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  1. Posted

    Me suggests you read this

     

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game

     

    (here's the relevant text to save you bothering)

     

     

    The three largest producers of and markets for computer and video games (in order) are North America (US and Canada), Japan and the United Kingdom. Other significant markets include Australia, Spain, Germany, South Korea, Mexico, France and Italy.[56] Both India and China are considered emerging markets in the video game industry and sales are expected to rise significantly in the coming years. Irish are the largest per capita consumers of video games.[57]

     

    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)

     

    Germany has now overtaken the UK as Europe’s biggest games market in 2009.

  10. Posted

     

    And $601.02 for a sealed Masters of the Universe The Power of He-Man box variation

    eBay Auction -- Item Number: 2306584101971?ff3=2&pub=5574883395&toolid=10001&campid=5336500554&customid=&item=230658410197&mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]

     

    DAMN

     

    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

  11. Posted

    How can you tell that the seller is bidding on his/her own auction?

     

    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.

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    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_quality1?ff3=10&pub=5574883395&toolid=10001&campid=5336500554&customid=&mpt=[CACHEBUSTER] 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?

  20. Posted

    They can from the main website, but it's not a main feature of this website, as it's not meant to be like amazon or ebay, it's for people own individual stores without loads of rules and all the hassle of setting up a website or using ebay and amazon.

     

    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.

  23. Posted

    Very nice collection!

     

    Too bad you didnt have a dedicated room with shelves to display all these games.

     

    What about sealed consoles? :lust:

     

    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.

  24. Posted

    WOW!!!!!!!!!!! :-o :-o :-o :-o :-o :-o :-o :-o :-o :-o :-o :-o :-o :-o :-o :-o

     

     

    You have a little of everything don't you!!!!!

     

    Do you only buy sealed games or some of both?

     

    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:

  25. Posted

    Andre, were really willing to pay 600 for this game? Wow, you must have a nice collection, Pics? :lust:

     

    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.

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