Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )

[Necromancer]

This isn't particular to any one console or game, though. Look at the rise in gaming products in general. I purchased a neon Nintendo sign and a tin Mario sign from the early 90's for $75 last year. They sold on Ebay for $400 a piece. The neon sign was a $.99 NR auction and the Mario sign was a $.99 NR auction that I accidentally listed with a $399.99 BIN. The tin sign sold in a matter of minutes. People really want this stuff.

Accidentally?!?  Tell me another one, rolfmaul!  Huzzah for resellers!!one!!1!!

[MotherGunner]

It's people who can't afford shit, buying up shit (running up their CC bill) and when they find out they can't afford shit, they resell shit.  I see the same frakking items keep popping up on eBay when people figure out they can't eat or pay their rent/mortgage on time.  Talk about living beyond your means...   Needless to say, bipolars are rampant on eBay. 

[KingofGames]

Yeah, I listed them both at $400 BIN fixed listings to see what kind of interest I generated. I got plenty of views, but not a single offer. I decided to relist them as $.99 NR auctions, as I knew they would do really well. When altering the listing style, I forgot to remove the BIN option on the Mario tin sign. A watcher from the original listing probably figured the auction would go nuts and jumped on the BIN. The neon sign auctioned for just under $400, if I remember correctly.

If you want to hear another one (which I realize isn't actually the case), I recently picked up a high-end vintage cassette deck from the swap meet for $45 a few weeks ago. It's currently going for a several hundred dollars with two days remaining. Ebay never ceases to amaze me.

[Gogan]

The neon sign was a $.99 NR auction and the Mario sign was a $.99 NR auction that I accidentally listed with a $399.99 BIN

Da f*ck does that happen?!

[roflmao]

This isn't particular to any one console or game, though. Look at the rise in gaming products in general.

I agree.  It's happening not only to OBEY, but to pretty much any good gaming from bitd.  Maybe folks our age (30-40ish?) generally have "settled down" and have a little extra income and realize that 8 and 16 bit gaming captured something that just isn't around in the newer games.  I still play a current game from time to time, but it's a different experience, generally, from what we remember when we were kids.

[Senshi]

This isn't particular to any one console or game, though. Look at the rise in gaming products in general. I purchased a neon Nintendo sign and a tin Mario sign from the early 90's for $75 last year. They sold on Ebay for $400 a piece. The neon sign was a $.99 NR auction and the Mario sign was a $.99 NR auction that I accidentally listed with a $399.99 BIN. The tin sign sold in a matter of minutes. People really want this stuff.

Accidentally?!?  Tell me another one, rolfmaul!  Huzzah for resellers!!one!!1!!

The "3" key is no where near the "9" key 

[KingofGames]

When you convert a fixed listing to an auction, it switches the fixed price to a buy it now. With a $.99 starting bid, I had no reason to list a BIN. I removed the BIN price from the neon sign, but forgot to remove it from the tin sign. Why would anyone use a $399.99 BIN when the auction starts at $.99? Beats the hell out of me, but I'm glad he did.

[Senshi]

I'm just busting balls. I think physical copies of old games are just going to become a luxury item and will continue to go up unless the whole thing crashes and no one gives a shit like baseball cards these days. You have emulators, Why buy a physical copy some might say. If you want the real experience of playing on actual hardware, well, you're going to have to pony up some dough for that.

[KingofGames]

I couldn't agree with you more. Even if you want to play through legitimate means and pay significantly less, you can pick up classic titles on the Wii. It will be interesting to see where things go. My guess is that eventually many things will tank, but the more unique/interesting stuff will continue to rise. With DLC & online passes, gaming won't be seen as a collectible much beyond the PS2/GC/Xbox era.

[Shrapnoid]

I thinks the whole playing on original hardware and collecting stuff associated with it is for nothing more than nostalgia and there are people out there who know that they can charge an arm and a leg to other people who want to take that brief trip back in time.
Emulators do make it easier but, for the people who sooner or later get burnt out on that and want the experience of actually holding the game in their hand, some of them will pay more than they really want to recapture that experience.
Toys'R Us used this same strategy a few years ago with the reproduction G1 Transformers that you could only buy at their store and had to pay $30.00 just for the standard 1:43 scale autobots like Jazz, Hound, Smokescreen and etc.

As long as people keep giving these vultures what they want, the prices will keep going up.   

[MotherGunner]

Agreed and it doesn't change the fact that you can't take ANY of this shit with you when you die...

[KingofGames]

I'm going out pharaoh-style. Bury me with my shit!

[allyourblood]

I'm going out pharaoh-style. Bury me with my shit!

Watch out for Turbo-grave robbers!

[KingofGames]

Bahaha, that's too funny.

[SMF]

Maybe have a big turbo bonfire and enjoy tossing in each game 1 by 1 lol.