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[myatari]

Just posted new Mint Jaguar game boxes on ebay.
I have sold these at CGE before but this is their first listing on Ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/...7515&rd=1[/img]

[TXG/MNX]

For $2.00 you get 1 box? On ebay you can get sometimes a complete game for it...

I hope you will find some people that will buy these from you...

[t.skid]

Yes, maybe US$2 for a box it's too high. But, at a lower price it's a very nice chance to get missing or damaged box.

[myatari]

What does not sell I can burn in my fireplace on these nasty cold winter nights. I certainly do not care if anyone buys these. I posted them for the fun of it. I'm in the Atari business because it is fun. I sold a bunch of these at the last 2 CGE shows and no one complained about the price. I have so much stuff from Atari that I will never run out. It is more a matter of how much time we have. I guess I'm wasting my time posting here. Next time I will know better.

[icbrkr]

myatari said:

What does not sell I can burn in my fireplace on these nasty cold winter nights. I certainly do not care if anyone buys these. I posted them for the fun of it. I'm in the Atari business because it is fun. I sold a bunch of these at the last 2 CGE shows and no one complained about the price. I have so much stuff from Atari that I will never run out. It is more a matter of how much time we have. I guess I'm wasting my time posting  here. Next time I will know better.

Wow! I see I can take your website off my "favorites" list. I wouldn't ever want to buy from a store that has an owner with an attitude like that.

Brian

[t.skid]

I'm sorry that you get it this way.... I told that it's a good opportunity to get something usually hard to find... And this is a good thing. Why did you get upset? We could discuss about the price (this is a forum ): 2 bucks for each box could be high, because it miss the 'inside' (not the game, I mean the inside box). Maybe one for one $ could be good. But I didn't had any intention to make fool of you or something for it. You still support Atari and it's a great thing - thank you! -, for the rest we can talk, right?

Hope you get my point of view!

[Thunderbird]

You guys are pretty clueless. Try and get a box made for a Jaguar game and you'll see what's involved. $2.00 for a box is a steal. It's a bargain!

[Gunstar]

Thunderbird said:

You guys are pretty clueless. Try and get a box made for a Jaguar game and you'll see what's involved. $2.00 for a box is a steal. It's a bargain!

I agree, I've bought used boxes for more from people just trying to get back the one's I lost. If your a collector who needs boxes for the "complete" collection, like me, this IS a steal! It's a hell of a lot cheaper than buying duplicate copies of a game you already own to get the box (which I have also done for $5-10). I haven't checked the auction yet, but if he has some boxes for games I see going for $20 or $30 or more, those are worth even more than $2 to me, since I'd have to pay 10 times or more for a game I already have just to get my boxes back! Guess you guys aren't true collectors or you'd have a clue about what a great deal this is!

[Thunderbird]

Gunstar said:

Thunderbird said:

You guys are pretty clueless. Try and get a box made for a Jaguar game and you'll see what's involved. $2.00 for a box is a steal. It's a bargain!

I agree, I've bought used boxes for more from people just trying to get back the one's I lost. If your a collector who needs boxes for the "complete" collection, like me, this IS a steal! It's a hell of a lot cheaper than buying duplicate copies of a game you already own to get the box (which I have also done for $5-10). I haven't checked the auction yet, but if he has some boxes for games I see going for $20 or $30 or more, those are worth even more than $2 to me, since I'd have to pay 10 times or more for a game I already have just to get my boxes back! Guess you guys aren't true collectors or you'd have a clue about what a great deal this is!

I was talking from the standpoint of having to get a box produced and printed. To het the price that low a person would need to make tens of thousands of them. Since we know there are not tens of thousands of customers out there for Jag products you wind up paying $10 each for printed boxes. That's not including the inserts which I've paid between $1.00 and $3.00 each for, depending on what the sellers wanted to get at that moment for old Jaguar stock. I'm sure a new insert would cost a lot more than that because of the complex shape and glue and fold operations.

But from the standpoint of a collector replacing bent or damaged boxes, it's a great deal too.

