RecycledGamer

I picked up a copy of Atari Space Combat and I'm wondering why it doesn't show up in the AA directory. Two different Sears Space Combats come up, but the one I have is Atari. Number CX-2604. It's one of the older ones with "04" before the name on the end label. I'm so used to every minute label variation showing up in the AA guide that I was surprised not to see this one. When I Google the part number, the game title shows up as "Space Wars" on various 2600 sites, not as Space Combat. I tried searching the forums, but my searches are returning a ton of hits with no real answers. I'm sure one of you can clue me in to the story behind this one. Chuck

Mallrats. You get the obscure movie reference of the day award!

Four of those carts are Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer cartridges (all except Skiing and Barmstorming). Obviously, none of them are compatible with the unit for sale. TRS-80 Cartridge List

Ouch, dude. That's pretty harsh. And for the record, Thalidomide only stunts limb growth, it doesn't make you retarded. Re: the auction, I think you are technically in the right, but they guy obviously doesn't know what the heck he is doing. I'd let it slide.

Posts like this one are exactly the reason why I continue to read the AA forums. Nice work.

Sorry JohnnyBlaze, I didn't mean to imply that you are a psycho in my last post. You are totally justified in wanting to pick up. I was just making light of my personal experience with pick-ups. Chuck

6. Buyer wants to chit-chat for a farking hour about eBay: "Do you like selling on eBay? What do you sell? Where do you get your stuff? Do you make good money? Can anyone do it? Will you teach me? Will you? Huh? huh?" It's never the cool/nice/interesting folks who want to pick up. It's the psychos.

I just had a auction close for a pair of iPod headphones and the buyer has my Spidey-Sense tingling. Thought I'd share and see if any of you can ID the scam here, if any. The auction is this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=5795277342 After the auction closed, I invoiced the buyer, dollartores. Dollartores e-mails me within 1/2 hour through the eBay system with the following: Sounds almost like the guy is asking to have the item sent first. Plus the address provided is different from the one eBay sent me foor the buyer. Hmmm. Let's check out his feedback: 381 with only 1 neg, that's pretty good feedback, no? Well, they are all cheapy auctions for computer wallpaper, coupons and Gmail invitations, mostly left within the past 2-3 months. In looking at the auctions in his feedback, there are tons of private auctions, and many situations where the same few ebayers have bought and sold cheap (fake?) stuff to each other for the obvious purpose of feedback inflation (is that even a thing?). A number of the "sellers" have been NARUed. It get's better. Have a look at the buyer's user id history: WTF? Well, dollartores just e-mailed me back: What do you all think? Is this a simple case of buying feedback and nothing more (bad enough, IMHO), or is there a scam here? I'm sort of half-anticipating one of those fake BidPay e-mails any time now...

OMG, did any of you read this guy's ME page? He'll call you alright...

Well, that's basically the gist of the posting that got deleted. User simdar63 wrote a long rant about how super.good.deals called her house like 32 times in one night, cursing out her and her family and demanding she retract the negative feedback. Oh, and he (allegedly, of course) threatened to HAVE HER KILLED. ("I know people who can knock you off", etc, etc.). Here's the feedback on super's account: Slow/bad customer service, hard to reach via e-mail, hard to get response from. Buyer simdar63 ( 0 ) Jul-27-05 18:23 8197277138 Reply by super.good.deals: We reply to emails in minutes, threatened bad fb if no free overnite, said no. Jul-27-05 19:45 Follow-up by simdar63: Rply fls; is harrass w phys threats 2 fam called 32 tms 3:30 am w threats, won and on simdar63's account: MISERABLE CREEP, DESPICABLE EXCUSE FOR A HUMAN, BUT WORSE, SHE IS VERY DISHONEST Seller super.good.deals ( 8042Feedback score is 5,000 to 9,999) Jul-27-05 19:32 8197277138 Reply by simdar63: THIS MAN IS HARRASSING ME BY PHONE &HAS THREATENED MY LIFE & SWORE @ MY KIDS! Jul-27-05 20:45 Follow-up by super.good.deals: PSYCHO, MUST BE OFF THEIR MEDS, DELUSIONAL, REALLY NOT WORTH THE $ TO SELL TO. So there ya go.

