5700+ Games, 50 Consoles on EBay RIGHT NOW!!! (Group buy, anyone??!)

[Rick]

Happening right now.



I don't think these are worth what this guy is asking...

 

[jdbailey1206]

Is anything worth what people want anymore?

[RandyT]

Based on that price, I have about $80,000 worth of my own junk

[ed12]

rick this should be in the new place for b/s/t

ed

[big10p]

Sounds like the guy just added up the retail price he paid for each game and console and figured that's what it's still all worth. Sheesh.

[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]

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.

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









 

[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!"

[DaveMMR]

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.

Exactly. For every one item worth more than $28, there are at least 50 for which no one would pay more than $5.

[thomas_surles]

This is so random. I just read an article on this game room a few months ago and it inspired me to start my Nintendo collection. Now the very game room is for sale? What are the odds.

[leapinlew]

Somewhere along the way, the journey becomes the obsession and there is nowhere to go once the journey has ended. I wonder how many of us have learned we enjoyed building games more than playing them?

[Vigo]

I wonder how many of us have learned we enjoyed building games more than playing them?

Yep, I'm there

[nitrogen_widget]

Sounds like the guy just added up the retail price he paid for each game and console and figured that's what it's still all worth. Sheesh.

Retail years ago, OOGIE GAMES prices today....is there a difference?

I guess as long as people who shop there never learn of amazon they will still be able to sell 8yr old Wii games with no original box or manual for $20. 

[deadmoney5]

31 Sega 32x games?

They had that many?

I remember buying that from EB Games/Software Etc back in the day.  I just remember playing Virtua Fighter.

[Xiaou2]

This type of auction is not for the avg. Joe obviously.   Its for someone who has enough extra cash, to be able to burn a stack of it as firewood....  and will buy... because of the convenience,  as they may not have the time... or want to invest the time, getting a good collection together.   (For them and or as a gjft)  To such people... time is more valuable than money.

[DaveMMR]

This type of auction is not for the avg. Joe obviously.   Its for someone who has enough extra cash, to be able to burn a stack of it as firewood....  and will buy... because of the convenience,  as they may not have the time... or want to invest the time, getting a good collection together.   (For them and or as a gjft)  To such people... time is more valuable than money.

And that's why those types of people (e.g. lottery winners) are soon poor again - they overspend on stupid crap like this. 

[ark_ader]

I have more than that on my hard drive and it cost me........