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    I'm trying to imagine the thick awkwardness filling the air during the filming process. Each decade has its own brand of cheesy directing, and this infomercial is filled with it. Did anyone see this in an original broadcast? Was this a late night thing targeted to depressed people dying for a radical change in their lives (and desperate to hope a new game console would get them laid)? I wish I could hear the pitching process for ideas like this. Lastly, imagine the ideas which were thrown out if this was the type of thing pushed into full production.

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    A few years back, certain events in my life began causing my dreams to be incredibly vivid. I mean sometimes it's hard to tell if I am awake or sleeping- I see colors, hear music, taste food, feel pain, experience every sense and more, etc. I try all the regular tricks the experts say to find out if you are dreaming or not- looking at your hands, looking at a clock, looking in a mirror, but they don't work anymore. This has caused some disappointment.

     

    For example, recently I dreamed of finding a small retail store operated by two white-haired, old gentlemen. In this shop, I found a glass case filled with brand new and never before seen Colecovision and Intellivision accessories. I had stumbled upon some kind of prototype and rarity treasure trove! I was grabbing everything I could carry, asking myself if this could really be happening. Everything was so real.. I had conversations with the old guys about collecting, and I even remember reading the boxes of the accessories. It was awesome!!

     

    Then, I felt the familiar sensation of that reality fading away into normal conscious life. I have had many realistic dreams I awoke from to be extremely disappointed in the fact it was not real, but damn.. this one hurt a lot. My girlfriend rolls over to look at me and instantly asked, "What's wrong?!" I tried to explain, but that kind of disappointment is tough to impart by words alone.

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    Seeing that you just got into the ColecoVision system, and I might add in a very fortunate way by making that large purchase that included some of the hardest to acquire titles CIB, I would take a step back if I were you and let all the excitement die down a little bit before making any decisions that you may regret in the future. I know it must be hard when you got a cash cow in your hands like WizMath, but you really need to decide first and foremost what type of CV collection you want to have... loose carts, loose carts and manual, CIB, CIB with custom repros, etc. For example, if you decide to sell your WizMath CIB in order to raise money to reinvest in other purchases (especially with all the Homebrews being developed), know that you may never come across another WizMath CIB if you later decide to go for a complete CIB collection.

     

    I learned the hard and expensive way when I got back into collecting for the CV & ADAM. I told myself only loose "original" carts, but when I started accumulating Homebrew CIBs, I just couldn't stop myself from transitioning to collecting original releases CIB. So I spent a lot of time and effort tracking down all the loose carts that became expendable when I acquired CIBs of each title. At least this much is easier for me, I only collect for the CV & ADAM.

     

    Good Luck with the decision and if you decide to sell WizMath, get ready to make some serious $$$.

     

    Thank you for taking the time to give me insight and advice from an experienced collector's point of view. It is quite considerate of you. The reason I have not sold any of the rare pieces I have is for reasons like the ones you stated. I told myself I would hold on to this stuff for a while and learn all I could before making final decisions. Upon joining the collector community, I took some time to read threads with people talking about selling things. I found many if not all people who sold rare things regretted it in some way. I have also never sold anything. The thought is more than a little unsettling.

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    Actually, they don't ignore their conscience. When you do something not really ethical (because for example, your parents told, taught you it's wrong) you change something about you. I take a simple example : steal something is wrong. Right, if you know it's wrong and you do it, you'll feel really inconfortable with your conscience (it's the "dissonance cognitive" (cf. Leon Festinger). And you can't live with a dissonance cognitive, so you have 2 strategies (it isn't done consciously) to find back you consonance cognitive :

    1 - You stop stealing (you modify you behavour)

    OR

    2 - You change your mind about stealing : "BTW, it's not important, people are rich, I can steal them, I can steal in a shop, it doesn't matter.

    I understand this to a certain extent, as many people will after serving tables for a living. I used to wonder how people live with themselves after being crappy tippers without good reason. I realized people tell themselves their own sob story and become convinced what they are doing is therefore okay, as if everyone doesn't have problems as well. They evolve to be more and more self centered. A common excuse for bad tips is "the economy is bad, so I gotta do what I can." People with this mentality conveniently forget their server lives in the same economy as them, and tips are their income. If the excuse is ever you can not afford the tip, you should just go to the grocery store or get fast food, as you are otherwise expecting a free service. If you asked the bad tippers if their boss should be allowed to pay them less any week they felt like it, they would say hell no. Such people are hypocrites. Anyway, my point was supposed to be I understand there are self centered people in the world, but to see it happen with retro games adds an extra level of sadness. I have seen many actual collectors trying to screw people over through shady internet deals, and it never fails to drive me nuts.

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    It reminds me of people selling pictures or empty boxes of things with tiny text at the bottom saying no actual item. On one hand, I think people falling for it should have read the whole listing. On the other hand, I do not respect people who use any misleading sales tactics. Unfortunately, it seems many people use shady methods to sell things. The main thing I wonder is how do they live with themselves? Do they ignore their conscience or are they missing that part of their humanity entirely?

  20. Posted

    Indeed, a lot of ColecoVision collectors need this CIB, including your's truly. This holds true for a number of other educational titles that were developed BITD for the system, but for the most part did not sell very well even at liquidation prices of below $10... so this means that a lot of copies ended up in dumpsters and there are very few CIBs out there to be had.

     

    There is no way to place a value on your CIB of WizMath seeing that if you do place it up for auction on eBay or elsewhere, people will end up wildly bidding it up in order to finally obtain it for their collections. Then, seeing how much it eventually sells for will inspire others to consider auctioning their's in the hopes of striking the same gold, but the final price will end up being lower due to one less person bidding it up and on, and on, and on. I'd say if a number of copies went up for sale one after the other, then everyone would have a better idea of it's true value... but this hasn't happened for WizMath, so the first person that decides to sell will garner the most money.

     

    Tough spot you are in, that is considering selling, unless you prefer to take a more casual approach to CV collecting and are not concerned about being a completist.

    A convincing argument indeed. I have much to consider. Perhaps it will not be as easy to keep this game as I originally thought.

  24. Posted

    Same here, stuff was in horrible shape, moldy and smelled. I won a PayPal claim and he actually emailed me a google earth photo of my house and tried to threaten me. Fuck that guy!

    I recommend Edintv, he is a member here and sells very nice items and responds quickly.

    How did he threaten you? Did he try to convince you he would travel to another country to fight you? What a nut.

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