Chuck D. Head

Hmmm, I think he may have accidentaly transposed the price of the item with the GDP of his home country. Morgan

Chris, I'll see what I have got and have the list printed to put in the Garage Sale Mobile. Keep an eye out for a Columns pack-in (NOT FOR RESALE) to trade for something I find you. Morgan

Wow! I guess I have just been lucky. I have probably done about 600 transactions on eBay (50/50 seller - buyer) and have had maybe three or four bad transactions from each end. I have gotten two unwarranted negatives, but I try to look at the big picture and not dwell on it too much. Keep doing the right thing and your feedback will go up. The feedback percentage is just the last 12 months now, right? I did learn early on that I would not sell any computer parts. back in the late 90's it seemed everyone selling computer stuff had bad feedback. When you read what it was about, you could tell the buyers just did not know what they were buying, how to install drivers, etc. and assumed they were getting bad items. Maybe this phenomenon transfers over to video games somewhat. Anyways, my condolences on the bad deal. I know how much those things stress me out. Try to relax...oooooozzfrabba! Morgan

You may be right, Albert is viewing the topic now :-). for what it's worth, it seemed to me that Kurtzzz was pretty polite through this, whether you agree with his selling strategy and motives for being here or not. He did say he was in no hurry to sell, so why not try a few things before actually sellign it. The bad part is the experience mayhave lost AA a useful member. Morgan

The Value Village near me is pretty similar on prices of stuff I buy, but I have to give them the nod for the shopping experience. The store is so well kept and organized compared to any Goodwill. The aisles of clothes are color coordinated within each size for god's sake! The sales guy I usually get is so good, I am bringing him the NES RF switch he needs as a gift next weekend. Morgan

Ummm, well it would be, except there is a local punk band called the Meat Whistles and that is the first thing I thought of. Morgan

Hmmm...I assumed Goodwill used the same program everywhere. Here they price stuff with five different color stickers, a new color goes on the new stuff each week and the colors rotate. On the start of the fifth week (sunday here) the color goes 50%. So I think the strategy is to overprice, if it sells great, if not it will probably go for fifty percent off in week five. After week five, most of it goes to the "outlet store" to be sold by the pound with all the crap that wasn't good enough to put out in the store in the first place. Soooo....my favorite new thing to do at Goodwill is to go early Sunday morning and dig through the really junky aisles for all the stuff that some shady d-bag hid to come back and buy when it is half off. Lord knows I would never hide anything in there myself :-) Morgan

I think it is currently for sale http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=133115 Great Job!!! (mainly just posting to bump it into my posts so my ADD ass will remember to play it tonight) Kudos!! Morgan

OK, the only thing I see that is missing is the Didj by Leapfrog. This is a pretty well-built handheld, and games are more game than education. Morgan

There are a few greens on eBay now. This one is $5 buy it now / 2.50 ship: eBay Auction -- Item Number: 400105246992

Had to make a run to the landfill today and hit the Goodwill real quick. I found three Dreamcasts sitting there with no accessories whatsoever. Two were priced at 7.99 and one at 6.99. The $6.99 console had a game in it (Tomb Raider Revelation), so I hit the power cord area and found a cord that fit and plugged it in and it seemed to power and spin normal, so I threw it in the cart to ponder. Throughout the rest of the store, I managed to find the AV/RF cable (2.99), controller with a VMU (3.99) and a "jump pak" in retail package for $2.99. Since everything was there, I figured it was destiny and bought the lot. I got home and had to leave right away - I had to make a "chauffeur" run for one of the kids, who apparently run the damn house and wound up two minutes from another Goodwill, so figured I'd be missing something if I didn't stop. I was on my way out the door and passed an aisle end cap with a bunch of audio books and one box caught my eye and pulled it out and about S#!t myself. A complete copy of NES Dragonwarrior III for $6.99 - very nice box, perfect manual, the poster with creature/ spell info has some damage and the cartridge looks like it never saw human hands, let alone made it in the console. Even had the little block of foam to fill the empty place in the box. Woo Hoo! Hit one garage sale on the way home and saw a little 13", fairly modern TV that had a 50 cent sticker on it. I say "I take it the TV is dead?", the lady says "I just didn't know if it works or not". "Is there somewhere we could plug it in?", says I". "ummm, I guess you could unplug this fan" says she, pointing at the fan three feet from her chair as if it were a mountain way too big to climb. I plugged it in and it powered up, so I took a chance on it. I got home, plugged in my fiddy cent TV, hooked up my Dreamcast and everything worked great! So, a Dreamcast and a TV to play it on - $17.46, not bad. Morgan

Crap, I missed out. John, I will have to have you show me this one the next time our paths cross. Morgan

Did you check with the airline? Did you know that you are supposed to fill out the green label, so they can call you when they find your luggage? Sorry, couldn't help myself. I will keep an eye out, should be easy for me to remember :-) Morgan

