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bob

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« Reply #15 on: May 22, 2016, 02:29:07 AM »
Quote from: rxmage on May 22, 2016, 01:37:43 AM

Now, if someone here wants to be a trend setter and break the cycle of high TG16 software prices, I would be happy to
purchase CIC Neutopia and Neutopia II from you for about $30 each.

If it wasnt for all the dumb buyers over last couple years, i am sure you could get them.
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« Reply #16 on: May 22, 2016, 03:39:31 AM »
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« Reply #17 on: May 22, 2016, 04:41:25 AM »
Situation is getting out of hand. Those import adapters are worth their weight in gold. I recently aquired the whole trilogy of Bomberman games on PC Engine for less than what it costs to buy the first one US. I wish I'd gotten Neutopia last year though before it spiked. I don't do JRPGs, but thanks to Turbokan, I will have a Neutopia 2-in-1 repro headed my way. I got outbid a couple days ago on a Neutopia CIC which will be ending in a few minutes. There was also an 89.99 BIN that sold the other day but the Neutopia is currently bidding at $96. If t gets sniped for stupid money, I'll post the link to the completed auction. And another one ending sometime tomorrow. We'll see what happens but the situation is getting crazy...

Edit: Sold for $102.50 in the final seconds.
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« Reply #18 on: May 22, 2016, 06:40:21 AM »
Quote from: StarDust4Ever on May 22, 2016, 04:41:25 AM
Situation is getting out of hand. Those import adapters are worth their weight in gold. I recently aquired the whole trilogy of Bomberman games on PC Engine for less than what it costs to buy the first one US. I wish I'd gotten Neutopia last year though before it spiked. I don't do JRPGs, but thanks to Turbokan, I will have a Neutopia 2-in-1 repro headed my way. I got outbid a couple days ago on a Neutopia CIC which will be ending in a few minutes. There was also an 89.99 BIN that sold the other day but the Neutopia is currently bidding at $96. If t gets sniped for stupid money, I'll post the link to the completed auction. And another one ending sometime tomorrow. We'll see what happens but the situation is getting crazy...

Edit: Sold for $102.50 in the final seconds.


Ok, I am so out-of-touch with prices now.

Neutopia sells for $102...

WHEN WILL KEITH COURAGE FETCH THESE PRICES?
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« Reply #19 on: May 22, 2016, 06:47:14 AM »
Quote from: esteban on May 22, 2016, 06:40:21 AM

Ok, I am so out-of-touch with prices now.

Neutopia sells for $102...

WHEN WILL KEITH COURAGE FETCH THESE PRICES?
Word. eBay prices on Turbo goods are accelerating faster than even pricecharting can keep up with them all...
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« Reply #20 on: May 22, 2016, 06:48:44 AM »
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« Reply #21 on: May 22, 2016, 07:05:38 AM »
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« Reply #22 on: May 22, 2016, 09:13:57 AM »
I got both Neutopias for under a hundred last year on this site.  Deals seem to be harder to come by these days as there are way more people trying to snatch up what seems to be fewer sales but they do occur.
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« Reply #23 on: May 22, 2016, 10:20:28 AM »
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« Reply #24 on: May 22, 2016, 12:48:40 PM »
Vasteel bid up to $661:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/TG16-PC-Engine-Turbo-Duo-VASTEEL-SCD-Sealed-Excellent-Condition-/201539303498?hash=item2eecadb84a:g:FxIAAOSwYlJW4hBL


Remember when some of the few genuinely rare Turbo games got as high as $400 and Dynastic Hero began to sell as high as $800, but Vasteel was still a $40 game?





Exile WP with 2 bids ended at $761:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/TG16-PC-Engine-Turbo-Duo-EXILE-WICKED-PHENOMENOM-SCD-Sealed-Excellent-Condition-/191827031438?hash=item2ca9c8358e:g:ZYgAAOSwxp9W8RcV



Why did these/this collectard(s) pay several times the "going rate" for these two games? For the cardboard sleeves of course. At least Vic didn't give them disc art variants. This is the kind of crap pro-collectards keep demanding from homebrew games and bootlegs.





