I haven't posted here in over a year, but I saw this on the show "Storage Wars" the other day, and I just had to come here and make a topic about it. For those not familiar with the show, it's where a bunch of pickers bid on storage units that have owners that failed to pay the rent on time and lost ownership of all their stored items. If they win the bidding, all the stuff in the storage unit belongs to them, and they try to resell everything for a profit.
So I was watching an episode yesterday, and this guy finds a dirty looking NES system in the storage unit he won the bidding on. He calls his partner over and is like, "Look! It's a model-001!! These things go for $14,000 on the internet! This is it! This is the big one everybody wants!"
I just busted up laughing at what an idiot this guy was (unless his ignorance was just part of the show). So he took it to an "expert", some guy who was working at a game store who than told him it wasn't worth near that much (obviously). He plugged it in to test it and it wouldn't even power on. The guy who found it than said that definitely saw one sell on Ebay for $14,000, and the game clerk told him it must have been a "special" NES like a first production run system that was never opened. I couldn't even imagine one of those fetching $1,000, let alone $14,000.