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

[Gypsy]

Probably, reserves are a double edged sword. I don't recommend em.

[gex]

Basically he's a "tough guy" with a troubled past, started shit with people on the fb groups and got banned. Flexed his collectard peen muscle a bit, so on and so on. Pretty funny stuff. Ask Nullity, I'm sure he saw some of it at least. lol

Apparently he's recapping/doing duo repairs now 

[HailingTheThings]

Basically he's a "tough guy" with a troubled past, started shit with people on the fb groups and got banned. Flexed his collectard peen muscle a bit, so on and so on. Pretty funny stuff. Ask Nullity, I'm sure he saw some of it at least. lol

Apparently he's recapping/doing duo repairs now 

Yeah, I saw that. Wonder if he's capable. lol

[bob]

http://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/222391139375

genuine reproduction.  lol.

[Sparky]

http://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/222391139375

genuine reproduction.  lol.

ha, thanks gynt! that looks like one of my spines, going to look back at addresses and match up the f*cker

[ChuChu Flamingo]

Someone is going to get got.

[esteban]

http://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/222391139375

genuine reproduction.  lol.

ha, thanks gynt! that looks like one of my spines, going to look back at addresses and match up the f*cker

I pray that you can identify the a$$hole.

What a douchebag.

[Mathius]

Genuine Original huh? Then he calls it a Reproduction. Uh-oh.

[Necromancer]

$40 for a case, sleeve, and Sparky sticker......  get f*cked buddy.

[Zero_Gamer]

Oh geez...

 http://www.ebay.com/itm/182442165069

[Emerald Rocker]

I find it amusing that the "Shooting Legends" set includes Steam Hearts.  It... doesn't quite match up to those other games.  But I suppose it's legendary in a sense.

[MisterCrash]

What I find interesting is that I'm starting to see PCE Works games show up on Yahoo! Japan Auctions, and they are attracting a lot of bids. Space Fantasy Zone copies are consistently going for over 25,000 yen, and there is a copy of Super Real Mahjong Pantsu edition that is at 31,000 yen right now.

I used to think that Japan was immune to bootlegs, but it looks like that is not the case.

[Punch]

Seems like there's little time to get all legit copies of games you want to have, I can't believe it's taking so long for someone else to want a piece of the cake and start doing unmarked bootlegs of high profile games, esp. with tobias showing that people will buy an actual marked one for premium money.

[Black Tiger]

What I find interesting is that I'm starting to see PCE Works games show up on Yahoo! Japan Auctions, and they are attracting a lot of bids. Space Fantasy Zone copies are consistently going for over 25,000 yen, and there is a copy of Super Real Mahjong Pantsu edition that is at 31,000 yen right now.

I used to think that Japan was immune to bootlegs, but it looks like that is not the case.

Tobias sold bootlegs like Space Fantasy Zone and Rockman on yahoo japan auctions before making them available anywhere else. They got bid up to thousands of dollars each, as they were presented as a small batch of long lost copies that NEC didn't distribute for some reason. Circus Lido helped make it more believeable. Even when the Sapphire bootlegs were first noticed and he kept coming up with more unbelieveabke stories,  a few people here refused to believe that they were real and kept making posts similar to ctophil's RVGS dream that Punch loves to repost.

[TheClash603]

Seems like there's little time to get all legit copies of games you want to have, I can't believe it's taking so long for someone else to want a piece of the cake and start doing unmarked bootlegs of high profile games, esp. with tobias showing that people will buy an actual marked one for premium money.

The only good (?) news is when no one knows what is real or fake and the market is flooded, all games should hypothetically be a lot cheaper?  The fakes are at a trickle now, but once that trickle becomes a flood and as printer quality improves, I don't see how anyone would be comfortable paying big money for anything.  I already feel this way with certain systems, I haven't bought a more expensive NES, SNES, or AES game in years because I assume everything on ebay after 2015ish is fake.

Maybe we aren't there with hu-cards yet.  But on the other hand, how could anyone making a box only purchase possibly feel confident it's from the original print run?