This will probably expire before many of you get a chance to look at it, but I was kinda shocked to see Mr. Game Show going for over $150.
Ticket for 1953's The Big Payoff. Can't say I've ever heard this show mentioned before.
This one, while listed as a game show, I'm not sure if it is...ticket for Dumont's 1953 show Wisdom of the Ages.
1999 GSN press kit, includes a spinner, four color slides, and glossies of Narz, Kennedy, and others.
From the 2007 Donruss Americana card set (previously discussed), a Wink Martindale "jersey" card, 237/250.

Not to plug, but the GSN press kit is my own and I'd love to see it get in the hands of someone here who would really appreciate it....it's in great shape and I never even realized there were Tom Kennedy and Jack Narz pictures in there.

It was a spinoff or combination of the two B&E panel discussion shows "Juvenile Jury" and "Life Begins at 80," with half the panel kids and the other half old codgers, moderated by Barry. Definitely not a game show.

A Mr. Game Show, advertised as in excellent condition and with the box, sold prior to this for just $51. I say "just" because there's another one sitting on there with a Buy It Now of $175. Yeesh.

I wouldn't mind having one of these, working or not, just as a kitschy decoration for my curio shelf... but $175?!

Also, here's a Price is Right studio ticket from 1962. I'm a little dense when it comes to this stuff; any reason why this wouldn't be legit?

I guess there's always a slight possibility that just about anything you buy on Ebay is fake, but at least in this case it's extraordinarily unlikely. Those tickets are in plentiful supply, and anyone trying to push a fake probably wouldn't have included the red smears. I have dozens of TPIR tickets from both the NBC and ABC runs, they're really no big deal.

Just wanted to add this plexiglas piece from the J! set I found hunting on ebay this morning.

A piece of Plexiglas.

When they vacuumed the red carpet on the P+ set, I should have gotten the stagehand to give me the vacuumed-up carpet lint. Wonder how much that would fetch on ebay?

I still have a bunch of black Marks-A-Lot pens left over from the production of Match Game at the Congreff last year. I wonder how much each one would fetch if it were represented as "used by panelists on the 1973 - 19-whatever version of Match Game taped in the Bob Barker Studio?

Imagine the value of the lint from Vanna's belly button!

I hope the plexiglass sells for thousands. At that rate, once all the producers I've worked for are long gone, I (or my heirs) will be a millionaire!

Randy
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I want the dibs on the carpet of the toupee remains of Rip Taylor from that day on Super Password or perhaps a piece of the torn up set of Rhyme and Reason where the set went bye bye on the last show. That'll skyrocket on E-Bay

And as a 10-year, 2000-item seller on eBay, there is no possible way that piece of plexiglass will cost $30 to ship. But that's the state of eBay these days...

Care to elaborate? I'm not a big user, so I don't know how it's all evolved. Myself, I've sold things maybe 3-4 times. I once put $5 for a shipping charge that came out to be $2.50 or something. So I sent the remainder back to the buyer via PayPal explaining the situation and why they were getting this money.

-Jason

And that's very altruistic of you. However, that's also not remotely close to the norm.

So Ebay gets paid based on a percentage of the final selling price, right? Note that that doesn't include postage. So what a LOT of people do, is make the shipping INSANELY high, which either a) keeps the actual selling price low and therefore saves them a couple bucks that Ebay would ordinarily take, or b) completely screws over the naive buyer who doesn't check up on such things before bidding.

It's very against the rules, but Ebay, being the pinnacle of buyer protection that they are, makes it very inconvenient to report auctions with excessive shipping charges, mainly because it's my belief that they don't want users reporting OTHER rule-breaking auctions that they are happy to turn a blind eye to.

Ebay has started putting the shipping prices as part of the searches, which helps a bit. In fairness, some items have to be wrapped or boxed. It's part of the "handling" (the pain in the rear factor for the seller).

When I bought this High Stakes game a few years back, it was ten bucks for the game and fifteen for the shipping -- except the seller was three towns over. We just met in the middle. I would recommend that for any item that's reasonably common and large -- just go pick it up.

It does help a bit, but take it from someone who has done it: a video game does NOT cost twelve bucks to ship.

Excuse the eBay rant, but we're far enough off topic anyway.

I'll admit to inflating my actual shipping prices a bit, because I do regularly order shipping supplies like new boxes, bubble wrap, and bubble mailers, and I pay for a monthly charge for time-saving shipping software (Endicia), and that stuff is 100% not cheap. I'm past the point of being able to salvage that stuff from work, etc.

And Chris, when you say that video games don't cost $12 to ship, you're completely right. Something like a Playstation-box size game gets tossed in a Priority Mail flat rate mailer for $4.60, and I charge $5 for shipping something like that. Those little $7's here and there add up quickly for sellers, many of whom see it as a way to neutralize eBay's fees on their business/hobby.

(When faced with the gut-wrenching task of buying a cell phone whatsit on eBay, like a car adapter or something, all those sellers charge $8 for something they ship first-class for 78 cents. That's the worst.)

I've had zero complaints about my s/h charges in the last three years, but before 2003 or so, it was a regular occurrence to get an email from a buyer asking why my shipping costs were higher than the actual postage rate. It's completely accepted now, whether or not Average Joe Buyer realizes it (and many don't), that many shipping charges are out of this world since eBay doesn't charge fees on anything other than the final bid.

eBay is said to be revising fee structures soon, and I wouldn't be surprised if we see something that addresses their shipping problems. I've actually had good success lately selling items with free shipping, FWIW, and will probably continue to use that as a positive tool.

But all of that is completely reasonable, because you're recouping actual expenses. Even a little on the top of THAT to compensate for your time? No problem.

Sure. And it can be done cheaper, if you wanted, and if I were your buyer I'd be fine with it. Bubble mailer is a buck. First-class mail is another two or so. That's reasonable packing and shipping to me.

It's doing a little more than neutralizing when they're tacking an extra $7 onto a $25 used video game sale.

Yep. When I do that, first I find the best combined price. Then, if there is a tie, I go with the vendor more honest about their shipping costs. It's not 79 cents for that cellphone case and then $6 for shipping, it's $6.79 for a cellphone case, shipped.

I would love to see that, but I'm not holding my breath, because I think Ebay has decided that it's better for their overall bottom line to stay broken about this if it means concealing the breakage on other things that work out in their favor.

Yeah, the couple times I've sold things on eBay, I've done that, and either set the reserve or Buy It Now price appropriately.

All I've ever sold on eBay were old Game Boy games, which I shipped in padded envelopes by first-class mail. Since I couldn't tell whether they'd weigh in at 1 or 2 ounces, I just offered free shipping.