Are you $%^&-ing KIDDING ME?!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ghouls-n-Gho...item2ecf9bd40e
Are you $%^&-ing KIDDING ME?!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ghouls-n-Gho...item2ecf9bd40e
I also love how the lister has NES, SNES, and N64 in the heading. Give. Me. A. Break.
Too Fuckin bad Ebay doesnt have an option for Reporting Price Abuse.
Only 2 things could happen, the jackass will not relist it to gave teh impression that it sold to most people who dont bother to check the original list.
Or some hipster will buy it and post it on Facebook claiming to be a Deal and then re-seller for even more.
actually, there is an option for reporting the seller at the bottom corner, I doubt there is much ebay would do about the price gauging though.
not even VGA graded. I'll pay $40 shipped, but that's being generous
Yay! Go for it. That's a steal of a price man! Stupid...
That doesn't look like a factory seal, though it's been ages.
someone make an offer to see how low he'll go
Wow pretty ballsy considering the majority of the assholes who sullied the Nintendo market are hands off when it comes to Sega. He's just greed, stupid, or both. It's a good game, but really, that much? I doubt he could get that for a stack of GnG prototypes of the NES, SNES, SMS and Genesis combined.
This pisses me off, but for not the reason it does for you guys.
My question is, why does this sort of thing bother you people so much?
It's a free market. People are entitled to sell their own property for whatever amount they want. He could ask for one dollar or a trillion dollars, and it wouldn't make any difference. You guys are even going to the extreme by saying that it's too bad you can't report him for doing this. Doing what, selling an item he owns for a price he has hopes it will sell for?
Most likely it won't sell, but even if it does, why would any of you care? It's OBVIOUS that this isn't worth $5000 to 99.9% of people, but if this guy wants to aim for that .1%, why would that bother any of you? Just passive aggressiveness?
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even if you reported it for search pratices, they would never remove the item.
I have reported SO many items for things and I have never seen one taken down.
COMPLETED MY USA SMS SET!!!!
I think it pisses people off most of the time, because in the occasion an item does sell for a crazy price, that price gets eyeballed by others and becomes the expected new high price that everyone thinks they can sell their item for. Then it tricks people into thinking they can only get the item on demand for that high of a price when it used to be had for lower.
And then when you post wanted ads, you get a ton of idiots sending you emails that you'll never find a broken NES to repair yourself for $10 because they're worth "thousands or dollars", and they'll have your craigslist want ad removed because of it.
With this Sega Genesis game I think that would be less of a worry as long as there are plenty other sealed copies to buy on ebay from time to time. This one also isn't being attempted to sell on some reality TV show.
I've had many items taken down because people reported me, but I've not had anything removed in at least 8 years or so. I like to believe it's because I've learned my lessons about how not to keyword spam, but I think it's because they went cheap and removed most of the staff that used to over look this stuff.
In the old days, it really depended on who sees the request and if they have any clue about the item. I had one item removed that was something like "Neon Genesis Evangelion Japan Anime UFO Catcher Plush Rei in Plugsuit". The spam notice I got said although it's a catcher, it's not a UFO (or the other way around) which made no sense at all. They had no clue what a UFO Catcher was!
That is assuming that even a human looked at it. I think they use programs to do all of this now and they are just programmed badly. Go check out doujinshi for just about any anime title and you can easily find a lot of obviously highly illegal pronographic covers. In the old days people used to rat sellers out for that stuff and the item was taken down in in a few hours. Now days it you just cannot get one of them removed.
I checked Amazon Japan and the cheapest one is about $125 US. I couldn't find a single one on Yahoo Japan auctions. All one really needs to do is know where shop around to find the lowest price. I don't know what's considered fair on this cart but if it's hard to get then around $200 is probably really fair if you are not going to get one anywhere else EASILY for cheaper.
The thing with ebay as a seller you must start insanely high if there is no one else selling one. Then you go about $10 lower than the other guy if you have one. This repeats over and over again until the market is flooded and everyone is trying to sell theirs for next to nothing.
What happens then is that rare stuff or stuff with high demand will always have high prices and the market equals itself. Either people eventually cave in and pay the high prices or it'll never sell and it'll keep going lower until it does. Smart dealers like myself always keep lowering the price every few weeks until it does sell. This is the method to best optimize your profits on collectibles as quite honestly a lot of sellers has no clue what things are fairly worth, all they know is what ebay currently has to say about it, so they use that a guide to sell their stuff by.
Also, think about this situation moralistically. Isn't it hypercritical of us to say that a seller is taking advantage of us and the "system", yet no one finds it just as morally wrong when another seller is selling something too cheaply? Wouldn't it be right to tell him that it's too cheap and for you to offer to pay a fair price? One that the market is bearing instead of snapping the item, throwing him the money and running like hell before you get caught and the item taken away from you?
Of course this rarely happens, but it's the same morality. As I take constant advantage of people selling stuff too cheaply for my business, I never worry about those that sell stuff too high, nor do I ask for a discount. What's important is the KNOWLEDGE behind your buying and selling and the EFFORT you put into it. There is never going to be a fair world where everyone has a set fair price and everyone gets what they want. Rarity and demand assures us of that. Prices are high on ebay because it's the easiest way to get something. If you work hard at learning and trying to get stuff and can wait to get the best deal, you will probably get what you want cheaply someday. But if you want the convenience of having it now, then you will pay, usually though the nose. That's how buying collectibles is like.
So the mature thing to do whenever you see something over priced is to just move on to the next seller and hope you can take advantage of him. Do not worry about his business and mind your own affairs. Unless you really do want to be moralistically correct thing and offer to pay the fair going rates and etc. You probably won't ever get a seller to come down, but you'd make someone feel really good by offering to pay more.
He can charge what he wants, I don't care, if some sucker has that kinda dough to waste on something marked up hundreds of times over what it's worth, oh well.
BUT... it appears this seller is actually lying about the item. It looks suspiciously like a reseal, not a factory seal as he claims, I mean, the lack of a hang tab, that's a big glaring problem.
Put whatever you want up on sale for whatever price you want but once you lie about what you're actually selling, that's worth getting bothered about.
I'm going to complain about you saying people complaining is a thing.
....I have no ammo to complain
Just like most of you guys don't really have much to complain about here. Don't buy it, call the dude a dumb ass, go on with life.
Rinse, repeat when necessary...
Where's the hang tab?
I have access to a shrinkwrapping machine and could do a better job than this guy's reseal.
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