HatefulGravey

Well that's just dirty to me, buying at an auction and reselling is perfectly fine. I buy from vendors all them time and encourage others to support their local vendors. It's the folks who go to dirty tactics to keep others away or scam them who are the bad guys, not someone who just trying to make a few extra bucks. JMHO. You should see the way these games are priced and sold when they make it to the flea market. Maybe I'm playing a dirty game too, but it has always been giving them what they were giving out. These are the kind of resellers that want $15 for Super Mario on the NES becasue it's Super Mario on the NES. The thing that really got me started on this was the way they treated me when I tried to buy from them. When I saw a copy of a game I wanted I stood tall and offered good money, and was given this "you are lucky to see that game" kind of responce. These people have no desire to be part of the hobby even as just resellers, they want to cash in on people not knowing what things are worth and ruin the way games are priced in the local market. Screw em, they are bad for the hobby. I feel no regret in doing this to them.

I want this game so good. I'm not going to pay that kind of money for this game however. Has a homebrew ever gotten this much attention. I'm new to the homebrew thing, but it seems like none of the other games have ever gotten to anything close to this.

I have left that "make an offer" mark on my sale threads in the past. More often than not I'm looking for anything reasonable and I'll let the item go. Most often I put this on common things I want to move and am willing to give someone a deal that needs this common hardware in their collection. I don't have high hopes for items I list this way, but still I normally get that insane low ball offer. This is why I have gotten away from this kind of sale. There are people that never post here, but respond to every "make an offer" with the kind of money a reseller would look to pay for that item. To the point the OP was making. I use Pricecharting.com to get close enough to talk about the game price. You can get a pile of good information on completed auctions there and get an idea of what a good offer looks like. I have only had one person act like I was trying to get over on them with PC prices.

https://docs.google....ODJhOG1qd1BJckE Print away. I have an excell spreadsheet version as well but the pop up box informs me that I'm not allowed to upload that file type.

I have shut down two resellers in the last few years. I found the local auctions they were picking games up at and started buying the games at the auction before they had a chance to jack the prices up at the flea market. Its great, they just want the game at less than $5 so they can sell it for $5 and make money, I just want to shut them down and would rather spend that $5 with the auction company than these guys at the flea market. So far I have shut down 2 or them at the local flea market, and I have the third on the ropes.

When playing single player I'm slow moving when I know the enemy is around. I have been playing Fallout New Vegas recently and I love to get the kill long before the enemy knows I'm there. This method of moving through the game means I don't run out of ammo, I don't get swarmed by enemies, and I live to play another day. When playing multiplayer I'm kind that runs into the crowd holding a granade and waiting to blow us all up because that is just funnier.

And I'll be looking into buying that right now. I over looked this option as I thought it was mostly crap, but that sounds like an amazing time.

I would worry about my Sega CD dying again before I worried about the games. If you want to play a burnt game because you can't find or afford the real deal I understand that completely, but I can't see being so worried about the games that I refuse to play them. That just goes against the hobby as a whole.

Does Berzerk count? Normally when people say maze game they mean PacMan style games, but Berzerk does take place in a giant maze and would easily replace my pick of Mouse Trap.

I have always been a collector of something. With this round of gaming, which includes many more systems, started about 3 or 4 years ago. I found the old collection and started playing it again, and thought I should go get some of those games that I always wanted to play and never did. One thing lead to another and I had to turn one of th guest rooms into a game room to make room for all the game again. The first round started in 2002 (when I got out of high school and could get a job to buy these things) and paused around 2006 and picked back up around 2008. During this time I collected action figures, Hero Clix, and comic books as well. Mostly anything that was dorky back then I was into. It all seems much more mainstream now.

Mouse Trap was the first VCS game I played as a kid, so that one has always had a special place for me as well.

I have always been a collector of something. NES was one of those things years and years ago. I had maybe 200 games, the system, and all the major accessories for it. I sold them all for a pretty good profit because I got them cheap in local pawn shops and flea markets when you could still do that, and sold them when everyone started wanting them again. I just wasn't using them as much as I should and wanted something else at the time. I can't remember what it was, but I know I never actually got it. I played Magic: The Gathering for the first 8 years the game was out. I sold my entire collection to a single person for a large profit. Turns out cards in great shape from the first few sets were worth a lot of money and I had tons and tons of them. As a friend got out of the game they normally gave me their stuff or sold it too me cheap so I ended up with thousands and thousands of cards. If I had to sell what I have right now I would take a little loss on most of it. Nothing major, but I would lose money because I would lot it out. I don't have time to sell everything solo like I should if I decided to do this right now. I would make a good bit on my arcades so that would cut the loss some, but not entirely.

Most of the dups I have are also donor carts. Bad labels and the like. I do have a few dups worth selling or trading to other people, but so far my other collections have produced more dups then my VCS collection. This is also in part because I keep different labels and such though. So I do have a few different copies of many games on the shelf too.

This kind of thing makes me very angry. More than it should if I'm going to be honest about it. If the complete order can't be shipped there should be a contact to make sure the customer still wants the rest of the order. I have had this problem before and I simply can not stand it.

