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I may be interested in the ac adaptor

What country was that variation of the system released in?

No spares on those, but I may be willing to part with Sensible Soccer. I'm interested in the Unleashed but I'd rather pay cash for it

Does it play imports?

Coleco power supply...does it work? Is it tested/untested?

If you read my original thread you would see that I quoted the price from his actual website and he still didn't honor the price. He went back and changed the price on the site and then stopped contacting me like nothing happened. Shady or not, walking away from a $400 sale because you can't greed an extra $18 out of somebody is just plain stupid.

"I have decided to charge you more for this because I am running low" Sorry but if you fell for that line of crap I could sell you a diseased elephant. It boggles my mind how anybody could give this claim even one cent of credit or legitimacy, other than somebody being biased by being friendly with the seller and making excuses for them. I mean just the way that is worded SCREAMS that he checked going prices and decided he could get more for the games. Using your example about apples. You don't bring the apple up to the cash register, and the cashier goes over to the produce dept and realizes there's only a few apples left, and decided to charge you $10 for the apple instead of the $1 price tag that is on it, because they decided that they think can get more for it. I'd like to say thank you to those who linked the other threads. This one was the most helpful. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/213582-best-electronics-problem-with-ordering/ You can see that long before I made this post, this seller has a history of: -Changing prices on the fly. Even though he already has the items on hand. -Refusing orders, refusing to do business with certain people. -Making up ridiculous or BS charges. "Restocking fee" and "Shipping quote fee" are my favorites. -Avoiding and dodging e-mails for lengthy periods of time, and being short or rude with responses. Absolutely horrendous customer service and unwillingness to work with people. -Compulsive lying, many have claimed his insisting that he has a 'shipping department' 'accounting department' 'warehouse manager'. Either he is outright lying to defer blame for his shady business practices when he gets called out on his bullshit, or he is delusional suffering from a multiple personality disorder. I know for a fact that he doesn't have an entire staff working for him. Somebody who has an entire staff to pay wouldn't turn down $400 orders on a whim. Either he does so much business that he can afford to push customers around and turn down orders whenever he sees fit, or he is overestimating how good business is and losing money left and right with every customer he turns away. I'm leaning towards the latter. Clearly this is not his primary source of income and something he does on the side.

I didn't mean that I thought you were an idiot, just that the seller clearly thought that I was an idiot by offering such a BS explanation and expecting me to fall for it. Hope this clarifies things. I wasn't attacking you.

Actually, what I was trying to do was buy some games. There's NO explanation as to why an item is one price at the start of a transaction and a higher price at the end of it. These prices are fixed, this isn't ebay here. While there are both positive and negative feedback about the seller here, the majority of it seems to be negative, or at least questionable. I rest my case

What it should say is that he did a price check on ebay and decided he could get more for the games. Instead, we get this line of crap which only an idiot would fall for.

I have a loose Double Dragon and a baseball game...I think it is Pete Rose Baseball.

I certainly can appreciate the mixed opinions in this thread. I find it most amusing that some people are trying to rationalize his poor business decisions. It's plain as day that he was changing prices on the fly and I called bullshit. Some of you people act like I should have just rolled over and just paid whatever he wanted. Some of you even act like I should apologize when clearly I did nothing wrong here. No sorry, that doesn't wash with me. Those of you who actually read my original thread can see that I quoted prices FROM HIS OWN PRICE LIST and he still didn't honor them. Rather than try and make amends to the mistake (and MISTAKE is putting it nicely, I didn't use words like RIPOFF or SCAM or GOUGE in my e-mails) in the spirit of customer service, he sneakily goes back and changes the price and acts like nothing happened, and ignores me all together. Great customer service! I don't feel the need to justify my position any further. Those of you who are confused should read my original post again, because it's quite obvious who is right and who is wrong here. Clearly I can see with some of the feedback in this thread that he's lost quite a few customers due to his seedy business practice. I'd be surprised if his store was doing anything besides circling the drain

I didn't think my tone was that aggressive, even though I have every right to take an aggressive tone. If you read my original post I've been a loyal customer for years. To be lied to and overcharged is insulting and disrespectful even before I uttered a single word. I stand my ground. Clearly I'm not the only person who has had a bad taste left in their mouth from this website.

