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  4. Posted

    I tried to bid this morning on an auction listed in Ontario, Canada that states clearly in the item description that they ship to the US and Canada. My bid would not go through because the seller accidentally set up the auction so that it only ships to the US and therefore all Canadian bids are forced to be not accepted. Un-freaking real I tell ya!! With a little under 3 hrs remaining, I doubt I will be able to get a bid in after emailing the seller. Hopfully the guy fixes it. Anyone else ever have this problem?

  8. Posted

    If you really think that, you're pretty far out of touch with modern console gaming. Thanks to XBox Live, multiplayer console gaming is more prevalent than it's ever been. And that's not even touching on the explosion in popularity of MMORPGs.

     

    You are right. I am way out of touch with modern gaming. Your subtle condescension is also noted. All seriousness aside though, it becomes easy to see how MMORPG's and multiplayer gaming is becoming quite social in the sense that most players likely sit alone late at night in a dark room enjoying an evening with their tightly knit network of avatar brethren.

     

    I have yet to try this sort of game out myself but I must say that Warhawk for PS3 looks totally rad!!!!

  10. Posted

    Frizzle Fry

    Hello all you boys and girls.

    I'd like to take you to the inside world.

    It's quite an irregular place to be.

    But never fear you're safe with me.

    Well, maybe.

    Golden hair of macrame'

    Against the face that's cut from stone.

    The white porcelain is screaming Ayee

    Thank God the the boy is not alone.

    I don't believe in Santa Claus.

    I don't believe in spite.

    I have no use for beauty dolls.

    Especially on this night.

    I don't believe in miracles.

    I don't believe in lies.

    I don't believe in hologram

    For I am the Frizzle Fry.

    Andy's painting green again,

    This time they might take him away.

    When Barrington starts to breathe again.

    It way just take us all away.

    I don't believe in charity.

    I don't believe in sin.

    And if you don't believe in me,

    We'll play this tune over again.

    I don't believe in pinochle

    And I don't believe I'll try.

    I do believe in Captain Crunch

    For I am the Frizzle Fry.

    Yes I am the Frizzle Fry.

  12. Posted

    Thank you for the interest in my recent ebay experience. Your opinions are all welcomed and appreciated. For your reading pleasure, I have attached text taken directly from our recent chat via ebay.

     

    Here is the conversation that ensued..

     

    Me:

     

    Hello. Item received rather quickly and safe. Thank you kindly. Unfortunately I am rather dissatisfied with the amount I paid for shipping considering the actual shipping charges were $1.32 and you charged almost $15. Hopefully you will be able to provide some insight into why I was chraged this much. Thank you kindly and I expect to hear from you soon.

     

    Response:

     

    Sorry for the high shipping charges. For this item to be sent to Canada the ad states: "USPS shipping charges plus a $10 handling charge will apply." (No additional charges for multiple items up to 1LB)

    This is due to the fact that we normally ship UPS from our business location. Since our UPS service will not normally deliver outside the Continental USA, I must send your item via USPS. A special trip must be made to the post office and several forms must be filled out by hand. This takes over an hour of my time and with the reduced hours of the post office is very inconvenient for me and costs me time off from work. The handling charge is for this extra service plus the USPS charges are different than UPS and are based in 1LB ship weight to cover most international shipping situations. The USPS regulations make it a big hassle to ship international these days since 911 there are a lot of restrictions. I try to make the shipping charges clear in my eBay ads so bidders know the total price they are bidding that includes extra service charge for international. I hope you understand.

     

    Me:

     

    Hello and thank you for the response. I am unfortunately very disappointed with your unnecessarily superfluous and convoluted answer. Honestly sir, I have heard this type of explanation numerous times before and I am well aware of the typical response to this question. I did not purchase this item with the additional consideration of your inconvenience involved with selling it to me and for this I apologize. I also am perplexed as to why you have yet to leave me feedback seeing as I certainly paid you on time. Good day sir and good luck with your business.

     

    *** Seems fair enough. Right?

  15. Posted

    I have to admit that (at the time) I did not notice the blurb at the bottom of the auction which clearly states that I will be paying a $10 handling fee basically because I am in Canada. My own stupidity was at play here so ultimately this is my fault and I definitley should have asked more about it before I had bid. The seller quickly brought this detail to my attention in his response to my recent post-auction ebay message. He expalined that he had to take one hour off of work and fill out a large number of customs forms to send this to me and this had cost him valuable time and money.

     

    Honestly though, I found this auction in it's last few seconds and bid rather quickly on it in order to win it.

     

    This still seems like legal theft in terms of the excessive handling fee regardless of whether I noticed the blurb about the fee or not. It will be interesting to watch what happens in the next little while with this sort of issue as the Canadian dollar slowly becomes more valuable than the American dollar.

  20. Posted

    This might be blaphemous but is it possible that "Atari" really doesn't mean as much to the general consumer market as we think it does and this may very well be the reason why it continues to be a bad investment?

     

    1970's - All of a sudden.. Atari invents the most amazing entertainment device product in the history of entertainment.

     

    2007 - ?? Maybe Atari should attempt to invent something completely new and entertaining perhaps existing outside of the video game box (ala Nintendo Wii or something far more advanced)

     

    Is it conceivable that the evolution of video games has fully peaked and humans now need to be entertained in new and even more exciteing ways? This way of thinking seems to be more along the lines of how the Atari of old approached this issue. Something new that is going to completely fucking blow the minds of people everywhere. This is where Atari needs to be.

  22. Posted · Edited by birdie3

    Hey all. All three carts are in excellent shape. I am looking for Atari 2600 carts. Specifically I am looking for 2600 Rampage but I would love to see what all is out there. Cheers!!

     

    I also have a few N64 carts:

     

    Zelda Ocarina of Time, Triple Play (baseball), and Star Wars Episode I Racer

     

    .. and a few Atari XL/XE disk games:

     

    Ultima IV (CIB)

    Archon II (CIB)

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  24. Posted

    Hey. Not everybody buys these. To be honest, I personally can't even afford $20 for a repro let alone $3,000. The only proto repro I own is A8 Blaster and I think I may have paid $15 for it like 5 years ago. Cool game.

     

    This is great to hear all of the explanations about why many of these games have yet to be released to the public. Folks like myself may not necessarily have nearly as much insight into this subject in comparison to the people who make Atari a major part of their lives. Unfortunately this issue seemed to require saying something controversial to make it happen but this really does make for a great conversation. I suppose I could have just asked "why?". If I had some heavy coin and I knew where to buy one of these old sought after unreleased games, I probably would.. And I would probably sell them for $20 a piece to make up for the initial costs too. I guess I am not as much if a devout Atarian and needed to acquire a greater understanding of the depth of this issue for interest sake. Thanks for filling me in.

     

    Has anyone encountered any legal issues with the recent release of MIA?

  25. Posted

    Well.. Yes. If you spend $3,000 on an Atari game (HA!!), you are a ninny. I can however see your point about the returns on the investment. My apologies. I take back the "poor sport" portion of my post. The license part of the argument really does seem a bit over the top though. Does one really need a license to do this sort of thing? What's the worst that could happen? Seems a wee bit paranoid.

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