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Don't look now, but a videogame is currently auctioning for 31k USD and rising

Ban Puncher

Ban Puncher

Member
DID SOMEBODY SAY RARE, EXPENSIVE SHIT?

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javac

Member
If the bids are legit congrats dude. You've got yourself a very nice paycheck. Ebay will be getting 10% of that too :p
 
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Nightic

Neo Member
It's above 90k+ now... I wonder if this 'Mario'-cart is well known in the NES collecting scene and thereby makes it worth more? Correct me if I'm wrong but not even a gold cart has ever been sold for more than like 40k right?
 
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nan0

Member
Tenrius said:
All that money and he's not willing to ship internationally. How absurd.
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You'd first have to find a shipping company that offers insurance for an item of such value. And even then shipping is going to be pretty costly. I know that DHL (at least in Germany) does not ship such items (if you want them insured).
 
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bill0527

Member
Tenrius said:
All that money and he's not willing to ship internationally. How absurd.
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If its legit and someone is willing to pay that kind of money, hell no I am not risking international shipping on it. In fact, for that kind of money, I'd probably hire armed security escort and then hand deliver it to him anywhere in the USA, provided I verify he's paying with legit funds first.
 
Danny Dudekisser

Danny Dudekisser

I paid good money for this Dynex!
There are enough bids from different people that I wonder if there's actually a legitimate bidder somewhere in there. But shit... this is getting close to doubling the record for most expensive game, isn't it?
 
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speculawyer

Member
Inequality is real. There are people will billion of dollars and dropping tens of thousands on an old videogame cart is no big deal.

This is trickle down economics sort of in action.
 
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Tenrius

Member
bill0527 said:
If its legit and someone is willing to pay that kind of money, hell no I am not risking international shipping on it. In fact, for that kind of money, I'd probably hire armed security escort and then hand deliver it to him anywhere in the USA, provided I verify he's paying with legit funds first.
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You could do roughly the same internationally, for about the same kind of money, I imagine. No doubt it would be expensive and you'd have to find a shipping company that would be up for it, but it still would be just a relatively small fraction of the initial cost. There is no reason not to go for it. Especially since we're talking about a really small item here.
 
DietRob

DietRob

i've been begging for over 5 years.
Welp, this has inspired me to head down to my moms and look in the attic as soon as possible. I'm positive I have some old NES games up there. I doubt any of mine are worth this much. I know I have a gold zelda cartridge in the box but I bet that is pretty common.

That final value fee is going to be fucking insane.
 
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chrislowe

Member
I remember when i sold out my old NES-games, and got lots of money for RC Pro AM2, and thought i was gonna get ripped, but no. I got the money :)
Dont know why people pay those prices for old games actually...

I also got some good money for MegaCD Snatcher (great game, but not worth what i got for it :)
 
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Black Door

Banned
onken said:
Yeah fake bids for sure at this stage.
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Not necessarily so...I've seen stories of arab sheikhs dropping $100K+ on partial collections of NES games and NeoGeo carts just to get one game or complete their collections, hacking communities pooling cash together to buy lost/stolen prototypes put up by clueless ex-employees so they can dump the roms, etc.
 
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Fugu

Member
cosmicblizzard said:
Jeez, nearly 100k?

Any chance of older commercial games (as in not a promotion) becoming that rare and desirable?
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In a word, no.

There are a lot of people collecting videogames, so anything but the rarest of the rare is in decent enough supply for competitive prices and the internet to do a good job of preventing that from happening.

I don't expect most one of a kind items to reach this value. Maybe things with a history (like the Simon Wai Sonic 2 beta) but even your run-of-the-mill prototype on a non-Nintendo system probably won't ever be worth this much.
 
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rrs

Member
The only thing going for this cart was that it it had mario written on it by some unknowing owner, way too high of a price for it.
 
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cosmicblizzard

Banned
Fugu said:
In a word, no.

There are a lot of people collecting videogames, so anything but the rarest of the rare is in decent enough supply for competitive prices and the internet to do a good job of preventing that from happening.

I don't expect most one of a kind items to reach this value. Maybe things with a history (like the Simon Wai Sonic 2 beta) but even your run-of-the-mill prototype on a non-Nintendo system probably won't ever be worth this much.
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Damn, there goes my dream of selling my rare Nippon Ichi games for a ton in like 30 years :/
 
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SirUltimos

Member
For reference, whenever one of these carts sell it's usually for around $15,000, sometimes going up to about $18,000. The price is incredibly, ridiculously inflated and the winning bidder is likely not going to pay up.
 
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Tusk

Member
Usually if you look on the bid history, each person bidding will be different, right? :p Like it'll be "letter**letter"? Well it seems, some people bidding are bidding 3 or 4 times in a row, raising the price higher and higher. within a few seconds of eachother. That's alil odd.
 
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PodcastFips

Member
Tusk said:
Usually if you look on the bid history, each person bidding will be different, right? :p Like it'll be "letter**letter"? Well it seems, some people bidding are bidding 3 or 4 times in a row, raising the price higher and higher. within a few seconds of eachother. That's alil odd.
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Within seconds. Has to be an automated thing?
 
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Tripon

Member
Tusk said:
Usually if you look on the bid history, each person bidding will be different, right? :p Like it'll be "letter**letter"? Well it seems, some people bidding are bidding 3 or 4 times in a row, raising the price higher and higher. within a few seconds of eachother. That's alil odd.
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Ebay uses a system where you can set a price you're willing to pay above the going bid, so when somebody makes a higher going bid that is below your max bid, EBay will automatically make another bid for you that is a little above there's until you hit your own max.

Say there is a game that you want that you know usually goes around $30 on auction sites. And bidding goes starts at $1, for a 24 hour auction.

Knowing that you can get it for $30 anytime, but want to save some money and you don't have time to watch it all days. There's already been some bidding going on though, and its currently at $2.50

What you can do is set your max bid at $25. Your bid is officially recorded at $3 or whatever, so you can don't have to pay the full $25 yet. Another person makes a bid at $5, so the system bids for you at $5.50, and so forth.

At the end of the day, you are the winner at $24 because the system throughout the day has been bidding for you, and it automatically does it for you.
 
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