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

[Lost Monkey]

get your "100% BRAND NEW VERY RAER Turbo Grafx 16 System Keeper officially licensed" for only $399.00...and the shipping is just 15$!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/100-BRAND-NEW-VERY-RAER-Turbo-Grafx-16-System-Keeper-officially-licensed-/321710565253?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ae771a785

Well, this just confirms what I suspected a long time ago (and may have posted about many pages back) and that is that this same guy has multiple accounts and uses them to manipulate prices....

He used a different account, "raregamesystem" to buy one of those system keepers from me a couple years ago...

[Sparky]

what the f@ck is a "Keeper",  is it an orange bag that holds your system?

[Lost Monkey]

what the f@ck is a "Keeper",  is it an orange bag that holds your system?

Pretty much.  It is like a little back pack for your TG16. 

[esteban]

So, I've never seen this item before.

If I was a scumbag, it would be very easy to fabricate unusual items like this.

Lost Monkey, when/where did you get your "Keeper"?

[blueraven]

You know, I found this auction last night but was too tired to post it.

Nice of him to show that he has about 10 of them.

I know. It's shitty either way but showing all of them  just makes it 

Exactly.

[Gredler]

Is this relevant? I wonder if this is the bubble, and if someday this will burst?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheGreatComicsCrashOf1996

[Lost Monkey]

So, I've never seen this item before.

If I was a scumbag, it would be very easy to fabricate unusual items like this.

Lost Monkey, when/where did you get your "Keeper"?

Good question! I don't remember... Bought it around the turn of the century though... It may have been from a Turbolist member. 

It was authentic gear though - however ugly.

From another thread:

The TG16 System Keeper bag.

[Lost Monkey]

So, I've never seen this item before.

If I was a scumbag, it would be very easy to fabricate unusual items like this.

...

Now you are scaring me...

This guy buys mine with original tags still on it and then 2 years later he suddenly has 10 new ones?!?!

[sirhcman]

Is this relevant? I wonder if this is the bubble, and if someday this will burst?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheGreatComicsCrashOf1996

Have the old gold and silver age books lost value since the great crash? I don't follow comics but if they have its possible that something similar could happen in the video game genre but I doubt it

[sirhcman]

So, I've never seen this item before.

If I was a scumbag, it would be very easy to fabricate unusual items like this.

Oh we would all know yours are knockoffs by the "Le Turbo Keeper" moniker on the tag

[technozombie]

Is this relevant? I wonder if this is the bubble, and if someday this will burst?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheGreatComicsCrashOf1996

I think their are some parallels, such as people buying Amiibo's or special edition 3ds' just to hold and possibly flip.  But I think that, just like the "actually rare" comics, the "actually rare" games will continue to hold their value.

[esteban]

So, I've never seen this item before.

If I was a scumbag, it would be very easy to fabricate unusual items like this.

Oh we would all know yours are knockoffs by the "Le Turbo Keeper" moniker on the tag

Exactly. I should clarify:

I can buy some garbage and slap TG-16 logos and tags on it. Flashlights! Clocks! Waterpicks! Irrigation machines for cleaning ear canals.

[Mathius]

So, I've never seen this item before.

If I was a scumbag, it would be very easy to fabricate unusual items like this.

Oh we would all know yours are knockoffs by the "Le Turbo Keeper" moniker on the tag

Exactly. I should clarify:

I can buy some garbage and slap TG-16 logos and tags on it. Flashlights! Clocks! Waterpicks! Irrigation machines for cleaning ear canals.

Swizzle sticks too?

[esteban]

Swizzlers! Twizzlers!

[esadajr]

So, I've never seen this item before.

If I was a scumbag, it would be very easy to fabricate unusual items like this.

...

Now you are scaring me...

This guy buys mine with original tags still on it and then 2 years later he suddenly has 10 new ones?!?!

You better believe it. You just don't know what's real anymore.