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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: mahuti on July 27, 2006, 03:13:21 am
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eBay link here (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200011568008&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1)
Ok, so which one of you jackholes is trying to get $17K for your defender machine?
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I don't care if it is the first ever... that's some hard coin.
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Hey, that game made over a billion dollars. Whoever pays 17k for it is getting a deal! :dizzy:
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damn another NC action...... WTF.....
Item location: Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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http://groups.google.com/group/nc-coinop-collectors?lnk=oa&hl=en
we'll see if a NC collector claims it as his.........
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You missed the even funnier listing.
He has an NOS Major Havoc roller up for only $999.00, or best offer.
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looking at the other items the seller has it appears there is a prototype Robotron
link (http://cgi.ebay.com/Robotron-Engineering-Prototype-from-1982-Williams-RARE_W0QQitemZ200011549067QQihZ010QQcategoryZ13716QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
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This game is, indeed, an investment piece, a part of American history and will really make yours an important American gameroom.
So, you HAVE to get it - otherwise you won't have an important American gameroom...
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Hey don't forget the 3 stooges original with free shipping to anywhere in the US!
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NYAAAHHH...NYAAAHHH...NYAAAHHH... :dizzy: :dizzy: :dizzy:
WOOWOOWOOWOOWOOWOO... :o :o :o
NYUK...NYUK...NYUK... ;D ;D ;D
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You missed the even funnier listing.
He has an NOS Major Havoc roller up for only $999.00, or best offer.
Wow ... good thing you can get a repro for $90 ...
Cheers.
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It's not my machine...mine doesn't even work yet :dizzy:
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You should reply to him with some pictures and tell him he is wrong and that yours is #1. ;D
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You should reply to him with some pictures and tell him he is wrong and that yours is #1. ;D
If mine is also a proto, he's wrong...minehas the blue in the bezel :lame:
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Somebody called him out on the Robotron already I wonder why none one has jumped on him about this one yet.
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You should reply to him with some pictures and tell him he is wrong and that yours is #1. ;D
If mine is also a proto, he's wrong...minehas the blue in the bezel :lame:
does yours have the headphone jacks he's talking about his having?
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You missed the even funnier listing.
He has an NOS Major Havoc roller up for only $999.00, or best offer.
Wow ... good thing you can get a repro for $90 ...
Cheers.
Where? They're still $200 at RAM.
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You missed the even funnier listing.
He has an NOS Major Havoc roller up for only $999.00, or best offer.
Wow ... good thing you can get a repro for $90 ...
Cheers.
Where? They're still $200 at RAM.
Guy posted on RGVAC (http://groups.google.ca/group/rec.games.video.arcade.collecting/browse_frm/thread/1b551db7fd2e4989/68b4291e03f59397?lnk=gst&q=major+havoc&rnum=3#68b4291e03f59397) just yesterday ... to be fair, $200 is the normal going rate, but I liked the way $90 lined up with $999 ...
Cheers.
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What I find amusing is that based on what I've read about the Robotron he's selling, and what I've read about the Defenders (note the S there) is that I would expect the Robo to be more valuable than the Defender.
So thus I say.... WTF! ;D
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But...Defender made over a BILLION DOLLARS!!! Can Robotech say that? I thought NOT!!
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looking at his other listings, he seems to use the word 'original' for everything. maybe he says 'original' like valley girls say 'like'...
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oh, and i have an original rotating monitor cocktail cabinet. the very first in the series! its yours for $20000 with free shipping anywhere in the world (",)
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I have an original piece of Mueller black athletic tape, used to tape up my broken finger. It's even got a 1 written on it, but you can't really see it due to the fact that its, well, black, like the Sharpie.
Yours for only $8999.99 (free shipping, too!! omg). Here's your once in a lifetime chance to own this TOTALLY UNIQUE piece of Americana.
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Hey now... why is it everyone has to get all crazy and stupid about such a rare find. If you really think about it, it's not much different from famous works of art. You could make the initial investment now on something such as this one of a kind classic and 15-20 years down the road sell it off and practically retire from it. I think this is one of the few oppurtunities in the arcade realm to own a piece of history and carry on the dignity of what the craft of gaming used to mean.....
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Ok.... so I'm full of :censored:.
But I have been doing a bit of information gathering, with some help, on these current ebay listings and posting what we find on RGVAC. (merely because the data is scattered and vague right now)
But here's a piece of interesting data:
The "#1" Defender machine was actually sold on ebay less than year ago to the current seller for ..... $1800
(I personally verified this straight from the original seller from last year)
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Talk about a guy trying to make a buck off the arcade community. Buys it for 1800 and now wants 17,000 a year later. Man.. talk about bad Karma.
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$1800 is reasonable, considering the alleged status of this being a #1, I would even say it could go up a bit. But, $17K ? I bet it doesn't sell...
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alleged status of this being a #1
More news to come soon about that soon as well.....
The #1 status is being derived merely from a lock key with a paper tag marked with a number 1 on them.
"Rumor" (not confirmed....yet) is that the fella that sold them the machine last year had those keys made and that #1 key actually fit his Atari Centipede as well as the Defender.
hmmmm..... will it sell.....sure.....for what they're asking?.....never
But I'd be curious as to what "offers" they're getting on it.
(Buy Now or Best Offer)