Originally Posted by
Iron Draggon
Yeah, you got that right! A good mint complete Radiant Silvergun would go for around $200. So what pisses me off is why just a little cellophane drives it up to around double that amount. It's bullshit. If it's only worth $200 or so mint complete, then it shouldn't be worth very much more than that sealed.
But no, hell no, let's set the reserve at "call the white coats"! Then watch all the loonies bid "I need a straightjacket"! So you'd better believe it's INSANE!
But the funniest thing about this auction was the way that I helped to get it off it's ass. I was just sitting there laughing at all the fools bidding $40 for it, like that would even do it in their dreams. So I bid $100, knowing I was safe. That got the real players excited, so they started getting serious. But still not serious enough, so I bid $200, knowing I was still safe. That got it in the neighborhood. After that, everybody was too spooked to go much higher, afraid that they might actually meet the reserve, including me. I thought the reserve would be met somewhere around $250, but to see that even $350 didn't do it is just completely nuts. So I still say that the market has spoken.
Nobody has as much money to throw around at stuff like this as they used to now. Maybe next month they could get $500 for one, but I still doubt it. I know where I can get one cheaper than that, if I really wanna spend that much money on one, and I suspect that most other serious collectors know where to get one cheaper than that too. That's why they stopped at $350 for it. Because they know that it can be had for that much elsewhere. I just don't have the money for it right now, so that's why I was just playing with that auction. Oh yeah, of course I had the $200 to cover my bid at the time that I placed it, just in case I actually ended up winning it for that much, but I knew that I didn't have to worry about that anyway, so it wouldn't have mattered if I didn't. I would never screw with something like that if I wasn't confident that I could screw with it safely. And it was fun to screw with it!
But really, if I know of at least two different places where I could get myself a sealed Radiant Silvergun for $300 - $400 right now, then why would I pay $500 for one on ebay? Why would anybody pay that much for it, even if they had that much money to spend? People looking to drop that much cash on a game have thoroughly researched their options, and they're not just gonna jump all over one on ebay, going OMG! It's the Radiant Silvergun! ROXORS! Must have! There's just not even gonna be a stupid clueless newb stupid enough to bid $500 for one, so I really just don't see it happening. Not now, not with the economy so messed up, and not just for one game that's only that expensive because of all the hype that surrounds it. It's not rare at all, and sealed copies are still very plentiful, so it's just not gonna sell for $500 to anybody with a clue, and I doubt that it would sell for that much money to anybody without a clue either. All the hype around it is dying out.