Great deal on Mario Kart!

[Iron Draggon]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8129881999&rd=1

OMG! Mario Kart! I gotta have this one! Outta my way!

[Nez]

Oh I hope these are just joke auctions, but I cant really tell. The prices of sealed games are just too random.

[-hellvin-]

/me takes snes games to the shrink wrap room at work.

[captain nintendo]

Thats insane indeed O_O


I guess I will be buying any sealed snes game I see from here on out :evil:
(in the wild)

[racecar]

THEY ARE OUT THERE !!!! there are probally one of them as you are reading this at this very moment!!!

[MegaDrive20XX]

oh god, that reminds me, I saw an auction for a sealed copy of Super Mario All-Stars last year, went for $213...

[nathanray]

that makes me sick id pay $30.00 max for that game but nothing that high its amazing what people will pay for something they want

[wcmiker]

oh god, that reminds me, I saw an auction for a sealed copy of Super Mario All-Stars last year, went for $213...

That's all? LOL

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8126747391&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8128367222&rd=1

As for the Mario Kart at the beginning of the thread, it is a sealed non-Million Seller Version of the game, which sealed game collectors find very attractive.

The only thing I cannot understand is how randyrage got $200+ for a Million Seller Version of Mario Kart. :hmm: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8126751348&rd=1

I'm glad I picked up 7 sealed Million Seller Versions of Mario Kart for $20 each awhile ago, unfortunately I've already sold most of them for much less.

[Iron Draggon]

DAMN! When did all the other Mario games start going up so much? I knew that Mario RPG was pretty expensive, but I didn't know that All Stars had gone up so much! Now I really wish that I had more than just Mario RPG! I haven't gotten Mario World, Yoshi's Island, Mario All Stars, or Mario Kart yet!

[Predatorxs]

It seems like there's some crazy ass ebay snes collectors! LOL I'm a collector too, but i'm not crazy! i still have my sealed 3 Mario Kart (million seller / Player choice) games, but i wont be selling them on.. ;)

It does surprise me though, that Million seller sealed games are going for silly money, especially games like Allstars and Mario Kart. I'd only brake out the money for sealed original games, not million seller versions!

In my collection i make sure i have the milion seller versions as well as the original (first release)

http://www.xs.dsl.pipex.com/avator/ms_ufo.gif..XS

[Iron Draggon]

I don't even think the original versions of the million seller games are worth that much more than the million seller versions. Sure, they're worth a little bit more, but not alot more. I mean, HELLO, they made over a million of the things! Now how can anything that common be worth that much, no matter what kind of box it's in? Especially Mario games! That's like charging hundreds of dollars for sealed Sonic games for Genesis! Now do we see that happening on ebay? Of course not! Because the Genny collectors have alot more sense! I'm getting really pissed off about what's happened to the SNES market on ebay. I don't know who the hell started it, but they need to be shot for it! I'm sick and tired of seeing auctions like this one on ebay all the freakin' time!

[SegaAges]

my friend has mario kart and it just sits in her room (note i said her, and not that i have been in her bedroom).

i should jack it one night and sell it on the bay

[MegaDrive20XX]

oh god, that reminds me, I saw an auction for a sealed copy of Super Mario All-Stars last year, went for $213...

That's all? LOL

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8126747391&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8128367222&rd=1

As for the Mario Kart at the beginning of the thread, it is a sealed non-Million Seller Version of the game, which sealed game collectors find very attractive.

The only thing I cannot understand is how randyrage got $200+ for a Million Seller Version of Mario Kart. :hmm: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8126751348&rd=1

I'm glad I picked up 7 sealed Million Seller Versions of Mario Kart for $20 each awhile ago, unfortunately I've already sold most of them for much less.

JESUS AGE CHRIST! @_@

[Bronty-2]

I don't even think the original versions of the million seller games are worth that much more than the million seller versions.

They're worth more. Zelda and f-zero especially since they're *SOOOO* damn common as million sellers. Original sealeds for those two are probably worth 5-10x a million seller sealed.

The original version auctions I can understand, the million seller auctions like that $202 randyrage mario kart have me drawing a blank as well.

[Iron Draggon]

Well I know you're right, and it makes plenty of sense why it's like that, but it still sucks. Like I said, I can understand the original versions being worth a little more, but not alot more, when they had to sell a million copies of the original version before they reissued it in a million seller box! Other than that, the two versions are exactly the same! So why so much of a price difference?

I had to pay $100 for the original version of TMNT 4 last year, which luckily was the original version, but the saddest part is it wasn't even advertised as such, so I could've had to fight that hard just to get the Majesco reissue! I'm glad that it wasn't advertised as the original version though, because then I wouldn't even have been able to afford it! Think I overpaid? Check this out!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8128930709&rd=1

This is the going price for a factory sealed copy of TMNT 4 on ebay now. I'm surprised that the winner didn't have to fight anybody for it. I think that he lucked out and got the original version too, which makes it alot more worth it, but what if it was the reissue? The damn thing would still cost him $100! The whole SNES collecting scene has gotten completely out of hand, IMHO.

I had about half a dozen other people fighting me for the TMNT 4 that I got last year, and if it had been advertised as the ORIGINAL version of this "rare" SNES game, as opposed to the far less desireable Majesco reissue, then I would've had twice as many people making me pay double what it cost me! That's the kinda BS that's pissing me off about the SNES auctions on ebay.

[Bronty-2]

I think you mentioned in another thread that you collect sealed only? If that's the case, I can see why it pisses you off since it's costing you more money to compete I guess. It's true that the snes market is really strong right now, but I think part of it is also just rpg's being strong lately. sealed NES zeldas have been on fire lately too, with the last one at 586 (not too long ago these were 250) and a final fantasy just ended at around 260 (not too long ago these were 125-150. I'd be curious to see what a really quality sealed nes would do on ebay right now, but not too many make it onto the market - there just aren't enough around. The quality snes stuff is much more available and therefore visible.

What can you tell me about Majesco reissues in general? I'd like to know more about them. Do you have a comprehensive list of which games were reissued? I've seen

Super Castle 4
Contra 3
Mega Man X
Turtles 4

... are there others? And is there any way to identify them apart from the different seams? Are the boxes any different?

[Bronty-2]

Majesco info anyone?

[DigitalSpace]

Majesco info anyone?

This thread might help you out a little:

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34837

[Bronty-2]

thanks!

