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  7. Posted

    Don't just wrap in bubble wrap, then paper. This isn't secure enough IMHO, and I've sold over 800 things on eBay. I would definately double box it, especially since the condition of the atari box is a selling point for the bidder.

     

    Tad

  8. Posted

    I just sold 2 NES systems on eBay. One had ALL SORTS of cool accessories and controllers, gun, and a ton of games, most of em boxed. System came in original box, packing and had EVERYTHING. It sold for $35. That was yesterday.

     

    Tonight I just had another system sell, this one just had the system, 2 controllers, gun, cords, and mario/duck hunt. It sold for $36.

     

    LOL I still made money on the auctions, but its so unpredictable lately!

     

    Here are the links in case you care. Lol

     

    Tad

     

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=1361116734

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=1360941472

  9. Posted

    The only saving grace is that when a person goes to "not registered user" status, all his negative fb goes to neutral. So if you have a negative and he gets booted by Ebay, you won't have it any longer. The good thing also is that if he his fb is a negative number, anyone looking at your fb will just ignore the asshole.

     

    Phil

     

     

    I thought that under the new feedback system all feedbacks remained after a user became no longer registered... even negatives... I know they used to be changed to neutral, but I thought it remained now???

     

    Please correct me if I'm wrong, lord knows I'm wrong a lot....

     

    Tad

  10. Posted

    Holy crap, this guys a jerk. I was outraged when I woke up this morning to find a negative feedback on my account that the bidder wasn't supposed to leave. No it wasn't the same guy, but it really irks me that 2 of my 800+ feedbacks are negatives that shouldn't have ever happened. I'm gonna email eBay and get this guy kicked for good!

     

    Tad

  11. Posted

    LOL ben, thats a 1264 word post. It must have taken you forever to write! I'm humbled 8) But anyways, I agree with what you said. I totally understand that something is only worth what someone pays for it when its represented properly. I've sold on eBay for 5 years now and I've reported many sellers for selling illegal items, bidding on their own auctions and cheating the bidders.

     

    I've just always found it funny when some people get upset when others pay (in my opinion) extremely high prices for any collectible item. That doesn't mean I wouldn't mine owning a MIB quadrun though. I think $500 is a crazy price to pay for a game, and all I can do is just scratch my head and say wish I had 2 of those to sell. If it makes the person happy, more power to em. I've always been more than willing to sell stuff on eBay for what I concieve to be high prices, knowing I list the stuff accurately I have no qualms about selling a Tooth Protector to a guy for $125, or an old microphone for $990, or an old can of tooth powder for $225. Yeah those are all things I've sold on eBay that I thought were junk prior. Well, except for the tooth protectors, but it was percieved as junk by the guy I got it from.

     

    What I'm just saying is that I agree with you, and I think that some people get overly upset about silly things like the McDonalds cart. I agree the Beagle Brothers ordeal was very positive for the hobby (discovering the fake), and I don't think that Atari age should be blammed at all.

     

    People shouldn't get mad if Mr. Joe Farmer pays more for a game than they think its worth.

     

    Just my 2 cent piece worth

    Tad

  12. Posted

    With all the recent talk about the value of the McDonalds prototype, and the Beagle Brothers games, etc. A simple idea crossed my mind. People were talking about being "ripped off" or paying too much for games. I'm not gonna state my opinion either way, but just have this idea to say. An atari game is physically worthless... it has maybe a couple cents in chips and plastic to it. So the only reason people pay money for it is to play the game or add to a collection. So how can people be ripped off? I know if you were to sell an inexperienced colletor Combat for $45 that would be ripping him off, but if suddenly everyone in the world wanted a copy, $45 might become cheap (If this happened I'd become a millionaire :D ). For rarer games I think it someone is buying something, especially in auction format, the cart is worth WHATEVER anyone will pay for it. After all in an auction someone else had to be willing to pay one increment less. Its supply vs demand that creates value, and thus I think its hard to affix a value on rarer items. Feel free to flame away :P

     

    Tad

  16. Posted

    The original name of eBay way back when, was something along the lines of "marketfinder" or something like that. I don't think thats right but you get the point. It was about 5 years ago (when I signed up) that they were like this, and when things started to pick up they changed their name to eBay, which was shorter, easier to remember, and more catchy. I believe eBay auctions stands for Electronic Bay auctions, as they are from the San Fransisco Bay area. I think thats all true, but if I were you I wouldn't quote me :wink:

     

    Tad

  18. Posted

    Today was town wide yardsale day. I live in a town of 724 people, so its isn't too exciting. I got a Complete near mint NES system with tons of accesories, 14 games, power pad and more for $10, 2 mint in box SNES games for $.50 each, and a rare mint handheld football game for $2. I think I've depleted the atari source over the years though, as I havn't found an atari game in about a year now.

     

    :-) Overall I'm happy though!

    Tad

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