If you're going to gouge me, at least come up with something clever. Like, pretend the items are out of stock, and then at the last minute miraculously discover that you can get me copies of the two games I wanted, just at a slightly higher price. I might have actually fallen for that. To just blatantly change the prices right in front of my face and act like I'm too stupid to notice, how insulting. I know I must come off like an idiot that wants these games so badly that I will pay any price you throw at me, and I know there's just hundreds of people lining up to play these dusty old Atari XE games like it's the TitanFall 2 beta or something, but come on

that was beautiful

I do agree with one thing that he said, in his last message. That all these games are available elsewhere on the internet. And might I add, for much cheaper. For example he has Lynx Soccer, Chess, and Fussball listed for $46. These titles are all $10-$15 new on ebay. I'd say 200%+ markup is pretty good.

I'm not sure if this thread is even on the right board, apologies if it is not (mods please feel to move this thread to the proper section if it is not) but I feel the need to share my recent customer service experience with Best Electronics, a prominent online Atari dealer. Before I get into it I'd like to say that I've purchased both games and hardware from their online store several times over the years, with no major snags. I've literally spent hundreds of dollars at their online store in the past and have always been a loyal customer. Which is why I am even more disgusted with the fallout from a recent order I made...or tried to make. Here are the e-mail logs (with only names/addresses/ads removed), they speak for themselves. The basic gist is that they tried to change the price on two items halfway through an order, effectively charging me an extra $18 on my order over what the list prices were. (I think what happened is they did an ebay search and decided they could get more for the games). I called them out on the list prices, even copying/pasting one of the list prices quoted from their own webpage. They sneakily went back and edited the list prices and then started to ignore/avoid my e-mails, when I insisted I still wanted to place the order, but refusing to pay the difference. Rather than work with me on the deal or own up to the mistake,, they continued avoiding my e-mails, then finally a week later they send me a message 'declining' my order and saying it was the decision of the 'warehouse' and out of their hands. Total BS. Has anybody else been the brunt of this online store's shady dealings? " In that case I would like to prepare a big order. Atari Jaguar Sensible Soccer $39.95 Atari XE Airball $34.95 And some loose Atari XE loose cartridges...before I continue, I would like to verify, these are all the tan plastic/blue label XE carts right? ballblazer 9.95 blue max 9.95 donkey kong 8.95 eastern front 8.95 fight night 10.95 hardball 9.95 one on one 4.95 rescue on fractalus 9.95 And of course some CIB Lynx games pacland $29 pinball jam $14.95 rampage $28.50 roadblasters $19.95 rygar $14.95 gauntlet 3 $29 block out $19.95 awesome golf $29 slime world $14.95 baseball heroes $19.95 electrocop $19.95 Please send me the total, thanks! Best Electronics - Bradley Koda May 7 (7 days ago) to me Thank you for your E-Mail dated 05-06-14 Q. In that case I would like to prepare a big order. A. OK Q. And some loose Atari XE loose cartridges...before I continue, I would like to verify, these are all the tan plastic/blue label XE carts right? A. all of the loose Atari XE Game Cartridges on your list have the tan / light gray XE Game cartridge shells with the blue XE labels, except the Atari Eastern Front. Both versions have the older brown Atari Game shell with the metal back. There was one version with the blue XE label (do not have loose, only boxed) and a second version with the brown label with yellow letters (have loose). Q. Please send me the total, thanks! A. OK here is a complete break down of costs for your Atari order” 1 Atari Jaguar Sensible Soccer U$D 39.95 1 Atari XE Airball U$D 34.95 1 Loose Ballblazer U$D 15.95 (down to the last few of them) 1 Loose Blue Max U$D 9.95 1 Loose Donkey Kong U$D 20.00 (Non XE case version U$D 8.95) 1 Loose Fight Night U$D 10.95 1 Loose Hardball U$D 9.95 1 Loose One on One U$D 4.95 1 Loose Rescue on Fractalus U$D 9.95 1 Lynx Pacland U$D 29.00 1 Lynx Pinball Jam U$D 14.95 1 Lynx Rampage U$D 28.50 1 Lynx Roadblasters U$D 19.95 1 Lynx Rygar U$D 14.95 1 Lynx gauntlet U$D 29.00 1 Lynx Block Out U$D 19.95 1 Lynx Awesome Golf U$D 29.00 1 Lynx Slime World U$D 14.95 1 Lynx Baseball Heroes U$D 19.95 1 Lynx Electrocop U$D 19.95 Shipping U$D 12.35 Insurance U$D 6.75 ------------------ Total U$D 415.85 Regards Bradley Koda May 7 (7 days ago) to Best Did you just change the price on Donkey Kong and Ball blazer? Those were not the prices when I looked. I may have to remove some items from my order. May 7 (7 days ago) to Best And just so you know. Here is the actual quote from your page at http://www.best-electronics-ca.com/xe_game.htm#BL "Atari Ballblazer, cartridge only, no instructions. RX8064-LM $9.95" Is this a common business practice of yours? Charging more for an item than your list price? Do you often change prices half way through a transaction? I think you should honor the price listed on your page. Best Electronics - Bradley Koda May 7 (7 days ago) to me Thank you for your E-Mails dated 05-07-14 Q. Did you just change the price on Donkey Kong and Ball blazer? Those were not the prices when I looked. A. Yes and No. Your Atari order pointed out a couple of mistakes at the Best Web site. The Best Catalog addendum has the correct price for the loose 8 bit Ballblazer game but the same price change never updated on the XE Game software listing page. The second mistake was we listed the 1st generation 8 bit Donkey Kong loose game for U$D 8.95 which we have a lot of them in stock and but we have very few of the XE versions Donkey Kong left in stock. Both corrections / updates should be done by our Best Web Master this afternoon Regards Bradley Koda May 7 (7 days ago) to Best Hi, the mistake is on your end, so you should own up to the original price. I'm not paying the difference. Do you want to risk losing a big order like this because you made a mistake? May 13 (1 day ago) to Best Hello? Are you going to respond to my e-mails? I've literally spent hundreds of dollars at your store over the years. I certainly deserve better customer service than this. You're about to not only lose my order, but lose me as a customer all together. Best Electronics - Bradley Koda 4:33 PM (2 hours ago) to me Thank you for your E-Mail dated 05-13-14. Q. Hello? Are you going to respond to my e-mails? A. took a copy of your last E-Mails to our Atari Warehouse manager. He looked it over and our responses back to you. He said he will pass / decline your Atari order. He said he is sure you can find all of the Atari items on your list on the Internet no problem. Regards Bradley Koda " Bottom line is they'd rather lose out on a $400 order (as well as a customer who has been buying from them for years) because they couldn't greed an extra $18 out of me. Sounds like smart business to me! I know this may not be a popular opinion. Until recently, I myself would have likely ignored any negativity about Best Electronics, as I've always had success there in the past. That is why I posted the e-mail logs, to prove I'm not making this up or talking out of my ass. You be the judge.