[Iron Draggon]

And the virus continues to spread...

Here's another opportunist attempting to cash in on the rampant lunacy:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8131175489&rd=1

Note the million seller ribbon in the upper right corner that apparently makes no difference...

This kinda crap really needs to stop.

[Predatorxs]

And the virus continues to spread...

Here's another opportunist attempting to cash in on the rampant lunacy:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8131175489&rd=1

Note the million seller ribbon in the upper right corner that apparently makes no difference...

This kinda crap really needs to stop.

@_@ Crazy Prices, and look at the sellers ebay id, games-4-cheap! crazy basshhtard! ;)

http://www.xs.dsl.pipex.com/avator/ms_ufo.gif..XS

[Flack]

JESUS AGE CHRIST! @_@

It's "Jesus H. Christ", not "Age". If you're going to blaspheme, get it right.

"Don't get me wrong, I take the Lord's name in vein -- 'cuz that's the only way to take him." - Penn and Teller

[Iron Draggon]

@_@ Crazy Prices, and look at the sellers ebay id, games-4-cheap! crazy basshhtard! ;)

http://www.xs.dsl.pipex.com/avator/ms_ufo.gif..XS

Yeah, that's what I thought too, especially since that's the only game they have listed with the absolutely insane BIN price. The rest of them aren't so ridiculous. So it's totally obvious that they were inspired by the same auction that inspired this thread. I can hardly wait to see if it makes it over $200. @_@

[Predatorxs]

LOL if it does get to $2OO i wont be helping it along!! LOL

I just can't comprehend the whole situation, it's frickin just stupid!.. that some plastic wrap, can do so much?, sure, it means the game is untouched!, but at the same time, you can never open it! LOL

Just... drawing a blank!.. O_O

http://www.xs.dsl.pipex.com/avator/ms_ufo.gif..XS

[Griking]

And the virus continues to spread...

Here's another opportunist attempting to cash in on the rampant lunacy:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8131175489&rd=1

Note the million seller ribbon in the upper right corner that apparently makes no difference...

This kinda crap really needs to stop.


This response kind of annoyed me. Why is it so terrible for someone to want to sell an item that they own for the current going price? Like it or not, this appears to be the current going price until people stop paying this much for it. The only reason that I can see for getting upset about this is if you don't already own this game and you have to have it seeled for some reason. And if that IS the case then it's just sour grapes.

Selling on ebay is just like the stock market, the goal is to buy low and sell high. Thats just the way it is.

[Predatorxs]

And the virus continues to spread...

Here's another opportunist attempting to cash in on the rampant lunacy:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8131175489&rd=1

Note the million seller ribbon in the upper right corner that apparently makes no difference...

This kinda crap really needs to stop.


This response kind of annoyed me. Why is it so terrible for someone to want to sell an item that they own for the current going price? Like it or not, this appears to be the current going price until people stop paying this much for it. The only reason that I can see for getting upset about this is if you don't already own this game and you have to have it seeled for some reason. And if that IS the case then it's just sour grapes.

Selling on ebay is just like the stock market, the goal is to buy low and sell high. Thats just the way it is.

I don't think anybody is upset or angry, it's just one or two auctions, the point being is that somebody, has bid crazy on a very common game (the only difference being it's sealed) As i mentioned i have 3 Sealed Mario Karts, and there just not worth that much sealed, as great a game as it is! (and i love it) this is just classic ebay insanity!.. LOL

http://www.xs.dsl.pipex.com/avator/ms_ufo.gif..XS

[wcmiker]

And the virus continues to spread...

Here's another opportunist attempting to cash in on the rampant lunacy:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8131175489&rd=1

Note the million seller ribbon in the upper right corner that apparently makes no difference...

This kinda crap really needs to stop.

He bought that from me for $70, which was a nice profit for me.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8128968895&rd=1

I am think of putting another Sealed Million Seller Version of Mario Kart up tonight since eBay bidders are going crazy over this stuff, any suggestions for a BIN? $100? :D

[wcmiker]

Hmm, someone took away the BIN.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=8131658272&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

[Bronty-2]

good luck with the auction mike 8-)

[Predatorxs]

Hmm, someone took away the BIN.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=8131658272&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

LOL LOL games-4-cheap strikes LOL LOL

http://www.xs.dsl.pipex.com/avator/ms_ufo.gif..XS

[wcmiker]

good luck with the auction mike 8-)

Thanks Dan. :)

[Iron Draggon]

OK, now THAT is funny! If I were you, I'd require that they split the profit with you when they resell it, if they end up winning it. Greedy bastards!

[whoisKeel]

i think the whole 'million sellers are worth less' holds especially true, because the originals all got opened. so while they aren't rare games, they are rare sealed.

it's the last run of the games with the million seller seals on them that didn't get sold.

[Iron Draggon]

He bought that from me for $70, which was a nice profit for me.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8128968895&rd=1

I am think of putting another Sealed Million Seller Version of Mario Kart up tonight since eBay bidders are going crazy over this stuff, any suggestions for a BIN? $100? :D

I missed this post earlier. Now THAT really makes me sick, and if I were you, I'd be even more pissed than I am about this kinda crap! It's beyond insane!

You are telling me that you sold this game to this person for $70 (A VERY reasonable price for it!) and they turned around and sold it for over $400? And on the very same marketplace that you sold it to them on, no less?

Boy, did YOU ever get screwed!

Predatorxs nailed it right on the head. The point is, this is one of the most common SNES games there is! There is absolutely no sane reason for the small amount of shrinkwrap that surrounds it be worth that much money to anyone! This is the kinda crap that I was talking about in another thread here. If other sellers like Mike would simply have the decency to sell their items like this for a fair price, and refuse to accept completely insane bids for them, then we wouldn't have the world's most common SNES game selling for over $400, just because it's still wrapped in plastic! But instead, we have sellers like games4cheap (The contradiction of the year!) snatching them all up from good folks like Mike, the moment they appear on BIN, so they can turn around and auction them all off under the false pretense that the game is incredibly rare in factory sealed form now, when in fact it isn't rare at all!

