TOPIC: Prices on older tokens

Last year we had the price guide for the new tokens and the older tokens.  So I was wondering what we had to base the prices for older tokens on, sure there are the older price guides still available and we would presumably have to inflate them because of demand, but by how much?<br /><br />For instance I traded a little over 6k in gold for a +1 Fullplate.  Last year it was valued at just a little under 3k, I expected some inflation and knew it was going for a good cause so I didn't mind.

Please, anyone feel free to chime in, I would love to hear the thoughts of the token elite and how they value their past tokens.

Reprints = crap. You basically have to find a collector looking to fill a woodie set. Otherwise, matched up against the reprinted woodie, the chip always wins for value. It's pretty simple. Most people prefer chips and thus there's a premium for them.<br /><br />Uniques have a value all their own. Purps tend to be a lot more underpowered during the woodie days on average and won't usually pull as much as a comparable UR chip but there are a few that are iconic and the best of the lot.

I'd go along with Henwy on this one...<br /><br />Missing Woodies for set-builders are very treasured items...counting down to having a set is pretty fun, and finding one, two or a hand-full is getting harder and harder.<br /><br />G

<br />Last year we had the price guide for the new tokens and the older tokens. 

<br /><br />This was a judgement call on my part for 2008.  There is more trade data on in-print tokens than out-of-print and keeping track trades for all tokens would make the price guide significantly larger and more difficult to maintain.  <br /><br />But generally speaking, older out-of-print tokens should increase in value and the relative increase (or decrease) in value is driven by many factors.

So is it safe to say that if a token was reprinted, then to use the current value of it, and to just increase the value of the others by demand and rarity of others having it?<br /><br />I can understand not wanting to make ones for the past years Douglas, it seems like quite a job to even make the current price guide and we appreciate all the hard work that you do that goes into it.

Could you at least put links to the older token price guides on the website?<br /><br />I had to do some googling to find them.<br /><br />

Found under the Treasure Token button from the top menu.<br /><br /> http://www.truedungeon.com/true/TD_PriceGuide_Chips_v2.pdf <br /><br /> http://www.truedungeon.com/true/TD_Priceguide_Pre2007.pdf

<br />So is it safe to say that if a token was reprinted, then to use the current value of it, and to just increase the value of the others by demand and rarity of others having it?<br /><br />I can understand not wanting to make ones for the past years Douglas, it seems like quite a job to even make the current price guide and we appreciate all the hard work that you do that goes into it.<br />

<br /><br />Even with the tokens that aren't reprinted, it's the ones that are most useful that are highest demand, like the +1 Bracers of Defense.  Other than that, it's safe to say that, for the same token, the older it is the more valuable it is.  From most valuable to least valuable:  2003, 2004, 2005a, 2005b, 2006.  And, as many others have said, the main people looking to get the old wooden tokens are people trying to complete sets (like me) - and I don't think that there are that many people working on wooden token sets.  After that, demand drops significantly, as most people do seem to prefer the chip version of tokens to the wooden version of tokens. 

I certainly prefer the chips to the woods, but I'm not really a collector - I just like getting useful stuff for my wizard.<br />

I'm just the opposite.  Any woodie I can get that I might use in the dungeon I want to have.  They are lighter and easier to carry!<br /><br />I'm not a collector (yet) but I probably will be in the future.