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Someone posted on garagesalejapan asking about the Clamp no Kiseki special mail away pieces, I responded wondering how much they wanted to pay. The reason I asked is they stated in their post that eBay was too expensive for them, I've checked eBay and there is comlete two sets on there, one that is 380 plus shipping the other is about 500. In all honesty, my Clamp no Kiseki set was EXPENSIVE...I paid 225 plus shipping for the chess pieces then about 300 for the box with special mail away figures. That was two paychecks at the time but well worth it, keep in mind that was two years ago when these were a bit more plentiful. I see the sets once in a while now on eBay

I asked the poster ' Just as a general interest how much are you looking to find them for'

Their response was: i would pay at least $60 for the board and art book holder and probably $70 for the figures holder. if you had any of them i would totally give you a good offer in them :)

Ummm...good luck finding them for that price. I know I have seen people get lucky on the sets but never not that low. I have never seen the box + special kings go for under 100. Yeah I know the box is made out of cardboard but people know it can be quite rare. I've always wanted to make a real wooden box for my chess set with all the features of the cardboard one. I might look into getting that made one day.

This is my personal collection site showing my set: http://www.freewebs.com/patriciascollections/clampnokiseki.htm

I know I have a convention coming up but there are a couple things I have to take care of before I go, or even after. I have been actively searching for items from the Delicious Sweet line from Kamio. I currently own two items from the line, a pencil case and a wash cloth. Everytime I ran into the sticker sack, memo pad I didn’t have the funding. There seems to be a lot of interest in these items. I found a seller on ecrater selling two of the items on my list, the pencil and the sticker sack for actually responsible prices. The only problem is I noticed it was a new seller. I messaged her and she e-mailed me back super quickly saying that she had feedback on eBay. We e-mailed each other back and forth and the transaction came into a snag as ecrater does not allow combined shipping it just combines the total amount of shipping. So I will be getting a total for shipping later today as she checked on the postal website and got told 10.00 for basic shipping to Canada which I don’t belive, nor does she. I just paid the invoice which had awesomely low shipping..it was about two dollars. I found the memo pad for a decent price, there are some problems though, the seller has everything in the shop on hold and only ships to the USA. I’ll just keep a look out for it, I only need two items to make it a complete set, the pink dangly pencil and the memo pad. There are a few for sale but 8.00 for a used one or about 21 shipped for a new one.

The second thing I will have to pay for is this neat dress up doll sticker sheet I found on etsy. I asked the seller to put it on reserve as I know I am getting money this week. My plan is to scan in all the pieces, then make printable magnetic sheets.

I got one thing in this week…part one of my family’s chapters order. The odd part is I thought it would be the manga I ordered as Chapters sent me two e-mails saying that all the in stock dvds were temporarily out of stock for two weeks. So I get this heavy box today from Chapters, go downstairs to get the scissors and was surprised as the first thing was a DVD boxset, followed by all the in stock DVDs we ordered. I do have a tracking number for the manga so I’m hoping that maybe they mixed up or that they sent the package without giving me the tracking number.

I changed my address on paypal, thinking that is a part of the problems, I am having on slow shipping. It doesn’t make sense though, I’ll see if anything changes.