$100K videogame collection on ebay!!!!

[Parodius]

Check this puppy out, all those Limited Edition consoles!!!

I would love to get me one of those red Famicom Twins, or a Seaman Dreamcast, or........


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62054&item=8111352149&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

[Gamereviewgod]

Shipping is only $16.00 from Hong Kong? O_O

[leonk]

How can you get that to the US? Via a container on a ship??? Has anyone bothered adding the individual cost to see how much it's really worth?

[Raedon]

I think this must be a mistake between Yen and the US $. This is maybe $1k of items if you REALLY push the mint box of the consoles. A lot of that is Dupes... who needs Dupes? I've got a PS2 that playes anything.

[Cmosfm]

*cries*

This auction is so nice, wow, I want it! 100,000! it just may be worth it...too bad I have no where near that to spend. :(

[Achika]

: pees pants :


:eek 2:

[DreamTR]

I hope that is an arror on your part, only 1K worth of items???? That collection is owrth FAR more than $1,000. I would say it's going rate on high end for what he has.

[LAGO]

If you look at the shipping he says it'll be roughly 1000 US$ ... thats a lot of stuff though ... man.

[Raedon]

I hope that is an arror on your part, only 1K worth of items???? That collection is owrth FAR more than $1,000. I would say it's going rate on high end for what he has.


I just ran threw it with my eyes *BLINK*

seems to be a lot of consoles.. are there games? did he list them out? NOO!

I see number but no pictures... Fu#$ it $1K if that..

[classicb]

why in the world would you try to sell that huge of a lot. is their some super
rich video game collector out there. I know most of us are cheap. I imagine
this must be a going out of buisness sale or something. If I only had
$100,000 to spend... i don't think I would spend it on that even though
I wish I could have all that stuff.

[orrimarrko]

Expensive or not - that is simply an impressive collection.

[Castelak]

Man those developer systems are pretty cool. (Especially that SNES one). Probobly all worth 100,000. PS2 Launch Wine Bottles? O_o Who is this guy!? XD

[portnoyd]

: pees pants :


:eek 2:

My thoughts and reaction exactly.

If I had $100,000 to blow, I'd place a bid for sure. If the value doesn't hit $100k, then the ability to get ALL that stuff in one shot would make it worth it.

dave

[downfall]

I'll pitch in a few hundred if everyone else will!

LOL

[optic_85]

*Drools*....so many SEGA Dreamcast LE's...Kind of turns me on.......

...But anywho, that's a great import collection with a lot of rarities, and with the stuff he hasnt listed yet i'd say it's worth at least what he's asking.

[DreamTR]

Raedon, he posted 500 PC Engine games also. So please read what he has in terms of value. By your logic someone with 100 PS2s should not get a lot of money because they are "multiples."

[Ed Oscuro]

Hmm, 500 PC-Engine titles? If you say there's a bunch of super common stuff in there and that each title averages out to $10 you're looking at $5000 just for the PC-Engine titles. The Neo Geo games...

However with the various dev kits and boxed rare systems - Titler, Super Famicom dev unit, Sharp X1 Twin and the Model 3 (!) Teradrive are probably the most expensive consoles there, and you're not looking at anything I've seen sell for over $2000. Dreamcast bundles are only expensive because people are stupid.

So you've got about 170 systems, a bunch of LD-ROM games (which is neat but somebody else will need to estimate a price on that), and let's guess all of the games and non-system items (including LD-ROMs, programmer manuals and CD-ROM dev libraries) are $20K (possibly a high figure) - so you've got $80K spread out over roughly 170 things.

That comes out to roughly $470.

What's the average worth of a Dreamcast dev unit? I wouldn't say upwards of $700. I've got an AN-500B ("black" Sharp Twin Famicom, first in his list) new, just like in his picture. I paid just under $300 for it. There's definitely a few handfuls of items on there worth less than $1K but more than $5Cs. So let's say there's 20 things on there that are worth $1000 each (and mind you I haven't seen many eBay auctions end but I have seen many of the things on this special short list go for WAY less than that). That means we've got $20K of stuff, so to break down our list again:

All games - $20K
20 $1K systems - $20K
Remainder of systems - roughly 150 @ $60K total
We're at $400 an item, exactly, if these other assumptions are correct. I guess it comes down to whether you think paying $400 for each of those boxed Limited Edition Dreamcast units is worth it. Mind you that while you can find most of those cheaper, especially on Yahoo! Auctions Japan, spending the time finding all this stuff can chew a hole in your wallet as well.

