Amazon and price charting.com glitch?

[Soldier Blue]

So there's some random seller on amazon that is listing everything for $12,495.01. He has done it for 6 PS2 games and one game for the Sega Saturn called Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Iron and Blood which actually never saw a release. This is a problem because on pricecharting it will say that the game is going for that amount.

So apparently he has that Saturn game and 6 other super rare PS2 games that never saw release.
The PS2 games being:

A Sound of Thunder
Classified: The Sentinel Crisis
ESPN Winter X Games: Snocross Racing
Galidor: Defenders of the Outer Dimension
Hunting Unlimited 2 Other
Knights of the Temple II

Just some crazy guy or what? Any thoughts?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/ ... ition=used
http://videogames.pricecharting.com/con ... hest-price

[Fragems]

I believe they have a pretty easy system for reporting fraudulent listings and sale prices on VGPC so it's not really a problem. As for his pricing if they truly are prototypes he can charge whatever he wants really the things only have as much value as people are willing to pay for them. I highly doubt he will get his asking price, but he is most likely just fishing for offers that is if he isn't just making fake listings for shits and giggles.

[mjmjr25]

Well, it isn't a "glitch". Price-charting pulls data directly from Amazon - so when there are no other sellers and no other copies on ebay / amazon; it's going to give you that price. It's always been like that. Occasionally something like a prototype will sell and the filters won't distinguish and things like Zelda Majora's Mask will be listed for $400 for a few days until enough sales and listings get back in the system to bring the price back to "normal".

In this case - no idea where his prices are from. He has 20+ games all for $150+ - he is selling stuff, so either someone is messing with his account today; or he's willing to put crazy prices on stuff in hopes someone will buy.

[Soldier Blue]

Maybe he had debt of exactly $12,495.01 and needed to pay it off?

[racketboy]

This is one of the things I dislike most about their pricing system -- it looks at asking prices, not sold prices. When I compile values, I mostly look at eBay completed auction prices. I'll also factor in Amazon prices of items with lots of listings.