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Are you interested in selling just burgertime?

Where in Ohio? Ive been looking for a cheapish machine to do some fixing up on.

im interested on the generals and gambler, I have both and they are probably my two favorite games ever and i could really probably benefit from having spares (especially for the generals). Also archrivals if it is still available i remember that game from my childhood, but alas my mom gave it away lol. PM me a price and maybe we can ship all three, im a little short on cash these days but if you are talking garage sales prices I can possibly get all three, let me know what you are looking for those and shipping to 44266.

Yeah man you got the best stuff, it sucks you get ripped off so often, i feel for you man.

I have had a few friends with this same type of experience in the end amazon doesn't care about sellers they care about the buyers that go to their site since that drives their commissions. At least on ebay you have a chance of winning. Amazon just sends you emails telling who cares about this one sale which is little consolation to someone that spent hours trying to work out a problem and through no fault of their own is forced to take a return.

It seems that the contacts are too close i have taken apart the console but not taken the button off yet, which is what i am guessing you are calling the cab? So you are saying i should take that part off and remove the trace patterns and look for a problem?

Hey guys I'll get right into the problem. I have a 2600 Jr. that I am having issues with the reset button randomly activating without being touched as in gravity will eventually get it to press. Sometimes it is one press but others it is as if the button is being held down. I tried to take it apart and take a look and it looks like it is traced contacts in there. any advice on how I can fix this problem? Thanks for any/all input. Jarrod

I saw some local guy around the area was selling an xbox and a game cube kiosk. He was near Cleveland, Ohio, I think it was Lakewood and wanted 200 each. Seemed like a good deal and also looked more complete than this one. Although, I think it was different in a few ways (domed clear cover over gamecube and two controllers). I could dig up the ad if anyone in the area is interested.

Do you mind if i ask why your games are so expensive?? Most likely I would assume he looked up what these games are going for and is selling them around there? He is also taking offers. He has a lot of harder to find Sears labels and the like, if you aren't into paying what they are worth, dont buy the games seprately, buy huge lots and go through them like the rest of us. But dont just rag on someones prices because you dont like them. He obviously has gotten a shit ton of sales on ebay so its not like he has his prices that high in the grand scheme of things.

Isn't a 10% fee a little much considering paypal only takes 30 cents plus 2% or something like that?

I remember you talking about your thinking of selling this at CCAG with me. Stopped in your store by the way also, nice selection. GL with the sale hope you get as much as you are looking for. Jarrod

I try to tell people what I have that is in their want list as often as I notice it. The whole problem with that is that a lot of the time people advertise they only want to spend $X on a specific cart. Also a lot of people don't update the thread often enough. Sometimes they will already have received a cart and others they are waiting for a cart to arrive, either case often has no editing of the thread and my time sending a PM is wasted only to find out the person already has what they needed.

Cheers for the suggestions. Skies of Arcadia has never really stood out for me as I'm not a big fan of JRPGs (past the 16bit era), but I've heard nothing but good things, so I might give it a shot at some point. Did Sega ever release a first party Lightgun (or whatever you want to call them) for the Dreamcast? Or is there a good third party one? I'd need a couple to really make the most of House of the Dead 2. But that was one I was looking forward to. There is an interact one I see around used periodically for about 10 dollars loose. Also I think there was a variant of the guncon that was released with dreamcast branding, I have no idea how common that was, I remember it having dreamcast symbols, but not sure who manufactured it, it had the color scheme though, so probably sega at the very least contracted someone if they didnt make it themselves.

Bump.

I actually do sell a little here and there on ebay. Of course my current method that I haven't been doing long is to put stuff here on AA and if it doesn't go take the time to list it on GG and let it sit and sit if it has to. Its better than paying listing fees constantly for stuff you aren't sure you will sell.

Yeah, as holygrail said, as long as you are covered by paypal, and make sure to read the policies to see that you are, the extra delay in selling is probably worth the extra dough, or whatever you guys call it over there.