The main problem here is that you're looking at a price only Warren Buffet would be able to pay. Most people don't even have a house worth that much.

If somebody buys this I think it'll be fair to say that game collecting really has gone mainstream. I don't think, all things considered, that it really is a bad value, and I'd rather have all that stuff than lots of other things priced at $100K. However, I don't think you'd see your collection appraised for that much within a period of years. Lingjr certainly isn't putting himself out much here, folks. I assume he found most of these items far below what they're worth, and even if he bought everything here at full price (and if you look at all the stuff he's sold on eBay...not likely, not likely at all) he's getting a lot of money for what it's worth.

So that's my two, three cents, give or take a few. $400 for a bunch of common systems and LE Dreamcasts.

[Lone_Monster]

Holy crap. I wish I had that kind of money right now. Probably won't for the next 10 years though :-/

I am too wondering why he didn't put them in seperate auctions. Plus if no one bids on this, and he relists and once again, no one buys, he's super screwed with the eBay listings.

Anyway, I'd love to have some of those things there, especially Those Super Famicom TVs, the Panzer Dragoon Orta Special Edition White XBox :love: .

Also, I definitely think this is worth the 100 grand. 1 thousand? Heck no. Even for ten, maybe 15 things he has listed there, will add up to 1 k.

[Ed Oscuro]

I'm guessing I lowballed the price of games by a good deal, though. If you say the games are worth $30 (that's really not that unreasonable) you bring the average price of an item down to $333 and 33 cents - getting better. I think you'd find that most of the value is in the games, actually. 500 PC-Engine titles is really worth something more like $12.5K anyways ;)

[hydr0x]

wow that collection is very impressive, and i do think it is worth that amount, all those dev systems and special editions are worth quite a lot (especially on ebay) and we have no clue how many games for the other systems (he says there are a lot more games) there actually are, there might be another 2000-10000 games in there....

makes 2500 games + 150 (or whatever) consoles, i'd guess those systems average about 250$ as there are more special editions than normal ones, that makes 250*150=37k
2500 games, which imho could be worth about 30 (and that's a very very low guess) on average make another 2500*30=75k
makes 112k @_@

[Crush Crawfish]

I love to buy it, but I'd probably end up living in one of those console boxes! LOL I also REALLY want that chobits GBA.

[sniperCCJVQ]

The topic should be in the YMEI forum.

[Jibbajaba]

Bah. I already have most of that stuff anyways... x_x ......no......

This is off-topic but I just want to say that letsallgameon has my favorite avatar on the board.

[Ed Oscuro]

makes 2500 games + 150 (or whatever) consoles, i'd guess those systems average about 250$ as there are more special editions than normal ones, that makes 250*150=37k
2500 games, which imho could be worth about 30 (and that's a very very low guess) on average make another 2500*30=75k
makes 112k @_@
Those figures look pretty good. Now a lot of the PC-Engine library is truly dirt cheap (i.e. historical sims and the like, sub-$6 games) but a lot of it is decently priced and some's damned expensive. Completeness is a factor.

I'd say that $250 on average for systems is low, because I see more things on that list that should pull more than $300 than things which won't - like the boxed N64 and Mega Drive. There's also closer to 170 systems than 150. Not a bad guess, though, because I've reason to believe the games include enough expensive items to bring the average up.

[Parodius]

The Japanese library of MegaDrive games has some of the rarest and most expensive titles of any system, as the system never took off over there. I'd say there are a good 20+ games that go for $100+.

The Hi-Saturn Navi would probably go for around $1000!

A boxed PC Engine LT - $700-ish

A Duo Monitor!!! You know how rare these things are??

The Famicom titler. I've been looking for one for ages and I have NEVER come across one.

The Divers Dreamcast!!!!!


etc. ad nauseum, and seemingly ad infinitum.

