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    I think it's funny how people are here are revealing themselves to be complete douchenozzles and making it easy to avoid dealing with them. Re: chainsaw_charlie, Parodius Duh!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Edmond Dantes View Post
    What the heck is Little Samson anyway and why is it so sought-after?
    Because they only made like four copies and it's one of the best damn NES games I've ever played. I may have to get into making repro carts; I don't care about it's rarity and I just want a copy to play.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RCM View Post
    Didn't a sealed LS just go for over 5k? I like the game, but wouldn't even pay $100 for it.
    It's the same copy.

    It was returned to the seller with damage to the cellophane, so the original seller relisted it noting the damage. Having received sealed games from this seller, I have to say that his packaging job was rather poor. I'm not surprised that the game arrived damaged.

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    The difference is, only the auctions that have bids throughout the auction time are the ones that end with an inflated price. I've yet to see an auction that didn't have bids until the last few hours end at a price I thought was ridiculously high for what was in the auction. All those bids create a bidding war, whereas the people sniping are usually trying to get a good deal.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MyTurnToPlay View Post
    So I bid $400 on the sealed brand new Little Samson currently up on ebay and yeah....I did it knowing fully well that there was no way in hell I would actually win it....but on a whim I just felt like raising the price.

    But I thought, what the hell....let's get the party started already and jack up the price to $400 already. I mean, we all know that sucker is going to sell for thousands of dollars. But at least I could feel like an ebay champ if only for a little while.

    I do this quite often, especially with items I know will sell for outrageous amounts. I can already hear the cries of a lot of you guys. Well, let me ease your fanboyish hearts and minds. It doesn't really hurt or do any harm, since the outcome is inevitable and widely known by everyone, namely, that the particular item will sell for an absurd amount. So my small bid is merely a means to an ineluctable end.

    It's fairly amusing to see yourself among the bidders for an item you have no intention of purchasing, especially for rare items. I get to be an ebay champ.

    Anyway, anyone else indulge in the same past time?

    thats ridiculous, you are the reason someone like me cant even get lolo 2 or 3 for less than 50 bucks. Every time i try to buy something on ebay, people will jack the price up beyond what its even worth just to get it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MyTurnToPlay View Post
    So I bid $400 on the sealed brand new Little Samson currently up on ebay and yeah....I did it knowing fully well that there was no way in hell I would actually win it....but on a whim I just felt like raising the price.

    But I thought, what the hell....let's get the party started already and jack up the price to $400 already. I mean, we all know that sucker is going to sell for thousands of dollars. But at least I could feel like an ebay champ if only for a little while.

    I do this quite often, especially with items I know will sell for outrageous amounts. I can already hear the cries of a lot of you guys. Well, let me ease your fanboyish hearts and minds. It doesn't really hurt or do any harm, since the outcome is inevitable and widely known by everyone, namely, that the particular item will sell for an absurd amount. So my small bid is merely a means to an ineluctable end.

    It's fairly amusing to see yourself among the bidders for an item you have no intention of purchasing, especially for rare items. I get to be an ebay champ.

    Anyway, anyone else indulge in the same past time?

    Although I don't understand your motivations for bidding on items you're not going to win (see your user name on a list?), I don't think there's anything wrong as long as you pay for the item if you happen to win it. If you end up sending the seller an email saying "I didn't intend on winning this item, so I cannot pay you," it ends up creating a big mess with the seller who has to cancel the transaction and relist the item, potentially costing them money if the item doesn't sell for as much the second time around.

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    Holy shit! These ebay assholes walk among us!?!? Bid to win or GTFO!

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    And here was me thinking the punchline to the thread topic was going to be "...and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!"

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    Troll thread is winning.
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    If you think this guy is an eBay asshole for what he bid for Little Samson, you should have seen what he offered for Big Delilah on Craigslist.


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    Quote Originally Posted by skaar View Post
    Troll thread is winning.
    Trolololo thread will ALWAYS win.
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    The OP basically needs to get a life and stop wasting his and our time!
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    I think even if he were offered one, he'd get sniped by someone who values it more.


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    Quote Originally Posted by understatement View Post
    After that the game started going for $80+ the game was Earthbound, so sorry to everyone that wanted to get that game at $40 I fucked it up on Ebay.
    The last part was a joke but the first part is true.
    Is no joke... is truth although I got EB for <$80 recently off ebay so bloop.
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    Yeah, I wish ebay didn't hide bidder IDs.
    Then we could just let this guy win and laugh when he has to come up with the money.

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    If you bid on an item and lose the auction, you can always find out who the winning bidder is. It's a work-around to get past that whole hiding of bidder IDs. Of course, you only see the winning bidder though, not everyone in between.

    I also find myself losing to some of the same guys week over week, but I occasionally beat them too and that makes me happy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jonebone View Post
    If you bid on an item and lose the auction, you can always find out who the winning bidder is. It's a work-around to get past that whole hiding of bidder IDs. Of course, you only see the winning bidder though, not everyone in between.

    I also find myself losing to some of the same guys week over week, but I occasionally beat them too and that makes me happy.
    Do tell. That would be some good info to have.

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    I'd think it was the whole bidder look up thing mentioned earlier:

    http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...&sort=3&_rdc=1

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    This is partially why I stopped using e-bay, if the games aren't horribly over-priced, there's idiots like this guy that inflate prices and make things more expensive than they need to be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by horseboy View Post
    Do tell. That would be some good info to have.
    Quote Originally Posted by portnoyd View Post
    I'd think it was the whole bidder look up thing mentioned earlier:

    http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...&sort=3&_rdc=1
    Yeah, go to advanced searches, by bidder. Then enter your own username and check the "show completed listings" box. Any auction you bid on in the last 30 days will appear and show the winning bidder.

    Only works if your bid registers. If you snipe and the price gets so high that your snipe never registers, you won't see who won.
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