Which Excel Saga Manga Volumes are Forum Members Missing?

[Pointless]

I have them all, bar Viz edition volumes 7 and 8. Just why are those two so highly priced anyway? What's the story behind that?

Apparently, after printing volumes 1-6, Viz cut back on the number of copies printed for 7 and 8, believing that the demand wasn't there. Volumes 9-present were then again printed in slightly higher numbers. There is a more detailed (and probably more accurate) explanation somewhere on this Forum in one of the Topics, but I couldn't find the link. (If anyone remembers where it is, please post the link!)
 

[ConvoyButterfly]

So that's what happened...
"Now what is it, what's the line you say at a time like this..?" 
"This world is so corrupt."

Thank you Senior Pointless!

[Lord Il]

Thank you Senior Pointless!

Could you imagine the implications of Elgala sayng that very line to Excel?

[Pointless]

Thank you Senior Pointless!

Could you imagine the implications of Elgala sayng that very line to Excel?

Yes! Although I believe that the Japanese word-order would make it "Pointless Senior"!

[Pamplemousse]

At this moment, I only have 1 7 8 18 19 20 and 21, plus 8 in French. 1-14 are on their way to me now too, but I am cautiously optimistic. So I'm going to have an extra copy of 8 for one of you lovely loves~~ (assuming all goes well)! Who wants it, oh diligent guardians of this forum? Pamplemousse asks nothing of you! Unless there's more than one request in which case there shall be a fan-off of a to-be-determined nature! 

[Lord Il]

I'm going to have an extra copy of 8 for one of you lovely loves~~ (assuming all goes well)! Who wants it, oh diligent guardians of this forum? Pamplemousse asks nothing of you! Unless there's more than one request in which case there shall be a fan-off of a to-be-determined nature!  

How intriguing! 

[Pamplemousse]

I, Pamplemousse, am glad Lord Il is here to bear witness to my theatrics even as I hear my hollow echo reverberate through the forum, near unheeded like an impotent ghost.
I, Pamplemousse, am also a silly goose.

[Lord Il]

And I, Lord Il, must have a gear loose.. because I'm hearing that very same echo! How is this possible? I don't want to hear this hollow echo.

[Pointless]

Pamplemousse, a silly goose;
Lord Il, with a gear loose;
Pointless follows, like a train's caboose!

[Foggle]

Foggle's post is written in chartreuse!

[Pamplemousse]

Aaaand Foggle's rhyming has cemented his (friend's) position as the lucky winner of volume 8 too! Mainly because I just got his PM... but also because no one else responded and I am impatient. Gotta be quick, members of ACROSS. GOTTA BE QUICK.

Of course,  I'll keep an eye out at various stores, so maybe this fortuitous circumstance will happen again.
YAAAAAR.

[Lord Il]

Bidding has ended at £31.00 ($50.39US) with 5 bids on that recent ebay listing.

My congrats if anyone here got the win. ^^

[Randomness]

In a non-surprising turn of events, volume 8 is the only one I don't have.

[E^D Crow]

I am posting to brag that I am currently up to date, owning every volume.

In other news:

I couldn't find a place to post this, but I just want to gush a little bit about how much I love the Excel Saga manga, and that it is my all-time favorite work of fiction-EVER!  My #2 would be Transmetropolitan, by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson, but it doesn't even come close to the love I have for Excel Saga.  I get giddy just thinking about it.

Really, I feel like the universe has given me some sort of precious gift by finding this series, which I enjoy so much.  Like, I'm in on this amazing secret, that isn't actually a secret at all!  I don't even remember how I got into it, exactly, but I know that I read the manga before I saw the anime, and that I look forward to every new volume with rabid anticipation.  I can read it from the beginning, again and again, yet never get bored or sick of it.  Rikudo Koushi is a God, and the characters are his angels.  There is nothing else in this world that elicits this kind of reaction in me.  NOTHING!  I wish that I could give it to everyone I know, but my friends don't (i.e. won't) read manga, and it feels like they're really missing out on something wonderful.

When I came back here and wrote: "Excel Saga - for life!", I truly meant it.  I plan to get both the English and Japanese title logos tattooed on the inside of my forearms.  I mean, I already have a Hell Girl circle/flame tattooed on my chest... but these will be different, special; a testament to my devotion.

I would say coming here is just the icing on the cake, but I don't like icing, so I'll say that you guys are the butter on the bread, because good bread is so much better than any cake.

E^D

[Foggle]

Damn it, man... I've been wanting to post something like that for ages! I feel 105% the same way you do.