[Ed Oscuro]

The Japanese library of MegaDrive games has some of the rarest and most expensive titles of any system, as the system never took off over there. I'd say there are a good 20+ games that go for $100+.
With many over $150 - Alien Soldier, Alisia Dragoon, Battle Mania 2, Captain Lang, Comix Zone, Contra The Hard Corps, Eliminate Down, Gauntlet, Gleylancer, Panorama Cotton, Paperboy, Pengo, Ristar, Rockman Mega World, Slap Fight MD, Snow Bros., Virtual Bart,

- but do you expect these to show up? I wouldn't. Have to ask Lingjr.


A Duo Monitor!!! You know how rare these things are??
http://www.gamechoice.com.hk/search.asp?page=3&category=PC%20Engine&subcategory=Console

I remember them having a price...forgotten now, though. I believe there's also a Duo-R monitor.


The Famicom titler. I've been looking for one for ages and I have NEVER come across one.
$500 or so right there.

The Divers has an "$email" link on it @ GameChoice, but if you select Add To Cart, it'll show up as $890. O:

[atomicthumbs]

http://img30.photobucket.com/albums/v89/atomicthumbs/shock.jpg

[anagrama]

Well fuck me silly! :O That's gotta be the most impressive hardware coillection ever seen on eBay, right?

[Pantechnicon]

why in the world would you try to sell that huge of a lot. is their some super
rich video game collector out there. I know most of us are cheap. I imagine
this must be a going out of buisness sale or something. If I only had
$100,000 to spend... i don't think I would spend it on that even though
I wish I could have all that stuff.

Look for bidding by an Ebayer named jamesz28. The man seems to have a bottomless pit of money at his disposal. It was just in the last two months the guy dropped $10,000 (dollars, not yen) on some obscenely rare NeoGeo game. I dunno, this might be even bigger than jamesz28 can handle, but...if anybody has a serious chance at scoring this collection, it is he.

Holy shite. I think I'm gonna have to watch this auction... :eek 2:

[maxlords]

That's just obscene...and worth WELL over what the asking price is I'd think. A lot of that stuff is $1000 an item easy. VERY VERY rare. All easy to sell too. And those guys are reliable...they're dealers. I'd buy it in an INSTANT if I had the money.

[Ed Oscuro]

What's over $1K a piece? Very few items look to be worth that much to me (outside overhyped Saturn and Dreamcast stuff, but...)

[charitycasegreg]

Doesnt that guy have a website and he collected all these and now is selliing them? I remember seeing a site a few weeks ago with tons of pictures about the same as these.

[SoulBlazer]

I can't help but wonder....why not sell it in small bits? Does ANYONE seriously have 100,000 to SPEND on all of this? That's more then many of us make in three years of work! @_@

[Ed Oscuro]

This does make me suspicious. I feel that LingJr gets absolutely as much money as possible out of all his items and he usually has tons of stuff listed at once. I'm thinking one of the major draws here would be all the software, but that's not listed. There has to be a catch here, because nothing's stopped LingJr from posting tons of stuff before.

[kevincure]

This isn't so much an "auction" as it is an advertisement. Would anyone drop 100k without seeing the goods in person? Of course not. If I had the means, would I? Of course. Quite honestly, this is the kind of collection that could be used to start a decent videogame museum - perhaps Joe and the CGE crew have some extra cash :-) ? Whoever would be interested would surely be willing to fly to HK to check out the merchandise, though.

The Playstation stuff is what interests me the most - they essentially have anything Dev related for the Playstation. Everything they have, for the most part, is complete to boot. Wow. I don't think a similar collection of US only stuff would even be possible!

[Ed Oscuro]

This isn't so much an "auction" as it is an advertisement.
Hmm, interesting take on that.

I was just advised that there are only 500 PC-Engine games, not *5000* (which was sort of suspicious anyways - there aren't that many unique titles for the whole system!)

So that makes things look even more in his favor.

More thoughts:

While the Red Sharp Twin Famicom has some sort of wrap over it, it's "used." I hear the Black, AN 500B model (what GameChoice sent me by accident instead of the red) may be slightly more rare, and that's worth, once again, $300 new. So I think he's not doing too badly here.

