking on an interesting topic. If someone came up to me and offered me money for it, at what price would the money become more valuable to me than the game.
He said "What if someone was here now and wanted to buy it and had two-thousand dollars?", and I told him nope. Then he said "what about four, or five thousand?"
That is when it kind of hit me for the first time, that there would be a point at which I'd sell this game. I would let it go if someone offered me over $5,000.00 for it, not because I feel the game is worth that much in the market today (such as ebay) but because the game itself is more valuable to me than any amount less than that.
So here is the question I am posing in this thread. "What is this game really worth to you?" Don't just say "A million dollars" or "I would never sell it"... but really think about it. What WOULD you sell it for if the chance came up. Some people might be happy to get their original purchase price out of it, others might be business savvy and get double their money, others (like me), may have a high value on it because of the enjoyment they get out of it, others may consider it the holy grail of the OCD Lord of the Rings collection and have a hard time with a price.
For the sake or argument, let's assume you would never find another copy for sale, they are all owned by collector's who will never part, so you can't say "I'd get a million dollars and buy another copy".
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Matt Mehlhoff
United States
Rosemount
Minnesota
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$399.95
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Brother J
United States
Summerville
South Carolina
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As much as I love this game and love having the CE, I would sell it for $2500.00.
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HauRuck
United States
Plainfield
Illinois
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$10,000 with personal delivery, rules overview, and some strategy tips!
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Chris Ferejohn
United States
San Francisco
California
Pitying fools as hard as I can...
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Of course, you can pick up another copy for whatever they are going for on eBay, so really you just need the difference to be worth the trouble of getting it.
Well, plus the fact that the new copy wouldn't be "yours."
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David Hoffman
United States
Briarcliff Manor
New York
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LannisterGold wrote: $399.95
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Matt Mehlhoff
United States
Rosemount
Minnesota
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cferejohn wrote: Of course, you can pick up another copy for whatever they are going for on eBay, so really you just need the difference to be worth the trouble of getting it.
Well, plus the fact that the new copy wouldn
't be "yours."
except that violates the rules of the thread... GEEZ!
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Will never sell it unless the ring tells me to.
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Grant Sharp
United States
York
Pennsylvania
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$2000 and I would probably let mine go.
Of course, then I'd just spend the money on another guitar that I don't need! 
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• Deroan •
United States
Cameron
Montana
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Yeah, the rules of the thread insist you can never buy a second copy once you sell yours, so I am not thinking someone would sell it for $399.95 right now if the offer came up and they knew there would never be another.
I think this comes down to what the game is worth to you personally if you never could get another one. I doubt the answer would be "I'd never sell it for any amount" because everyone has a price. What if Bill Gates offered you a million dollars? Hell yeah I'd sell it, even knowning I could never buy another copy, that money would do a lot for my family and the game wouldn't be so important to me then, you know?
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Sean Shaw
United States
Georgia
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I'm harder core than some. I wouldn't sell mine for any cheap price like $2000. If one says $1,000,000 that MAY start to tickle my fancy on whether I'd sell it or not. The fact that I wouldn't be able to get another copy probably makes it more along the lines of, there would be no price I'd give it up for, but since that's against the rules as well, and I HAVE to give it up for a price...hmmm...at LEAST a couple million. My Highest rated game of all time in this format...and not able to obtain it again...it had better be something fierce for it...
Under my current conditions, I'd probably never sell it and it's about priceless...BUT since you say we can't say that either...and saying one million isn't in it (and that's too low a price anyways)...maybe a cool Billion...or £1,000,000,000 (yes, that's NOT USD). I'm pretty certain no one will ever buy it for that price though, and will all those saying they'd sell their only copy they could ever get for FAAAAAR less than that, I doubt there would ever be a buyer that desperate.
Perhaps it's flavored by the fact that right now I really don't need the money and have no need to sell it. I suppose if I were in financial straights...and I needed the money for my kids...whatever I could get for it that would keep my kids fed and happy ( so no precise price...just know that I at least value family higher than games by a huge amount).
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My precious... They want to buy it... They want to stole it from us... NEVER! NEVER! NEVER!
(Methinks a decent value to sell WotR:CE would be around 370 euros, but personally I don't care about selling/buying, I'm only a proud owner, the game is really wonderful and very very enjoyable to play and so nothing can buy it at a decent price: fun time isn't valuable!!!) 
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• Deroan •
United States
Cameron
Montana
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I knew there would be a hard core fan that would need millions or more to part with it, knowing they could never buy another.
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Mike Forrey
United States
Dover
Pennsylvania
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To be honest if they just put out the board and Rulebook from the CE i would dump my copy for retail in a second and get those two items. Everything else i already had and was painted to a higher quality than what came in the CE.
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Dick Leban
United States
Austin
Texas
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Without going into specifics, enough to cause a comfortable and reliable retirement. Said retirement would, of course, be promptly spent tracking down an original set and painting the minis.
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Christian Beijner
Sweden
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Unspecified
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Without going into specific numbers...
I was thinking about painting my base set. I enjoy painting but never have enough time to do it. Getting the CE was the simple way of not having to paint all those figures that I wanted to paint. Pay me what I would lose taking time off from wellpaid work, double that to make a profit  , add the base cost off the CE and postage. For that sum I would probably sell....but since I am paid more than chinese painters and paint slower, we are talking quite a bit over what the CE normally sells for on ebay.
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