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Here is my small trade list: Atari 2600 - Commando, Pete Rose Baseball, Mario Bros. Atari 7800 - Q*Bert, Beef Drop (no Pokey) Atari XE/XL - Ultima IV, Archon II N64 - Star Wars Racer, Zelda Ocarina In Time, Triple Play

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?

PM sent for Bristles, Flip and Flop, and Boulderdash.

Please send me a PM if you can help. Thanks!!

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.

I am thinking of getting this. Is there much difference in game play in comparison to the 7800 version. How does Pokey sound vs. TIA?

I emailed him. Not alot of money here but the point of the matter is that this seemed to be a bit too much to pay for shipping.

OK. And if he says "no"...?

I recently won a game and the guy I bought it from lives in California. He charged me roughly $15 for shipping via First Class USPS Airmail. When I finally received the package I noticed that it cost him only $1.32 to ship it to me. Should I ask this guy for a refund or what? Advice would be greatly appreciated as I am rather annoyed with this person. http://cgi.ebay.com/SUPER-ZAXXON-cartridge...1QQcmdZViewItem

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.

New games added to trade list. Thanks for looking!!

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)

Major oversight just noticed here. #1.) CASTLE CRISIS

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?

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.

Good one. I also agree with Boulderdash and Track and Field. Wicked lists gang!!

OK. I admit that I am wayyyy-y-y-y out of touch when it comes to this topic but I do eventually find some of it interesting. Lets be tactful and diplomatic then... Regardless of all alleged legalities, anyone who deliberately hoards or does not share classic Atari games that are known to be a one of a kind item (i.e. unreleased prototypes like 7800 Electrocop), especially when they know that there are collectors that would appreciate owning a copy, is a ninny and a poor sport.

If it weren't for collectors (greedy ones especially), we probably wouldn't have half of the cool shit that we do.

This is sounding wicked!! I only have an A8 though. Same thoughts for 5200 Adventure II... Wish I was a 5200 man.

Hey all. I am sure this has been done before but I thought that I would do again for old time's sake. Here is my list in no particular order: Zone Ranger Spy Hunter Ballblazer H.E.R.O. Pitfall II Bounty Bob Strikes Back Jumpman Junior Gyruss Wizard of Wor Qix

Always wanted CV Fathom. The VCS version rocks. Been looking for the CV cart for years.

WTF is ALPTAURUS?

Wicked!! Thanks folks.. Current want list: F-Zero GX Rogue Squadron II Godzilla Midway Treasures

Hey gang. Most know me as an Atari fanboy but I recently picked up a Gamecube and am now looking to pick up a few good titles. So far I have Metroid Prime (wicked BTW) and Sonic Gems. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here are the kinds of games I like: - spaceship shooters or shooters where I am flying and shooting - arcade action games - driving games Cheers!!

Strange that you would get any PAL carts from Canada seeing as we solely utilize the NTSC standard.