I guess that clinches it - if you've got that sort of money, you should be on Yahoo! Auctions Japan anyways.

[TheScaryOne]

I'm guessing this guy worked at a game store, and kept some of the stuff that didn't sell. But that is pretty awesome, but not worth buying. I'm happy with what i've got. :)

[Ed Oscuro]

Game stores in Hong Kong don't usually get US systems or dev units. I think he's just got really good connections.

[Parodius]

While the Red Sharp Twin Famicom has some sort of wrap over it, it's "used." I hear the Black, AN 500B model (what GameChoice sent me by accident instead of the red) may be slightly more rare, and that's worth, once again, $300 new. So I think he's not doing too badly here.



My impression was that the red one was the most sought after!?


How reliable is Game Choice Club?? I was thinking of plunking down the green for a titler but I know nothing about this place.

What about the way they package their goods??

Customs risk?

etc.

Thank you for any help.

[XtremeGamerz]

wow, thats simpley insane. as impressive as this lot seems, all hes going to do is get hit with ebay charges. i mean really, whos going to bid on it? i see it ending to alot of hits and no bidders. he needs to break those up into a good 100 smaller auctions, lol.

[anagrama]

One more thing - would Sony not have something to say about all those PS2 dev units?

[Sylentwulf]

My question is, if you're listing $100,000 worth of stuff, don't you TAKE SOME GODDAMN PICTURES??!?!!

OK, some of the systems have pictures, yeah it's pretty, but for $100K, I better have one picture of everything together, and about 20-30 more pictures of each lot of stuff as well. Hell, there should be a website set up JUST for this auction if he's serious.

[Raedon]

. By your logic someone with 100 PS2s should not get a lot of money because they are "multiples."

First off, I have no logic 8-) hehe

Second, that is what the collection would be worth to yours truely because I don't want most of that stuff and if I baught all that it would be to make a profit.

The PC engine stuff is nice, I did miss that. @_@

but $100k? uhh.. uhh... that is all

[Raedon]

My question is, if you're listing $100,000 worth of stuff, don't you TAKE SOME GODDAMN PICTURES??!?!!



Would you buy a house without walking around it and turning on/off the showers, messing with th AC etc? $100k is a HOUSE people.

This auction is a joke.

[NintendoMan]

Oh yeah, all those LE's. Espcially the DC ones!
If I had 100,000 it sure as hell wouldn't go to that lot though. (I really don't do the import thing, with a few exceptions)

[RangerG]

Wow - how would you realistically buy this and get it here? I think it is worth the $100,000 especially when you see that he says there are many more items without pictures. There is no way I'd buy this over Ebay. I would make a conditional deal and then fly to Hong Kong and check it out and ship it by barge or plane from there with me watching everything and insuring it in the U.S. It could be done, but I'd pay the extra for plane tickets and shipping no doubt. I say I, but I don't have an extra $100 at the moment :) .

Take care,
RG

[stargate]

all I can say is ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS !!!! X_x

are you kidding me? first of all, the auction will never sell. I mean, come on, at least post a reserve and not a hundred grand opening bid.

The seller has an amazing collection. Is it worth $100,000? Personally, I don't think so. I guess one of us would have to go through the auction item by item and price it up to find out (not me LOL )

The seller states he won't break up the auction, which boggles me. I mean, does he actually think someone will pay $100,000+ and then shipping, I can't even fathom how he will pull off shipping this stuff, especially if it sells over seas.

If I were him, I would hire some 16 year old to list all the items separately on ebay and take care of the S&H. It would be a nice summer job for some kid and he would probably A.) make more in the long run and B.) actually sell the stuff.

IMO of course.

[vincewy]

I'm not disputing Lingjr's asking pirce, in fact, it's well worth it, given the time and effort involved getting them.

What I DO NOT understand is the motive of selling basicly part of your life? It's like Joe selling his entire game room, I don't think it'll ever happen. I have complete collections of about 3-4 systems with mid-sized library, I never think of selling/reselling, I'm thinking his motive is either 1 - buying rare stuff for reselling, 2- personal reasons such as finance. Anyone fitting one of the 2 above categories should never be collecting, this is a hobby, not an investment, and collect out of one's common sense.