Not securing the drive, maybe hes just one of those people that just go to garage sales buying stuff they think is worth money to flip when they really have no idea. That is possible. The crack in the plastic seems pretty substantial if the guy actually packaged it "with more than enough paper to protect it while shipping". Seems to me like you have the douchiest of sellers there. Personally this is why I won't even ship a cartridge in a bubble envelope without extra bubble wrap usually (depending on the brand of the envelope). I mean I've sent and received a decent amount of packages and when it comes to shipping you can never really tell how they will handle it on the way. That's why shredded paper would never be an option for shipping in itself (the item in my opinion would still have to be wrapped with bubble). I mean if you shake a box with a heavier object inside, it isnt going to make a difference how much shredded paper in the box unless there is so much that it has formed into a solid from the pressure. You should definitely bring up that you got overcharged for shipping and figured that was for packing supplies (although the good sellers that use bubble/styrofoam etc dont seem to charge a handling fee in my experience). It isnt up to the buyer to beg the seller for packing/shipping that wont break what you buy. I would say once you basically tell him its his fault and ask for a remedy you are within every right to leave neg, and try your luck charging back. GL dude.

I think that a drop down list of appropriate responses would be fine. Alternately I never understood why when you leave positive feedback a text response is required. I could see the number of issues for negative feedback, they should have to say why in particular, but if you have a good experience, you had a good experience and a lot of times there is nothing more relevant to say.

I was given a copy of a similar list many years ago by one of the instructors at the school I attended for auto mechanics, I couldn't find the exact list online so I C&P'ed a similar list to illustrate my point. And my determination was made by your defense that they move alot of "merch". It seems that we will have to agree to disagree here but I don't care if it's video games or open heart surgery if someone is not giving 100% of their effort in their endeavors then it's not good enough. It comes down to pride in your work. Lukie games offering to ship the game when it became available was not a good effort considering they made a mistake to begin with. The proper response would have been 'We apologize for the misunderstanding and at this time we would like to either offer you a full refund or if you prefer we will ship your game to you when we have another copy available plus a 10% discount refunded to you for the inconvenience.' I have worked retail for a number of years before becoming a mechanic and any company I worked for had such policies to offer to the customer if we could not satisfy them. The golden ax is a great example of how a seller should work, if there is ever a problem with one of his deals he goes to great lengths to make it right. I have no beef with you and my first sentence in my earlier post was simply a lighthearted potshot about the length of you post in response to tz101 wasting 10x more time making his original post I apologize if it came across too mean spirited as sometimes things don't translate well on the web. Ah, well understandably my post was longer than the OP. Then again, I am just not the type of person to ever bring "my time" into the equation as far as things of this sort go. I suppose the crux of this disagreement is the relative severity of mistakes made in relation to the type of activities the mistakes happen in. I respect your position, but its a very rigid one, and one that I think some people (myself included) would call slightly unreasonable. I mean a mistake is a mistake, no matter what is it, I get that part, but the expected reaction of a mistake during brain surgery is probably more serious than an mistake in inventory that a non essential industry is providing. I think we can all agree that someone who has a mistake during surgery should feel more wronged than the OP in this case. In the section that I bolded you talk about effort being the deciding factor, and the fact is that no matter how hard they are trying, they may still be making mistakes. You are basing this on the assumption that they aren't trying 100% to not make mistakes, when this is unproven either way. I don't think we have to agree to disagree because there is no way you could ever know how much effort someone puts into something. To you if they make a mistake that means that they weren't trying with 100% effort. I think that we can both say that isn't true, you can definitely make mistakes even if you are putting forth 100% effort. I get this from your prior statements, but if you think that a mistake in listing a video game on ebay is the same seriousness-wise as a mistake during open heart surgery, you should seriously re-evaluate the way you think about the world. A word on the business end also you mention the 10% off remedy etc. Being trained in business, I think it is totally the business that gets to decide what remedy they can offer. Their costs don't go down just because they made a mistake. Go to McDonald's and get the wrong order, and I have not only gotten the wrong food free, but the correct order and my money back. Because to McDonald's brand loyalty is important to them, they want to keep the customer and they can afford to eat the cost. However, the argument could be made that the parity between lukie games actually games and games from another business are exactly the same (because infact they are exactly the same) lukie games (and I am guessing here) probably doesn't have as high of a percentage of repeat customers as a business like McDonald's and therefore their market advantage gained by offering expensive solutions is probably negative. In short its all a business decision and this is hope capitalism works, the bad businesses will go out of business on their own because of declining support over time as a result of bad business decisions. Personally, I think that lukie games likely made the best effort they thought they could afford and just because you worked retail, this may have been a completely different business where they could "afford it". Not to mention selling used games is not really retail and even if you can somehow lump their model into a retail one it would most likely be what is called non-shop retail, probably different from what you worked in the past. If you don't like the way they work, then don't support them by buying from them, if it doesn't bother you then buy from them, in the end if they are doing something wrong they won't be around.