I keep hoping that ebay themselves will put a stop to this sort of madness, and classify it right up there with shill bidding where it belongs, but they're never gonna do it, because they're getting a hefty cut of the gouging in fees! It makes me smile to know that there are sellers like Mike who aren't just out to take advantage of people, but it breaks my heart to know that there are sellers like games4cheap taking advantage of sellers like Mike. I'm all for the seller making a reasonable profit. I understand that it's not the seller's fault if the market goes nuts and the bidders offer to pay way more than they should. But DAMMIT, the sellers don't have to accept those bids when they go nuts like that! Ebay doesn't have to allow a seller to make a 1000% profit on a sale! And clueless bidders don't have to offer it to them either!

You're right, I don't have that game, and unless I find a seller like Mike, and I beat a seller like games4cheap to him, if and when I do, then I never will have that game either, or at least not with $400 worth of shrinkwrap on it! I just don't understand why the stupid SNES is the ONLY console going nuts like that on ebay, and why the most COMMON sealed games are the ones that are going for exotically RARE prices! Y'all have no idea how many TRULY rare sealed SNES games I've bought on ebay during the past year or so, and yet I never had to pay more than what they cost brand new 10 years ago for any of them! In fact, in many cases I only had to pay 10% of what they cost brand new 10 years ago for them, and yet there are still fools out there who are paying 1000% of what the most common SNES games in the world cost 10 years ago! I know that I shouldn't be complaining about my good fortune, and ample common sense, but why should I have to miss out on the most common games there are, just because there's so many idiots out there with no clue what the truly rare sealed SNES games are? It's stupid!

I only collect sealed games because as I said in another thread here, I prefer the guarantee that they are 100% mint and complete. I prefer to be the very first person to open them and play them, just as I would be if I had bought them 10 years ago when the SNES was still alive and enjoying it's heyday along with the Genesis. But WHY should I have to pay 10 times more than what some of those games cost only 10 years ago, when I can stil get any sealed Genesis game I want from the same time period for only 10% of what they cost 10 years ago? They're both 16bit systems, so why all the big fuss over SNES without a big fuss over Genesis too? I just don't get it!

Is everyone else on ebay doing the exact same thing that I'm doing now? I spent the whole 16bit era buying nothing but Genesis, so I'm missing very few games that I still want for that system, but I didn't get a SNES until right before they stopped making them, and all the games for them, so now I'm just trying to build up my SNES collection up to the same level that my Genesis collection is at. But I'm having to fight a horde of other people for the damned things, who all have 10 times more money than they have an ounce of sense! Sure, I can understand a demand for them, but not that much of a demand! They're just video games! They're not gold bullion! But you'd never know it from the price of a sealed Chrono Trigger now, would you? Freakin' million seller Mario Kart, of all things, over $400 now! W-T-F???

So that's all I'm getting at. It just boggles my mind. I have over 500 mint complete Genesis games that I had to pay $50 apiece for brand new, and they're all only worth about $5 apiece now, but freakin' stupid ass Mario Kart is almost a goddamn $500 game now! You better believe I'm pissed off! I know there's nothing I can do about it, and not much that we DP'ers can do about it either, but SHEESH, when is this freakin' madness gonna stop? Itsa me! Mario! GEEZ, I really wanna kill that little shit now! Sic 'em, Sonic!

LOL

[Bronty-2]

" If other sellers like Mike would simply have the decency to sell their items like this for a fair price, and refuse to accept completely insane bids for them"

--so the seller is supposed to turn down money? C'mon now, I don't want to get in the way of a good rant but but that will never happen. :roll:

[wcmiker]

You are telling me that you sold this game to this person for $70 (A VERY reasonable price for it!) and they turned around and sold it for over $400? And on the very same marketplace that you sold it to them on, no less?

Boy, did YOU ever get screwed!


No, they didn't sell it for $400, they have it up for auction right now.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8131175489&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

[NintendoMan]

oh god, that reminds me, I saw an auction for a sealed copy of Super Mario All-Stars last year, went for $213...

The only thing I cannot understand is how randyrage got $200+ for a Million Seller Version of Mario Kart. :hmm: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8126751348&rd=1

I'm glad I picked up 7 sealed Million Seller Versions of Mario Kart for $20 each awhile ago, unfortunately I've already sold most of them for much less.

I can'tunderstand that either. Either someone didn't know the difference between the million seller and the original, or they really wanted it. I just sold one about a month ago for about $35 if I remember right.

And damn, you found 7 mill. seller versions! That's awesome! How much did you pay for them all.

[NintendoMan]

[quote="Iron Draggon"]I don't even think the original versions of the million seller games are worth that much more than the million seller versions. Sure, they're worth a little bit more, but not alot more. I mean, HELLO, they made over a million of the things! Now how can anything that common be worth that much, no matter what kind of box it's in? Especially Mario games! That's like charging hundreds of dollars for sealed Sonic games for Genesis! Now do we see that happening on ebay? Of course not! Because the Genny collectors have alot more sense! [quote]

Like someone said earlier, almost everyone opened their original versions of the games so finding ORIGINAL SEALED ones are alot harder.
And no one pays that much for Sonic 1 games because there aren't as many genesis sealed collectors, I personally have never even heard of one. Plus genesis games aren't worth as much as sealed snes games. That would be cool to have a sealed genesis set though!!

[NintendoMan]

I had about half a dozen other people fighting me for the TMNT 4 that I got last year, and if it had been advertised as the ORIGINAL version of this "rare" SNES game, as opposed to the far less desireable Majesco reissue, then I would've had twice as many people making me pay double what it cost me! That's the kinda BS that's pissing me off about the SNES auctions on ebay.

That makes no damn sense. So you are saying just because you found an original TMNT first, anyone else that comes across the auction should not be able to bid just because you want the game more???

I don't know if you realize this man, but ebay is an auction site that uses bidding for their items. THE ITEM GOES TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER. I know auctions can go very very very high, than what you would find out in the wild, but that's how the videogame life works at the moment.

[NintendoMan]

I just can't comprehend the whole situation, it's frickin just stupid!.. that some plastic wrap, can do so much?, sure, it means the game is untouched!, but at the same time, you can never open it! LOL

http://www.xs.dsl.pipex.com/avator/ms_ufo.gif..XS

It's just something else to collect. You can't make fun of or think it's crazy just because someone doesn't collect the same way as you. :)

[NintendoMan]

eBay bidders are going crazy over this stuff, any suggestions for a BIN? $100? :D
Predatorxs nailed it right on the head. The point is, this is one of the most common SNES games there is! There is absolutely no sane reason for the small amount of shrinkwrap that surrounds it be worth that much money to anyone! This is the kinda crap that I was talking about in another thread here. If other sellers like Mike would simply have the decency to sell their items like this for a fair price, and refuse to accept completely insane bids for them, then we wouldn't have the world's most common SNES game selling for over $400, just because it's still wrapped in plastic! But instead, we have sellers like games4cheap (The contradiction of the year!) snatching them all up from good folks like Mike, the moment they appear on BIN, so they can turn around and auction them all off under the false pretense that the game is incredibly rare in factory sealed form now, when in fact it isn't rare at all!