He can probably get 100K if he sells everything separately. Another puzzle, what games are in the Neo-Geo, PC-Engine, and MegaDrive bunch. ??? on Neo-Geo, if it's 116 cartridges (current complete collection), it can be worth almost as much as $30,000 if all games are in prestine condition. He should also try to sell them (if he wants to get the best possible price) over a long period, I knew couple guys sold all their Neo-Geo AES (80-90 in their collection) and it took almost a year.

Just like a Brit trying to sell all his 80 AES carts (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8110088001&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1), god forbids, hope he gets at least over $10000, else the winner is one lucky SOB.

[PapaStu]

CharityCaseGreg is right.
I remember seeing a website that was linked here on DP not to long ago that had most of these pics showing all this stuff. Ive never seen an assembelance of that much PSOne and PS2 Development Stuff in one place, except for on that site. The site also had those bottles of wine, and all that weird rare N64 DD shit, among all those Limited edition DC's. This is the same person, no doubt.

I also think that should someone bid on this, that it would be purely as this guy has done, to keep em all in boxes and shove em to a museum somewhere. Too bad i dont think all of us here at DP could scrounge all that money together and bring it home here and open a museum ourselves with it.

Even worse is that all of this is just like what kevincure said. It's pure promotion of his stuff without a doubt, but hes testing the waters to see if someone is stupid enough to make an offer on it. If they do, score for him, if not, he keeps it. Hes at no loss eitherway.



Would you buy a house without walking around it and turning on/off the showers, messing with th AC etc? $100k is a HOUSE people.

This auction is a joke.

I dont know where you live, but 100K wont buy a 1/4 of a house here, and im not talking about mansions, im talking normal sized houses. Move 2 hours away and commute to work, and then ur house is still 200K. But this auction is very much real.

[Raedon]

I dont know where you live, but 100K wont buy a 1/4 of a house here, and im not talking about mansions, im talking normal sized houses. Move 2 hours away and commute to work, and then ur house is still 200K. But this auction is very much real.

I live in a little place called "reality" where houses are bartered on.. and luckely for me.. I'm a good haggler and markets right now are whacky to say the least..

..

Though I rent lol.

$100k in my town will get you a house that is 500k+ in San Diego.

[Bratwurst]

I dont know where you live, but 100K wont buy a 1/4 of a house here, and im not talking about mansions, im talking normal sized houses. Move 2 hours away and commute to work, and then ur house is still 200K. But this auction is very much real.

Welcome to North Carolina, where 90k will get you a 2 story, 3 bathroom 4 bedroom house and garage half an hour from downtown Charlotte, pop. half a million.

California is for suckers.

[Cmosfm]

Why some people live in areas that the minimum cost on buying a house is 400K is beyond me, I know theres probably better jobs, but give me the rural area of good ol South Carolina and I'm happy. :)

Also, a good poing brought up earlier, how realistic is it to actually SHIP all of that stuff here. I mean, a box can only be a certain size before it's considered too big. and at the 90.00 I paid for shipping on just a famicom, Famicom Disk system, and 40 games was ridiculous as it is. Think of the mass amount of boxes and the sheer total cost it would be to get all of this over to some little house in the USA. I can't fathom it. I'm willing to bet shipping alone is close to 25,000.00, no doubt about it.

Also, does this auction have anyone else thinking of how hard it would be to get 100K extra dollars to spend on something like this?

[SoulBlazer]

Housing is not cheap up here -- that's why I rent, and I consider myself damn lucky my share of the apartment with heat and water is $400 a month. :)

As for shipping? Yeah, that would be a lot. $90 for a complete system by AirMail from Asia to North America, and times that by about four to five hundred -- I'd say around one to two thousand to ship. :eek 2:

[Ed Oscuro]

My impression was that the red one was the most sought after!?

How reliable is Game Choice Club?? I was thinking of plunking down the green for a titler but I know nothing about this place.
The red STF is probably among the most common. I've seen Sharp Twins with green and bluish trim, but so far the neatest I've seen is an orange "Fire" version that had turbo switches on each controller. Rad.