I am in if we can get this going. I think I can make the sacrifice to play a few hours of Genesis each week. If we are unsure we have the support, it could also maybe be a two-week cycle between games. Obviously Genesis games will be longer anyway and many will not have suitable scoring like older systems. A longer cycle should also be easier on whomever is moderating. I would not mind helping mod, but I am occasionally flaky. :-) Morgan

My vote is N64. It and the Dreamcast are great, but I believe there are just more fun games for the 64. Also, if you hit garage sales and thrift stores, you will find cheap games, controllers peripherals galore for N64 and not so much for Dreamcast. I think, though, if you start looking you could get into both for very little $$ and be happy as a pig in S#!T! PS1 I could easily live without. Morgan

Yeah, especially when the stock pic they choose is of an unusual item -- I've seen a bunch of people use the pic for the Starpath Frogger for sales of the regular one, or pics of Atari Corp carts when they're selling the regular ones. That is eBay rule #1 - pictures sell! right now, up to 12 pictures are free, so I am trying to add more pictures. eBay rule #2 - the more flaws you detail about the item, the more comfortable the buyer is. Kind of weird, but if I mention every bump, bruise and scratch, I seem to get a better price than the guy who says "good condition". eBay rule #3 - Money Back guarantee - but you have to mean it. eBay rule #4 - find the cheapest way to ship it - buy a scale and check the weight with the box and packing before you list so you dont screw yourself and never add profit into the shipping (although sometimes I will see that a package will be between, say $5.23 and $7.55 depending on location, and I will just make it a flat $6.50) eBay rule #5 - start your auction at a time that will be a good ending time for all four time zones. Since everyone wants to bid at the end, this will up you chances of people being awake and at their computer at the end. Morgan

LOVE the cow controller!!! I wonder if that was aimed at a certain games audience or what. Did they make Harvest Moon for PS2?? Morgan

Well Top Dog dont give up on the idea. I would definitely attend, again dependent on weather. Any of us on the west side would probably be reluctant to brave the passes or god forbid the gorge in inclement weather. You might consider a spring date for this as you also have the Portland show in september, Pax and I think another geekfest of some kind in Seattle all around the same time. Maybe just start small, have the freeplay setup with some nice old couches and have some fun and maybe it would grow. Morgan

Are you kidding, could you imagine what would happen if that kind of technology were to fall into the hands of the Libyans? Morgan

Does anyone remember any colorforms sets based on video games? looking at the Zaxxon stickers is reminding me of seeing something in a colorform set, but cant quite put my finger on it.....Morgan

I also! Why play hostage with feedback? If you've done your part of the transaction and everything's okay, post some honest feedback right away. Here's another great seller strategy.... "Satisfaction Guaranteed: If you are not satisfied with your item for any reason, simply let me know and I will have you ship the item back to me, and upon reciept, I will refund your bid amount and original shipping charge." I have sold probably 300 items on eBay and have had two things come back the whole time. Several others were apparently satisfied that they could get their money back - they weren't happy with the item, I said send it back and I will refund the money and they never sent but gave positive feedback. Some of the things you think might happen (they will get the item and send me back their broken one...) never really happen and I seem to consistently get higher prices for like items. Morgan

Here's a picture of the Zaxxon stickers.............

OK, Long day. My wide and daughter planned something they knew I would enjoy for father's day, I got chauffered around thrift store circuit, to two car shows and an all you can eat breakfast at the moose lodge! Here is my haul, most I am keeping, some is sale or tradebait: Master System - Quadrun, Kung Fu Kid and Shooting Gallery - all complete $3.99 ea Four-way RF switch - this one does it all, and in any direction - 2.99 Mattel Classic Baseball Handheld (w/ good batteries) - $1.99 N64 Games - Starfox 64 - 2.99, Elmo Letter Adventure - 4.99 (crap! thought it was 2.99 also) NES games - Super Spy Hunter, Anticipation (on my want list!), Adventure Island 3 - 2.99ea, Tecmo NBA Basketball - 2.49 (hope it's as good as their football games) SNES - Bulls vs Blazers, Genesis - Streets of Rage 2 pack-in, and an Activision plug and play handheld for about a dollar total ($1.59 a pound at the Goodwill surplus store) Leapfrog Didj w/ Spongebob game - this is a very conventional looking handheld with a very nice looking screen and only $2.99 - plays great!! Leafrog Didj Hannah Montana - 2.99 NES RF switch 1.99 (to give an employee at another store who has been looking for one - some pay-it-forward karma type stuff) 2 VHS tapes of Ducktales $2, Mariners 116 wins VHS tape $1, 3ct Mariners game giveaway JJ Ptz soul patch $1 Best for last.... Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow - all three perfect condition cartridges - $1.99 ea These will be sold NES - Tecmo Super Bowl complete in nice box - $2.99 (also in the box - the manual for the Tecmo NBA I bought elsewhere) Unopened package of puffy stickers featuring Zaxxon - $1 Dungeons and Dragons 2.0 Core Rulebooks 1,2, and 3 - $2.99 ea. Long day. I think my shopping urges and satisfied for a while. Morgan