Let's talk about your NEO GEO collecting + PRICE GUIDES

[KalessinDB]

So - this made me a little nervous but in my auctioning off of my US AES titles, I put Magician Lord up for a quick three-day sprint. Lots of pictures - and my copy was complete. I figured this would go for around 50-60 bucks (shipping was flat rate $11 on top) based on other completed auctions and BINs. In 2011 I paid around $35-40 for this IIRC.

It was sitting around $69 an hour or so before finishing up with a lot of bids and interest. It ended in a flurry and sold for $152.50 + shipping with two guys going at each other at the finish.

Even though the winner had 100% feedback I thought for sure he'd back out or maybe this was some kind of scam. I got paid this morning without issue and shipped the game. I'm still a little apprehensive on the whole thing because it seemed so out of the norm.

Am I missing something?

I know for a fact that Magician Lord has been spiking on MVS, but I didn't think it was going that crazy on AES too? Hey, maybe you just got lucky with 2 guys who weren't sure what they should be paying. I don't remember what I bought mine for off of Mike, but it definitely wasn't anywhere near $150. Gratz man!


Also, just got my MVS copy of Panic Bomber from the mailbox as I left for work on yet another double... can't wait until I get off work tomorrow morning and can play it

[retrosportsgamer]

^ Thanks.

Seems to be spiking, everything was way up from even three years ago. These are all my auctions - US versions (condition noted) with + $11.30 for shipping not included in the total:

Samurai Shodown (no instructions) - $68.78
Baseball Stars Professional (no instructions - acceptable condition, had some stickers) - $37.00
Soccer Brawl (no instructions) - $64.50
Football Frenzy (complete) - $105 (this went overseas at a negotiated BIN and +$21 for shipping)
Magician Lord - $152.50 (complete)

[mjmjr25]

English versions are hot right now, moreso than usual (not sure why, the JP artwork is cleaner and more uniform).

Magician Lord US has been $75 recently, JP around $60. $150 is wild. A year ago it was more in the $40 range along with the other more common titles (Nam, Crossed Swords, etc). For whatever reason there has also been a recent lull in ML on ebay, which is really rare as well. I wouldn't worry about it, but I wouldn't expect to see it over $110-120 too often, just consider it a lucky sale that got hot and you hit at a time there were no other copies available.

The MVS version tripled in the past year due to a couple fluke sales and the CMVS craze.

Glad you got PB, Dave. Wish i'd just bought 'em all up at that price. Price has gone back up already and based on PM's over on neo I easily would've had buyers for all of them.

[ninjainspandex]

HOLY #$#@ $150 for Magician Lord AES? did I read that right? I thought ML was one of the cheapest AES games around $50-$60 where the MVS version goes for $80-$90

I'm guessing this is the sale? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Magician-Lord-N ... 1e8eaabc50

I don't know why but people get stupid in auctions, often I will put my max bid at the same price as the lowest BIN of the same item in similar condition when it is an item I really want and usually that saves me a couple bucks than just buying it now. But people sometimes outbid me, I mean why pay more when you could just buy the same item from another seller for less. Must be a pride thing.

[KalessinDB]

People get caught up in the whole "I WANNA WIN THIS ONE!" craze on ebay. I think it's human nature. You see something, it's almost in your grasp, then you start to lose it and don't want to, so suddenly you're paying more than you want to.

Part of why I try very hard to avoid trying to snipe an auction. I'm not going to say I've never raised my max bid, because I totally have, but I try very hard to just set my true max bid on an item and then walk away from it. Ebay will email me, win or lose, so no need to keep checking it. I often end up losing it, but I'm okay with that because occasionally I get things for way less than I expect to.

@Mike - yeah, seems like lots of people were interested after the fact in your thread, so I can only imagine the PMs you've been getting. Glad I happened to be right place right time I'll probably just keep buying 1 game, MAAAAAYBE 2 whenever you do group buys. Slowly build up the library. Might have to switch to CPS2 for a game or two though.

[aaron]

recently got Stakes Winner and Samurai Shodown III from mj and chupon, respectively. these two games in particular are making me realize that i need to track down a proper monitor for my big red. looks like garbage the way it is now.

anybody have any ideas on how to pick the locks for the marquee? one of the speakers isn't even hooked up and i can't get to it without the key (seller didn't have them).

[KalessinDB]

If you're industrious, can you get at them from behind? Those types of locks, the tongue is usually held on with a single screw, so if you can access the back of them you might be able to unscrew it?

Failing that, there's always those $50 "professional lock picking guns" that you I've seen advertised here and there. God only knows how good they are, but I imagine they'd work for a simple barrel lock that you have effectively infinite time to work on.

[Hobie-wan]

If you don't need to save them, I imagine drilling them out from the front wouldn't be difficult. Not like those will be Fort Knox grade mechanisms.

[aaron]

no chance of getting at them from behind. the V3 big red's read access panel is so far away from the marquee that i can't even reach it, much less maneuver a screwdriver in there. i may just drill them out since gonna have to replace them anyway, but i wanted to do that without damaging the bottom lip of the marquee.

[shallowgamer]

English versions are hot right now, moreso than usual (not sure why, the JP artwork is cleaner and more uniform).

Magician Lord US has been $75 recently, JP around $60. $150 is wild. A year ago it was more in the $40 range along with the other more common titles (Nam, Crossed Swords, etc). For whatever reason there has also been a recent lull in ML on ebay, which is really rare as well. I wouldn't worry about it, but I wouldn't expect to see it over $110-120 too often, just consider it a lucky sale that got hot and you hit at a time there were no other copies available.

The MVS version tripled in the past year due to a couple fluke sales and the CMVS craze.

Glad you got PB, Dave. Wish i'd just bought 'em all up at that price. Price has gone back up already and based on PM's over on neo I easily would've had buyers for all of them.

I wholeheartedly agree. Many English titles have doubled in the 3 years I've collected. There was a store on ebay back in 2011 that had a healthy supply of NEW alpha missions, mag lords, ninja combats for $35 each back then. Ninja combat is still reasonable, but mag lord hovers around 75, and alpha mission is now over the $100 mark.

I always wanted a windjammers AES, but thought $300 was outrageous. Now we're looking at $600 for the last one sold on ebay. Even Karnov's revenge in fair condition fetched $165. I need a Ninja Commando to finish out my dog-tag collection; I don't think that's ever going to happen.

The problem is, all it takes is 2 insane people in a bidding war to start these trends. And in the case of Ninja Commando, it hits the market so infrequently that people go crazy when it does come around.