[Mr. Galaxian]

What is wrong with people? 270 games, quite a few rarity 5 games, some rarity 6 games, and a sealed Xenophobe, and the seller can't even sell this for $349. I know it has only been about 15 hours but you would of thought at least a reseller would be all over this. When I see stuff like this it makes me wonder how strong our hobby is at the moment.


http://cgi.ebay.com/...=item414a264ee5

This post has been edited by homerwannabee: Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:31 PM

[brandondwright]

While you do cite this in your post, it still has only been 15 hours. It's most likely just people don't know about the auction, rather than the hobby is going to pot.

[S1500]

homerwannabee, on Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:29 PM, said:

What is wrong with people? 270 games, quite a few rarity 5 games, some rarity 6 games, and a sealed Xenophobe, and the seller can't even sell this for $349. I know it has only been about 15 hours but you would of thought at least a reseller would be all over this. When I see stuff like this it makes me wonder how strong our hobby is at the moment.


http://cgi.ebay.com/...=item414a264ee5

Well, our economy's still in the crapper, then if you are a reseller, you have to jump through all the hoops to sell those games again. Plus, there's the issue of shipping.

Honestly, if you are buying classic video games just to "flip them" like real estate, the hobby loses all fun. If I had $350 burning a hole in my pocket, I would be buying a modern console.

[Cebus Capucinis]

I would be purchasing this if I didn't have absolutely zero free money. I would love this auction.

[Shawn Sr.]

I'd give him $150 for them tops.

[phaxda]

This looks like a big PITA to resell to me.

[Frostbite Bailey]

I would make an offer, but the shipping would be a bitch

[ianoid]

So it's like $400 with shipping. If you want to resell commons, you need to be getting them closer to 50 cents.

[Mr. Galaxian]

ianoid, on Sat Oct 31, 2009 8:57 AM, said:

So it's like $400 with shipping. If you want to resell commons, you need to be getting them closer to 50 cents.

You do know the shipping is free?

OK, you have a point if the guy was selling nothing but Asteroids, Combats, Space Invaders, and breakouts. But he is selling some pretty rare games as well. Did you even look at this auction?

Here are some of the rarer games
Adventures of Tron
Alien
Armor Ambush
Artillery Duel
Artillery Duel/Spike’s Peak
Bank Heist
BASIC Programming (text label)
Bermuda Triangle
Big Bird’s Egg Catch
Blue Print
BMX Air Master
Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom
Bugs
California Games
Circus (Zellers special edition)
CocoNuts
Commando Raid
Congo Bongo
Cosmic Creeps
Crackpots
Eggomania (angled cart)
Eggomania (box cart)
Entombed
Fathom
Final Approach
Flag Capture (text label)
Flash Gordon
Frogger II
Ghost Manor/Spike’s Peak
Ghostbusters
Gopher
Infiltrate
International Soccer/M-Network
Karate/Froggo Games
Kool-Aid Man
Kung Fu Master
Lost Luggage
M.A.D.
Marine Wars
Mario Bros (color label)
Mario Bros (brown label)
Math (text label)
Millipede (in box)
Miner 2049’er
Mogul Maniac
Montezuma’s Revenge
Moonsweeper/Imagic
Mountain King
Nexar
Ocean City Defenders (Zellers special edition)
Oink!
Planet Patrol
Private Eye
Racquetball
Raft Rider
Roc ‘n Rope
Smurf: Rescue
Sneek’n Peek
Snoopy & The Red Baron
Solar Storm
Spitfire Attack
Squeeze Box
Sssnake
Star Trek
Star Wars: The arcade game
Stargate
Stellar Track (text label)
Sub Scan
Survival Run
Tac-Scan
Taz
Tomcat
Towering Inferno
Tron Deadly Discs
Tunnel Runner
Turmoil
Wizard or Wor
Word Zapper
Xenophobe (sealed in box)

Sure it's a bunch of commons.

[technicaltoast]

ianoid, on Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:57 AM, said:

So it's like $400 with shipping. If you want to resell commons, you need to be getting them closer to 50 cents.

Agreed! $400 is a bit steep.

[Mr. Galaxian]

Here is why this troubles me so much. Let's do the math for a second. Flash back to about 2001. Gold was $270 an ounce, and this would be worth about double with the guy asking about $700 for everything. Now a package like this has droped in value by half to $350, and gold has gotten up to $1,000 an ounce. Why am I correlating gold to these games. Simple because there is gold in these games. 7 to 8 years ago this was a non issue. Gold was not expensive enough and Atari carts were too expensive to smelt into gold. Now were getting to a point were this is looking more feasible. I don't think we are there yet, but if we continue on this path it will happen. Atari carts will be ravaged for gold smelters.

Here is when I think it will happen.

If common Atari 2600 carts drop another 50 percent in value, and gold doubles to $2,000 an ounce than it becomes to a point where the majority of large auctions like this will be bought by gold smelters. They probably won't care about the Montezuma's revenge, Frogger II, and Xenophobe and straight melt all these carts into gold.

Don't think it will happen? Have you checked the thread about the smelter wanting to buy all the O'Sheas games so he can melt them into gold? A lot of history will be destroyed if things continue down the path they are currently.

This post has been edited by homerwannabee: Sat Oct 31, 2009 9:55 AM

[Mr. Galaxian]

technicaltoast, on Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:30 AM, said:

ianoid, on Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:57 AM, said:

So it's like $400 with shipping. If you want to resell commons, you need to be getting them closer to 50 cents.

Agreed! $400 is a bit steep.

Shipping is free. Again SHIPPING IS FREE. It is a straight up $349. What is this $400 business?

