2 copies of I.C.E. Breaker available at amazon.ca

The Magpie on 15/1/2008 at 16:38

Just thought I'd give a heads up to you guys.

(http://www.amazon.ca/gp/offer-listing/0929373197/)

They contain a lot of rare fluff, from what I've gathered. (Look up some old threads.) Still, they're prohibitively expensive, even with the $CDN price, so I won't buy any of them. Any of you feeling particularly wealthy, medio January?

EDIT: They're at $ 107.70 CDN (which Amazon has the tenacity to list as "Low price"!) and $ 154.85 CDN.
Just FTR.

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Fizgig on 15/1/2008 at 21:58

:grr: Sorry I had a bad expereince with Amazon.

The Magpie on 16/1/2008 at 21:54

Quote Posted by Fizgig

:grr: Sorry I had a bad expereince with Amazon.

Since these are second-hand sellers, how is your bad experience with Amazon relevant here beyond that you wouldn't like Amazon to receive a cut from the price?

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C0rtexReaver on 16/1/2008 at 22:05

The rating for those two sellers is pretty abysmal. I wouldn't trust 'em with any money.

-CR

lunatic96 on 21/1/2008 at 06:29

93% positive is a "pretty abysmal" seller rating? Jeez, you're super picky.

The Magpie on 21/1/2008 at 14:50

Good news - the two vendors seem to be undercutting one another every other day.

Bad news - it's still pretty GD expensive.

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C0rtexReaver on 21/1/2008 at 23:49

Quote Posted by lunatic96

93% positive is a "pretty abysmal" seller rating? Jeez, you're super picky.

Well, I'm not super familiar with Amazon's reseller thing. . . but I'd never buy anything from anyone on eBay with less than a 99.5% rating.

(Feel free to search for crtxreavr's rating on eBay.)

-CR

BryanN on 29/1/2008 at 12:24

shoot me down for suggesting this but....

does anyone have a copy of I.C.E breaker that they have scanned and could make avaliable online prehaps?

eom on 29/1/2008 at 19:08

a hint book's going for $100??

The Magpie on 30/1/2008 at 22:10

Yeah. I forgot that Canadian dollars are actually slightly more worth than the $USD these days.

It goes to demonstrate several things. How dedicated (not to say fanatic) the System Shock fans are, for one. And that there was something called production value back in the day. I.C.E. Breaker is a pretty wonderful book to have for a fan because of several illustrations and background stories not found elsewhere, I think.

Note that none of the books have actually sold for $100 yet, mind you.

And since it's so valuable, people are not very keen on risking its destruction by performing a page-by-page scan. Unfortunately for the rest of us. :erg:

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