I have been seeing these for a while. I thought it was just people cashing in on how rare this cart is and how popular the name is. The best way for AA to combat this is to make more of this game available. If it could be purchased here no one would need to spend the money these carts are getting on eBay. I have thought about buying one of these but I can't see spending the money on these fakes right now when there is still a chance at a legit copy from AA.

Not sure I understand exactly what you are asking. It would seem like you are talking about posting links to auctions that might have slipped under the radar. If that is what you are talking about you are sure to tick someone off sooner or later but who cares? They are getting upset because they are suddenly aware they will have to bid in a fair auction instead of having the advantage of being to only person bidding. That said I big on stuff I'm not in a hurry to share all the time. If someone was to "out" it I couldn't be upset about it, but I have no reason to do this to myself. If I can get an advantage I'll take it .

Sorry, i haven't used this service before. I knew people did, I wanted to post this wanted list, and Google Docs seemed like the best way to do it. I'll go find out how to make it a list everyone can view, as I know that can be done as well. EDIT: I changed the setting to allow anyone with a link to see this spread sheet. I then replaced the link in the first post. That should get it done. I think.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aix0uurXfxAtdE1YeV9IalB1ZXQwUGhOcW5reFprRXc That link will take you to a Google Docs spread sheet of R2 carts I do not own yet. If you have any of these that you would like to trade of sell please let me know. I would like to be own all label and cart variations through R4 a year from now. I'm trying to get back to having fun collecting a little more and adding to this VCS collection is surely a joy in my life. Back to my roots so to speak. I'm more than happy to send PayPal gift payments to known and trusted site members, or trade from my sale list in my signature. Just let me know and we can work something out I'm sure of it. Thank you for your time.

Ahhh, I see what you did there. Clever indeed!

But then he would have to do something similar to what Dino suggested in post 12. If he wants to sell it without anyone studying it before the sell then it is better for him to have less buyer protection. I'm just speaking as a buyer here. There is simply no way I would spend the kind of money something like this could bring with no real protection. I'm not alone in that thought at all. In my mind, and I am a salesman IRL, there is no good reason not to open this cart and prove that it is the real deal. If the seller is not willing to prove this is legit AND there is no buyer protection I can't see any reason to spend more money on this than you would give for a copy of PacMan with custom art. Lets just put it to rest. Those of you that have the means to buy something like this please fill me in on this. Would you rather buy this game with the label in the shape is in now and take the chance that this is a fake or have the cart opened with a very little amount of damage to the label to know you are buying something rare and legit? I'm leery of people selling something this "rare" without some guaranty that it's the real deal and wanting to take the only way I can be sure I don't get ripped off away from me. Again, I'm sure I'm not alone in this thought process either. I honestly want to believe this is all going to work out well. I love these kinds of finds and learning about something no one knew was out there for so long. People have been playing these games for many many years and to find one that no one seems to know anything about is very exciting. These kinds of finds are the artifacts of our hobby. This is not unlike finding some new scroll explaining something new about an ancient people. It just doesn't look good that you are willing to do nothing to help the people that would be bidding on this item come up with good reason to bid big on it. EDIT: I just went back and read the story linked in this thread, you know the one that links back to this thread... if in fact we are feeding a troll here he is eating well. I do love the drama llama idea. Maybe that has been around for a while, but its new to me, and I found it pretty funny.

I never had the money to get these, but always loved to see them when my friends would sneak them to school. I really wish I had some of the NES and SNES stuff now but I just haven't found anything that jumps out at me deal wise. Maybe one day I'll finally get some of these. I have finally started with some AA mags, maybe that will push me toward this. This is going to make the price of the old issues go up again. Which really doesn't add up right as those aren't going to be any rarer. That said, you watch, it will happen.

As a buyer I would want you to use eBay. I would pay more for the item, and eBay is a pain to deal with, but at the same time I would get buyer protection. The upsides to dealing with people on AA are noticable, and I love to buy and sell here. However, the only real downside to ripping a member here off is that you can't use this site anymore because everyone will know that you ripped somone off. This is why I don't buy from members here with very little post and too little feedback for the price of the item. The risks are super high that the user would take my money and just leave the forum. If you have nothing invested here there is no reason for you to stay after you make your money. So, I would use eBay. If nothing else it will give the people that are bidding on your item some peace of mind. That goes a long way. Then again, if you do sell it to a member here on AA we will know for sure what the deal with the game is. I can't imagine anyone else here would have a problem opening that cart to prove it's past. It only adds to the value when you know what the real story on the cart is.

This is how I get things done as well. I will buy the things I want when I see them, but I do this very often as well. That has gotten to be more and more a challenge though . See my most recent blog post for more on this topic. Collecting like this can be a real challenge. It really is pro collecting in more ways than one.

One spread sheet for VCS with all AA date in it. So rarity, company, label types and all that jazz are search and sortable. I keep that on my android phone and Xoom so when I'm out and about I can see what I have and the things I'm missing. Sorted out right I can tell very fast if I have a cart or not and how rare it is. The rest of my systems are in a multi-tab spead sheet that just has a name and a notes section. Games are listed in one spot, and if they are complete or have a sticker on them or something in the middle I can just note that and move on. Very effective, though it took a great deal of time to get started, and if you forget to add something to it before putting it on the shelf it may never make it to the list.