FND

"Item will be shipped well protected in a bubble envelope." Shipping and handling EUR 17.15 To United States

Heck even without a Label it was worth the cost + shipping for just the Condor. Not eactly sure since the picture is so out of focus but it looks like the label is only coming loose and curled so its possible it could be glued back down leaving only creases

Thought I would try to find someone in Japan to trade Video Games with specifically Fairchild Channel F items but also interested in Famicom games I have many games for many platforms and could even buy them to trade with, Been around since the old newgroup days (rec.games.video.classic) before the World Wide Web (www) and ebay since 1996 still with 100% feedback If interested Please PM me here and we can work out the details FND

Not being a Jaguar collector I dont know much about this item So I checked the auction but that did not help much

Just finished updating the Letter Paper Work area of my Web Site so if there is anyone interested in seeing some of the new Channel F Paper Work I have uncovered it can be seen by following the link below, all pictures can be enlarged by clicking the picture it will open a new window which you can just close to return to the site. Also there is much more content to view just click any of the Orange boarder boxes at the top of the pages to navigate through the site http://fndcollectabl...RS/letters.html Hope its of interest FND

Oh cool its on my watch list as well Did you see her statement " I DID MY HOMEWORK ABOUT THEM AND WHAT THEY ARE WORTH " I wonder what her grade will be ? I did send a message asking she does not end this auction early as I will be bidding in the last few seconds, so if anyone is going to try and do a side deal forget about it

According to : Nicholas F. Talesfore Manager of Industrial Design / Graphic Design AT Fairchild Camera & Instrument, Exetron Division The Box and label artwork was done by Tom Kamifuji Tom Kamifuji (famous local Bay Area artist) was hired to design the little square icons you see on the early labels. On the later labels these were eliminated for cost reasons.

Sadly that seems to be True for just about every games system, when I get down to the last few titles I need to complete the collection the cost goes up accordingly less then 10 hrs left on this one

Some good news while getting my TRS 80 Monitor out of storage so I could test the COCO 3 and Disk Drive I found a TRS 80 2000 (you know you have been collecting to long when you find a complete system that you forgot you had) will need to go back to storage and pull it out for testing it has the CM-1 Monitor, Keyboard and a fast look at the back of the computer I saw two 128k memory boards, all the bays were full but dont remember exactly what the others were also it may be a 2000HD as I only remember seeing one floopy Once I get the Coco 3 and disk drive tested I will have to decide what kind of feedback I will need to leave ?

Well got the COCO collection yesterday, Sadly yet again I have fallen victim to poor shipping Thankfully the damaged items were not the items I was interested in seems the Cassette player had damage not mentioned in the auction (melted area by the battery compartment) the COCO 2 now has case damage along with the printer plastic cover that is now smashed into 1000 pieaces. The seller aparently felt putting a single layer of bubble around each item would be good, yes this would work if the items were not just put into a box about twice the size needed. Each item although wrapped in bubble wrap was free to be move around inside the box, this collection had two COCO systems a printer and the disk drive all of which are heavy and when left to postal abuse were getting slamed against each other with every transfer causing damage to the plastic cases. Again thanfully the items I was most interested seem to have arrived in good condition (hoping the abuse did not damage anything inside the disk drive or the coco 3 ) I should really give up buying anything in lots seems a large percentage of sellers just cant be trusted to use the most basic common sense when packing

Yes its mine For Auction (ebay) Channel F CHECKERS # 19 CIB item number 130556348297 in really great condition all items are pictured and enlargable (tested and working) eBay Auction -- Item Number: 130556348297 A little history about the checkers game and its procuction It was only released by Zircon and only in limited numbers. It was first made available in the FALL of 1980 in a mail flyer dated 10-29-80. This was the first production run of new carts released by Zircon (checkers was never released byFairchild) This run of games sold out in 30 days. The Second time it was available was the Final production run of checkers in MID 1981 again only available for a short time, and again it sold out very quickly, probably due to small production numbers. At this time Zircon was selling by mail order so production was limited Checkers was NOT available for the 1981 Christmas season Effectively Checkers was available for less then 30 days in 1980 and only a few months at most in 1981 by mail order This information is documented on my Web site in the TimeLine section that can be viewed at the following link Time Line page Thanks for looking FND

The seller recently added the following info I Found the following info here: http://mcurrent.name/atarihistory/atari.html#AWarnerCo October/November 29-1: Atari sponsored the $50,000 Atari World Championships (Centipede tournament) as part of the Tournament Games Spectacular $400,000 Weekend at the Chicago Expocenter, a production of Tournament Games, Inc. Mariann Layne, Atari's Manager of Marketing Services, organized the Atari Tournament.

FND? What do you tell Thanatos for posting that for you???!?!? Nice score, bro! True a THANK YOU is in order. Thanks for taking the time to post this Thanatos you made my day. I was surprised it was still available when I checked, usually good deals are long gone by the time I look. I even took the time to read all the info and check the shipping and then log in before I hit the BIN AtariLeaf I will need to check if I have another copy of the Doubleback cart and if so I will let you know Hey, no problem. Happy to get more people into the CoCo community - although, if you might have a double of one of the games, maybe you're just hoarding hardware... No not hoarding I need the disk drive and can use the coco 3 as a back up

FND? What do you tell Thanatos for posting that for you???!?!? Nice score, bro! True a THANK YOU is in order. Thanks for taking the time to post this Thanatos you made my day. I was surprised it was still available when I checked, usually good deals are long gone by the time I look. I even took the time to read all the info and check the shipping and then log in before I hit the BIN AtariLeaf I will need to check if I have another copy of the Doubleback cart and if so I will let you know