Plus the collector value of having an unfolded and unused cart box is itself a neat item for a collector to have. There's not many unused boxes out there. I had a guy offer $50.00 once for a unfolded BattleSphere box for the reason of collectability, so I know this is an attraction to these types of items as well.

[myatari]

Thank You for your support. I guess it is always the ones who do not want what I have that find it so easy to bad mouth it. I thought there would be people who realize how rare these are and want them for there collection and consider $2. a fair price.

I guess I get too sensitive about selling some of the stuff I pulled out of Atari over the years. Normally it was not easy dealing with them and I spent thousands of hours and over a million dollars doing it. Most checks I handed to Atari were about $20K but there were some over $100K for a single lot. It took a lot of work. Any one who tried to deal with Atari knows how difficult it could be. Of course that is one of the things that made it even better when a big purchase finally happened after months
of work. The empty boxes sat at Atari for over a year before I was able to buy them. There was a pallet of Atari calculators that I tried to by for several years but only managed to get about a dozen models. The rest disappeared from the warehouse.

Again Thanks for the support.
Bruce & Cathy

[myatari]

Since this is for fun I went in and revised the bidding price to 10 cents but Ebay kicked it out. Ebay has a minimum openning bid of 99 cents for DUTCH auctions. So it is now at $1. I did not want to deal with 99 cents. also I reduced the quantity to 32 avaiable. Please have fun bidding.
Bruce & Cathy

[t.skid]

Thunderbird said:

You guys are pretty clueless. Try and get a box made for a Jaguar game and you'll see what's involved. $2.00 for a box is a steal. It's a bargain!

Maybe it's my fault, 'cause I'm Italian and sometimes didn't write english in clear way...

I agree with you, but if for some people $2 seems too much, I was talking about it and try to find a good point to make all happy.

Example: you have an Alien vs Predator without box, and you find it at 2 bucks. It's a great deal to "complete" the game (sure if there's always the inside box price could be higher, also $5).

[Thunderbird]

myatari said:

Thank You for your support. I guess it is always the ones who do not want what I have that find it so easy to bad mouth it. I thought there would be people who realize how rare these are and want them for there collection and consider $2. a fair price.  
Again Thanks for the support.
Bruce & Cathy

I think perhaps some people didn't really understand what these things were that you were selling, or just had an immediate reaction to the thought that these were just hunks of paper and didn't really consider their rarity.

Look at it this way, you sell on your website single slides or microfiche drawings from Atari Engineering. These things are small and of little intrinsic value. However, to a collector they are very cool and worth much more money to own.

A "virgin" box is definitely something few people own, and I'm sure collectors will buy them up.

[Joey Kay]

Just to add my two cents in here...

Although I have not bought much recently from Bruce and Cathy (the last thing I got was Ninja Golf and a Joypad a year or two ago), I have been dealing with them since the late 80's, and they have been, without a doubt, the most wonderful Atari dealer on the face of the earth! Excellent products and excellent customer service!

I still have their mailouts from the 80's saved and browse them every once in a while... which reminds me... did you ever get "The Dallas Quest" in? I remember ordering that years ago and it was out of stock... I was traumatized!

And I still want to know how you managed to time the shipping of the XG-1 light gun my folks bought me and have it arrive in the mail on Christmas Eve of 1990 - what a great Christmas surprise that was!

I guess I'm just saying that I don't think anybody will be disappointed with Bruce and Cathy's products or service!

Cheers!

Joey

[LinkoVitch]

The image of all those folded boxes is cool in it's own right

Only bad thing is.. there is no Raiden box! the one box I really want (due to mine being attacked by a heard of elephants by the looks of things ).

Oh well never mind

$2 isn't much really.. especially for a collectable such as this. I may be tempted....

[Thunderbird]

LinkoVitch said:

The image of all those folded boxes is cool in it's own right

Only bad thing is.. there is no Raiden box!  the one box I really want (due to mine being attacked by a heard of elephants by the looks of things ).

Oh well never mind  

$2 isn't much really.. especially for a collectable such as this.  I may be tempted....

I've got a bunch of BattleSphere boxes that look like that. It really is a cool thing to see. I hate to fold them sometimes because it's like they are losing their virginity!