I keep hoping that ebay themselves will put a stop to this sort of madness, and classify it right up there with shill bidding where it belongs, but they're never gonna do it, because they're getting a hefty cut of the gouging in fees! It makes me smile to know that there are sellers like Mike who aren't just out to take advantage of people, but it breaks my heart to know that there are sellers like games4cheap taking advantage of sellers like Mike. I'm all for the seller making a reasonable profit. I understand that it's not the seller's fault if the market goes nuts and the bidders offer to pay way more than they should. But DAMMIT, the sellers don't have to accept those bids when they go nuts like that! Ebay doesn't have to allow a seller to make a 1000% profit on a sale! And clueless bidders don't have to offer it to them either!

You're right, I don't have that game, and unless I find a seller like Mike, and I beat a seller like games4cheap to him, if and when I do, then I never will have that game either, or at least not with $400 worth of shrinkwrap on it! I just don't understand why the stupid SNES is the ONLY console going nuts like that on ebay, and why the most COMMON sealed games are the ones that are going for exotically RARE prices! Y'all have no idea how many TRULY rare sealed SNES games I've bought on ebay during the past year or so, and yet I never had to pay more than what they cost brand new 10 years ago for any of them! In fact, in many cases I only had to pay 10% of what they cost brand new 10 years ago for them, and yet there are still fools out there who are paying 1000% of what the most common SNES games in the world cost 10 years ago! I know that I shouldn't be complaining about my good fortune, and ample common sense, but why should I have to miss out on the most common games there are, just because there's so many idiots out there with no clue what the truly rare sealed SNES games are? It's stupid!

I only collect sealed games because as I said in another thread here, I prefer the guarantee that they are 100% mint and complete. I prefer to be the very first person to open them and play them, just as I would be if I had bought them 10 years ago when the SNES was still alive and enjoying it's heyday along with the Genesis. But WHY should I have to pay 10 times more than what some of those games cost only 10 years ago, when I can stil get any sealed Genesis game I want from the same time period for only 10% of what they cost 10 years ago? They're both 16bit systems, so why all the big fuss over SNES without a big fuss over Genesis too? I just don't get it!

Is everyone else on ebay doing the exact same thing that I'm doing now? I spent the whole 16bit era buying nothing but Genesis, so I'm missing very few games that I still want for that system, but I didn't get a SNES until right before they stopped making them, and all the games for them, so now I'm just trying to build up my SNES collection up to the same level that my Genesis collection is at. But I'm having to fight a horde of other people for the damned things, who all have 10 times more money than they have an ounce of sense! Sure, I can understand a demand for them, but not that much of a demand! They're just video games! They're not gold bullion! But you'd never know it from the price of a sealed Chrono Trigger now, would you? Freakin' million seller Mario Kart, of all things, over $400 now! W-T-F???

So that's all I'm getting at. It just boggles my mind. I have over 500 mint complete Genesis games that I had to pay $50 apiece for brand new, and they're all only worth about $5 apiece now, but freakin' stupid ass Mario Kart is almost a goddamn $500 game now! You better believe I'm pissed off! I know there's nothing I can do about it, and not much that we DP'ers can do about it either, but SHEESH, when is this freakin' madness gonna stop? Itsa me! Mario! GEEZ, I really wanna kill that little shit now! Sic 'em, Sonic!

LOL

Sorry if this is long and drawn out, but this post by Iron Dragon has to be one of the most non-making sense, funny, and craziest I have ever seen.

I am trying to respond to his long post as I go, so it's pretty much in order.
First of all it's Mike's fault for selling the game for so low. Your saying that if you found something in the wild, played it, and wanted to sell it on ebay and you only bought the item for like $5, but you found that on ebay the going price is $500 - That you wouldn't have the buy it now price for $500, but you would have it for only like $50? You must have alot of money to be able to do that.

I mean shelling out $400 for a game that's sealed is alot, but if that's what someone wants to do with their money, they can do it. It's pretty narrowminded to call someone insane just because of that. So what you are saying is that a certain person that has alot of money CAN'T spend it on whatever they want?? Do you want them to run their purchases by you first??

And it's just too fucking bad that you spent the whole era getting sega games, but now want snes games, and can't get them for cheap. Get off your lazy ass and go find them in the wild then if you don't want to spend high ebay prices.

There are more people on ebay knowadays, so that's just means more competition. It;s like your saying just because you were on ebay first collecting sealed snes games, that you should only be able to bid on sealed snes games. And why the hell would ebay put a stop to auctions, that's just what it is, an auction. THE HIGHEST BIDDER WINS. If it's a high amount, so be it.

As you said a couple of times, I also like to be the first to open a game and be the first to play it, etc. But your mad just because you can't buy all the games you want, that most are like 10 years old, brand new?? That' sjust too bad if you want those games brand new and can't find decent prices, I mean the older something gets the more it costs brand new. Don't you know this??

And you say you want the sellers of these auctions to put a stop to it. What, do you not like money or just have lots of it?? Well damn, then I am waiting for you to put some stuff on ebay and get it cheap.

All I am saying with all of this is that you can't be mad at what people pay for things. Their obviously wanted items if people are paying that much. And your getting mad at them. You should have got on ebay right when it started and got everything you wanted. And how do you think this bidding is going to stop. I mean if there is 50 people that want a game that's only on ebay like 3 or 4 times a year, what do you expect. That's only 4 copies for 50 people. And if I want that game, I WANT IT. I will pay whatever I have too. (I mean I won't pay $400 for a game, but still)

[Iron Draggon]

Gee, I didn't realize that people were still kicking around at this one until just now. I was out of town last weekend, so I figured that this one was long since dead. But it looks like we still have a one man can-kicker in this thread though, so WTF, I'll go ahead and add a little more fuel to the fire again too. So just a few points about some of the recent responses here that piss me off. I'll try not to let this become another lengthy rant again, but I make no promises. If I get good and riled up while I type this, then so be it, I'm mad. That's one of the greatest things about this place, you guys just let me rant and rave my happy ass off here, but even when I'm getting flamed for it I still don't feel like there's any true ill will behind it. We're all still just having fun and saying whatever is on our minds, and if it's all nothing but a bunch of hot air from somebody blowing off steam, we'll just use it to make popcorn.

