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Still doing business on EBay... though not as I'd like yet.

In spite of my temporary, initial doubts about convenience in purchasing on Ebay, now I must admit it's a great way to do business. You can really find whatever you want, but it's imperative that you know and keep in mind current prices for the item you're looking for or you want to sell. During the last months I won the auctions for great PS1 games, some of them real masterpieces and extremely hard to find now (Parasite Eve from the USA, Vagrant Story and Dino Crisis 2 from UK, the first Wipeout from Belgium, the first Dead or Alive from Germany, and many others). A game in my wishlist I can't find even on EBay is "Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green", as you can easily guess I don't mind too much GS low ratings: I created a Want it Now post, I hope somebody will read it.
The last Tuesday I bought "The Silent Hill Experience" new and sealed, for the reasonable price of 5,90 euros (plus other 5 for handling and shipping) and yesterday I already got it. Interesting item, recommendable for true fans of the Konami franchise and if the price is quite cheap (since it's just a "promotional" UMD video with two digital comics, soundtracks and videos from the four chapters and interviews to Chris Gans, director of SH the movie, to the creator of the game and to the composer of the music). Overall, a good purchase.

This morning I found in a supermarket "Ninety Nine Nights" (aka N3) for the unbelievable price of 9,90 euros: obviously new copies, I was so happy I bought not one but three copies, willing to resell two of them and to play and to keep in my private collection the third one. Now I've just had a look on EBay and great was my disappointment when I realized this game is very little searched, there are only few items on sale but nobody seems to be interested in getting them, there are no bids and starting prices are less than 10 euros.

Is this game so bad?! I read a few reviews about it, there are some glitches affecting it (for example the soldiers who are supposed to support you are so stupid that sometimes you have to return back to previously visited areas to help these morons unable to defeat only few or ONE enemies!), but it should be technically and graphically quite impressive, with lots of soldiers fighting contemporary on the screen. And anyway, I think it must be a real rip off to be even unworthy of such a little expense, so I'm giving it a try.
I obviously thought to sell it at a beginning price of 9,90 euros, but looks like my idea of having business on EBay not only by buying but by selling as well will have to wait...
Fortunately I have 15 days to give them back to the supermarket and to be refunded of the money I spent.