$100K videogame collection on ebay!!!!

[Parodius]

Check this puppy out, all those Limited Edition consoles!!!

I would love to get me one of those red Famicom Twins, or a Seaman Dreamcast, or........


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...sPageName=WDVW

[Gamereviewgod]

Shipping is only $16.00 from Hong Kong?

[leonk]

How can you get that to the US? Via a container on a ship??? Has anyone bothered adding the individual cost to see how much it's really worth?

[Raedon]

I think this must be a mistake between Yen and the US $. This is maybe $1k of items if you REALLY push the mint box of the consoles. A lot of that is Dupes... who needs Dupes? I've got a PS2 that playes anything.

[Cmosfm]

*cries*

This auction is so nice, wow, I want it! 100,000! it just may be worth it...too bad I have no where near that to spend.

[Achika]

: pees pants :

[DreamTR]

I hope that is an arror on your part, only 1K worth of items???? That collection is owrth FAR more than $1,000. I would say it's going rate on high end for what he has.

[LAGO]

If you look at the shipping he says it'll be roughly 1000 US$ ... thats a lot of stuff though ... man.

[Raedon]

I hope that is an arror on your part, only 1K worth of items???? That collection is owrth FAR more than $1,000. I would say it's going rate on high end for what he has.

I just ran threw it with my eyes *BLINK*

seems to be a lot of consoles.. are there games? did he list them out? NOO!

I see number but no pictures... Fu#$ it $1K if that..

[classicb]

why in the world would you try to sell that huge of a lot. is their some super
rich video game collector out there. I know most of us are cheap. I imagine
this must be a going out of buisness sale or something. If I only had
$100,000 to spend... i don't think I would spend it on that even though
I wish I could have all that stuff.

[orrimarrko]

Expensive or not - that is simply an impressive collection.

[Castelak]

Man those developer systems are pretty cool. (Especially that SNES one). Probobly all worth 100,000. PS2 Launch Wine Bottles? O_o Who is this guy!? XD

[portnoyd]

: pees pants :

My thoughts and reaction exactly.

If I had $100,000 to blow, I'd place a bid for sure. If the value doesn't hit $100k, then the ability to get ALL that stuff in one shot would make it worth it.

dave

[downfall]

I'll pitch in a few hundred if everyone else will!

[optic_85]

*Drools*....so many SEGA Dreamcast LE's...Kind of turns me on.......

...But anywho, that's a great import collection with a lot of rarities, and with the stuff he hasnt listed yet i'd say it's worth at least what he's asking.

[DreamTR]

Raedon, he posted 500 PC Engine games also. So please read what he has in terms of value. By your logic someone with 100 PS2s should not get a lot of money because they are "multiples."

[Ed Oscuro]

Hmm, 500 PC-Engine titles? If you say there's a bunch of super common stuff in there and that each title averages out to $10 you're looking at $5000 just for the PC-Engine titles. The Neo Geo games...

However with the various dev kits and boxed rare systems - Titler, Super Famicom dev unit, Sharp X1 Twin and the Model 3 (!) Teradrive are probably the most expensive consoles there, and you're not looking at anything I've seen sell for over $2000. Dreamcast bundles are only expensive because people are stupid.

So you've got about 170 systems, a bunch of LD-ROM games (which is neat but somebody else will need to estimate a price on that), and let's guess all of the games and non-system items (including LD-ROMs, programmer manuals and CD-ROM dev libraries) are $20K (possibly a high figure) - so you've got $80K spread out over roughly 170 things.

That comes out to roughly $470.

What's the average worth of a Dreamcast dev unit? I wouldn't say upwards of $700. I've got an AN-500B ("black" Sharp Twin Famicom, first in his list) new, just like in his picture. I paid just under $300 for it. There's definitely a few handfuls of items on there worth less than $1K but more than $5Cs. So let's say there's 20 things on there that are worth $1000 each (and mind you I haven't seen many eBay auctions end but I have seen many of the things on this special short list go for WAY less than that). That means we've got $20K of stuff, so to break down our list again:

All games - $20K
20 $1K systems - $20K
Remainder of systems - roughly 150 @ $60K total
We're at $400 an item, exactly, if these other assumptions are correct. I guess it comes down to whether you think paying $400 for each of those boxed Limited Edition Dreamcast units is worth it. Mind you that while you can find most of those cheaper, especially on Yahoo! Auctions Japan, spending the time finding all this stuff can chew a hole in your wallet as well.

The main problem here is that you're looking at a price only Warren Buffet would be able to pay. Most people don't even have a house worth that much.

If somebody buys this I think it'll be fair to say that game collecting really has gone mainstream. I don't think, all things considered, that it really is a bad value, and I'd rather have all that stuff than lots of other things priced at $100K. However, I don't think you'd see your collection appraised for that much within a period of years. Lingjr certainly isn't putting himself out much here, folks. I assume he found most of these items far below what they're worth, and even if he bought everything here at full price (and if you look at all the stuff he's sold on eBay...not likely, not likely at all) he's getting a lot of money for what it's worth.

So that's my two, three cents, give or take a few. $400 for a bunch of common systems and LE Dreamcasts.

[Lone_Monster]

Holy crap. I wish I had that kind of money right now. Probably won't for the next 10 years though

I am too wondering why he didn't put them in seperate auctions. Plus if no one bids on this, and he relists and once again, no one buys, he's super screwed with the eBay listings.

Anyway, I'd love to have some of those things there, especially Those Super Famicom TVs, the Panzer Dragoon Orta Special Edition White XBox .

Also, I definitely think this is worth the 100 grand. 1 thousand? Heck no. Even for ten, maybe 15 things he has listed there, will add up to 1 k.

[Ed Oscuro]

I'm guessing I lowballed the price of games by a good deal, though. If you say the games are worth $30 (that's really not that unreasonable) you bring the average price of an item down to $333 and 33 cents - getting better. I think you'd find that most of the value is in the games, actually. 500 PC-Engine titles is really worth something more like $12.5K anyways ;)

[hydr0x]

wow that collection is very impressive, and i do think it is worth that amount, all those dev systems and special editions are worth quite a lot (especially on ebay) and we have no clue how many games for the other systems (he says there are a lot more games) there actually are, there might be another 2000-10000 games in there....

makes 2500 games + 150 (or whatever) consoles, i'd guess those systems average about 250$ as there are more special editions than normal ones, that makes 250*150=37k
2500 games, which imho could be worth about 30 (and that's a very very low guess) on average make another 2500*30=75k
makes 112k