Magical Chase for sale in local Craigslist...

[rodek]

If He was serious he'd ask 1500-1800. 10k is insane.


But if someone will pay that.. then all the power to him.

$200 would be considered gouging for Magical Chase. It's the poster child for over-inflation.

I'm basing my numbers on the average "complete" copy of MC goes on ebay - gouge. I've been watching for a long time.. Loose is about 500-600, with manual is 650-850 and with box.. 1500-1800.

[Black Tiger]

But if someone will pay that.. then all the power to him.

The only reason that Magical Chase goes for more than $30 is because of rich clowns paying whatever they find a game for first, while quickly piecing together an instant collection that will never be played. The game went for years at $100 or less and then skyrocketed to ridiculous prices within a single year. Around the same time that sellers began to manipulate the market. People were quickly bidding up (or manipulating communities for the game) and then immediately flipping the game. Like the a$$hole who paid $13000 for an NES game and then put it back up for $40,000 minimum bid and a Buy-It-Now of $500,000. It's no longer a proper 'supply and demand' situation. It's now people making money off of nothing like the stock market.

It's ruined things for Turbo fans who actually appreciate the games.

[Mathius]

But if someone will pay that.. then all the power to him.

The only reason that Magical Chase goes for more than $30 is because of rich clowns paying whatever they find a game for first, while quickly piecing together an instant collection that will never be played. The game went for years at $100 or less and then skyrocketed to ridiculous prices within a single year. Around the same time that sellers began to manipulate the market. People were quickly bidding up (or manipulating communities for the game) and then immediately flipping the game. Like the a$$hole who paid $13000 for an NES game and then put it back up for $40,000 minimum bid and a Buy-It-Now of $500,000. It's no longer a proper 'supply and demand' situation. It's now people making money off of nothing like the stock market.

It's ruined things for Turbo fans who actually appreciate the games.

Too much truth! I can't take it!

[rodek]

But if someone will pay that.. then all the power to him.

The only reason that Magical Chase goes for more than $30 is because of rich clowns paying whatever they find a game for first, while quickly piecing together an instant collection that will never be played. The game went for years at $100 or less and then skyrocketed to ridiculous prices within a single year. Around the same time that sellers began to manipulate the market. People were quickly bidding up (or manipulating communities for the game) and then immediately flipping the game. Like the a$$hole who paid $13000 for an NES game and then put it back up for $40,000 minimum bid and a Buy-It-Now of $500,000. It's no longer a proper 'supply and demand' situation. It's now people making money off of nothing like the stock market.

It's ruined things for Turbo fans who actually appreciate the games.

Point understood.
Like as if all the copies of MC suddenly became $2500 from now on when they were for sale.. eventually someone would pay for it, again and again.. and it would be the Norm. (just driving the price even higher). We ourselves are driving the price up.

[nectarsis]

We ourselves are driving the price up.

Nope only teh people with more $ than patience/common sense.

[Lum]

What's keeping all those people from having to liquidate the games out of credit card debt anyway? In these times surely money will dry up somehow.

[nectarsis]

What's keeping all those people from having to liquidate the games out of credit card debt anyway? In these times surely money will dry up somehow.

More than a couple of the  "GOTTA HAVE IT NOW" or buy a ton of  stuff fast peeps have sold off...sometimes not to soon after completion.

[SignOfZeta]

What's keeping all those people from having to liquidate the games out of credit card debt anyway? In these times surely money will dry up somehow.

I'm pretty sure they are doing just that, over and over again. The shit just moves from one guy to the next.

This brings up an interesting idea. Wouldn't it be fun to purposefully f*ck up a game's eBay value. It would be easy to drive the price up, but driving it down would take some cleverness, and some money, of course.

Possible method: Everyone here puts their personal copies of some game like Deep Blue on eBay with $250 BINs and just leave them there forever. If we could get 100 of them on there...that would be f*cking hilarious, and certainly drive up the price. Then we could all dump them at $1 a year later, one after another in a short span of time, and kill the fake price.

Candidate game: it has to be something less common than TV Sports of Keith Courage, but still common, and something not commonly thought to be valuable. Deep Blue maybe, or Yo Bro.

[grahf]

That's an amazing idea. If I was in the US I would be down for that. I think you guys should have at least two copies to start though, one to sell now for $250BIN, and at least one more to sell next year. Please make this happen guys

[Sparky]

This brings up an interesting idea. Wouldn't it be fun to purposefully f*ck up a game's eBay value. It would be easy to drive the price up, but driving it down would take some cleverness, and some money, of course.

sounds good and i think "Yo bro" would be the contender as it is common but below the radar enough to maybe make people believe the worth we give it in time... hahahaha

so how much is this going to cost to put this up on ebay for this long period of time?.... count me in if we get enough people.  

This would be a great experiment <<thumbs up>>

[BlueBMW]

I'm game for it!  Yo Bro is ready to go up on the block!

[termis]

Sorry to be a partypooper, but I'd put money up for that NOT working.  This is akin to the whole email forward with the "don't buy gas on day x, or don't buy gas from exxon, etc to bring the gas price down".  To control the market, you have to control the entire market (or damn near all of it).

[SignOfZeta]

The petro market is a bit bigger than the TG-16 market...

This will work, easy. We need to have quite a few copies up at once, hopefully at least 10, but idealy 50 or so. We also need a bullshit story as to why it's valuable, a story that will be paraphrased in every auction.

The they just sit there with stupid BINs for as long as possible, probably a year or so. Hopefully nobody will actually buy one.

[Black Tiger]

What's keeping all those people from having to liquidate the games out of credit card debt anyway? In these times surely money will dry up somehow.

I'm pretty sure they are doing just that, over and over again. The shit just moves from one guy to the next.

This brings up an interesting idea. Wouldn't it be fun to purposefully f*ck up a game's eBay value. It would be easy to drive the price up, but driving it down would take some cleverness, and some money, of course.

Possible method: Everyone here puts their personal copies of some game like Deep Blue on eBay with $250 BINs and just leave them there forever. If we could get 100 of them on there...that would be f*cking hilarious, and certainly drive up the price. Then we could all dump them at $1 a year later, one after another in a short span of time, and kill the fake price.

Candidate game: it has to be something less common than TV Sports of Keith Courage, but still common, and something not commonly thought to be valuable. Deep Blue maybe, or Yo Bro.

I thought about doing something like this while typing my last post. But the thought of it backfiring was too scary. I thought up of something I can do alone to put a dent in some of the gouging. I will cost me some money, but I think I'm going to do it. In order for it to be effective, I can't say what it is until after it is successful.

[Mathius]

I think it would be far more effective if we actually place cheap BINs of the actual games that are getting gouged like Magical Chase, Bonk 3, DEII, etc. Like the above idea we would need a bunch of each. Just sayin'...