[LinkoVitch]

Thunderbird said:

I've got a bunch of BattleSphere boxes that look like that. It really is a cool thing to see. I hate to fold them sometimes because it's like they are losing their virginity!

which is a good thing in a perverse way

I can see a new uber odd adult website... "Virginboxes.com" See them unfolded for the first time. Barely legal boxes folded into shape and the filed with stuff.... Click here to get your free pass

[Thunderbird]

LinkoVitch said:

Thunderbird said:

I've got a bunch of BattleSphere boxes that look like that. It really is a cool thing to see. I hate to fold them sometimes because it's like they are losing their virginity!

which is a good thing in a perverse way

I can see a new uber odd adult website... "Virginboxes.com" See them unfolded for the first time. Barely legal boxes folded into shape and the filed with stuff.... Click here to get your free pass

What about the boxes and barnyard animals and the young asian boxes and also the come and see my boxcam websites?

[jaysmith2000]

Thunderbird said:

LinkoVitch said:

The image of all those folded boxes is cool in it's own right

Only bad thing is.. there is no Raiden box!  the one box I really want (due to mine being attacked by a heard of elephants by the looks of things ).

Oh well never mind  

$2 isn't much really.. especially for a collectable such as this.  I may be tempted....

I've got a bunch of BattleSphere boxes that look like that. It really is a cool thing to see. I hate to fold them sometimes because it's like they are losing their virginity!

You should sell some of those T-bird! I know I'd buy one!

[Thunderbird]

jaysmith2000 said:

Thunderbird said:

LinkoVitch said:

The image of all those folded boxes is cool in it's own right

Only bad thing is.. there is no Raiden box!  the one box I really want (due to mine being attacked by a heard of elephants by the looks of things ).

Oh well never mind  

$2 isn't much really.. especially for a collectable such as this.  I may be tempted....

I've got a bunch of BattleSphere boxes that look like that. It really is a cool thing to see. I hate to fold them sometimes because it's like they are losing their virginity!

You should sell some of those T-bird! I know I'd buy one!

I did that once before. A guy offered me $50 for one, so I caved in. Another guy also offered $50 for one but someone else emailed me and said he was trying to get a box because he was going to clone the cart and sell it for $250 as a real one but needed a box. He tried to sell just the acrt on ebay but the most anyone wanted to pay was $100 for the bare cart.

So, I am leery now of selling just the boxes.

Besides that, if I sell a box then that's one less BS I can sell in the long run.

[t.skid]

Thunderbird said:

I did that once before. A guy offered me $50 for one, so I caved in. Another guy also offered $50 for one but someone else emailed me and said he was trying to get a box because he was going to clone the cart and sell it for $250 as a real one but needed a box. He tried to sell just the acrt on ebay but the most anyone wanted to pay was $100 for the bare cart.  

So, I am leery now of selling just the boxes.

Besides that, if I sell a box then that's one less BS I can sell in the long run.

One less BS? No, no no! Keep every box for it! (sorry Jason! )

[Thunderbird]

t.skid said:

Thunderbird said:

I did that once before. A guy offered me $50 for one, so I caved in. Another guy also offered $50 for one but someone else emailed me and said he was trying to get a box because he was going to clone the cart and sell it for $250 as a real one but needed a box. He tried to sell just the acrt on ebay but the most anyone wanted to pay was $100 for the bare cart.  

So, I am leery now of selling just the boxes.

Besides that, if I sell a box then that's one less BS I can sell in the long run.

One less BS? No, no no! Keep every box for it! (sorry Jason! )

For what it's worth, I sold the one to the first guy because one of the manuals I had got wrinkled and I couldn' sell it anymore and so I had a mismatch and could let the one go to even up the quantities again.

[t.skid]

Thunderbird said:

t.skid said:

One less BS? No, no no! Keep every box for it! (sorry Jason!  )

For what it's worth, I sold the one to the first guy because one of the manuals I had got wrinkled and I couldn' sell it anymore and so I had a mismatch and could let the one go to even up the quantities again.

Ok, this one went, but no more