Turbo Duo / PC-Engine Collector's Wet Dream

[esquire]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3071358261&category=4315#ebayphotohosting

Damn that's a lot of stuff, especially all boxed up and complete. I have never shipped anything that large. Would it really cost $150 to ship? Also, the fact that the seller has zero (0) feedback makes me wonder just a little bit.

[GunPanther]

But I hardly believe that the seller even has those things. It's very easy to browse the internet and find someone's collection of pictures, steal them images and then post them on Ebay to possibly scam buyers.


There are a lot of warning signs already, possibly indicating a scam:

1) The most obvious is that the seller is NEW, with no feedback and only registered the same day they posted the auction.

2) There was a starting bid of $0.01.

3) It's a no reserve auction.

4) This is the ONLY auction that the seller currently has posted.

5) For a new seller, they certainly know how to make their auction listing look quite professional, especially with the animated .gif files.

6) Shipping is too much (at least IMO).

7) The seller accepts too many forms of payment, including wire transfers.


This whole deal sounds too good to be true.

Realistically, if this person wanted to make the most money out of the entire set, divide the games into smaller lots and only bunch up the higher demanding games with titles that are not in demand.

Kind of like offering (for example) a Turbo CD/Hu-Card lot with: Keith Courage, JJ & Jeff, China Warrior, Bomberman, Splatterhouse, Riot Zone, J.B Harold Murder Club and finally, Dracula X. Not only will you make a killing on the auction because it's such a big lot, but you'll also make your money on the Dracula X all while getting rid of titles that would otherwise never sell by themselves in individual auctions.

Or perhaps the seller just wants to unload the games quickly in order to make a quick buck?

Still, something's not right with that auction. I can almost sense it.






:2gunfire: GunPanther :snipersmile:

[esquire]

Now that I think of it, it's probably a collector who created a secondary account just for this auction to see how much his collection is worth. That way, when the auction is over and he gets a negative and non-selling seller complaint filed against him, he'll just let the account get suspended.

[Griking]

Or maybe he's just someone who was told that if he ever sold his collection he'd get a lot more for it on ebay.

After all, where else is someone supposed to sell something like this, a tag sale?

[anagrama]

There are a lot of warning signs already, possibly indicating a scam:

1) The most obvious is that the seller is NEW, with no feedback and only registered the same day they posted the auction.


Well, obviously every new seller must be a scammer.




2) There was a starting bid of $0.01.

3) It's a no reserve auction.

4) This is the ONLY auction that the seller currently has posted.

7) The seller accepts too many forms of payment, including wire transfers.


I fail to see how any of these suggest it's a scam. Hell, I'd bid if I could afford it.

[LazingBlazers]

Well, obviously every new seller must be a scammer.



Exactly. Maybe the guy just needs some money, and decided that selling a collection worth thousands on a worldwide collectors marketplace is a good idea. Why put a reserve on something that is guaranteed to sell for a dump load of money? It cost me about $100 in postage to ship 330-340 NES games from WI to FL via USPS Parcel Post. I don't think $150 is unrealistic, especially with the cost of handling materials. I too would bid if I had the money. The guy takes PayPal and Credit Cards, how much of a scam can it really be?

[brykasch]

Well, if he is a scammer, he has done a great job on the listing, now the only one that worries me is no local pickups, now if he had paypal buyer protection that would help, I would e-mail the guy and get some references etc. If I had the money I would be thats for sure.

[esquire]

Just for the record, I never said he was a scammer. I believe that was someone else's opinion. I think its someone just trying to find out what he could get for his entire collection. I've seen this happen before, and the evidence seems to indicate that. You have a brand new account with a coincidental name ("pc endgine junker", like that's going to be appropriate after he sells this item off), created just to sell this one item only. I just find find it hard to believe that someone who would go to all that trouble to collect all that would sell it off in one whole auction when you can get more $ selling the stuff separately. Any collector knows that. I guess we'll see after the auction ends whether he actually sells the item. My guess he'll either end it early or let it end and not sell it.