Rich Goober pays $30100.44 for sealed Super Mario Bros

[Andromeda Stardust]

eBay Auction -- Item Number: 192254771118

 

[Austin]

All you have is that it says it's been sold, not that the guy actually paid.

[Flojomojo]

Wow that's funny. It didn't start high, either -- it was listed for a penny and got bid up. I'm guessing idiots, trolls, or idiot trolls. Could be a rich goober, I guess. If s/he pays, the seller becomes a somewhat rich goober, too.

 

I'd rather have $30K than a sealed SMB.

[+GoldLeader]

WTF?

 

 

Well I hope they pay! Nothing worse than being on the losing end of one of those situations where suddenly the bidder thinks the rules don't apply to him/her, and maybe they shouldn't have bid so much so they try to weasel out of it. I'm to the point I wish ebay linked accounts directly to a bank account so the money just goes from their account to yours after they win.

[AtariLeaf]

"Rich Goober"? I think I went to high school with him. Nice guy, captain of the chess club. Seriously though, I wish I was a rich goober. For rich goobers, thirty grand is chump change. If I had millions in disposable income, I guarantee no one would ever win a retro gaming auction item I wanted ever again.

[NE146]

DAMN THAT BILL GATES HE SPENT 50K ON SOMETHING WHICH IS RIDICULOUS.

 

That doesn't piss me off.. that makes me want to be Bill Gates.

[H.E.R.O.]

............

 

Well, least the shipping is free.

[Good_Times]

"Rich Goober"? I think I went to high school with him.

 

Yep, Gomer's cousin....not the brightest bulb and probably inbred, but one hell of a decent guy...

 

[+nanochess]

Rich Goober surely will say tonight "sorry, I pushed accidentally the bid button"

[Andromeda Stardust]

All you have is that it says it's been sold, not that the guy actually paid.

Thing is, this was a confirmed buy, according to Bronty at NintendoAge.

http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=3&threadid=175836&forumid=1

 

I know that minty Black Box games are rare, but Super Mario Bros is by far the most common of them. That makes this auction so bizarre.

[Tanooki]

Now now if any of you want a deal I have a sealed up (yellow) Metroid sealed up with no damage on it for the low price of $5000

[Andromeda Stardust]

I got a sealed Wario's Woods. Last NES game. That's gotta be worth like $60,000. Should I cash it in?

[+frankodragon]

Must be a guy who thinks that he got the NES-001 as well.

[+Lathe26]

Is this game actually worth $30K sealed or was this a fluke auction?!

[Flojomojo]

Maybe it was part of a money laundering scheme.

[Tanooki]

Is this game actually worth $30K sealed or was this a fluke auction?!

Sealed? Not even a 1/10th of that.

[Andromeda Stardust]

But it was sticker sealed. Presumably this specimen predates the use of the H-seam.

[SIO2]

Rich folks should spend money. It needs to keep circulating.

[Shawn]

But it was sticker sealed. Presumably this specimen predates the use of the H-seam.

 

There is an H seal right across the back of the package

[Shawn]

[Andromeda Stardust]

 

There is an H seal right across the back of the package

Well the guys in the NintendoAge thread made a big deal about having a "sticker seal." I don't even know what that means but it was important to someone.

[Shawn]

nm.

Edited July 30, 2017 by Shawn

[Tanooki]

The sticker seal is important to the most hard core of collectors because in the very early days of the NES (black box stuff) Nintendo was more in line with the far less thieving honor system of Japanese retail -- no shrink wrap. You'd go to the store, the back hang tab would either be popped and hung on a post, or kept on the box and just left in a slot, and the only thing keeping that game securely new and fresh was a little black sticker with Nintendo inked in another color on it. That's it, one little nickel(if I recall right) sized sticker and nothing else.

 

That's why some of those buyers go insane if you can find not only a sticker but a tab on the back that hasn't been punched in the least bit. It's like a cherry virgin NES game from 1985/earlier 1986 if you locate that stuff and they'll want to grab that up so no one accidentally or intentionally pops that cherry.

[Shawn]

The sticker seal is important to the most hard core of collectors because in the very early days of the NES (black box stuff) Nintendo was more in line with the far less thieving honor system of Japanese retail -- no shrink wrap. You'd go to the store, the back hang tab would either be popped and hung on a post, or kept on the box and just left in a slot, and the only thing keeping that game securely new and fresh was a little black sticker with Nintendo inked in another color on it. That's it, one little nickel(if I recall right) sized sticker and nothing else.

 

That's why some of those buyers go insane if you can find not only a sticker but a tab on the back that hasn't been punched in the least bit. It's like a cherry virgin NES game from 1985/earlier 1986 if you locate that stuff and they'll want to grab that up so no one accidentally or intentionally pops that cherry.

 

Yep, All the early Canadian black box games had it as well. There was no shrink at all on my first SMB 1.

 

EDIT: This SMB seems to have the trifecta, A hang tab, a sticker & H seam.

Edited July 30, 2017 by Shawn

[accousticguitar]

EDIT: This SMB seems to have the trifecta, A hang tab, a sticker & H seam.

At $10,000 each.