113 PC game lot (mine) up on evilBay..

[scorch56]

HERE (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=002&item=120014569161&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1)

I decided to keep a couple dozen of them; and put the rest up on eBay to sell in one fell swoop. Auction ends Tuesday (Aug 8th). Wish me luck!

[Griking]

Nice auction but this line in the description made me cry :(


The only things missing are the "big boxes" (long since disposed of)

[Kitsune Sniper]

I feel your pain. Those things... ;_;

[scorch56]

Nice auction but this line in the description made me cry :(


The only things missing are the "big boxes" (long since disposed of)

Yeah.. you know what? I'm still kicking myself over that.. but there's kind of a story..

Back in the late 90's when I was all hot on PC games (My local Software Etc. manager used to get a big grin on his face the minute I walked through the door) I DID keep all those things. Truth be told.. these games represent about a third of what I had at the time.. the bulk of games being dwindled away as I needed cash now and then over the years.

Anyways.. 500 or so "big boxes" took up a lot of room.. so I actually had to rent a storage space to put them in (one of those 1/2 car sized ones). I paid $39 a month for it and my video game collection wasn't NEAR as big as it is now.. so I stored them there as well. After about two years of diligently paying forty dollars a month to fill a room with "empty boxes", I got sick of it one day and disposed of them.. right there on the site.. before I vacated the unit and gave it up. Filled two dumpsters with them.

Hindsight is 20/20. Who would of thought that someday these old PC games would start to fetch "collector" prices (at least some of them)? I sure didn't. Having said that.. I DID keep a couple big garbage bags of boxes for some "unique" games I thought I would want to keep. I still have them and the other night I went through them to see what matched what I had up for sale. I only found three. Most of the ones I kept are all for my "Mech" collection (Which I'm keeping. I reinstalled them all on my PC last weekend and I'm having a lot of fun with them.) and a few are for some HTF titles I'm still fond of and keeping (Chaos Overlords, Emperor of the Fading Suns, Terra Nova.. etc. I WISH I had of kept the "Gazillionaire" box.. damn).

I'm the kind of person that TRIES to keep stuff forever.. but I have my breaking point. I used to keep all my old "classic" PCs and parts as well. I had boxes of Soundblaster cards, RAM & 3DFx/Matrox/ATI cards. One night.. in a "huff" I threw them all away in a dumpster too. I live in a mobile home and there's not a lot of storage space around here. When I start tripping over stuff in my own bedroom.. that usually does it. I don't think old PC parts will ever be in demand.. but who knows?..

If I only knew what I know now.. :( .

[scorch56]

24 hours left.. and a bump!

[TheRedEye]

That's a fantastic lot of games, I'm sorry they're not worth more money to someone...

[scorch56]

That's a fantastic lot of games, I'm sorry they're not worth more money to someone...

Yeah.. no biggie anyway. The first two offers I got were for $100 and $85 respectively. I VERY politely declined them. then on early Tuesday morning a guy offered $230 and I also declined. I was only trying to sell them to raise some bill paying money while I was on a short "involuntary vacation". But I've been called back to work while this auction was goin on.. so now it's moot.

I really and truly did pay a small fortune for all these games. $335 would have been a TENTH of what I bought them for. So I'm very happy I still get to keep them. Besides.. I took about a dozen out of the lot and posted them up individually at high prices; and now my guess is when it's all said, done & over.. I'll probably make close to that much on the dozen alone. Some buyers don't know a bargain if you hit them in the face with it.

I wasn't about to let these games go for what would have essentially been 39 cents a piece.. that was insulting.. but I kept my cool. Some people have a lot of nerve.. I would have rather taken them out back and burned them.

[unwinddesign]

I think you would have been better off had the description been shorter. The introduction is long-winded, and I think eBayers don't like reading (or phonics, or anything resembling intelligence, for the most part). Nice games, though. Glad it worked out in the end.