Andre81

And I suggest you read this and don't use 10 year old statistics: http://videogamesrepublic.com/?p=8283 (Here's the relevant text to save you bothering)

There is also a large VG museum in Berlin, Germany: http://www.computerspielemuseum.de/index.php?lg=en

I assume you are from the UK? The UK is far from being the 3rd largest VG market in the world. Maybe in the 80s, but has long surpassed from Germany and other countries.

I don't think so. I even think $366 is undervalued. How many brand new Astrocades in flawless condition have you seen in the last years? I was looking for one since 2 years. I doubt you'll see another one anytime soon.

I got mine brand new for $366 in June. A new Atari 2600 sells about for the same price, so I don't think the Astrocade is really expensive. eBay Auction -- Item Number: 110701677448

Something is worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it. Your item currently isn't worth $3500, not $2000, nor $1000. It's $260. That's the current market price. Now that we know the current market price, why do you still think someone will give you $1000?

Bought many Genesis games from him. Great seller to deal with.

Collection for just $65,000: eBay Auction -- Item Number: 160645698333

I'm sure we will see this one relisted. The price was at $143 when I placed a bid. I bid $150, $160, $170 and then looked at the bid history. There were still several bids above me. I placed my first bid at 09:39:52 PDT and then at 09:43:46 PDT already more "protective" bids were placed, without the other guy even being outbid. So I placed several more bids, just to see how high it will go. Everytime I made a bid, another bid was made too. At 11:24:32 PDT I then placed an other bid just to immediately see counter bids at 11:26:03 PDT. When I finally bid $600, there were still 3 bids above me. I've stopped there, because the risk of actually winning it became too high. So this private listing stinks to hell. Also several of the other recent Intellivision auctions were fishy. I wonder why eBay even still has "private listings". You can't see the other bidder names anymore. So private listings are only good for sellers bidding on their own items. And that's what the guy did. The seller probably expected some higher bids in the last seconds. He haven't noticed I was already just making fun of him. Surprise, surprise, I just got a second chance offer for $600. LOL

Quite simple. Only a serious collector forks out that amount of money and knows what he gets there. One bidder has 5000+ feedback, one has 1000+. Both of them have bid on video games from other sellers. And then there is one with 0 feedback who has only bid on this item in the last 30 days.

Here is an example. You can get "Jurassic Park" for the Genesis sealed for $14.99 in a good condition: eBay Auction -- Item Number: 310338588968 And now this one, with a poor VGA grade for $78.74: eBay Auction -- Item Number: 320591210621 So now what exactly makes an item in poor condition $60 worth more? The $10 acrylic case? A sticker that certifies that this item is in a poor condition?

Forget it, look at the bid history. Seller bids on his own item.

Lately I see more and more VGA (Video Game Authority) graded items on eBay. The only purpose seems to be to turn a $20 item into a $200 item. I even see low graded items at such prices. Now the seller eBay Seller: video_game_quality grades his own items and mimicking the VGA grading. Looking at his feedback, buyers even pay those prices. Is it only me who would never buy such graded items?

So you got your Worm Whomper for $130 and the seller reused the same pics? For rare items I would expect the seller to take pics of the actual item.

He used the same pictures. I also won Worm Whomper for $80, which also ended 2 weeks ago for $130. eBay Auction -- Item Number: 110718142596 eBay Auction -- Item Number: 110722019557

Cmart shall win it to add to his stock of 93 Super Cobras! Mine Solid price! I put in a half ass bid of $111 or something like that, I was wondering if this one had been forgotten about. This one had been relisted. 3 weeks ago it sold for $230.

Cmart shall win it to add to his stock of 93 Super Cobras! Mine

Well, *Tripple* Action must be a very rare one Yah, I love these, "I have $7 worth of games that I'd like to sell for $125" Someone got it for $1 Seems like a huge depreciation. And some day GoAtari will also figure out that his $350k inventory is only worth 1/125 of what he thought... eBay Auction -- Item Number: 230660481923

I don't think this is really attractive for sellers or buyers. Everyone could buy some webspace and set up his own store. Or just rent a webshop with own domain for $9.99/mo, choose background and title and start selling. Every website that wants to compete against eBay must be dedicated to gaming and must have much better features and options tailored to games. We already have 1 billion websites offering webshops.

Individual stores have some disadvantages. Buyers don't want to browse different stores, they want the complete listing of the mall like on Amazon. I would also pull the plug of gamegavel.co.uk. There should only be one worldwide site. The item location is not that important.

No!?!?

It's my goal to have a large dedicated room for the games in the future. I noticed that supplies of vintage games are already drying up in the last years. I guess in a few years the entire stock will be in collectors/sellers hands. Hope to have my collection as complete as possible by then. I really don't like it when a hobby is commercialized.

I only buy brand new / sealed games. I also have used games, but I want to replace them with new ones. I can't say how many games I have so far total, bought 900 within the last 3 month. Probably 3000+. Also many more systems, SNES, Action Max, Arcadia 2001, ... Some more pics:

I have several thousand games, mostly sealed. Quick rundown of the sealed/shrinkwrapped games: 200 x Atari 2600 50 x Atari 5200 + 7800 600 x Atari ST 50 x Atari 400/800 70 x Intellivision 50 x Astrocade 300 x C64 150 x Amiga 100 x Apple II 100 x NES 300 x PC (DOS) 150 x Amstrad CPC 150 x ZX Spectrum 100 x Sega Genesis 60 x Philips CDI 200 x Game Boy 300 x Cassette games 70 x Avalon Hill games 40 x Watara Supervision Also complete collections of Epoch Super Cassette Vision, Gakken Vision, APF MP1000. Each with a brand new console. Also new Bally and Atari consoles and computers. Also many other systems, Gizmondo, game.com, N-Gage, Channel F, ... Due to space limitations I currently have them all in moving boxes :-( I currently inventorize them, put them into protectors and then into moving boxes into an air conditioned storage room.