[rmaerz]

homerwannabee, on Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:43 AM, said:

technicaltoast, on Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:30 AM, said:

ianoid, on Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:57 AM, said:

So it's like $400 with shipping. If you want to resell commons, you need to be getting them closer to 50 cents.

Agreed! $400 is a bit steep.

Shipping is free. Again SHIPPING IS FREE. It is a straight up $349. What is this $400 business?

Dude, why don't you just buy it? It's only $350...

[Mr. Galaxian]

rmaerz, on Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:10 PM, said:

homerwannabee, on Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:43 AM, said:

technicaltoast, on Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:30 AM, said:

ianoid, on Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:57 AM, said:

So it's like $400 with shipping. If you want to resell commons, you need to be getting them closer to 50 cents.

Agreed! $400 is a bit steep.

Shipping is free. Again SHIPPING IS FREE. It is a straight up $349. What is this $400 business?

Dude, why don't you just buy it? It's only $350...

Because mainly, I am broke at the moment. I can't even buy it if it was $50. Now in 9 days things will change when I get paid. Also, I have almost all the games. The sealed Xenophobe is pretty cool though, and I don't have that.

This post has been edited by homerwannabee: Sat Oct 31, 2009 10:14 AM

[iwan-iwanowitsch-goratschin]

First the loose cart collectors are dying out then the box collectors.......

[Frostbite Bailey]

Shipping is free? Not to Canada

[Frostbite Bailey]

iwan-iwanowitsch-goratschin, on Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:29 PM, said:

First the loose cart collectors are dying out then the box collectors.......

Great, let them all die out, that will make collecting a whole lot easier

[AtariLeaf]

homerwannabee, on Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:13 PM, said:

rmaerz, on Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:10 PM, said:

homerwannabee, on Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:43 AM, said:

technicaltoast, on Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:30 AM, said:

ianoid, on Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:57 AM, said:

So it's like $400 with shipping. If you want to resell commons, you need to be getting them closer to 50 cents.

Agreed! $400 is a bit steep.

Shipping is free. Again SHIPPING IS FREE. It is a straight up $349. What is this $400 business?

Dude, why don't you just buy it? It's only $350...

Because mainly, I am broke at the moment. I can't even buy it if it was $50. Now in 9 days things will change when I get paid. Also, I have almost all the games. The sealed Xenophobe is pretty cool though, and I don't have that.

I highlighted the 2 very reasons most people here probably aren't biting. I don't think anyone is saying its a bad lot.

[S1500]

Homer, if you're not buying it, I'm starting to think you're going to earn a commission on this sale somehow, some way.

[Warriorisabouttodie]

S1500, on Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:32 PM, said:

Homer, if you're not buying it, I'm starting to think you're going to earn a commission on this sale somehow, some way.

I think he's secretly selling it...

[Cebus Capucinis]

I forwarded that auction to a local smelting company. I think they said they'd give me a 10% "finders fee". We'll have a buyer SOON!

[CPUWIZ]

Quote

Q: Hello i hope you ship APO im in the US. Thats no problem or is it?? Because im for the next weeks in Germany and APO for the US is much Cheaper! Thanks Steven
A: I will ship there yes, but I have to check the charges before I accept the offer. Please send me the zip code.

jetset said:

Reported, auction claims shipping is free.

@Homer: http://www.ego4u.com/

I wouldn't buy it as a new collector, because the pictures are crap.

[Mr. Galaxian]

CPUWIZ, on Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:56 PM, said:

Quote

Q: Hello i hope you ship APO im in the US. Thats no problem or is it?? Because im for the next weeks in Germany and APO for the US is much Cheaper! Thanks Steven
A: I will ship there yes, but I have to check the charges before I accept the offer. Please send me the zip code.

jetset said:

Reported, auction claims shipping is free.

@Homer: http://www.ego4u.com/

I wouldn't buy it as a new collector, because the pictures are crap.

No you are misunderstanding what he is saying. He is saying. The reason he is saying he has to check the charges before he accepts the offer is because if APO is too expensive to ship than it is not worth it for him to sell it to him. It sounds to me that he would be still swallowing the cost, just he had to check to see what the shipping costs would be if he did that.

Edit: I just noticed the link. Can you please back off nit picking my grammar? I have been a member here for over 6 years, and have contributed greatly in different areas. Please give me just a little bit more tolerance as a fellow fan of the Atari 2600. I don't ask for your respect, but I would appreciate it if you were more tolerant of me.

This post has been edited by homerwannabee: Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:27 PM

[CPUWIZ]

FREE = FREE, APO or not.

[seanhq]

homerwannabee, on Sat Oct 31, 2009 9:13 AM, said:

rmaerz, on Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:10 PM, said:

homerwannabee, on Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:43 AM, said:

technicaltoast, on Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:30 AM, said:

ianoid, on Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:57 AM, said:

So it's like $400 with shipping. If you want to resell commons, you need to be getting them closer to 50 cents.

Agreed! $400 is a bit steep.

Shipping is free. Again SHIPPING IS FREE. It is a straight up $349. What is this $400 business?

Dude, why don't you just buy it? It's only $350...

Because mainly, I am broke at the moment. I can't even buy it if it was $50. Now in 9 days things will change when I get paid. Also, I have almost all the games. The sealed Xenophobe is pretty cool though, and I don't have that.

You could always contact the seller and tell them you want to buy it now, but won't be able to pay for 9 days

I do agree that this is a pretty amazing lot and deal, however I don't have an extra $350.00 $349.00 to shell out at the moment and I do already own a lot of these games. I'm sure if someone has the money, this lot will sell. I'm now watching the auction to see what the final outcome ends up being.

This post has been edited by seanhq: Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:45 PM