IC: Group Buy - World's Largest Collection

[mjmjr25]

Greetings,

Per this thread and since the buyer is not wanting to split, it was suggested to group buy.

The following needs to be considered:
- Shipping: all at once will be an incredible amount, it wouldn't be feasible to ship in less than 20 massive boxes, a U-haul might be best drive cross country for a fee.
- There is a ton of stuff many of us won't be interested in.
- Splitting it amongst 100 people will be too convuluted, would take too long to divvy up, or get people together all at once to coordinate.
- This will go for about half value, i'd suspect, based on sales of entire libraries on ebay in the past. I peg it at 120K-130K in value.

I propose, at 12 people, a max bid of 72K could feasibly win the auction and would be manageble if kept small enough. I can coordinate the financial side and the splitting of the goods - we would need someone out East to do the pickup, storage, and shipping or delivery.

Your bid is for 6K (would come in less if it sold for less). I like 6K as it might be a reasonable number for a few of us and you should be able to get 1,000 games, keep half, sell half, and get most of your money back.

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[bryan_65]

Wish I could be in, and if some how the community could pull it off it would be pretty neat.

[cha cha]

Just gonna quote myself here:

I'll bite.

I'm in for 6K to a max of 72K.

We'd need 11 more. I'll handle the finances; someone closer might need to coordinate pickup, storage and individual shipping.

Eronn - you in?

Are you going in for straight up even splits or are you allowing action on people who want a less significant portion of things? I can understand you not wanting to do that however, because it complicates the situation exponentially... But there is simply not 6k worth of games in his collection that I'd want, or go through the trouble of reselling.

I see your additional rules, and I doubt you'd be willing to do this. But I am purely interested in the Jag/JagCD and 3DO stuff. Maybe CDi too. But nowhere near 6k worth of stuff. Any chance we can negotiate?

Since I live close to the guy and know him (could be useful?), I am also willing to facilitate and commit to the picking up all the stuff and coordinating a delivery effort etc. If you are in need of such services.

[Jmustang1968]

Hmmm...

[mjmjr25]

@cha - let's see if there's enough interest here first and then we can look at that part deeper.

[Jmustang1968]

I'd still have reservations on how to divvy up the loot.

[ninjainspandex]

This could either end up in the greatest troll in racketboy history or the most epic B/S/T thread to end all B/S/T threads.

This is still fresh in my memory http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... lit=stupid

Can't wait to see how this all unfolds.

[Jmustang1968]

This could either end up in the greatest troll in racketboy history or the most epic B/S/T thread to end all B/S/T threads.

This is still fresh in my memory http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... lit=stupid

Can't wait to see how this all unfolds.

This is certainly scaled up quite a bit from the deal hobie and I snagged, and that was a *ton* of work.

[Hobie-wan]

Dividing the pile between John and I and then dealing with stuff we weren't interested in keeping was enough of a pain with 1200 or so items. Three could be just doable without too much extra fighting with round robin selection, though more difficult without all present. But 4 or more and not everyone present for selection of items? That's just not feasible, especially without everyone physically gathered and for 11000 items. One or more people will feel shafted.

Who is going to spend the time assigning value to 11000 items to make sure people get roughly equal shares? It's a pain to assign prices for a handful of things for a sale thread. Where would this be stored while split up?

After we pulled things we wanted and made sure we were about even, then sold things jointly, John and I split up the leftovers. Even that was a pain because you get to the dregs that nobody wants.

[dsheinem]

Dividing the pile between John and I and then dealing with stuff we weren't interested in keeping was enough of a pain with 1200 or so items. Three could be just doable without too much extra fighting with round robin selection, though more difficult without all present. But 4 or more and not everyone present for selection of items? That's just not feasible, especially without everyone physically gathered and for 11000 items. One or more people will feel shafted.

Who is going to spend the time assigning value to 11000 items to make sure people get roughly equal shares? It's a pain to assign prices for a handful of things for a sale thread. Where would this be stored while split up?

After we pulled things we wanted and made sure we were about even, then sold things jointly, John and I split up the leftovers. Even that was a pain because you get to the dregs that nobody wants.

Yeah, all of this is why I would have only passing interest. If I went in for $6K I'd want to ensure that I would have certain things, want to ensure I got my money back out of it, etc. That's feasible with 2-3 people, but 12 people fighting over who gets what and/or feeling shafted? Yikes.