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

[Black Tiger]

I can't speak for other console scenes and I don't know what the hell Pier Solar is, but the total extent of homebrew gouging on the TurboGrafx can be summer up with two words: Roy Vegas.

That's it. It was an isolated incident of douchebaggery no one has rivaled before or since. Furthermore, it was a special signed or limited copy, IIRC, not standard issue like Mysterious Song. A couple copies of Meteor Blaster have sold for $270 and $50 over the course of ten years on ebay, but those were honest auctions for the Signature Edition, again not standard issue and not BIN gouging.

Your view of it is pretty one sided since you wern't directly involved in any of it.  Your stating a lot of things you have no in depth knowledge of.

Yes I put those Signature/CCAG homebrew games them up for sale on eBay with huge "Buy it Nows" but guess where they sold?  They were sold to a member HERE, on this forum, who sent me a message here with an offer and were sold OFF eBay.

How about the Meteor Blaster DX Signature Edition that I GAVE to a member here for free (he can chime in if he sees this and wants). Of course you wouldn't know that happened nor would I expect you to.

If you could also please provide a little proof on your auction facts. I sold one of my Meteor Blaster DX Signature Editions at what you call "an honest auction" and it ended at $89.69 (I know, it's in my feedback). So was my auction a third auction you missed or did you confuse that with the $50 auction?

A majority of what your saying about me is your biased opinion and nothing more. There's no fact to what you said other than they were listed INITIALLY on eBay with high "Buy it Now's".  The rest is biased opinion based on what you perceived happened.

What were your plans if the initial "high Buy it Now" listings had been purchased at your top prices, before you had a chance to make any side deals?

[RoyVegas]

Your view of it is pretty one sided since you wern't directly involved in any of it.  Your stating a lot of things you have no in depth knowledge of.
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A majority of what your saying about me is your biased opinion and nothing more. There's no fact to what you said other than they were listed INITIALLY on eBay with high "Buy it Now's".  The rest is biased opinion based on what you perceived happened.

Give it a f*cking rest, Roy.  You know what you did was shitty.

I never said what I did was right or wrong.  I merely took the opportunity to rebut the inaccuracies. That's what some people don't get, I never denied what I did, I tried to respond to the rumors being spread that wern't true.  New people would come in see a bunch of random rumor crap from people like vestcoat and just buy in to it, hook line and sinker.  He has no clue what happened as his involvement was nil.

Coming from YOU, telling me to give it a rest is pathetic Necro. You're the type of person around here that people respect and you typically correct inaccuracies and straighten things out when you can. In this case however, you're basically telling me to shut up and let vestcoat say whatever he wants, true or not.  That's poor.

If you feel the topic should be put to rest, maybe you should be telling vestcoat to give it a rest. As long as people post inaccuracies about what happened, I'll be there to correct them.

[Necromancer]

Then please point out the plethora of perfidy.

You won't find what's not there, as he didn't say where it sold or for how much, claim that you denied what happened, or that you were involved in either of those MBDX sales.  The only meat is him saying that the only Turbob homebrew douchebaggery was from you (aside from Storino, presumably), and I don't think many here are going to argue otherwise.

Furthermore, whether or not it eventually sold on eBay is irrelevant anyway.  An attempt at gouging is no better than succeeding (half of what's in this thread never sells), and we both know that you would have taken the money if it had sold before someone here made an offer.

[RoyVegas]

Then please point out the plethora of perfidy.

I said inaccurate and biased opinion, not perfidy.

[Necromancer]

perfidy = deceitfulness = concealing or misrepresenting the truth

Try again.

[RoyVegas]

Yes, that's what perfidy means. Which is the word YOU used, not me.

I said he used biased opinion and inaccuracies.

You try again.

[Necromancer]

So in other words, you've got nothing.  Color me unsurprised.

[Black Tiger]

[mrhaboobi]

Any chance someone has a picture of the different signature editions ..  Would have been cool to own one of them .  Sometimes being in other parts of the world sucks when you cant attend things like CCAG.

[RoyVegas]

Any chance someone has a picture of the different signature editions ..  Would have been cool to own one of them .  Sometimes being in other parts of the world sucks when you cant attend things like CCAG.

Don't you know pictures never helped anyone but Noobs?:

Exterior differences, Signature Edition sticker on the front and it's signed and numbered (which should match the number on the title screen) on the back of the manual.

Regular:



Signature:



Inside:






There are other in game differences also.  An extra ship, Customized title screen (personal message and copy ??/?? on the top right), music and 1 more thing I don't recall (but i think it had something to do with an updated version of the extra in game game LOOP.

[mrhaboobi]

Can i ask how you signed up for one of these editions?  I can remember anything about them, how call is it to have your name in the game

[RoyVegas]

Any chance someone has a picture of the different signature editions ..  Would have been cool to own one of them .  Sometimes being in other parts of the world sucks when you cant attend things like CCAG.

Insanity has a few variants also (I'm sure Ark will LOVE me for this one, if he doesn't enough already):

The regular version may or may not be signed and is a pressed disc.



There was another lightscribe disc that Ark did for CCAG and only made 20 copies (hand numbered). This may or may not be signed:





Then if you preordered Insanity it came with an extra Soundtrack disc, was numbered and may or may not be signed.

[RoyVegas]

Can i ask how you signed up for one of these editions?  I can remember anything about them, how call is it to have your name in the game

You just had to request it and order it as a Signature Edition. He was only going to make 100 but I think he ran out of games to do them on once he hit around 60.

Edit: To clear up any confusion. This statement was about Meteor Blaster DX.

[mrhaboobi]

ok cool thanks for the lesson in signature editions

[Necromancer]

There are other in game differences also.  An extra ship, Customized title screen (personal message and copy ??/?? on the top right), music and 1 more thing I don't recall (but i think it had something to do with an updated version of the extra in game game LOOP.

Yep, it's Loop 2.0.  There's also "slight graphical tweeks" (whatever they are), the DX on the title screen is differently colored, and a hidden/unlockable demo to find.

All these improvements (and a Mindrec logo splash screen change) are in the pressed version too.