I thought the same. I thought you had fixed it with pen or paint or something, I was so confused
Raging Justice wrote:While we're ranting about ebay sellers, I always laugh when they say, "Will be packaged carefully in a bubble mailer". A bubble mailer literally means NOT packaged carefully.
Try living in Europe with our old PAL cases. You ever tried finding any of these without their hinges and disc holders completely broken?
This is my pile of smashed, cracked and broken cases I have had to replace. And that's just the the overspill that don't fit with the rest of them.
So yeah... I absolutely detest sellers who ship games, particularly old, fragile or rare ones in those bubble mailers.
I won a "near mint" Dreamcast game in an auction that was sent in one last year and it arrived in about five seperate pieces. It was completely smashed. And the seller wasn't particularly apologetic, claiming there was nothing wrong with how they packaged it and how they always send games like that without any problems. I returned it for a refund.
I usually message sellers now to check how they ship particular games out.
Raging Justice wrote:Also, 70% of ebay sellers are too lazy to take photos of the item they are selling, and when they do they half ass it.
I also dislike that. That and lazy descriptions. The worst is "please see photo(s) for the condition you will receive the item in", which tells you nothing. Photos only give you a general idea and show what they want to show. As you point out, unless they photograph every single side, every corner, every detail, every flaw or issue, then no, I can not rely on just consulting your photo or photos.
Raging Justice wrote:Yeah, most of the "holy grail" games that collector's want are not legitimately rare. For me rareness comes down to how likely you are to even SEE a copy of something.
A lot of people seem to conflate 'sought after', 'in high demand' or 'uncommon' with 'rare'.
But then condition also comes into the mix. Some people laugh at collectors paying hundreds for fairly common SNES, N64 or Gameboy games, but if they're buying a "near mint" copy of the game, then technically it is rare, because finding any Nintendo cardboard game in nice condition is much harder nowadays. Personally I am glad I am not one of those really anal collectors who will only buy games if they are practically immaculate. Who has the time, patience or money for that?
Most of my N64 and SNES games are cartridge only, because I like to collect to play and I have too many systems to start taking Nintendo cardboard era collecting seriously.
emwearz wrote:"Sorry the item was actually misplaced" - *Relists*
Haha I actually had that last year and the seller told me if they manage to get another copy, they will let me know. I didn't think much about it, but then two weeks later, by sheer coincidence, they messaged me to say they managed to get another copy in! But this one is "in even better condition", so they have listed it BIN for double the price I won the last one for... But don't worry, because they say if I send them an offer of [insert amount here], then they will accept. The offer they wanted me to send was about 20% more than I had previously paid... Hmm, I wasn't convinced that it wasn't just the same copy as before