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Biggest Console System Collection on eBay

Posted by Zonk on from the not-the-omegathon-but-close dept.

Cire writes "Someone named 'Mr. Soundtrack' is selling over 1300 games in one ebay auction. Included are more than 300 systems and a massive arsenal of gaming peripherals. The lot contains 23 Atari 2600s, 78 Nintendo NES's, 33 PlayStations, 60 SNES's, as well as some harder-to-find systems like the Bally Retrocade System, a Sega Nomad, and a couple 3DO systems."

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  1. shipping cost?!?!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    There are a total of 21 boxes to be shipped. All are double walled except the smallest one. The boxes weigh on average of 69 lbs.

    1. Re:shipping cost?!?!?! by ZB+Mowrey · · Score: 3, Informative

      Actually, shipping is part of my job. The best way to ship it would be on a pallet, on an LTL carrier. Second best would be UPS - find a business using them already, and you could take advantage of the Hundredweight program to get LTL-like prices. Probably around $225-250 cross-country. ;)

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  2. Please by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Informative

    3DO and Nomad "hard to find"? A 3DO will run you no more than 50 bucks (you're getting ripped off at 50 too), and Nomad's are all over the place.

    A few weeks ago another dude had a collection of truly rare stuff, like Hi-Saturns, PC-FX's, tons of different "special edition" consoles, 1000s of games, and a dev kit for pretty much every console there is.

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    1. Re:Please by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Informative

      Hell, this guy has a lot of stuff, but nothing remotely rare.
      He's definately not a collector. No NeoGeo, no Pippin, no Playdia, no PCFX, no SuperGrafx -- Hell, no TurboGrafx! No colecovision, Odyssey II..

      What kind of a "console collection" without TurboGrafx, ColecoVision, Atari 7200..

      All mainstream consoles and games. Like another poster said, this screams "my video game store went out of business".

      So is the guy a friend of "Zonk", or did he pay to have his eBay auction advertised on slashdot?

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    2. Re:Please by soft_guy · · Score: 2, Informative

      Atari 7200..

      Is that like an Atari 7800 with the crappy controller from the Atari 5200?

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  3. Re:Slashdotting Ebay???? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The site that holds the photos of the item is not Ebay, now this one's having a little trouble

  4. Re:You people are horrible by aussie_a · · Score: 2, Informative

    First of all, it was an attempt at funny. Second of all, just because slashdot didn't effect the bid doesn't mean the submitter didn't want it too ;) But again, I wasn't serious. Someone probably saw it and thought "oh that'd be an interesting story"