Oh yes someone did

Rob is that for real? No it is NOT. The feedback I left for estate-find said "Thank you" and was Neutral feedback Hear is a link to e feedbaack page, at this time the feedback I posted is at the top its by user f-n-d estate-find feedback page

Only my personnel list and collection that can be viewed on my web site with pictures of all the different games variations it can be viewed here My web page link Note you can click any of the yellow boarder boxes to be taken move around the site there is much more than just the games there are newpaper articles, time line list, interviews, paperwork, game instructions, pictures and list of game production dates. There is also an international section but it is still under construction. Also I have never updated the number 22 with the alternate version notation as this was only noticed when I had received some games from a Sales Rep with some demo carts and the alternate version was in the collection the second one I had gotten from the son of a guy who may have been working at Zircon as a programer (I could not verify it) There is aother thread here somewhere with screen shots I will try and locate it and edit this message later EDIT: Here is the link to the other thread with pictures of the alternate number 22 thread about alternate number 22

Oh I did, I asked that the items be packed carfully as I am a collector and the boxes and paper work are more important to me than the game system, apparently he felt stuffing it all in the white channel f box and shoving that into another box was carfull packaging ? BTW I will probably be selling a Boxed checkers in the near future along with my second Alternate version of the number 22 Slot Machine the one without the "Purse"

Actually NO it arrived with some minor damage on the back of the checkers box, lucky though as it could of been much worse, it was the one game on top of the Channel F plastic cover that arrived cracked had there been much more pressure on the outside of the box I am sure it would of broken through fully and probably would of torn /ripped the (checkers)box Side note I am now convinced the White Channel F box was not a shipping box but the Zircon re-release that would of been printed after they ran out of the boxes made up by Fairchild. The reason is there is a wards price tag on the outside of the box showing it must of been sold at a wards also the paper work is for sure from 1982 which was near the end of the Zircon Channel F sales and after there second and last run they had made after running out of the Fairchild stock of games which BTW were all re-released in the Zircon white game boxes

Much more to the point than my "Thank You" Neutral post

Agreed

Recently had a bad experience with Ebay Member estate-find I purchased this ebay auction eBay Auction -- Item Number: 230630912849 I was mostly interested in the Checkers game and the White Channel F Box Shipping was only "10.10 Expedited Shipping" When I recieved the package it was Postage Due. to the sellers credit I contacted him and was given a refund of the postage Due. The second problem was the packaging it was all smashed into the White Channel F Box and pushed into another box nearly the exact same size, no packing or protection and since some of the games were on top of the channel F cover it was cracked and some damage to the game boxes was evident since I was really only interested in the White Box and Checkers game I did not even mention this problem to the seller and figured I would just let it go as I did get what I was interested in and he did refund the postage. Next I get constant ebay messages asking for feedback ? I ignored the first few but after the third or fouth pushy messages asking for it I granted his request and left Neutral Feed back. I then started to get constant messages complaining that he had given me such a deal and questing weather it was indeed postage due ? Again I ignored the first few but this last one I had to respond to. Here are the last two first was his message second is my final response His last message " Dear f-n-d, I am not at all sure what your problem is with the auction you purchased from me as I believe you received a great deal at an incredible price, and your subsequent lack of communication skills, therefore I am placing your ebay account on my blocked list for the rest of the various Fairchild auction items and other various 1st generation items I will be listing on the ebay " My Last response " Dear estate-find, Apparently you have too much time on your hands and are becoming bothersome. You have already been put on my "not to be dealt with list" so go ahead and block me that will help out in the event I make a mistake and forget. The only reason I left feedback at all was because you were being a pest about it so I went ahead and left the best I could, your really lucky it was not a Negative which you truly deserved. As you must remember I sent you pictures of the package with the postage due sticker from the post office so your snide comment that I "claimed it was postage Due" was rather uncalled for as you were given proof. I however did not mention or send you the pictures of the over stuffed package you mailed with no protection for the items inside. The one game I was interested had some damage to its box when it was pushed through the plastic cover of the Channel F game system due to you trying to smash to much into a box I did not mention the broken cover or damaged box and just chalked it up to another bad seller and was going to just let it go but your constant pestering for feedback forced my hand and I went ahead and granted your request. It should have been a Negative but I was being Nice. In closing this is the last I want to hear from you. Do not contact me again If you send me any more messages through ebay of by any other means I will contact ebay with a complaint of harassment. " Have I been unreasonable ? I only left Neutral, maybe I should of let him know sooner but really I did not want to continue this and was trying to just let it go . Looking back I truly believe it would of continued back and fourth as he seems to be the type who will not let it go. POSTAGE DUE STICKER Mailed using 3 lb 15 oz and as shown it was really 10 lb 11 oz Top of box with the Wax paper box on top to show how much higher the middle is then the rest of the box Bottom of box with the Wax paper box on top to show how much higher the middle is then the rest of the box

Hi I am in Fremont and was wondering if I were to win this would it be possible to meet you somewhere around your area and bring cash to finish the sale ? FND Sure, that'd be fine! Cool BTW Looks like I edited my post after your reply, your fast I added the part aboout saving the shipping charge if I were to pick up, Hoping that will be ok as well. OH I do bid within the last few seconds mostly

Hi I am in Fremont and was wondering if I were to win this would it be possible to meet you somewhere around your area and bring cash to finish the sale and save on shipping? FND

Question ? since I have never puchased any Banner/ad space the pricing is somewhat vague to me what is IMPS? I would think Impressions ? how do they work ? is it pay each time someone uses the link ? or maybe each time you show it on the site ? how it is calculated Thanks in advance FND