Xanadu
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What I saw was hundreds of games with high opening bids, and nothing being bid on.I think that was a case of a "vicious circle". You rarely got bids, so you tended to start your auctions at the lowest bid you would accept. As a result, because of the high starting bid you didn't get many bids, even after the membership numbers increased.
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Correction to the Yahoo post:
Yahoo WAS free and they were on a roll. Then one day they decided to start charging fees, and pretty high fees at that. They had a "live chat" with one of their top execs, which is all B.S. because those live chats are moderated so only certain people can ask questions and the person chatting never sees the box where the "peons" type their questions. We begged and begged and begged to hold off on fees because the site was starting to get traffic but wasn't at the point where they should have started charging yet.
Eventually the site lost all its traffic, because why go to a site charging fees the same as Ebay, but with 1/10 the traffic? Now I hear they dropped their fees down to a nickle to list, and a percentage of the sale.
A new site sprung up I'm throwing my support behind. It's only 2 or 3 weeks old, but it's getting users at a decent pace. BidBunny.com Not QUITE ready for prime-time, but it's totally free and it's getting hits.
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Uhhh.... DUH! Don't mind me, sometimes my brain shuts down without warning...
Thanks!
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Any chance you can break the ROMs out into "Official", "Hacks" and "Prototype"? I'm looking for Prototype ROMs and have no idea what's available, and if they were broken out like that then it would be easier to find them.
Besides that, this site is freaking AWESOME! I just hooked up my old 2600 the other day and found this site, and it's so damn cool to be able to find all this info on one of my all-time favorite systems!
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Why can AtariAge...
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...put ROMs on their site and not get busted?
Now, don't think I'm against it, because I'm really heavy into the whole emulation scene. But all the emu sites are pretty much underground, and many have been shut down because companies don't normally like their ROMs posted.
Does Atari's stance differ from the other companies? Does Atari not bother AtariAge because the site kicks much ass and they like the publicity? What's the deal?