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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #2535 on: June 28, 2012, 03:20:43 AM »
The idiots who buy from eBay simply don't know any better.   

There are lots of honest retards that just go on ebay to buy/sell, and don't realize what they're doing. 

The average person is a jackass. 

Especially for Turbo/PCE stuff... That said I get great deals on SMS and Genesis stuff on eBay all the time, probably because it's not some NES/SNES crap which most "retro gamers" seem to think is the be-all-end-all of gaming.

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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #2536 on: June 28, 2012, 03:30:23 AM »
At the CCAG there were legitimate people that were selling tons of stuff at ebayish prices.

Not because they were dicks, but because they didn't know any better.   They're not aware of forums/other ways to price stuff.

Fortunately, they were all willing to haggle because they'd rather sell stuff than not sell stuff.    The only stubborn jackass was the guy selling Famicom carts for retarded prices.  He was mostly there to show his crap off.    He even said he wasn't looking to part with any of it but would for the right price.

His manliness was destroyed when he saw what I was packin at the Aetherbyte booth.

TWO duo-rs!?    His peepee shrunk.   Then I told him I could buy half those games for 3-6$.

I got boxed Magic of Scheherazade and Battle of Olympus games for 15$ total, and Arcana boxed for 10$.

Then I took the Scheherazade and Olympus carts and traded them to get other games, since I just wanted the boxes and shit!

I traded Olympus for like, 10$ worth of NES carts!

The Sch.Olympus dude used ebay as his price figure outter.  I watched him look up the games on ebay and then label his stuff he was selling.    He was only selling high quality stuff.   Nice boxes/carts/everything.   

Here's the kicker though.

He was using eBay, but pricing things 5-10$ below ebay prices.  I went and looked them up myself to see, and I was like "well how about that, he's not a retard!"

So, hats off to that guy.  He's legit in my book.   He also sold alot of stuff.
[Fri 19:34]<nectarsis> been wanting to try that one for awhile now Ope
[Fri 19:33]<Opethian> l;ol huge dong

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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #2537 on: June 28, 2012, 05:17:56 AM »
I would say the Turbo CD lot is worth around $200-$230 just because it's including some games.

It really depends on the games and the thing about a lot is that the buyer has to take it all, regardless of their interest in each item. So even if some unattractive games can sell for $10 each, tacking five onto a lot doesn't make it $50 more attractive. Unless you've pieced together a generally recognized set of some sort, the more you add to a lot, the greater the discount should be conpared to individual values. I sold a modded Duo R with nine games for $170, but although I know I could have made more money if I wanted, I don't believe that it was worth $350 because of average individual eBay prices.
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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #2538 on: June 28, 2012, 05:26:55 AM »
I love Famicom carts because they are so colorful, but I have a box of them that I don't need. Bought a lot in game shops in Japan but loved when I found boxes of them at flea markets marked "100 yen each".  Maybe I'll make a sale thread or raffle some off one of these days.

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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #2539 on: June 29, 2012, 07:19:32 AM »
Not gouging, but funny:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CHINA-WARRIOR-rare-EXTRAS-Turbo-Grafx-16-NEC-Hu-card-/110906904121?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19d2910e39

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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #2540 on: June 29, 2012, 07:22:13 AM »
this guy looks legit.

I may bid on some of that jive.

[Fri 19:34]<nectarsis> been wanting to try that one for awhile now Ope
[Fri 19:33]<Opethian> l;ol huge dong

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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #2541 on: June 29, 2012, 07:26:44 AM »
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this guy looks legit.

I may bid on some of that jive.

agree...
I might toss in some bids also. At least his items all have a low starting bid price.
It would have been nice to find that bundle at a yard sale. I wonder what he paid for all of it....$5-$10 maybe?

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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #2542 on: June 29, 2012, 08:20:18 AM »
http://www.ebay.com/sch/dalphabet/m.html?hash=item19d2910e39

Nice find! Wow, he's really going against the tide, $3 bucks to start for everything he got a hold of. I'm tempted to grab Blazing Lasers, I kinda would like an original as somewhat of a game collector, but since I plan to buy KRIKzz's upcoming HuFlashCard, I wanna spend the money there. Anyway, cool guy though.

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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #2543 on: June 29, 2012, 08:47:39 AM »
Hell yeah, thanks for the link.  Nice to find a genuine auction.  Gonna throw some bids out.

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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #2544 on: June 29, 2012, 09:06:16 AM »
Yeah, im "watching" almost all of them too

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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #2546 on: June 29, 2012, 09:33:47 AM »
I love Famicom carts because they are so colorful, but I have a box of them that I don't need. Bought a lot in game shops in Japan but loved when I found boxes of them at flea markets marked "100 yen each".  Maybe I'll make a sale thread or raffle some off one of these days.

i would be up for that just bought star soldier my first famicom cart just need to get a a famicom now got a few on ebuy in the uk with AV mods payday its mine if there any left.
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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #2547 on: June 29, 2012, 01:15:16 PM »
$40 starting bid with a $100 BIN for Bonk Adventure and Revenge;
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=turbo+grafx&_sacat=1249&_odkw=turbo+grafx&_osacat=0
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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #2548 on: June 29, 2012, 03:31:11 PM »
$40 starting bid with a $100 BIN for Bonk Adventure and Revenge;
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=turbo+grafx&_sacat=1249&_odkw=turbo+grafx&_osacat=0




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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #2549 on: June 29, 2012, 05:20:12 PM »
This one will bug you...

Neutopia for $125 BIN?!  WTF are people thinking?  I saw Neutopia sell for $40 complete in case and thought that was high.  $85 for a box?  Feck me.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Neutopia-TurboGrafx-16-1989-COMPLETE-MINT-VERY-RARE-HARD-TO-FIND-/120941494416?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item1c28acc090#ht_3277wt_1189
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