the mother of all ebay auctions! holy f'n ****

http://www.ebay.com/itm/OVER-30-years-of-VIDEOGAMES-COLLECTION-The-history-of-VideoGames-/121062811693?afsrc=1

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impressive wow !

The seller got no feedback, wouldn't trust this guy even if the price was reasonable.

The seller got no feedback, wouldn't trust this guy even if the price was reasonable.

Blutenmonat

clearly this is real. see all the photos

 

clearly this is real. see all the photos

bultje112

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clearly this is real. see all the photos

Blutenmonat

[QUOTE="bultje112"]

 

clearly this is real. see all the photos

Blutenmonat

I do ebay buying all the time and never had a single problem. probably had over a thousand transactions. besides this is half a million dollar.

That's true, but a half million dollar bid is a different story. This guy clearly has been collecting for a really long timeHeirren

I have mentioned this before but I have a feeling auctions like this tend to get completed outside of eBay. Some guy posts his giant collection on eBay and it gets posted on every gaming forum on the web. It amounts to a bunch of advertising for whatever the price of the eBay listing is.

I also think sometimes people do it just to show off.

Something this large you couldn't drop it off at UPS. You'd probobly have to hire a company to pick it up or pick it up yourself with a truck. If you have $500k to spend on this shipping wouldn't be an issue. If I were seriously interested I'd hire someone to do an aprasial before I shelled out that kind of cash.

I'd need to buy a new house first to fit all those stuff and the house itself would probably cost less than that...

$550,000?!?!

all that junk worth $30,000 tops.

Not even, $5-10K.

Awesome. Reminds me of the AVGN.

While it would be very cool to buy this, there is no way the entire collection is worth over half a million dollars, not even close. I looked at the entire collection and at the most it looks between $75-thousand to $150,000 at the most. Again, not shabby, but way, way overpriced. Also, it would take all the fun out of hunting down games and collecting if you just bought all these at once.

$550,000?!?!

 

all that junk worth $30,000 tops.

 

Not even, $5-10K.

lo_Pine

the metal slug neo geo aes games alone are worth more than 10.000. you don't have an idea what retro stuff is worth. just go away

While it would be very cool to buy this, there is no way the entire collection is worth over half a million dollars, not even close. I looked at the entire collection and at the most it looks between $75-thousand to $150,000 at the most. Again, not shabby, but way, way overpriced. Also, it would take all the fun out of hunting down games and collecting if you just bought all these at once.

Shenmue_Jehuty

he has like 100.000 games? average 10$, because he has games that are singlehandly worth thousands of dollars like his neo geo stuff. it's easily worht 6 figures

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While it would be very cool to buy this, there is no way the entire collection is worth over half a million dollars, not even close. I looked at the entire collection and at the most it looks between $75-thousand to $150,000 at the most. Again, not shabby, but way, way overpriced. Also, it would take all the fun out of hunting down games and collecting if you just bought all these at once.

bultje112

he has like 100.000 games? average 10$, because he has games that are singlehandly worth thousands of dollars like his neo geo stuff. it's easily worht 6 figures

The listing says he has about 6800 games, and several hundred consoles, controllers and accessories. Even if you do average each game at $20 a piece, it still doesn't even amount to $150,000. The guy is hoping some rich gamer will be overwhelmed by the scale of his collection without knowing what it's actually worth. People have done this in the past and made hundreds of thousands off people's ignorance.

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[QUOTE="Shenmue_Jehuty"]

While it would be very cool to buy this, there is no way the entire collection is worth over half a million dollars, not even close. I looked at the entire collection and at the most it looks between $75-thousand to $150,000 at the most. Again, not shabby, but way, way overpriced. Also, it would take all the fun out of hunting down games and collecting if you just bought all these at once.

Shenmue_Jehuty

he has like 100.000 games? average 10$, because he has games that are singlehandly worth thousands of dollars like his neo geo stuff. it's easily worht 6 figures

The listing says he has about 6800 games, and several hundred consoles, controllers and accessories. Even if you do average each game at $20 a piece, it still doesn't even amount to $150,000. The guy is hoping some rich gamer will be overwhelmed by the scale of his collection without knowing what it's actually worth. People have done this in the past and made hundreds of thousands off people's ignorance.

Yeah, 550k is optimistic at best. Averaging out the games at $20 is probaly generous, even taking into account the Neo Geo AES stuff.

Still, it's an impressive collection. I wore out my scroll button getting to the bottom of the page.

