Huge Lot. HUGE! ULTIMATE COLLECTION! RARE!

[tubeway]

I often look around on ebay for lots of games, thinking I might be able to bulk up the library for one of my systems cheaply.

All too often, a cursory check yields many, many auctions with 6-10 games where the auction title proclaims it is a, "HUGE LOT OF 9 GAMES!" or "ULTIMATE COLLECTION FOR SYSTEM!"

After seeing this so consistently, I actually messaged some of these people, "DEAR GOD! 8 GAMES?! HOW CAN I POSSIBLY FIT THIS IN MY HOME? HOW MUCH WILL IT COST TO SHIP SUCH A GIGANTIC, COLOSSAL AMOUNT OF GAMES? WILL I HAVE TO GET A SPECIAL DELIVERY SERVICE TO SEND ME ALL 8 OF THESE AT ONCE?!"

Half the people respond with extremely butthurt, defensive responses. The other half? They try to be REASSURING, and tell me how inexpensive it will be to actually ship them, noting that I should bid right now if I don't want to miss such a grand opportunity.

I've also inquired with a few people as to why they're selling their copy of Super Mario Kart 64 as "extremely rare!!!11" and most often, their extremely flimsy logic is, "ITS NOT FOR SALE IN STORES NOW SO IT IS RARE. YOU CANT BUY IT AT WALMART SO IT IS RARE."

I then ask, "Well, that particular game actually sold something like several million copies -- that's why your copy is a "Player's Choice" copy or whatever. Are you telling me that all several million copies were thrown away or disappeared from the face of the earth over the course of the last ten years?"

"Yes, exactly."

[ryborg]

ebay sellers hyperbolizing their auctions?

stop the presses

[Dark_Sol]

I extremely enjoy such auctions :)

[tubeway]

ebay sellers hyperbolizing their auctions?

stop the presses

You mean stop the GIGANTIC RARE HUGE ULTIMATE presses. ;)

[Atarileaf]

Half the people respond with extremely butthurt, defensive responses.

You were being an ass. I would have responded that way too. Although I'm not sure what "butthurt" means (maybe I don't want to know).

Bottom line is you don't like an auction, move on. Childish sarcastic emails do nothing but prove that you aren't exactly mensa* material.







*$10 says he has to google "mensa"

:D

[tubeway]

Bottom line is you don't like an auction, move on. Childish sarcastic emails do nothing but prove that you aren't exactly mensa* material.

Yes, because as we all know, one's maturity level and sense of humor is directly linked to their intelligence quotient.

Might want to hold off on applying for Mensa, yourself. ;)

[Atarileaf]

Yes, because as we all know, one's maturity level and sense of humor is directly linked to their intelligence quotient.

Might want to hold off on applying for Mensa, yourself. ;)

You don't "apply" for mensa, its not a McDonalds job application, you have to take a test. You owe me $10.

See, I do have a sense of humor.

[icarwngs55]

I would say the TEST is like applying for Mensa...

But if you don't like an auction move on

[tubeway]

You don't "apply" for mensa, its not a McDonalds job application, you have to take a test. You owe me $10.

See, I do have a sense of humor.

Yawn.

[Gameguy]

I had a copy of Final Fantasy for the NES that I was selling on Kijiji, I got an email from someone sarcastically saying that I wasn't asking enough, that I should be asking way more for a copy because it was super rare(they thought I priced it too high). I ignored the email, and sold it to someone else within a week for my asking price.

Either way, I don't say rare when I have an ad. Whoever would be interested in buying it would know about it anyway. I tend to assume that people are somewhat bright, they wouldn't just believe something that someone tells them(especially from someone selling them something). Though I may be wrong to assume that.

[PapaStu]

Because there are people who see RARE and HUGE LOT in the title and see the price and think they are making it big.

Also to many people buying 6-10 games at once is a pretty big thing. Hell, me buying 6-10 games new at once at a GameStop can be a pretty big thing. Personally its nothing (most of the time), now that i've blown past the few thousand games mark, but to someone with say 100 games and they get a lot of 10, thats adding 10% of their entire collection at once.