So first off, the whole concept that sealed SNES games are magically worth more than sealed Genesis games or sealed games for some other console is completely retarded. The Genesis is older than the SNES, so if the logic that sealed games should be worth more now than they were when they were new just because they're old now was being applied in a logical manner as opposed to the methods of sheer insanity, then Genesis games would be worth more than SNES games. They're both 16bit systems, so if the games for one of them should be worth more now just because of their age, then the games for both of them should be worth more just because of their age. But this isn't the case on ebay, so let's throw logic out the window and just arbitrarily decide that SNES games are worth more than Genesis games. Yeah, that makes alot of sense, everyone can see how logical that BS is!

Now the only thing that really pisses me off about all those fools out there on ebay who actually believe this retarded logic for whatever twisted psycho reason is the way that they place bids for games like this one that are so far beyond reason that they actually drive otherwise relatively sane people like me to the point of insanity right along with them. They have screwed up the rules of the game to the point where the only way a person like me is ever gonna get a sealed copy of Chrono Trigger is to lose my mind too and place a bid of $1000 for the damned thing. And what's worse, the minute that one goes for $1000, they're all gonna go for at least $1000, because then all the crazies have to try and prove that they're the most insane of all.

So it's not just a matter of who has the most money to spend on an item anymore, although some people like skiier_addict apparently think that it is, but it's also a matter of who is crazy enough to actually pay the most insane amount of money ever bid on the most common game ever produced, just so they can drive the prices of the market up and brag about how they're the idiot responsible for Chrono Trigger going from a $60 ebay commodity to a $600 ebay commodity. This is precisely why I'm almost convinced that alot of these idiots like skiier_addict are actually employed by ebay to drive up the market values of whatever items they decide they want to become more expensive. Ever notice just how few sealed SNES games skiier_addict actually wins? I sure as hell have. He bids on them all like they're going out of style, and yet if he actually wins one chances are that he paid so little for it that it's very likely it'll be showing up again within the next few weeks, listed under a seller's account that's cleverly disguised to look like it doesn't belong to him. That way when he miraculously doesn't bid on it, everyone else will be so busy breathing a sigh of relief that ebay's most infamous sealed SNES bidder didn't show up to raise the shit out of the highest bid that it'll never occur to them that it's only because he's the one who's selling the game! Go ahead and call me crazy, but that fool bids on way too much sealed SNES shit every fucking week for someone who almost never actually wins any of it. If he's not just some kind of plant on ebay's payroll, I'll believe it when it's proved otherwise, but until then he's the ultimate shill bidder in my opinion.

Now, while we're on the subject of money and "my lazy ass", I'll have you know that I paid full price for almost every single console game that I own, except for my SNES games. So it's not a matter of me being lazy or cheap, it's a matter of me simply not giving a shit about the SNES until DKC came out. That's when I started collecting SNES games, and almost every single one that I own right now I paid full price for when it was new, just as I did with all the games for all my other systems. The problem is, the wells of the wild ran dry on me before I could find all the ones I wanted, and I didn't get my first computer until 1998. This would've been the perfect time for me to seek out the rest of the games I wanted, if I had known what ebay was or where to find it back then, but I didn't learn about ebay until the year 2000. So it's not like I really had access to all this shit and chose to ignore it for so many years, I honestly had no idea that it all could still be found online until it was too late. By then, sealed SNES auctions on ebay had already become a circus freakshow, and all I could get was whatever scraps all the bigshots like skiier_addict would allow me to have. So much for my sealed Chrono Trigger.

So is all of that really my fault? I don't hardly think so. It's the fault of greedy sellers who couldn't make enough of a killing if they had a case of sealed Chrono Triggers to sell at $500 a pop, and all the truly insane bidders like skiier_addict who could care less if they drive the price of an item up to 10 times what it's actually worth, because they're not usually the poor saps who get stuck having to pay the bill. Trust me, I know all about how ebay works and the highest bidder winning and if you really want something that bad then you either bid whatever it takes or you just don't get it. I've had to outbid people like skiier_addict far more times than I even wanna count, just to get whatever it was I wanted at the time, and I'm sure that I'll have to do it many more times in my lifetime. And that's precisely why I'm mad. I shouldn't have to pay that much more money than what the games I want are worth, just because of ONE PERSON like skiier_addict who is gonna make damned sure that I have to pay far more than what they're worth, if I really want them. So I'm not complaining so much about the other 12 people who have just as little money to spend as I do that I have to bid against, it's just that ONE completely whacko idiot like skiier_addict who really pisses me off! So when you have to sit there and watch your sweet little bargains become yet another second mortgage on your house as many times as I have, and all because of that ONE same dude, then I expect that you'll be pissed off too.

[NintendoMan]

I am trying to answer with me listing your post, then my answer. This is pretty long so tried to make it compact as possible. Like you said, I might end of ranting as well and making think really long.


Iron Dragon - That's one of the greatest things about this place, you guys just let me rant and rave my happy ass off here, but even when I'm getting flamed for it I still don't feel like there's any true ill will behind it. We're all still just having fun and saying whatever is on our minds, and if it's all nothing but a bunch of hot air from somebody blowing off steam, we'll just use it to make popcorn.

Well, that' s exactly true with me and almost all the people on here, well except maybe for a few. There is DEFINATELY of course NO ill will behind my post here with you, as there would not of been even close of enough reason for there to be any. With your new post here that I am responding too, you definately make what the point you are trying to make ALOT more clearer to me!! I am just putting my two cents in as well, it's just for some reason I REALLY get into "sealed game" topics because I KNOW ALOT of people on here shun the idea of collecting sealed games. I DO collect them. I really can't stand it when someone says its stupid, pointless, crazy, insane, idiotic, etc., to collect sealed games.

Iron Dragon - So first off, the whole concept that sealed SNES games are magically worth more than sealed Genesis games or sealed games for some other console is completely retarded. The Genesis is older than the SNES, so if the logic that sealed games should be worth more now than they were when they were new just because they're old now was being applied in a logical manner as opposed to the methods of sheer insanity, then Genesis games would be worth more than SNES games. They're both 16bit systems, so if the games for one of them should be worth more now just because of their age, then the games for both of them should be worth more just because of their age.

