Basement gold has been found - Sealed stadium events (plus other SE drama!)

[chrisbid]

It's happening. The profiteers are descending.

The same thing that all but killed baseball card collecting in the 90s.

The same thing that all but killed comic book collecting in the early 00s.

It's the 10s, guess it's our turn. Good luck everybody.

i think this will be mostly contained to the NES. few collectors give a crap about atari or sega games... more for me

[DuckTalesNES]

Up to $800,000 now. This has got to be fake.

[Ed Oscuro]

i think this will be mostly contained to the NES. few collectors give a crap about atari or sega games... more for me

I would like to share that optimism, but Kizuna Encounter pointed towards this happening for other games.

If it's a single buyer behind all this, it's obviously a ploy to corner the market, which I still think is ill-advised (especially since we've had "new" copies come out of the woodwork in just this short time!), and they're inviting a robbery or something. I mean - know anybody who wants to pay $41K on a crap NES game? Know anybody who wouldn't mind having their own copy to sell?

Up to $800,000 now. This has got to be fake.

I hope so.

[BetaWolf47]

few collectors give a crap about atari or sega games...

Wut now? I thought it was the collectors who cared the most!

[pseudonym]

No, NES is just the "in-thing" right now, in a few years we'll all be complaining about some high-priced SNES or PS1 games.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

http://blog.videogamepricecharts.com...-is-fraud.html

It looks like JJ and quite a few other people agree with my sentiment about the auction.

[chrisbid]

once the story about stadium events hit the mainstream newswire, the potential for abuse and fraud shot upwards exponentially

[chrisbid]

No, NES is just the "in-thing" right now, in a few years we'll all be complaining about some high-priced SNES or PS1 games.

ps1 maybe (those educational titles), but the snes really doesnt have any uber rare stadium events officially released games.

[PapaStu]

ps1 maybe (those educational titles), but the snes really doesnt have any uber rare stadium events officially released games.

The Lightspan stuff isn't 'that' rare. Only a few titles are worth anything and the other 85 arn't worth but 3-5 bucks a pop. Because of the sheer number of those games (and that they wern't available for retail sale like SE was) their values will not be remotely close to the money games on the PlayStation.


The 800k is a blown auction. It won't sell for that, its just shill bidding now. Not that I know much of anything about SE games, but something about that box (the current 800k auction) has struck me wrong from the start. It just seems wrong, seals aside.

[Ed Oscuro]

It's happening. The profiteers are descending.

The same thing that all but killed baseball card collecting in the 90s.

The same thing that all but killed comic book collecting in the early 00s.

It's the 10s, guess it's our turn. Good luck everybody.

What got me out of baseball card collecting was fake (manufactured) rares, which video game companies have tried for a long while without most people really caring. Somebody here and there cuddles with their Mountain Dew Xbox, but the gaming itself still counts.

I'm aware that there were crazy spikes in card prices which came down over time, so as far as I know the hobby came back close to equilibrium.

I thought that comic books were at the same place cards were at the time (not that I'd know; I wasn't buying any of the 'good stuff,' my heart was never in it and I just bought some stuff that I thought I'd actually enjoy).

Back onto the topic of this game, somebody posted a blog link with some concerns about the photos and the seal...I think it's damn obvious that nobody serious is behind this latest one. Unfortunately this being an obvious fake means that people will be less critical of the $41K one (which may well be intentional, at least depending on who's behind the auction / bidding).

[pseudonym]

The SNES has Mountain Bike Rally/Speed Racer and that military shooting game + gun thing, the PS1 has, erm, the Elemental Gear Assassin's Case.

[Sosage]

800K...fake Stadium Events or not, someone is either shilling their own auction to a stupid degree or someone is trolling the auction with fake bids. I absolutely, positively don't buy that it is worth 40K or 100K, let alone almost a million. To put it even more in perspective, I can't imagine anyone single collector's video game collection being worth a million combined, let alone one single game (although...I dunno...wanna sell your collection DreamTR?).

In either case, it's no good for us. People are only going to see the end price.

I mean. Really. I only have 200 more loose carts to go. Could the uneducated opportunists please hold off until *I* am done with the NES library? :P

[Bad Atom]

I've been watching that auction just for the fun of it - really? $800,000? That's hilarious. It'll never actually sell...

[The 1 2 P]

I've been watching that auction just for the fun of it - really? $800,000? That's hilarious. It'll never actually sell...

That reminds me of the time a factory sealed Indiana Jones for the N64 got out of control and ended for $800. I contacted the seller a few days after the auction ended and he said that the seller told him that she made a mistake and wasn't going to pay for the item. I'm pretty sure something similiar will happen here. Then the seller will offer second chance offers to the people who bid $100,000-800,000 and they'll all decline. Thats ebay for you.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

Another has appeared.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=110499541029

The ridiculous bidding prices aside, that shrink wrap doesn't look right to me.

the vertical "wrinkling" in the back corners and the lack of a clearly visible horizontal seal line across the back seems pretty much a dead give-away that it's a re-seal.

I could be wrong as the pictures are all pretty small, but, I think it's spurious at best.

[Greg2600]

Well, I think tricksters invaded the bidding on that thing. No chance whoever wins the bidding is a legitimate bidder.

[RPG_Fanatic]

Damn!!!! that must be like hitting the lottery!!!!

[PapaStu]

The SNES has Mountain Bike Rally/Speed Racer and that military shooting game + gun thing, the PS1 has, erm, the Elemental Gear Assassin's Case.

Again, not that this thing is worth remotely close to 800k (hell its not worth 40k, watch, that one won't get paid for either).
The MACS system was not something that sold in the retail market. It was a special thing for the US Government. Guns and the 2 (or is it 3) games have been on ebay and at first were pulling good money, and soon began to hit saturation and their values dropped to the 500 range. Not saying that they can't go up some, but that isn't going to happen for some time.

The Assassins Case Elemental Gearbolt was not a retail item. It was a special promo made in incredibly limited quantities (less than 50) and given out to Japanese makers of the game, people in the biz and some were awarded out at E3 98. These, selling now are in the 1k range. Not 9k,13k or 40k. Most expensive PS thing? More or less (wait for some of the other crazy NEWS boxes to get out, then this will be chump change, hell a complete US Yaroze sold for more than that in 04 and there were twice those made)

Trying to equate something that was never 'in the market' so something that had a true retail run, no matter the shortness of time (SE sure as hell wasn't only available for a day) it was available for sale, just doesn't fly.

[MarioMania]

No one at AA answered me on this

How much did ebay get by the fees with the game selling at 41K

[-hellvin-]

Heh, I'm half tempted to just list my loose cart with a very high BIN and just see if someone actually buys it for WAY more than it should ever sell for.