27-02-2002 23:49									#1
	Civ III collectable on E-Bay Increase Your PM Length

Hey gang! I got my hands on a Civ III paperweight and I've put it up for sale on E-Bay. I've never seen this item anywhere else, so I'm assuming (insert your own joke here) that it is one of a kind. Anyway, click on the link below and check it out.

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAP...item=1335977355

Have fun bidding!

Aias

	27-02-2002 23:55									#2
	Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

Twenty bucks for a rock with a logo on it?

Are you sure someone didn't hit you in the head with it first?

	28-02-2002 00:11									#3
	Support Apolyton, buy Alpha Centauri

Ahhh! What creativity!

	28-02-2002 00:40									#4
	Re: Civ III collectable on E-Bay Tired of ads?

quote: Originally posted by Aias I've never seen this item anywhere else, so I'm assuming (insert your own joke here) that it is one of a kind.

Nope.

-FMK.

	28-02-2002 01:07									#5
	Got spare money?

Oh no! this is trademark infringement! Quick! Let someone call Infogrames legal department! Justice must prevail!

	28-02-2002 02:14									#6
	Tired of ads?

quote: Originally posted by CapTVK Oh no! this is trademark infringement! Quick! Let someone call Infogrames legal department! Justice must prevail!

and after the C&D order is issued, infogrames will begin marketing on their own paperweight line, prices starting at $30. $50 for the "limited" edition, which will include the paper weight, a rubber band (so the following scrap of paper won't fall off), the "designers' notes" ("We dun founded diss heer rock and dun painted on it"), and include free delivery (the rock will be tossed through a window).

	28-02-2002 02:32									#7
	Support Apolyton, buy Alpha Centauri

Hate to burst your bubble, but the rock in question is, in fact, an honest-to-goodness Infogrames-produced tchotchke.

Dan

	28-02-2002 03:47									#8
	Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations: Deluxe Edition

Well, no harm in trying. Remember, I only need one person to say yes!!

	28-02-2002 04:09									#9
	Remove this text

Guys, I understand that it is a promotional item. I just didn't think that they were that wide spread. Perhaps I just have a little P.T. Barnum in me.

At any rate, I DID get Dan to reply to my post, and how many of you can say THAT!!!!!!!????!???


Aias

	28-02-2002 04:30									#10
	Caviat Emptor my arse! Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

quote: Originally posted by Aias I just didn't think that they were that wide spread.

I don't think they are. The only reason I have mine is because I was the store where I preordered Civ3 LE didn't have it in on time. I was pissed. I even skipped a few classes that day to go and get it bright and early. So I sat there and debated corporate ethics with the clerck untill she just wanted me to leave. I said "Well I wont call and complain to the manager if you give me this here rock thingy and that there Darth Vadar poster"... heh
She was glad to see me leave.


-FMK.

	28-02-2002 05:20									#11
	Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

The same thing happened to me. EB didn't have my Civ 3 LE (which was a complete waste of money, but that is another story for another time), so they gave me the paper weight to keep me from being too pissed until they did get me LE.

	28-02-2002 05:24									#12
	EB, yup same store... Support Apolyton, buy Civilization 2

Bastards.

	28-02-2002 05:48									#13
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

I have one. Of course, I work in a video game store. Us workers get first dibs on all the cool stuff.

	28-02-2002 08:49									#14
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

A paperweight for $20? Man you guys are doing better than me, I would have no use for a paperweight. Unless they put a window in my cubicle...or a wall for a window for that matter. It's so dark down in the dungeon...

	28-02-2002 14:41									#15
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization III: Complete

I was expecting the game itself to be the paperweight.

	28-02-2002 20:41									#16
	Not heavy enough... Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

quote: Originally posted by Dissident I was expecting the game itself to be the paperweight.

It makes a nice coaster though.

-FMK.

	28-02-2002 21:47									#17
	Put an end to popups!

I think the "paperweight" is just the Limited Edition tin melted down to slag...