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5700+ Games, 50 Consoles on EBay RIGHT NOW!!! (Group buy, anyone??!)
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Haze:
Yeah, overpriced even if it is a huge collection.

TBH I'm not that impressed by these 'complete US collections' tho, they show up every couple of years, and aside a very small number of releases there aren't that many ultra-rare games in them (the US got the more mainstream titles in general)

Complete Japan collections would be something... or even Euro collections will all the regional releases, but those would be much more difficult to put together - it might surprise you to hear but there aren't even good quality dumps for large parts of the CD libraries, that's how much more difficult it is to get the Japanese games.
DaveMMR:

--- Quote from: Haze on October 11, 2014, 08:18:23 am ---Yeah, overpriced even if it is a huge collection.

TBH I'm not that impressed by these 'complete US collections' tho, they show up every couple of years, and aside a very small number of releases there aren't that many ultra-rare games in them (the US got the more mainstream titles in general)

Complete Japan collections would be something... or even Euro collections will all the regional releases, but those would be much more difficult to put together - it might surprise you to hear but there aren't even good quality dumps for large parts of the CD libraries, that's how much more difficult it is to get the Japanese games.

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Yeah these type of auctions make the rounds on the internet but does anyone ever actually buy it?

If you have the money to even come close to the asking price - aren't there better ways to utilize that money? Video games are a POOR investment. Only a handful of items actually ever increase in price and the 'going rate' for the current crop of 'rare" gems for is dropping all the time.

I could see perhaps a reseller showing interest in something like this (like if they're opening up a brick-and-mortar retro game shop) but they can't pay anything more than pennies on the dollar if they hope to stay in business.


Finally, I don't know why sellers do the "everything-at-once" sales. You lose out on so much potential money. Nobody wants or can afford everything. Split them up and make more in the long run. 
RandyT:
To end up with a complete collection like this one meant the individual had to seek out a lot of rare items, and pay the premiums for them.  Obviously, too much money was spent to get to this point.  IMHO, he'll never see it again, unless he is extremely lucky.

I have room full of systems and games, but all were acquired at closeout, garage sale and thrift store prices (next to nothing), except for those which were remnants from my youth.  Purely sentimental and research value.  It'll take a millennium for an Atari 2600 Pac-Man cartridge to become valuable, and my progeny will have ebay'ed it all for peanuts long before then.

Yeah, poor investment.

equlizer:
I put in an offer of $75000









 :laugh2:
hypernova:
It comes out to about $28 per game/system.  (Assuming the systems are equal value with the games.)  Considering that most of the systems are duplicates, and many games are as well...way overpriced.

I wonder if these auctions are more for "Yeah, honey, I tried to sell it, but nobody would give me anything for it!"
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