NintendoMan - Well, who really knows the reason and this is my thought. This might still make no sense but maybe it's because it's just pretty much impossible because of the tabs on the top of sega games to get a perfect intact sealed sega genesis game with no rips. Or maybe because Nintendo is still in business with systems, and SEGA isn't. This might be stupid reasons, but that's all I can think of.

Iron Dragon - Now the only thing that really pisses me off about all those fools out there on ebay who actually believe this retarded logic for whatever twisted psycho reason is the way that they place bids for games like this one that are so far beyond reason that they actually drive otherwise relatively sane people like me to the point of insanity right along with them.

NintendoMan - OK, I can see how this is sort of true, but you just have to have more will power than that. I mean that would sort of be like blaming a Casino because you just lost your $300 from Gambling and losing. This drive of jacking up the price has happened to me, but I usually won't go over like $30 than what I originally wanted to do.

Iron Dragon - Now, while we're on the subject of money and "my lazy ass", I'll have you know that I paid full price for almost every single console game that I own, except for my SNES games. So it's not a matter of me being lazy or cheap, it's a matter of me simply not giving a shit about the SNES until DKC came out. That's when I started collecting SNES games, and almost every single one that I own right now I paid full price for when it was new, just as I did with all the games for all my other systems. The problem is, the wells of the wild ran dry on me before I could find all the ones I wanted, and I didn't get my first computer until 1998. This would've been the perfect time for me to seek out the rest of the games I wanted, if I had known what ebay was or where to find it back then, but I didn't learn about ebay until the year 2000. So it's not like I really had access to all this shit and chose to ignore it for so many years, I honestly had no idea that it all could still be found online until it was too late.

NintendoMan - Well this pretty much exactly describes me EXCEPT for the whole didn't play the snes. I have been playing since the NES. But anyways, I definately respect that you have payed full price for every game new. Call me crazy, but I also will in a second pay full price for a new game than get it used for $10-even $50 less sometimes. My collection consists of all MINT MINT MINT games pretty much. I also LOVE knowing I am the first to play it. I used to not care until I really started "collecting" about 2 years ago. Now I need every thing new, I need to be the fist to touch the game, etc. So I too as well as you like buying my games new!! I didn't get on ebay til Sep. of '01. So I missed out on alot of the deals. BUT BUT BUT, I was still there for some games that I would normally have to pay crazy prices for today. Just a few of the deals I ran into: (Now I know they were even less before 2001 when I joined. Just think if me and you would have got on ebay right when it started - Sealed Zelda NES / winning bid, $40. Ah, what a dream.
Sealed Zelda NES - $90
Link NES - $90
MT Punch-Out - $40
(These games have been going anywhere from $200 lowest to $580 highest)

By the way, I know you buy sealed games and open them, but do you collect any sealed games and don't open them????

Iron Dragon - So is all of that really my fault? I don't hardly think so. It's the fault of greedy sellers who couldn't make enough of a killing if they had a case of sealed Chrono Triggers to sell at $500 a pop, and all the truly insane bidders like skiier_addict who could care less if they drive the price of an item up to 10 times what it's actually worth, because they're not usually the poor saps who get stuck having to pay the bill. Trust me, I know all about how ebay works and the highest bidder winning and if you really want something that bad then you either bid whatever it takes or you just don't get it. I've had to outbid people like skiier_addict far more times than I even wanna count, just to get whatever it was I wanted at the time, and I'm sure that I'll have to do it many more times in my lifetime. And that's precisely why I'm mad. I shouldn't have to pay that much more money than what the games I want are worth, just because of ONE PERSON like skiier_addict who is gonna make damned sure that I have to pay far more than what they're worth, if I really want them. So I'm not complaining so much about the other 12 people who have just as little money to spend as I do that I have to bid against, it's just that ONE completely whacko idiot like skiier_addict who really pisses me off!

NintendoMan - No this really clears things up for me and see the point you are trying to make. But it is relying on just one reason of why sealed games are so expensive. But it is kind of strange now that you mention it, that skiier_addict NEVER wins most of the games he bids on.

Iron Dragon - So when you have to sit there and watch your sweet little bargains become yet another second mortgage on your house as many times as I have, and all because of that ONE same dude, then I expect that you'll be pissed off too.

NintendoMan -
LOL LOL
Yeah it's funny that you say that. I mean some of the prices that some people pay for some sealed games on here at the end of the auction I am just like - Either this person has alot of money or he just has no bills, spends ALL his money on sealed games, and oh yeah, lives in a cardboard box.

No I as well spend ALL kinds of money trying to get the games I missed when I was younger due to me not having money. I mean for a kid playing videogames, I did have all the systems and pretty many games, but of course of was a kid so didn't get everything I wanted. Missed a shitload of stuff. One thing that does make me mad is that I will never get to fill in my collection of sealed games with games like Excitebike, Kung-Fu, SMB (This only goes for $100 sometimes, rarely), Contra-Force, Final Fantasy,, Mega Mans, and these are just a couple of the top of my head. That's not even to mention the SNES games I want. I mean I will spend $100 on a sealed game, but not $400, I just don't have the money for that. If I did though, and really wanted the game emensly, then sure I would spend it.

So what I am saying is sure I am mad that I won't get a chance anywhere is the near future to get the sealed games I want. And I would also like to say I had NO CLUE that you could still get sealed games on ebay when I joined, so in '01 that's when my collection started. So another thing that drives prices up is the amount of people joining ebay everyday, videogame collectors seeing they can still get sealed games, then them starting to collect games too. It's just a crazy world we live in. I don't want to pay those crazy prices either, but we just might have too sometimes to get what we REALLY want, depending on what the item is.
:D :D :D

[NintendoMan]

[quote="Iron Draggon"]Gee, I didn't realize that people were still kicking around at this one until just now. I was out quote]

Oh yeah, and by the way when you said you thought this topic was dead because you were away for a week, I just got back this week and was gone for a while and not getting a chance and the computer often, so missed this topic.

[Duncan]

Glad you guys are doing well. I still have no money, so the current explosion in the SNES market has now made the system less and less worthwhile for me.