Crud, eBay aced the posting. I guess it was inevitable as it pointed out problems with a specific user. I should have mirrored it. Oh well.

Check out this guy's feedback: http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...uper.good.deals It's not the number of negs that is interesting as much as this: "228 mutually withdrawn" I'm left wondering how one gets that many people to retract negative or neutral feedback - then I read this: http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?thr...d=1122653473317 Oh, *that's* why I can't ever get bidders to retract negatives. I'm only calling them *31* times in a night.

That's SO true. The guy who bids second highest in an auction for an Atari cartridge is always totally cool and normal. Not like those dudes who actually win with their high proxy bids - they are just FREAKS. The free market - she's a bee-yatch.

Wow, that went cheap - at least for someone who can pick it up.

I don't speak up much on the AA forums, but I read every day. This issue comes up a lot and has me perplexed. I can't understand why some folks get all fired up about the auction price/shipping price ratio. Why is a seller "padding their wallet" if they sell for $1 with $45 shipping vs. $45 sale price and $1 shipping? Sure - we all know why sellers skew the ratio towards shipping (fee avoidence), but what difference does it make to the buyer? When I buy, I note the shipping charge and bid accordingly. I'm not disputing that the actual shipping cost will most certainly be less than $45 (cross-country domestic parcel post: $23 for 15 Lbs, plus maybe $5 for a box and packing materials), but who cares? The dude will net maybe a $15 windfall on shipping and the auction sale price will probably be bid up by that much less. End result: saving maybe a buck or two in fees for the seller - buyer gets their item for what the market will bear. What benefit would possibly come from reporting this person to eBay? This is not a statement for either side, but a legitimate question. After all, we all have the option to not bid on this item if we don't like the terms. Regarding this practice being deceiving, I see no deception in this case. In the auction cited above, I didn't have to look "carefully" to see the shipping charge - it's right where shipping charges are normally posted. If a seller posted $1 shipping and whipped out some undisclosed handling charge after the auction closed - that would be deceptive, but I see no problem with what this seller is doing. As an aside: I find that auctions with flat shipping charges do better - I suspect because the shipping is a known quantity and can be budgeted for by the buyer. Unfortunately, shipping charges to all parts of the country (or world) cost different amounts. In order to avoid losing money on shipping charges, I set the flat fee at the middle or high end of what I may be expected to pay for a "worst case scenario". Sometimes shipping costs more than what I charged and sometimes it costs less. That said, I generally do flat rate shipping only on items under 4 Lbs. I list heavier items using their estimated gross shipping weight and the built-in calculator. Flame on.

Wow, good deal that you got your money back. I had a payment frozen once - for a Von Dutch trucker hat. Luckily I had waited a few days to ship and got the payment freeze notice first so I wasn't out anything but my eBay fees. After a few days, PayPal decided it was a fraudulent payment and the money was gone just like that. I was never offered Seller Protection - I guess the terms of my transaction were different. I should have been suspicious when I saw the buyer's name: Von Rucker. I guess I'm left wondering why someone would commit federal wire fraud for a stupid trucker hat. I mean, c'mon! Go for the laptop or an iPod or something!

So I'm in a local thrift outlet store and in one of the bins I see a PILE of NES carts. I'm pretty excited because they are sold by weight so I can expect to pay no more than $2-$3 for the whole lot. I start to toss them in a box and I realize that they are mostly Wrestlemania carts. There must have been 10 or 12 of them. (The rest were Mario Bros/Duck Hunt). What kind of sick @$%&^* joke is that? I wonder how that many copies of a single game got donated to GW? A rental store maybe?

It's worth is for the 25 copies of Combat alone.

Seconded.

Word. You guys are light weights! Imagine trying to explain that purchase to the wife/husband/SO.

And I thought video game collectors were obsessive... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=6957597691

I know it's not the same direction, but I shipped an Intellivision system with games and Intellivoice to Canada from Oregon on March 17. It just got there on Friday (April 15). And that was via Airmail Parcel Post. I don't even want to think about how long Economy Surface would have taken.

Maybe this one... http://www.toolhaus.org/

It's mine... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8175531117

Check out number 9 on the list: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4284501.stm Obviously they meant 2600 judging by the date (1977). Chuck