Game Choice Club sent me a lot of good stuff, but they don't always send best-quality merch (reflected in prices). Sometimes they get orders a bit mixed up. I stopped using them in a bit of a huff due to their incompetence. They had (as of 2003) a site with an online purchase form, you couldn't order via email, yet to find out anything - including if the stuff was truly in stock - you had to email. They don't update the site automatically. Took me months to get my black/red Sharp Twin because it turned out they updated the site the day after I ordered one to reflect the reality that there actually weren't any in their store. It's hard to communicate with them. However, I have gotten some really nice stuff from them, so it's worth a shot. Certainly cheaper than that british site.

As for PapaStu: this legendary page is LingJr's, all the same stuff. Same pics even.

[hydr0x]

Would you buy a house without walking around it and turning on/off the showers, messing with th AC etc? $100k is a HOUSE people.

This auction is a joke.

I dont know where you live, but 100K wont buy a 1/4 of a house here, and im not talking about mansions, im talking normal sized houses. Move 2 hours away and commute to work, and then ur house is still 200K. But this auction is very much real.

i don't think he's talking about BUYING a house but about BUILDING a house, of course buying one in the middle of a huge city costs a fortune, but building one?? building a very decent (with this i mean a house with rooms for 5 people, dining room, kitchen, living room(s), 2 working rooms, 2-3 speciality rooms (games or whatever) and some more space) costs you 200-300k in Germany, but if you want just a normal small house 100k should be enough...

[hydr0x]

The red STF is probably among the most common. I've seen Sharp Twins with green and bluish trim, but so far the neatest I've seen is an orange "Fire" version that had turbo switches on each controller. Rad.

i think you're right about the red one, the red one is the only one i've seen several times on european ebays

@shipping
mh i dunno, but i think the best way would be to ask a company that ships loads of stuff by air or sea, like a car manufacturer or whatever and ask them if you can ship a container of stuff with their stuff, that shouldn't cost THAT much, the buyer would have to pick up the stuff with a truck of course, but hey, if he can spend 100k that shouldn't be a problem...

[swlovinist]

First I have to say is Holy Cow @_@

Next, I have to say that it is worth it, but then again.....who is gonna buy this?


Whoever it is, they are getting a ton of oober rare stuff in one shot!


If someone was smart they would buy this lot and open a musuem for video games!


It is offical now, collecting rare video games is expensive!

[kevincure]

Sort of off topic, but is housing really that cheap down south? If I rented a small studio in Boston for four years of college, that's 50 grand right there. Hell, a half acre of land in a nice suburb around Boston will run you hundreds of thousands for land alone. I know the Hillel Organization bought a lot that couldn't even have been a half acre down the street from my place for 1.2mil last year, land only.

Now Mass, like California, has an entirely ridiculous housing market, but I'll fly to the damn office if I can get a nice place for 100 grand.

[Parodius]

Why some people live in areas that the minimum cost on buying a house is 400K is beyond me, I know theres probably better jobs, but give me the rural area of good ol South Carolina and I'm happy. :)

Also, a good poing brought up earlier, how realistic is it to actually SHIP all of that stuff here. I mean, a box can only be a certain size before it's considered too big. and at the 90.00 I paid for shipping on just a famicom, Famicom Disk system, and 40 games was ridiculous as it is. Think of the mass amount of boxes and the sheer total cost it would be to get all of this over to some little house in the USA. I can't fathom it. I'm willing to bet shipping alone is close to 25,000.00, no doubt about it.

Also, does this auction have anyone else thinking of how hard it would be to get 100K extra dollars to spend on something like this?

Moving an entire household from Europe to America costs about $10K with insurance. That includes the moving company showing up at your house. Pack everything into boxes. Carry everything into a 20ft freight container, ship the container, and then unpack everything at the destination.

I don't think this will be all that expensive to ship. Maybe $3K for an LCL shipment(less-than-container load).



Naturally, jobs pay better and there are better jobs in say San Francisco than in Hicksville, USA. But of course living is cheaper where it is less desirable to live(i.e. where there are no jobs) so at the end of the day it probably evens out.