I once saw that someone had put "AMAZING XBOX CORD THIS IS THE BEST CORD EVER" as feedback, apparently annoyed by the feedback option.

You are totally in your right to neg them I feel like. I just think its quite a bit far for my tastes when its stuff that "just happens", again the severity of the mistake is pretty small, for you to then come on a site and tell others you got "hosed" is a bit of an overstatement I mean at the very least I expected a "wrong game", "label not as pictured" type of incident at the very least. If you're really that concerned, forget ebay, file a complaint with the FTC! I mean all of these actions will get you no where and you will catch more bees with honey than with vinegar. I understand you were venting, my post was just pointing out that you may have been taking this a little too seriously. It seemed like whoever communicated with you was hoping to settle things, sometimes those communications don't come at all, even if you weren't going to meet them half-way, you could have taken a step toward their direction at least. I mean the apology and offers to remedy should account for something no matter how crappy the remedies were. I totally agree with AX's post about the venting, when I read this thread originally it came off more as gathering a mob or something, though. Nothing personal was really meant by the post, I know people are venting, that is just the way I choose to look at it just like the way you chose to look at the incident originally. Also just for the record, I do not own, work for, or know anyone who works for or owns lukie games. @ kroogur - I don't really even want to address this post, I am guessing that you C&Ped from somewhere. In all honesty though arguably everything in your list is MORE important than buying a video game. And how was the determination made that I had implied "99 percent is always okay"?

I know you're mad and all about this, and understandably so. But you wasted 10x more time coming on here and starting a thread about. I mean what makes the time you spent waiting out the auction more valuable than say the time you spend on here making this thread for instance, or any other activity you engage in. I'm just saying from another persons point of view there is no difference, most people think about other peoples time this way. I mean by your definition stopping at a stop sign is a waste of your time. I personally just have the ebay app on my phone, and when I get outbid, or the auction is ending it lets me know, easy parcheesi. I mean you are also just mad about two separate things that should not exasperate each other to make you more mad. You are mad that you wasted time on the auction, then you are mad they will hold your money as a "reserve" of sorts. If you are so mad about the time you wasted, let them keep that amount of money and that will make that time worthwhile, which you originally thought was wasted. Seems to me like you're having a knee jerk type reaction. This all said I understand you're mad. But I think it is a bit of an overreaction given the severity of the mistake. This is probably one of the least severe mistakes Lukiegames could have made and with the amount of merch they are moving, mistakes happen. I'm not saying you shouldn't be aggravated, but trying to get ebay to punish lukiegames is kinda far with it considering they already admitted to you that it was a mistake and mistakes happen.

An impression is each time the ad loads, if that makes sense. So if the ad loads on someones screen, that is an impression. Clicks usually cost a lot more.

I'll have to check this new stuff out when it rolls out, sounds awesome. I saw the banner ad was available for relatively cheap (immediately wishing I had something to advertise, didnt even think of GG store). I have been planning on doing some more extensive listing (as soon as summer classes are over). Would you care if we used the GG logo in a banner ad, say for our GG store if we choose to advertise them in the GG banner ad space?