Huge Console Auction Debuts

neura writes "In quite possibly the largest console auction ever, someone is selling just about every development kit and production game console ever made in Japan. They also have listed tons (almost literally) of software to go along with the systems. Anybody ever seen the original Super Famicom development system? The pictures alone are worth taking a gander. :)"

Comments

100k???

[homb]

The dude is selling this for $100,000 starting price. That's pretty insane. Unless you're a store wanting to resell this in a 3rd world country (even then, it'll be hard), you're not going to make your money back.

Truly this is only for the insanely obsessed console freaks.

Re:100k???

[badasscat]

The dude is selling this for $100,000 starting price. That's pretty insane. Unless you're a store wanting to resell this in a 3rd world country (even then, it'll be hard), you're not going to make your money back.

Yeah, a third world country like the USA...

There are a lot of import and collector's shops in this country. Most of them that I've been to are lucky to have one of the items on this list, and it'd usually be the showcase item in the store. I mean come on, a Dreamcast dev kit? Any store I know of would die to get their hands on one of those, and they'd slap a nice $1,000 price tag on it alone, easy.

In fact, this is obviously a HK retailer or wholesaler looking to dump a lot of stock quickly. It's not a collector, it's a guy who sells games for a living one way or another (he may not have an English web site or any US contacts; maybe this is the most convenient way for him to sell here). Look at his other auctions; no way he's got new, unopened copies of games (and systems) lying around because he's a collector. I collect games; this is not a game collector's collection, this is a game seller's collection.

That said, some of this stuff would get him into a lot of trouble if some of these companies found out he was selling it. I'm not sure if Ebay's going to let this auction go through to the end; dev kits, in particular, are mucho taboo to sell, though the older ones he could probably get away with. Nothing recent, though.

I will admit I'd give my left arm for this collection. If I had $100,000 to spare, I'd bid.

Re:How ridiculous we all are...

[rice_burners_suck]

You know, on a side note, after waiting about ten minutes for all the images to load, and only 85 out of the 300 or so have, I have come to the conclusion that if the seller were to list each item separately, he would probably double or triple his returns, regardless of the increased administration costs involved in doing so. This is because buyers are more likely to spend, say, $300 on some item, than $100,000 on a million billion things.

But that's just me. Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh well.

Re:The Sega Deramcast is AWESOME

[dopaz]

Don't you get the impression that the person listing the auction is not a naitive english speaker? All of the hardware is Japanese and the seller is located in Hong Kong. A few spelling errors doesn't change what you get.

Re:How ridiculous we all are...

[Granos]

Look at his selling history and active auctions. He's been selling this stuff on eBay for over FOUR YEARS. He has about 100 seperate items on sale right now. He is probably bored as hell of it. This auction was a great idea, even if no one bids the $100,000 dollars. It has generated HUGE amounts of publicity for him(it had 20,000 hits before it hit /.) If no one bids on it, he'll have no problem selling the items seperately. And maybe, just maybe, there's a video game obsessed nut rich enough to bid the 100k.

Re:How ridiculous we all are...

[lspd]

I have come to the conclusion that if the seller were to list each item separately, he would probably double or triple his returns.

If you honestly believe this you should buy the set, split it up, and relist it.

Customs

[igrp]

If any US-based /.'ers are considering spending their kid's inheritance on this just be sure to check with a lawyer before you bid (Europeans likewise, I guess).

You're not just looking at the $100k pricetag plus S&H but also at spending quite a bit at customs (and it's going to be a b**ch to get some of this stuff cleared by customs in the first place). Oh, and be sure to tell the UPS guy not to leave the stuff on the front porch. ;)

Re:The Sega Deramcast is AWESOME

[aka-ed]

I can't figure for the life of me how Americans, who generally have a limp hold on a single language, can be so critical of an Asian who isn't in perfect command of English.

If you used your imagination to determine what it might be like doing business in a second language you'd know:

1. translators will not keep your business interests in mind as well as you will.

2. Since it's difficult to determine where your own errors may be, it's even more difficult to spot errors made by a spellchecker. And what commonly used, unmodified spellchecker would have correct spellings for "Deramcast," Famicon, or the many other specialized words in this ad?