[EnemyZero]

::stares at screen for a while:: ::homer voice:: mmmm video games.... er yeah all i gotta say is...lets all play the lottery this week lol, if i won some big time lotto money, id so buy that...along with a new house than can hold it all -.o

[geelw]

:eek 2: geezus. i've bought a bunch of stuff from ling (got my black twin famicom from him, among other things) and he's always had cool stuff...but this is ridiculous. watch assembler buy it all (well, what he doesn't have already, lol) and maybe resell some items individually LOL

check out his other auctions if you haven't. he's got some stuff up f/s individually. as for where he got it all, connections likely, but also remember that some of this stuff may have been manufactured in hk and ling may know someone with a warehouse full of stuff. i'd drop the loot in a heartbeat, and pay to have it shipped via air in a number of boxes. surface shipping is a total bitch for something that large. i wouldn't put all those dev systems and games at sea for 4 weeks if it cost a dollar flat. imagine the chance of the ship sinking in a storm LOL

anyone want to go in 1000-sies on the deal? :roll:

[ianoid]

Is the head of the Laseractive section taking notes? Are all of those titles in the guide? That ad is practically an unreleased Saturn section in itself.

I dunno about $100k, but it's damn silly to even remotely expect anyone to cough up that kind of cash. You would have better luck tracking down guys who started game companies or Bungie's first, second, third and fourth employees than to post on eBay for a week and hope Mr.Fancymoney (or Mr.Averagebayareadotcomfunnymoneybastard) will notice.

I suspect that these auctions are more often for the wives than the sellers. "See honey, I'm trying to sell all this stuff!"

And about real estate. Let's start something in off-topic. I live in the Bay Area for the moment- talking about real estate is like talking about the weather.

ian

[rbudrick]

I'm pretty sure that a lot of that stuff isn't even in the guide. All DP members who write guide sectons should definitely be taking notes...I haven't heard of a a bunch of those things in that auction...

-Rob

[rbudrick]

I'm pretty sure that a lot of that stuff isn't even in the guide. All DP members who write guide sectons should definitely be taking notes...I haven't heard of a a bunch of those things in that auction...

-Rob

[16-bit]

I don't think his intention is to sell the entire set for 100K or more in an auction.

I think he is expecting to get a flood of offers after it ends.

Judging by the amount of his exposure he is getting, he is stretching his $4.80 listing fee and will avoid any FVFs for anything sold outside of ebay.

[Ed Oscuro]

I'm pretty sure that a lot of that stuff isn't even in the guide. All DP members who write guide sectons should definitely be taking notes...I haven't heard of a a bunch of those things in that auction...

-Rob
I'm guessing us import guys don't care enough about LE DCs to take notes ;) The only system on there that I hadn't heard of was the Multi Mega. This doesn't give a very good idea what one's worth, though.

[Aussie2B]

While this guy may be a reliable seller, it all seems too fishy for me to even consider plunking down 100k (if I had the money, that is). If someone is selling off a collection of this magnitude, they sure as hell better take the effort to take MANY, LARGE pictures, list every item in the lot, and explain how this collection came into existence (which is all the more needed when the guy is in Hong Kong - I don't even trust Hong Kong eBay sellers enough to spend 5 bucks, let alone that much). Don't have the time to do all the work? Tough luck; then don't list them in one huge lot.

Also, judging by this guy's bad Engrish, I wouldn't feel comfortable doing a transaction of that much money when the communication level isn't even decent. I've bought from a lot of Engrish-typing sellers, but the higher the price is, the more I'm wary.

[geelw]

While this guy may be a reliable seller, it all seems too fishy for me to even consider plunking down 100k (if I had the money, that is). If someone is selling off a collection of this magnitude, they sure as hell better take the effort to take MANY, LARGE pictures, list every item in the lot, and explain how this collection came into existence (which is all the more needed when the guy is in Hong Kong - I don't even trust Hong Kong eBay sellers enough to spend 5 bucks, let alone that much). Don't have the time to do all the work? Tough luck; then don't list them in one huge lot.