Also glad I've got the console and a few of the games I really wanted as a kid, but I'm not gonna pursue the SNES much more unless the prices go down. Genesis and NES games -- even complete! -- are still quite a bit cheaper at the moment than many loose SNES games, so I'll keep hunting for my rental favorites in those directions rather than delving into this new-old craze.

I'd love to play Chrono Trigger, but I'm never gonna pay more than $30-40 for it. Which means I'll probably never play it unless I download it, and that's not really the same.

[Promophile]

If you have a playstation just get the port :) . Of course it has bad load times. Same thing with FF6, except FF6 has CRIPPLING load times to access the menus.

[NintendoMan]

Glad you guys are doing well. I still have no money, so the current explosion in the SNES market has now made the system less and less worthwhile for me.

Also glad I've got the console and a few of the games I really wanted as a kid, but I'm not gonna pursue the SNES much more unless the prices go down. Genesis and NES games -- even complete! -- are still quite a bit cheaper at the moment than many loose SNES games, so I'll keep hunting for my rental favorites in those directions rather than delving into this new-old craze.

I'd love to play Chrono Trigger, but I'm never gonna pay more than $30-40 for it. Which means I'll probably never play it unless I download it, and that's not really the same.

Yeah, one thing that definately sucks is when you are at a place or flea market or something and you ask them the price and they get on the computer to look on ebay, or say the "going ebay price". They are obviously wanted to cash in on the game craze too. Nothing wrong with wanting to make money, but when you are charging $35 for a loose SuperMario World???

[SoulBlazer]

Actually, fast load on a PS2 really helps the load times, whcih are'nt bad anyway.

[NintendoMan]

Are the load time for the game faster on PS2 or PS1??

[Muscelli]

oh god, that reminds me, I saw an auction for a sealed copy of Super Mario All-Stars last year, went for $213...

guess who sold that? 8-)

[Iron Draggon]

HEHE, this is getting kinda cool now, I never expected this topic to last this long when I started it, but it's kinda neat to see one of my topics still going.

I'm glad that you cleared all that up too Nintendoman, now I understand where you're coming from alot better too. I love talking about this kinda stuff also, although I have a nasty tendency to rant about it sometimes.

Anyhow, let me try to cover all the stuff you said that I want to reply to. I'll highlight your quotes in red so it will be easier to tell all our text here apart:

Well, that' s exactly true with me and almost all the people on here, well except maybe for a few. There is DEFINATELY of course NO ill will behind my post here with you, as there would not of been even close of enough reason for there to be any. With your new post here that I am responding too, you definately make what the point you are trying to make ALOT more clearer to me!! I am just putting my two cents in as well, it's just for some reason I REALLY get into "sealed game" topics because I KNOW ALOT of people on here shun the idea of collecting sealed games. I DO collect them. I really can't stand it when someone says its stupid, pointless, crazy, insane, idiotic, etc., to collect sealed games.

I really don't understand why some people don't understand sealed game collectors myself, unless it's just the thing about not being able to play the games that bothers them so much. But most sealed game collectors also buy a crappy open used copy of everything they own to play when they can, so it's not like most of them don't play their games too, they just preserve as many factory sealed mint copies as they can for posterity. This is no different than collecting anything else factory sealed, it's the best way to go if you're collecting as an investment, because those sealed copies will become worth far more money than any unsealed copies will. Just look at all those sealed Chrono Triggers that we're bitching about, the people who were smart enough to buy those for cheap and keep them lying around until they could sell them on ebay for $500 or more are laughing their asses off all the way to the bank! It's only those of us who never bought a copy who are pissed!

Well, who really knows the reason and this is my thought. This might still make no sense but maybe it's because it's just pretty much impossible because of the tabs on the top of sega games to get a perfect intact sealed sega genesis game with no rips. Or maybe because Nintendo is still in business with systems, and SEGA isn't. This might be stupid reasons, but that's all I can think of.

I really have no idea either, I'm just waiting for the Genesis collecting market to catch fire and explode like the SNES did too. There have been some signs of it starting to drift in that direction lately, but it's still very subtle and slow. Maybe it's just because the Genesis had a much larger installed user base for so long, so the games aren't perceived as being as limited in number as some of the SNES games were, but I think this will eventually change too. Let's face it, nobody really expected the SNES collecting market to do what it did 5 years ago either, so it's just a matter of time. And boy am I gonna be glad when it finally happens, so I can gloat about having around 500 games for it!

OK, I can see how this is sort of true, but you just have to have more will power than that. I mean that would sort of be like blaming a Casino because you just lost your $300 from Gambling and losing. This drive of jacking up the price has happened to me, but I usually won't go over like $30 than what I originally wanted to do.

Oh, I do have a sickness alright, I almost never let something go that I really want to get, unless I absolutely have to, because I'll brood about it forever after until I find another one that I can get. So sometimes it's worth the extra cash to me just to save myself from having to keep kicking myself for letting one go until the next time one finally comes around again, which may be a really long time. It's taken me as much as 10 years to track down some of the games that I wanted factory sealed, and I'm still searching for alot of them, so unless there's just no way that I can do it, I'll pay alot more than I should, but if it's that much more than it's worth I'll still bitch about it awhile.

Well this pretty much exactly describes me EXCEPT for the whole didn't play the snes. I have been playing since the NES. But anyways, I definately respect that you have payed full price for every game new. Call me crazy, but I also will in a second pay full price for a new game than get it used for $10-even $50 less sometimes. My collection consists of all MINT MINT MINT games pretty much. I also LOVE knowing I am the first to play it. I used to not care until I really started "collecting" about 2 years ago. Now I need every thing new, I need to be the fist to touch the game, etc. So I too as well as you like buying my games new!! I didn't get on ebay til Sep. of '01. So I missed out on alot of the deals. BUT BUT BUT, I was still there for some games that I would normally have to pay crazy prices for today. Just a few of the deals I ran into: (Now I know they were even less before 2001 when I joined. Just think if me and you would have got on ebay right when it started - Sealed Zelda NES / winning bid, $40. Ah, what a dream.
Sealed Zelda NES - $90
Link NES - $90
MT Punch-Out - $40
(These games have been going anywhere from $200 lowest to $580 highest)

By the way, I know you buy sealed games and open them, but do you collect any sealed games and don't open them????

HMM... I guess birds of a feather really do flock together! It sounds like the biggest difference between me and you is you were loyal to Nintendo and I was loyal to Sega. Otherwise, we sound almost identical. But when I first signed onto ebay, I was so busy freaking out over all the old Hot Wheels there that it never occurred to me to start looking for old video games too, until I had already bought most of all the old Hot Wheels that I could afford.

