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Biggest Console System Collection on eBay
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."
We could all find a way to post our ebay auctions on the front page of /.
And a few days after the auction is won, who wants to bet that 1300 hard-to-find ROMs for obscure game systems are going to appear on popular emulation sites?
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Selling them individually or in smaller lots, I bet will be more profitable. BUT, getting it listed on slashdot may just pull it out in the end.
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"I used to own a used video game store, but recently we went out of business because we sold all of our good games."
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No, what we have here is most likely a liquidated "used game" store.
Simple, relist them on ebay individually or in small bundles (say an NES system, a few games, a few accessories). I bet you could double your money easily in a week or two.
No, it's not. Maybe some of the really old models, remember with the fake 70s wood veneer, fetch an extra couple of bucks, but 2600s aren't worth crap.
Atari produced them from like 1978 till 1992, or something ridiculous like that. There are literally more Atari 2600s out there than any other home console.
Video game collecting isn't something you do for financial rewards. I can list on one hand games that have increased in value due to rarity (Panzer Dragoon Saga for Saturn, or Dracula X for PCE/TG16), but those are extreme cases where the publisher screwed up and didnt make enough copies of an excellent game. Usually they flood the market with copies, and there's rarely a scarcity.
You buy a game 50 bucks new, and in 10 years, it'll be worth 50 cents. That's just the way it is. People like me collect the shit because we like video games.
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No one has spent their life savings buying 75 NESs, 50 ps1s, etc. This is clearly excess inventory from a game shop, or something
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Uh, it may be a longer list, but it's almost all games, and the guy set the reserve price at $70,000. I don't think there will be a bid there, thus, no transaction, thus no one is gonna care.
It's an Apple I, not a Mac. The Apple I was not mass produced - they were created in Steve Job's parents garage pretty much by hand. And yes, it's worth more than $12,000 (assuming it is the real thing).
The Mac, on the other hand, was always mass produced and was created after Apple was already a successful and publicly traded company.
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They're only futile if you have an absurd starting bid like $70,000. If you start the bid at something reasonable, you'll sell it no problem. People who set high start prices don't understand ebay. It doesn't matter if that "ULTIMATE JAPANCENTRIC VIDEO GAME COLLECTION" is worth the $70K; no one is going to START their bid at that. People shop ebay mostly just for the chance getting a deal. Say, for example, that you're selling an item you know is worth about $50. Do you start it at $50? No, because no one will bid on it! You need to suck them into it by starting it at $1. Yes, ONE DOLLAR. If it really is worth $50, someone will bid on it in hopes of getting it for LESS than $50. Then, all it takes is ONE MORE PERSON to bid against them. What's even better is that people get caught up in the excitement and will usually bid MORE than it's worth just so they'll WIN. That same item that wouldn't have sold at a start of $50 will often go for $60 or more.
Now, with a huge collection that you think is worth $70K, starting it at $1 isn't going to work because the pool of potential buyers that can pony up that kind of dough is too small. Oversized collections like that ought to be broken into at least a dozen smaller auctions; get 'em under $10K value. The real sweet spot is probably $3K or so, but the stuff has to be actually appear to be WORTH that. I doubt the "ULTIMATE JAPANCENTRIC VIDEO GAME COLLECTION" is going to bring in $70K; maybe if he sold in blocks of less than 20 games at a time, but all at once? I doubt it.
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