Re: Off Topic: My entire NES and Mac gaming collection up for auction

Top dollar for Phantasy Star right now seems to be around $30 for cart
only. You'd be very lucky to get it complete for that price.

I used to see if go for around $45 complete...so $30 isn't that far off, but I agree that it would be difficult to get it complete for that price.

The
price may have dropped on it in recent years, but it's still a
staggering amount of money for a 20+ year old game for a system that
almost nobody has.

Well, but think about it: When PS came out it was around $70 in the store...so for it to go from $70 instore, to $100 on ebay, then down to around $30 is actual progress. It's those PS collections that are doing it, and I'm loving them for it.

Seriously, the SMS is super rare around here,
although I guess the adapter alleviates this a bit, but that doesn't
seem common either.

Though I can't say it's super rare around here to see SMS stuff, it's still hard to get. Thing is, there are a few places here around Dallas where retro stores will just have shitloads of it, while others either have none or just two or three titles. Serious SMS shopping can only be done on the net...

Even the 32x is now apparently a hotly contested
item. Those were worthless and unwanted for a very long time. I still
remember TRU blowing them out for like $25, and nobody wanted them.
They sat there on the shelves for YEARS.

It's a shame too, because it is an *awesome* upgrade for the Genesis. Does so many things for it, yet noone would give it a chance. I can see how people ignored it at the opening $150 pricing, but when it hit $79, people should have gobbled it up. I would have too, if I'd of had the money at the time. I got mine from a TRU clearance...well, my first one anyway.

For my money, the rarest
system to obtain is the colecovision. Man, what does it take to snag
one of those, or to even find one that is working???

Not sure...never seen one, never played one. I hear it was a pretty cool system though.

I pretty much specialize in n64 stuff and Genesis stuff. So long as
the Genesis stuff comes cheap and are good games I'll take them. I've
been very successful at it. I paid like $2 for Columns 3 and $2 for
General Chaos and devilish and decap attack. $5 for Truxton. Even on
Ebay rare games like Tinhead and King of Monsters and Landstalker came
shockingly cheap. About $6 a pop with shipping included!

Not too bad at all. I remember back in the day, picking up some insanely good deals for very little money. I mean, I was finding import Mega Drive and Mega CD games for so little I almost felt obligated to buy them. I got most of my 32X collection for dirt cheap as well(including the impossibly rare/expensive Spider-Man: Web of Fire). Ebay was really something back then....now, they've just turned it in to a continuous fuck-fest for virtually anyone who uses it. Did you know that now, if you sell something on ebay and the person just flat out refuses to pay, you can no longer leave them a negative...AT ALL. They can turn around and leave you a negative for not shipping the item, and ebay WILL NOT remove it. It's awesome.

Just
doesn't seem to be happening anymore. Not sure if new collectors have
jumped in and started sucking up anything and everything, but
something is going on. I think possibly a lot of longtime ebay sellers
have packed it in, which obviously contributes to increased online
competition.

Well, the craze for retro stuff has definitely pumped up the market(and the prices), but there are still, literally, millions of deals to be had on ebay. Here's the thing, and I hate to do it to you, but...

This $2 shit is just unrealistic. It's great that you got some deals back in the day for that(as I did as well), but it's just unrealistic to think that those deals can still be had. The $2 deals we used to see are now $4, and they are still good deal. If you give up simply because you refuse to pay more than $4 for a Genesis or N64 game....well....

It's kind of like when I was selling off my Mac and NES collection: I'd get all these emails from people asking me for Buy It Now pricing or that they really, really, really, really wanted the item and would be bidding(why they felt they needed to tell me that, I don't know). When it came down to putting actual money down....they'd bid something like $1.50. Now, granted, there's a fine line between wanting and paying...but to me, when someone won't pay past a certain amount(and that amount is super low), they don't really want the game.

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