$2,500, is that a fair deal?
There's no concept of "fair" here, not really as it wasn't a straight BIN sale, that's why the question is understandably silly. The seller offered it for .99 cents, VERY FAIR, and that's it for him; the rest of the dynamic is the result of the potential buyers who saw the auction competing, deciding how high or how much they're willing to spend to get it...
You could do an auction next month and the winning bid might be $500 or $5,000. It all depends if the big-spending nuts are out there willing to drop thousands of dollars if need be to get the damn thing. Add in the reselling flippity-flip-flippers who also look out for this, etc.
It's a matter of timing, marketing, chance, history, etc. Now relative to a prior auction where two big-spending nuts bid the game up to $7,100 to $7,200, yeah, versus that auction, the winner in this auction gets to own the game for $4,700 less. I bet the big-spender that spent $7,200 (
$7K!!!! All the new games/systems, or a new car, he could've had! It's crazy!!) feels like shit now, but then who knows if it was just some reseller.
What it is for the rest of us is that we've been priced out from ever owning a Magical Chase assuming we wanted one. I'm not willing to go over $100 for a single videogame, (one rare exception), but for the most part, yeah, it's not worth it to me as the money could be better spent elsewhere. That may "feel" unfair to me, that I'll never get to own a game like this if I wanted one, not until all the big-spenders got their copies and thus got out of the way, but yeah, since I don't place such a high/absurd premium on owning an original copy and would be fine with an emulator or a flash cart, I don't care, it's just a cutesy shooter game to me, and I can just observe the big-spending madness and comment on it occasionally. A bystander to the spectacle.
