View Full Version : Gold NWC cart sold for $21,400.00
XYXZYZ
04-18-2007, 09:54 AM
There is a discussion on this in the Everything eBay forum, I'm just posting this noteworthy news here for those of us who don't check in to EE very often. (Like me)
The guy apparently didn't know what he had...
http://www.myebid.com/cgi-bin/auction/view?cmd=view&listingID=3402
The original thread
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=98853
raregamergirl
04-18-2007, 10:04 AM
You should say that the NWC gold cart auction ended at $21400. It didnt sell for that much as there is zero chance it was legitimate. There is no way it is real and no way the high bidder would pay even if it was real.
cyberfluxor
04-18-2007, 10:28 AM
I still believe it's BS. If it were really going for $21,000 you'd hear about it another way than through some strange auction site.
For all we know, it could've been some joker proxy bidder who bid $100k. Looks fake anyway.
Chadt74
04-18-2007, 12:02 PM
I did a search and after 3 pages I gave up.
What makes a Gold NWC cart so valuable and what is it??!?
Sorry for the ignorance.
bangtango
04-18-2007, 12:09 PM
I did a search and after 3 pages I gave up.
What makes a Gold NWC cart so valuable and what is it??!?
Sorry for the ignorance.
Fewer copies than the grey NWC cart. That is the short answer. I'll let the people who own one come in here and fill you in a little better.
udisi
04-18-2007, 12:28 PM
1) Only 26 copies ever produced
2) Has a great backstory. It holds a lot of nestalgia for those who competed in the NWC
3)It's a pretty gold cart. Compared to some of the other rare cartriges, The NWC Gold is very pleasing to the eye
4)It's a very fun and unique cartridge to play and you can recreate the same conditions as the NWC. A lot of rare cartridges are just that...Rare and crappy to play. This is both rare and fun.
5)I think this may be the most improtant point. Out of all video game collectors, Atari 2600 and original Nintendo collectors out number any other system. Odds alone tell you there will be more demand and more competition for the unique items. Odds are also that there are more people with more money in these groups. combine both those sets of odds togeather and they =$$$$$$$
madman77
04-18-2007, 03:21 PM
The seller is obviously a scammer. If his son had an NWC cart, don't you think he would've had a bit of a better NES collection? Luckily, I think the buyer is a scammer too :)
DefaultGen
04-18-2007, 04:00 PM
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InsaneDavid
04-18-2007, 04:07 PM
myebid.com? What the hell is that.
It's your ebid, of course.
Buyatari
04-18-2007, 04:16 PM
What a steal !
MarioMania
04-18-2007, 06:22 PM
How much dose a Gray & Gold one go for
Jumpman Jr.
04-18-2007, 07:47 PM
How much dose a Gray & Gold one go for
Grey - Depends on the condition, but $2,000 for a good copy.
Gold - One went up for sale recently (not this auction) and the seller didn't accept $12,500. However, in the past $6,500 was a lot to pay for one. The price really depends on who is selling it. Since there are so few (and the people who have them don't want to let them go), whenever one pops up, the seller can pretty much sell it for whatever price he feels he wants to sell it for.
I think the bid in the auction was definitely fake. If the buyer wanted to get an NWC, why didn't they just buy udisi's that was just up for sale?
Buyatari
04-18-2007, 08:53 PM
I think DreamTr has the record on this one. Was it 7500 Jason?
udisi
04-18-2007, 10:38 PM
one of the ones on ebay last year brought $7600. I think that's the highest completed transaction.
ryborg
04-18-2007, 11:11 PM
It holds a lot of nestalgia for those who competed in the NWC
"Nestalgia." Was that intentional? If so, nicely done.
On topic: No way the auction is real. Why would a random person post supposedly random games on a very obscure website for 30 days instead of a week? When the auction was posted, there were only a couple other video game auctions up on that site. I'm very very skeptical.
udisi
04-18-2007, 11:24 PM
"Nestalgia." Was that intentional? If so, nicely done.
On topic: No way the auction is real. Why would a random person post supposedly random games on a very obscure website for 30 days instead of a week? When the auction was posted, there were only a couple other video game auctions up on that site. I'm very very skeptical.
Actually this time was an accident, but I have spelled it that way on purpose before. I type like crap in forums and I've be know to spell like a retarded five year old from time to time :)
Hounder
04-19-2007, 02:19 AM
Michiganfan2 just bought one in December of 2006 for 5.4k.
PallarAndersVisa
04-19-2007, 10:21 AM
what the hell are these things?
not even boxed/instr. either
rbudrick
04-19-2007, 11:39 AM
not even boxed/instr. either
Oh, funny.
I'm surprised many don't know what this is. Do a Google search on "Nintendo World Championships 1990." That is all.
-Rob
udisi
04-19-2007, 11:51 AM
Oh, funny.
I'm surprised many don't know what this is. Do a Google search on "Nintendo World Championships 1990." That is all.
-Rob
I'm not. a lot of people who play the Nes now a days were still crapping themselves in 1990.