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    Question Recently Discovered Earthbound Stock?

    In the thread about the "sealed" copy of Earthbound on eBay, a member mentioned that a carton of new copies were recently discovered.
    Is this true? Stories like this are extremely interesting.
    Last edited by Kyle15; 02-10-2009 at 09:51 PM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kyle15 View Post
    In the thread about the "sealed" copy of Earthbound on eBay, a member mentioned that a carton of new copies were recently discovered.
    Is this true? Stories like this are extremely interesting.
    Well, a carton of Earthbound wouldn't exactly change the rarity or demand for it. I believe a carton of SNES games is only like six and it may be less for an oversize release like Earthbound.

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    it's going to be tough to find info about it. Craigslist doesn't seem to have an archive of any type.

    I found out about the case of Earthbounds after it sold, and I saw the original posting on Craigslist, as well as a posting on Craigslist from the guy who bought it, selling new, sealed copies

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    Yea it was in the Los Angeles craigslist I believe, or one of the SoCal ones, I emailed him about buying it but he never emailed me back.

    Then a few days later there was somebody selling sealed copies on CL for like 300 bucks each. I emailed him offering less but he turned me down..

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    It wouldn't be a surprise. I've heard more than a few people say how there were stacks of unsold Earthbounds just sitting around during the last years of the SNES.

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    Imagine what a carton of new Chrono Triggers would bring. I'm thinking house down payment money.
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    I wonder where he found them. Did he get them back in the day, or recently?
    Still, a box of 3-6 copies is insane.
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    I totally thought the topic read "Recently Discovered Earthbound Sock?"

    Any other game I would have done a double take, but for earthbound it just seemed totally appropriate.

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    This may very well be legit...BUT...every hobby that has a "collectible" element to it will have these incidents where old cases are found and seem to come out of nowhere. It sometimes can be a scam. Just ask any vintage Star Wars collector what they think about "SEALED CASE...JUST FOUND!" auctions.

    As a somewhat related aside:
    I worked in the electronics department (then called: Camera and Sound) for Target when Earthbound came out. I vividly remember Earthbound coming in Target boxes straight from the distribution center. Most games came sealed in their own box (6 per box). Earthbound was so big that they had to open those boxes at the DC and ship out the "loose" boxes to the individual stores.
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    Quote Originally Posted by heybtbm View Post
    As a somewhat related aside:
    I worked in the electronics department (then called: Camera and Sound) for Target when Earthbound came out. I vividly remember Earthbound coming in Target boxes straight from the distribution center. Most games came sealed in their own box (6 per box). Earthbound was so big that they had to open those boxes at the DC and ship out the "loose" boxes to the individual stores.
    Hate to tell you it's still called Camera / Sound (as a friend of mine still works as a lead, which was my previous position until executive before leaving in late 2002, and yeah, it's still C/S) and awkward / less popular games still arrive as repack.

    Also remember kids, EarthBound has no shrinkwrap. Of course it's easy to tell if a box has been opened by how the paint cracks on the flap.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JLukas View Post
    It wouldn't be a surprise. I've heard more than a few people say how there were stacks of unsold Earthbounds just sitting around during the last years of the SNES.
    Yep. I remember going to Wal-Mart and seeing stacks of Earthbound just sitting there like they were in the way. I'd love to have a picture of that now. But anyway, at the time I wasn't really interested in Earthbound. The only reason I even asked for it for Christmas was because it was an RPG, and I KNEW my mom would buy it for me as they had all been marked down to $20.
    Imagine that....$20.
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    Yeah, at the time of it's release, Earthbound didn't get much love at all. I remember seeing several copies of it for like $10.00 at K-Mart, as late as 1997 or 1998.

    Sadly, I never bought it because at the time I only knew of it from those scratch & sniff ads, which made it seem kind of lame & childish.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kyle15 View Post
    In the thread about the "sealed" copy of Earthbound on eBay
    Quote Originally Posted by InsaneDavid View Post
    EarthBound has no shrinkwrap.
    Time for some clarification. So shrink wrapped copies of this game never existed?
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    When I worked at a game store my boss got several boxes of sealed saturn Shining force.. forces force's whatever yeah things like that can mess up the market.

    Lesson? Video games are a hobby not an investment. put money out there for the love of the hobby and not to make cash. And if you have sealed games graded and slabbed you are a sack of shit.

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    I agree that these 6 games will do nothing to the market. I'm always watching Pal Nes games and people put caes of the exclusives up all the time. Seriously all the time. Not so often here? But yeah not to uncommon. I forget where it was, but I used to read about this arcade kinda hunter guy and he'd go to other countries and find wherehouses full of classic arcade games. Those stories were soo awsome. Just emagine...Kinda got off the subject.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JLukas View Post
    It wouldn't be a surprise. I've heard more than a few people say how there were stacks of unsold Earthbounds just sitting around during the last years of the SNES.
    Yeah, this is how I got mine. 8 bucks at Best Buy in Green Bay. Interestingly enough I later saw a guy located in Green Bay ebaying copies of Earthbound in a dutch auction at around 15 bucks a pop.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The 1 2 P View Post
    Time for some clarification. So shrink wrapped copies of this game never existed?
    Nope. Unless of course, somebody at the store wrapped them to keep the contents of the box a bit safer.
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