-Byshop

Dayum, 550k lol !

Just Awesome, he even has some arcade boards there, psx, dreamcast, n64s, ahh its a dream land

I hope he didn't plan on paying off his mortgage with that.

It's pretty unlikely that there's someone out there with half a million ready to spend it on old video games. It'd be far more time consuming, but the only way to make money from that collection is to split it up and sell smaller quantities of specific selections of the collection. That way he might actually get someone who wants to spend $5000 on rare Sega or Nintendo stuff etc. I couldn't possibly value the whole collection, but I seriously doubt he'd be able to get more than 50k for the whole lot if sold in smaller quanities and it'd take years to find the buyers.

Actually, if he has a couple of these items in his collection that price might not be so crazy:

http://www.racketboy.com/guide/the-rarest-and-most-valuable-video-games

-Byshop

His social life must be amazing.

  Holy SHHHIII*, big problem is what if one of your items does not work or never comes..  I mean, how are you going to track all that?  This guy should just create a video game museum with all this stuff, lol.

The seller also has a feedback score of "0". I don't think anyone is gonna gamble that kind of money on a seller with a score of "0".

Holy sh!tsnacks Batman.

seriously, a collection like that.  There has to be some sort of video game or something museum

The seller also has a feedback score of "0". I don't think anyone is gonna gamble that kind of money on a seller with a score of "0".

Emerald_Warrior

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The seller also has a feedback score of "0". I don't think anyone is gonna gamble that kind of money on a seller with a score of "0".

Heirren

The guy would make a lot more selling everything separately.. also, it's been relisted and there's 1 bid? :|

[QUOTE="Blutenmonat"]

The seller got no feedback, wouldn't trust this guy even if the price was reasonable.

bultje112

clearly this is real. see all the photos

Go bid then, I'd never buy from anyone with no feedback and nobody did either!

I had a look at the PDF he's supplied and i'd say, $550,000 is a reasonable price for all that. If i was rich, i'd buy it!

Because even the bits i don't want could be intelligently grouped and sold off again and regain that price, without losing the parts i am interested in.

Just look at the amount and variation of NEW consoles he has.

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The only stumbling block mentally is this:

Price = $375,000. Given the choice between the two, i'd have the car.

But if i was rich enough to afford that, then i'd likely be able to have the game collection as well. :D

I had a look at the PDF he's supplied and i'd say, $550,000 is a reasonable price for all that. If i was rich, i'd buy it!

Because even the bits i don't want could be intelligently grouped and sold off again and regain that price, without losing the parts i am interested in.

Just look at the amount and variation of NEW consoles he has.

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The only stumbling block mentally is this:

Price = $375,000. Given the choice between the two, i'd have the car.

But if i was rich enough to afford that, then i'd likely be able to have the game collection as well. :D

BarbaricAvatar

and ebay takes 10% of that and i think pay pal takes some as well.

I'd buy that for a dollar...

I'd sooner buy a house.

-Byshop

crazy, but Im sure somebody will eventually go for it if he puts it on Ebay enough times.

and yeah , Id rather buy a house,

crazy, but Im sure somebody will eventually go for it if he puts it on Ebay enough times.

 

and yeah , Id rather buy a house,

Darkman2007

[QUOTE="Emerald_Warrior"]

The seller also has a feedback score of "0". I don't think anyone is gonna gamble that kind of money on a seller with a score of "0".

Heirren

Or it could be somebody trying to con you and deciding to use eBay as a vessel. That's the problem with a "0" feedback, you just don't know.

I might take a chance on a $5-$10 game with a guy with a feedback of "0", but I think that anyone that decides to spend thousands of dollards on a guy with a feedback of "0" is a taking quite a gamble and making a pretty dumb decision.

[QUOTE="Heirren"][QUOTE="Emerald_Warrior"]

The seller also has a feedback score of "0". I don't think anyone is gonna gamble that kind of money on a seller with a score of "0".

Emerald_Warrior

Or it could be somebody trying to con you and deciding to use eBay as a vessel. That's the problem with a "0" feedback, you just don't know.

I might take a chance on a $5-$10 game with a guy with a feedback of "0", but I think that anyone that decides to spend thousands of dollards on a guy with a feedback of "0" is a taking quite a gamble and making a pretty dumb decision.

I'm with Emerald on this. I wouldn't gamble $50 with a 0-feedback user, let alone $550,000 . . .