Exile for $120:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/TurboGrafx-CD-16-TG16-Exile-BRAND-NEW-FACTORY-SEALED-/252325175498?hash=item3abfc0a0ca:g:DDcAAOSwMORW7P51


One of the most common and overprinted Turbo games sold with a BIN by our good pal drorangejuicer. To his credit, he offered the next copy off his stack a couple weeks later for $20 less.

For years a seller tried to sell off the old stock of sealed Exile and CF2 copies for what, $15 on eBay? But they still couldn't find enough buyers and a flipper wound up buying the entire stock to sit on them at a higher price. But nothing close to this.






13 copies of CIC Parsol Stars have sold for a BIN price of $140:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Parasol-Stars-The-Story-of-Bubble-Bobble-III-TurboGrafx-Turbo-Duo-Turboexpress-/321560640033?hash=item4ade81fa21:g:ScsAAOSw-jhUDo~f


Hurry up before the last one gets sold!





CIB Cadash $260:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/TG16-PC-Engine-Turbo-Duo-CADASH-complete-Excellent-Condition-/191821147861?hash=item2ca96e6ed5:g:5fMAAOSwAuNW3OeQ





CIC Cadash $135:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cadash-TurboGrafx-16-Turbo-Duo-Turboexpress-TGX-CIC-TG-16-PC-ENGINE-DUO-R-RX-/322016597899?hash=item4af9af578b:g:Qs4AAOSwUV9WnId6


Sold by the Official TurboGrafx-16 Authorized Distributor turbozonedirect1.


The last two show how even at the top end for CIC and CIB, by far the most valuable part of a video game is the disposable box. People are paying more for the outer box than everything else combined. Just for the privilege of experiencing what those few of us who gave a crap about TG-16 bitd got to do: tear it open and throw it in the trash.
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« Reply #25 on: May 22, 2016, 01:23:56 PM »
WTH? I may sell my collection and retire in Florida.

As soon as gunboat hits sought after status, I'm flipping that turd.
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« Reply #26 on: May 22, 2016, 03:36:00 PM »
I thought I had an awesome deal on Ys Books 1 & 2, Duo edition yesterday, I was winning around $40, but it jumped to $76 at the last second. Sniped. I lost.

$76 is still a decent price as far as eBay goes for this disc, but I thought I was getting away with it...

https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/141993222145
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« Reply #27 on: May 23, 2016, 04:04:29 AM »
I feel like the Working Designs stuff is a bubble within a bubble to be honest.  Even their less spectacular releases get a general bump in price just because they were put out by Vic.
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« Reply #28 on: May 23, 2016, 05:12:30 AM »
Quote from: martinine on May 22, 2016, 03:36:00 PM
I thought I had an awesome deal on Ys Books 1 & 2, Duo edition yesterday, I was winning around $40, but it jumped to $76 at the last second. Sniped. I lost.

$76 is still a decent price as far as eBay goes for this disc, but I thought I was getting away with it...

https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/141993222145


The "Duo" edition is incomplete and has an ugly disc label. The jewel case has no tray liner/insert. The proper full edition sells CIC on eBay for less than that.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ys-Book-I-II-TurboGrafx-CD-1990-w-case-and-manual-/201532630173?hash=item2eec47e49d:g:ZdgAAOSwQYZW1Qw2

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ys-Book-I-II-Turbo-Duo-Turbografx-16-CD-TG-16-FAST-Shipping-/172148703994?hash=item2814dcc2fa%3Ag%3AyEoAAOSwAvJW-AvI&nma=true&si=cjCIdXCP2ntoEdcfSXHWW3IYpA0%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ys-Book-I-II-TurboGrafx-CD-1990-Rare-Turbo-Duo-PC-Engine-/172198454831?hash=item2817d3e62f:g:Vj4AAOSwShJXL0Kh

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ys-Book-I-II-TURBO-GRAFX-DUO-16-CD-USA-jewel-case-instruction-manual-/322068127062?hash=item4afcc19d56:g:ThAAAOSwsN9XCDLI



The Duo version is only worth buying super cheap as a functional copy or as a superfluous collectible, after you already have the full version.
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« Reply #29 on: May 23, 2016, 06:48:53 AM »
The disc art is not "ugly". It's just text. "Plain" or "lame" is probably more accurate. It's downright Peter Savile by US Turbo art standards.
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