So I didn't really start hitting the sealed SNES scene there until about the same time that you did, and I wish that I had been alot more prepared for it. For one thing, I constantly passed up on stuff like Mario Kart for only $40 because I figured it was gonna be like F-Zero, always a zillion of them there, and always dirt cheap. So instead, I focused on all the obscure stuff that I could find, which was probably a very smart move, because alot of the stuff that I got for cheap goes for alot more today. So I didn't miss out on all the great deals, and I'm not complaining about that at all. I just wish that I had gotten into it all alot sooner, so I could've really racked up and gotten alot more of the stuff that I still really want but I just can't afford to get it now.

No this really clears things up for me and see the point you are trying to make. But it is relying on just one reason of why sealed games are so expensive. But it is kind of strange now that you mention it, that skiier_addict NEVER wins most of the games he bids on.

It's sad, but it's true. Either he works for ebay, he just doesn't give a damn, he's incredibly stupid and never learns from his mistakes, or it's a combination!

Yeah it's funny that you say that. I mean some of the prices that some people pay for some sealed games on here at the end of the auction I am just like - Either this person has alot of money or he just has no bills, spends ALL his money on sealed games, and oh yeah, lives in a cardboard box.

No I as well spend ALL kinds of money trying to get the games I missed when I was younger due to me not having money. I mean for a kid playing videogames, I did have all the systems and pretty many games, but of course of was a kid so didn't get everything I wanted. Missed a shitload of stuff. One thing that does make me mad is that I will never get to fill in my collection of sealed games with games like Excitebike, Kung-Fu, SMB (This only goes for $100 sometimes, rarely), Contra-Force, Final Fantasy,, Mega Mans, and these are just a couple of the top of my head. That's not even to mention the SNES games I want. I mean I will spend $100 on a sealed game, but not $400, I just don't have the money for that. If I did though, and really wanted the game emensly, then sure I would spend it.

So what I am saying is sure I am mad that I won't get a chance anywhere is the near future to get the sealed games I want. And I would also like to say I had NO CLUE that you could still get sealed games on ebay when I joined, so in '01 that's when my collection started. So another thing that drives prices up is the amount of people joining ebay everyday, videogame collectors seeing they can still get sealed games, then them starting to collect games too. It's just a crazy world we live in. I don't want to pay those crazy prices either, but we just might have too sometimes to get what we REALLY want, depending on what the item is.

You made some very good points here, I guess alot of the really high prices right now are just because there's so many new people who are just finding ebay and freaking out like we did when we first found it, but I sure wish that I knew where they're getting all that money to throw around! I can play like a real high roller on the smalltime auctions, but I can't even touch the bigtime auctions yet, and I probably never will be able to. But I'm trying!

But at least I was very fortunate back in the day, because I was just starting my 20's and I had a pretty high paying job that let me go to all the game stores literally every day and buy several games at a time while I was there. I worked in nightclubs and I always got at least $100 a night in tips, so all of that money went straight to the game store to get a couple of new games before my next shift. Then on paydays, I knew exactly how much money I had to set aside for bills, and the rest of it all went to the game stores too, so every other weekend I got to get a big batch of new games to play on top of all the ones that I was buying all week long, so literally almost all of my money did go to games for many years during the now famous 16bit wars.

I had to bust my ass like you wouldn't believe to be able to do that though. I averaged over 60 hours a week, every week, and worked 8, 10, 12, 16 hour shifts, which were often back to back with more of the same, and I almost never had any time to play what I was buying. It was all I could do to stay awake long enough to go shopping and buy them all, then I would just come home and crash and dream about playing all the cool games that I was getting. I figured that someday I would finally get a chance to play them all, and it would all be worth it, and I was right too, because now I have alot more time to play them. So much time in fact, that now I don't even really want to play them all that much anymore! Weird, huh? But at least I got to get them, and collecting them has always been as much fun as playing them.

Oh yeah, BTW, I forgot to answer your question about buying sealed games and not opening them. I don't do that yet, but I'm thinking about starting. I won't be doing that for the SNES or the Genesis though, it would have to be one of the other systems that never had very many games for it anyway. That way I might be able to actually have a complete sealed collection for one of those systems someday. But it's just too expensive for the 16bit systems, and especially for the SNES. I may save up for a sealed Chrono Trigger that I never open someday though, you never know. It would be kinda nice to have one holy grail like that to keep preserved in it's plastic.

[NintendoMan]

I mean other than a few people that pay those high prices, I do believe that games go up so much because of how many people join ebay each day. I didn't start collecting sealed games til I joined ebay.

I see the reason why you are mad though, as it's the same reason for me. When you first started on ebay, you were into hot wheels and didn't even know about how you could still find games.
When I first joined, I was on for games, but only used games for good prices. If I ever saw an auction title with the word NEW NES, I guess I just overloooked it or didn't believe that you could still buy sealed games over 10-15 years old. I guess just one day I finally realized it wasn't a dream and starting buying them.

BUT I AM PRETTY SURE THIS IS THE EXACT REASON FOR YOUR POST, AND WHY YOU WERE SO PISSED OR MAD. It's the SAME EXACT reason why you could call me pissed or mad as well.
I guess you have to look on the brightside on this one, at least you got some games for good prices while you could. So at least we did get some games, NOT all of course though. We just wish at the time we would have known of much it was going to cost us for sealed games today, and we should have bought more sealed snes, nes, etc., when we had the chance. Like the days where we could have bought that Chrono Trigger sealed snes for like $75-$125, NOT fucking $500. Like you said, maybe someday you might buy something like that, considering that the prices may never go down. (Damn though, If I would have known the prices I have to pay know for games, I would have worked like double shift and triple shifts ALL the time like 2 and 3 years ago.) I mean it doesn't seem that long since I starting collecting, and all of a sudden prices have practically ten folded on most games.

Another reason why I don't think Sealed Genesis games go for that much is maybe because there's not that many. (The only thing is that you would think that since gene games are rarer, and that there is not as many on ebay ,they would be worth more). I mean when you do a search there is like double if not triple the amount of sealed snes, sometimes.

Oh yeah, it is pretty cool when one of your topics that you put up a while back is still going. It usually means that it's a great topic, which this one in my opinion is!!
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