eBay Still Sucks Monkey Balls

[eBay Still Sucks Monkey Balls]

I've received many classic computers in boxes with no packing at all. Usually, they have broken keyboards or cases where everything bounced around. I finally had to give up. Even people that promise to pack them well seem to lie about it. I've got a completely broken Atari 400, TI99/4A, C64's, etc. Anyone need parts?

 

I did have someone send me an Apple II once that actually took several whole newspapers and put them all around the computer. Not separated and crumpled newspaper pages, but *whole* folded newspapers. This doesn't really add much cushioning, as you might guess, but also he blew a bunch of extra money shipping it to me because 15 pounds of it was just newspaper.

[Dead 130XE: Two down, three to go]

Make sure you are not only checking continuity, but the lack of it. If you have solder bridges or shorts, you'll get the same problems. A short in the wrong place could be catastrophic.

[My small Donkey Kong collectibles collection]

I've got that Donkey Kong board game also. The game sucks! It's a nice piece of nostalgia, though.

[Apple IIgs question...]

My ]['s and ][e's look fine on my 1702, but both my ][gs computers have messed-up colors when attached this way. It's very strange, the colors are correct in the control panel, but games look all wrong like the artifacting doesn't work. I don't know if it is using "fake" artifacting that is supposed to work with the RGB monitor or what...

[Snes Problems]

Mine does this and the one that's sitting at my inlaws does, too. Sometimes you can reset a bunch of times and it will come up and play. I suspect that this is an aging capacitor problem, but I've never looked at a SNES board to see...

[Does anyone have an Amiga CD32?]

We sold them at a dealer in Atlanta, Georgia and got them through distribution like anything else- they were released and sold for a year or more.

[What does this symbol mean?]

I think orange is usually SPDIF...

[Cybermorph Differences?]

Cost reduction.

[COMMODORE 64 SYSTEM & GAMES FOR SALE]

I'm very sorry that you overpaid, but it is not currently worth that much. Put it in storage for 15 more years, then maybe you could get that amount.

[COMMODORE 64 SYSTEM & GAMES FOR SALE]

Good luck with that. You're asking like triple the going rate.

[Copies bought as originals in eBay auction]

I've done that on several occasions, but there are just sooo many of his auctions for the stuff- it must be an automated system.

 

Is there an automated system to report auctions?

[Copies bought as originals in eBay auction]

That guy has been at it awhile. Many of us have reported him, and eBay does not care. It's very obvious from the pictures and the amateurish copies and labels that they are fake, but he continues to sell them.

[My prediction for where collecting will be in 2020]

As others mentioned, it cycles with the times. When I started finding 2600 and INTV carts in the 90's they were everywhere for $.50 to $1 each and the systems were a few dollars. Now they are *gone*. I never see them anywhere.

 

Now, the PS1 consoles and games are everywhere and only a few dollars. I expect they will be gone in 10 years also and worth a little more.

 

Heck, I even find XBOX systems for less than $10 now at Goodwill. (untested, but usually fixable)

[MORE Suspicious ebay activity]

I'm pretty sure you have to agree to the auction cancellation after the refund, so the feedback will be removed anyway.

[Atari ST vs. Apple IIgs]

I don't know. Maybe the sound was better "on paper" than the Amiga, but I never heard anything that sounded even remotely close to "better than the Amiga" sound. Probably the CPU speed or the interface to the sound system crippled it somehow.

 

I recall a friend had one and got Marble Madness with it. We compared it to the Amiga version and there was no contest. Amiga version was faster and had better graphics and sound.

 

What is an example of a great sounding program on the IIgs? I have one and can break it out.

[Is there a multi cart for the C64?]

I'm pretty sure uIEC doesn't even know about G64 images. It doesn't have any support for GCR conversion...

[Is there a multi cart for the C64?]

I made one that works with uIEC (and probably any IEC solution).

 

 

Link?

I couldn't find it on the C64 preservation site. PM me if you can!

Does it have TNMNT on it?

 

Of course I can't distribute it, but it's easy to do with existing archives.

[Is there a multi cart for the C64?]

I made one that works with uIEC (and probably any IEC solution).

 

[Suspicious ebay activity?]

Just buy it again for a stupid high price and then don't pay.

 

Use the new seller rules against him. He can do nothing to you. You can bid it up every time and never pay.

[Price check! Pacman2 handheld game]

$20-30 typically for complete in box.

[Harmony cart preorder list]

Dang, I must not have been one of the first 50.

[Got my C64]

FYI - The keyboard for the C64C was swapped with one of the older C64's to make two hybrids. They must have done that so they'd look different, because they were never sold that way.

[Interest check: Atari 2600 - Ski Run NTSC limited release.]

I NTSC-fixed that years ago. I wasn't aware there was an "actual" NTSC release. As I recall, it used consecutive coloring for most of the graphics, so it was impossible to get it looking exactly right in NTSC. i.e. weird colors in the trees, etc.

[The Official "Thrift finds" Thread]

I got one of the 36" model of that sometime last year for $100. The only problem is that it's the heaviest thing I have ever owned or tried to move. I mean, damn. I have full sized arcade games that weigh less than that thing. It must be 250 pounds.

[Vectrex 72 in 1 Multicart - Special Offer Price!]

Still waiting for mine. Hope it arrives soon.

 

Got it- works great.

 

Only problem is that it didn't fit in my "Star Hawk" cartridge case. I had to carve the plastic up a bit and break off some support tabs and sort of wedge it in as best I could.