Also, judging by this guy's bad Engrish, I wouldn't feel comfortable doing a transaction of that much money when the communication level isn't even decent. I've bought from a lot of Engrish-typing sellers, but the higher the price is, the more I'm wary.

fyi- while i'm not speaking for every hk ebayer, ALL of the hk sellers i've dealt with have given me NO trouble at all, and ling is VERY reliable when it comes to shipping and such. sure, the country is pirate game capital central, but that doesn't mean that there aren't honest people who'd like to make a few international customers and potential u.s. friends. if you've never bought from a hk seller, you're missing out on some really cool deals on some nice imports (and NO, everything isn't bootlegged).

i think the auction is, like the other post said, a play to get loads of off-ebay transactions once it's done. and you'd better believe that this guy's e-mailbox is full already with questions (and more than a few future sales). hell, he may make more than 100k if no one is crazy enough (and who the hell has all that space once they buy it anyway?) to jump on the goods.

also, "decent" communication is a two way street. if YOU aren't willing to spend time to meet a seller half-way and get over the fact that grammar is more of an issue than honesty (these folks aren't stupid because they can't phrase a sentence in a language that's not their own), than you'll never trust too many "engrish-typing" people. as for high prices- hell, here's one case where i'd rather see a high tag than an auction starting at a penny. guess what? the potential for deadbeat bidders drops dramatically when you keep the bullshitters out from the beginning.

[ClubNinja]

I would just like to second what geelw has said - I have dealt with several sellers from Japan and Hong Kong without any problems at all. In fact, they have been some of the most gracious and accomidating dealers I've ever had the pleasure of buying good stuff cheap from. While their English grammar may not always be top-notch, they can still communicate just fine enough for us to work out safe and fair transactions. Personally, I would be in deep turd if expected to deal with them in *their* native language, so I appreciate whatever they can communicate in mine.

[Predatorxs]

That whole auction / Price / items are just crazy! but imagine! getting all that in the post AKA a huge container! LOL right on your front door! @_@

..XS

[geelw]

That whole auction / Price / items are just crazy! but imagine! getting all that in the post AKA a huge container! LOL right on your front door! @_@

..XS

i actually spent about two dreadful hours calculating about how much space one would need for all those boxes, and gave up because i was drooling all over my keyboard LOL . man, i'd sell what soul i have left for all that stuff and a place to store it! of course, i KNOW achika would kidnap me and hold me for ransom for most of it :D

personally (IF i had that much money to spare and then some), i'd arrange to fly to hk to meet ling, pay for the goods in person and see everything in one mass just to arrange multiple box air shipping and to take back some stuff as regular luggage (a box or two of games to sit and get all gollum over while i wait for the rest of the stuff to show up)...

[Achika]

I have a lovely little hole dug in basement. All I ask is for all the DC stuff and a few of the various Game Boy systems. :angel:

It gives me the games, or it gets the hose again!

[geelw]

I have a lovely little hole dug in basement. All I ask is for all the DC stuff and a few of the various Game Boy systems. :angel:

It gives me the games, or it gets the hose again!

O_O uh-oh...stream of consciousness theater time (don't say you weren't warned) :eek 2: :

i can see it now...i get off the plane from hk, and in the airport parking lot, there's the mystery machine with you dressed as velma trying to stuff a giant pac man couch into the back with a cast on your arm. of course, i stroll on over to assist, box o' games under my arm, and once i'm inside the van, i get clubbed over the head and tossed into that basement.

hell, i need a vacation anyway from all this dust and noise, so it MAY be an improvement. off to try to get a bank loan for about $150,000 now... i'll let you know if you you need to stock up on bottled water and purina kidnapee chow... ;)

[ClubNinja]

So... who wants to go in on this one again? I've got $500 for the TeraDrive, then I'm out :D

[geelw]

LOL only $95,500 to go, dammit! i'm actually tempted to go buy a lottery ticket, but only if i get my time machine working so that i know i'm gonna win x_x ...

funny thing about the "cost value" on this lot. some of the dev stuff is just about priceless, and amassing a collection of this stuff individually at their regular prices would be not only really tough, but would probably end up costing more. plus he's tossing in miscellaneous free stuff, and i'm sure it won't be some dregs off the warehouse floor. probabaly some unboxed stuff that a collector wouldn't touch.