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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #1425 on: February 09, 2012, 02:15:48 AM »
I bet that eventually they will sell that Keith Courage for what they are asking, and I bet the buyer will not be someone who knows about these cool forums that speak the truth about gouging.

And yet we're a$$holes when we call someone out for gouging, right?  Go post whore in someone else's thread, you ignorant tool.
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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #1426 on: February 09, 2012, 04:11:19 AM »
Lay off, Nec. He's just trying to participate. He's not perfect. None of us are so, just let it go.

I didn't think that gouging Keith Courage of all games could possibly get any worse. This a new low, even for a price gouger.

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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #1427 on: February 09, 2012, 04:45:37 AM »
and the crazy part is, people buy stuff from them all the time. Look at the feedback. It's good. Lots of sales. They are making a fortune off people.

You can take a look at completed listings, and you'll see that this seller rarely sells anything at all. The things that they do sell tend to be items that actually are rare, or items that are priced in a reasonable range. But the vast majority do not sell, and are reposted at the same price.

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« Reply #1428 on: February 09, 2012, 05:28:26 AM »
and the crazy part is, people buy stuff from them all the time. Look at the feedback. It's good. Lots of sales. They are making a fortune off people.

You can take a look at completed listings, and you'll see that this seller rarely sells anything at all. The things that they do sell tend to be items that actually are rare, or items that are priced in a reasonable range. But the vast majority do not sell, and are reposted at the same price.



well yeah, I'm sure most of the stuff never gets sold, but if you look at their feedback, it looks like they sell a bunch of stuff all the time.

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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #1429 on: February 09, 2012, 05:50:21 AM »
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pc-Engine-Arcade-card-w-Sapphire-/180815906196?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a1977c594

Well, I think it finally happened. Someone put up one of those freebie Sapphire boots.
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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #1430 on: February 09, 2012, 06:07:47 AM »
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pc-Engine-Arcade-card-w-Sapphire-/180815906196?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a1977c594

Well, I think it finally happened. Someone put up one of those freebie Sapphire boots.


Anybody we know of from New Hampshire?
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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #1431 on: February 09, 2012, 06:25:31 AM »
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pc-Engine-Arcade-card-w-Sapphire-/180815906196?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a1977c594

Well, I think it finally happened. Someone put up one of those freebie Sapphire boots.


Anybody we know of from New Hampshire?


Does the seller pwn n00bs?

The guy who had inside info on Hudson's reprinting of Sapphire was selling stacks of misprints that fell off off the hack of a Hudson Soft truck. There may he hundreds more out there that didn't pass through BlueBMW. Chances are anybody buying spindles of them isn't doing it to redistribute them for free to the community.
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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #1432 on: February 09, 2012, 06:27:10 AM »
Lay off, Nec. He's just trying to participate. He's not perfect. None of us are so, just let it go.

I don't have a problem with anyone participating, even when it's about a seller that's already been mocked repeatedly (as has that copy of Keith).   I do, however, have a problem with double posts just minutes apart and bullshit posts with nothing but a lame smiley.
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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #1433 on: February 09, 2012, 06:27:24 AM »
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pc-Engine-Arcade-card-w-Sapphire-/180815906196?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a1977c594

Well, I think it finally happened. Someone put up one of those freebie Sapphire boots.


Anybody we know of from New Hampshire?


Does the seller pwn n00bs?

The guy who had inside info on Hudson's reprinting of Sapphire was selling stacks of misprints that fell off off the hack of a Hudson Soft truck. There may he hundreds more out there that didn't pass through BlueBMW. Chances are anybody buying spindles of them isn't doing it to redistribute them for free to the community.


Yeah good point.
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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #1434 on: February 09, 2012, 07:04:15 AM »
I think that you can still buy spindles of 100 for $100. List them as rare misprints and you'll still make a fortune.
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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #1435 on: February 09, 2012, 07:20:33 AM »
I wasn't saying the SNES didn't have awesome games I own some of them but by no means will I try to collect every SNES game out there. Its like saying I NEED TO OWN EVERY WII GAME EVER MADE. (Whoa that jjust gave me chills)

A complete collection of anything is stupid. The best good/bad ratio of all time is probably Neo Geo or Neo Geo Pocket, but I will never spend cash on pachinko and maj jongg shit I'll never actually play. Maybe Legend of Success Joe...but absolutely never will I own ShinOKen.

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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #1436 on: February 09, 2012, 08:01:47 AM »
I wasn't saying the SNES didn't have awesome games I own some of them but by no means will I try to collect every SNES game out there. Its like saying I NEED TO OWN EVERY WII GAME EVER MADE. (Whoa that jjust gave me chills)

A complete collection of anything is stupid. The best good/bad ratio of all time is probably Neo Geo or Neo Geo Pocket, but I will never spend cash on pachinko and maj jongg shit I'll never actually play. Maybe Legend of Success Joe...but absolutely never will I own ShinOKen.

I think a lot of this stuff about getting every TG16 game that a lot of people are going on about lately, is that people who are just discovering the Turbo, have it in their heads that it's the cool thing to do because Chris Bucci did it.

Some of us who already had the system for years have planned on doing this eventually and some haven't.
It's a matter of preference with us about what we like and how far we're willing to go to decide whether or not it's really necessary to have every game just because there weren't that many released and it might not be too hard to get the rest for whatever reason.

But, for newcomers to TG16 who want to collect every single U.S. title? You have a loooong road ahead of you.
Even I don't expect to get them all. Sure, I'd like to but, some of the ones I need to complete just the HuCards alone are going to be hard to come by and that doesn't even include MC.

You'd have an easier time searching for and collecting several broken G1 Transformers just to build one good one.

Just go after what you think you'd enjoy playing again and again and after you have those ones then, set your sites on the rest if you still feel the need to have them.


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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #1438 on: February 09, 2012, 09:17:40 AM »
Has anyone made an official list of known Ebay gougers yet?
I was going to say, if not, it may be a good idea.
I'm mainly talking about the mega gougers as there probably way to many of the basic gougers to compile.

I don't doubt that a lot of them probably make new accounts too to throw off suspicion.

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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #1439 on: February 09, 2012, 09:27:29 AM »
Suspicion? Like, we might suspect that a $300 loose copy of Bonk is gouging but we can't be sure without a list? Who are you, Richard Nixon?