Thank you for your responses! I have received an overwhelming response(7-8 replies) and I am going to reply to the messages in the order they were received...sorry for the delays.

SOLD...thank you everyone for your interest.

I am confident that I will NEVER do business with them again. Their customer service is HORRIBLE. My experience with them is that they are one of those places that list a whole bunch of games for sale but don't have any of them in stock. So you can place an order for a bunch of games, they might have them in stock, they might not, you never know! By the time they respond to you, 3 or 4 unreturned e-mails later, if you're not frustrated enough and ready to give up by that point, they respond to you saying some rather foolish things. The last time I tried to buy from them, they explained to me how they couldn't fill my order because it was too much of a chore for them to look for the games I wanted to buy, and I was burdening them by even asking. I mean, god forbid I'm a paying customer that wants to give you business. What nerve I have!

Is there an easy way to do this? I have a game cartridge with pieces rattling around inside. Not a huge problem, but something like this just drives me crazy. Grrr I'm having not much luck opening it up here, no screwholes or anything so I'm assuming it's either epoxied or it's snapped together like a neo geo cartridge. Luckily this is one of the cheaper games so it's easily replaceable if anything goes wrong,

Great buyer/seller, hi9ghly recommended to do business with good luck

PM me if you're interested in a White Men Can't Jump with box and instructions for cheap

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