hashiriya1 wrote:I don't think it's limited to your area. Here in the San Francisco Bay people ask a king's ransom for next-to-worthless retro games.
It does seem to be particularly bad here. And, the rare times I see someone with something of value asking fair price, no one seems to follow through. I've had maybe one person email me back the ten or fifteen times I've attempted business through that foul place.
I had this episode DVR'd and got around to watching it last night. At least the NES had the original packing (no box). I wish someone would have done research to clarify what the $13,000 auction was (ala Pawn Stars) as the guy running the game store was clueless also.
retrosportsgamer wrote:I had this episode DVR'd and got around to watching it last night. At least the NES had the original packing (no box). I wish someone would have done research to clarify what the $13,000 auction was (ala Pawn Stars) as the guy running the game store was clueless also.
it's the stadium events auction from last year. there's no way it could have been anything else. the headlines were full of misleading information. for example:
The Last Horseman wrote:Damn. I have a friend who learned his grandpa had a large amount of NES stuff he had bought for my friends father before there was a family fallout. They had to clean out the house after his Grandpa's death, and they found a NIB NES and about ten NIB games. My friend asked me about it, and I told him to let me do some research, and how he could be looking at a gold mine. I talked to him the next day, and he had opened all the games and the system, played them, and threw away the boxes. I literally have not speaken to him since. Now I know how bad it is, I feel even worse. He said he would cut me in on the mone for helping him out to.
That's just horrible, why would he do that?!
Maybe he figured that he would rather play the games. Not everyone is out for money.
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The Last Horseman wrote:Damn. I have a friend who learned his grandpa had a large amount of NES stuff he had bought for my friends father before there was a family fallout. They had to clean out the house after his Grandpa's death, and they found a NIB NES and about ten NIB games. My friend asked me about it, and I told him to let me do some research, and how he could be looking at a gold mine. I talked to him the next day, and he had opened all the games and the system, played them, and threw away the boxes. I literally have not speaken to him since. Now I know how bad it is, I feel even worse. He said he would cut me in on the mone for helping him out to.
That's just horrible, why would he do that?!
Maybe he figured that he would rather play the games. Not everyone is out for money.
JY
Even if that were the case, throwing away the boxes was still stupid.
prfsnl_gmr wrote:There is nothing feigned about it. What I wrote is a display of actual moral superiority.
