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Yeah, that would be a new high for a sealed ColecoVision on eBay ... well, at least in the past few years. If you actually check jaygee112's bids on the others, he tried for three, but only snagged two of them (the third went for $515). Which probably means he bid $505 on each of the three, and could have been hit for that amount had anyone posed a challenge there. Now, why would anyone pay nearly $1000 for a new ColecoVision when a total of *five* were listed for the same week? Beats me. In the past, they usually top out at the $400-$500 mark with even the most stellar stupidity in play.

Definitely not mine. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8183926918

Is it time to joke: "at those prices, how could you NOT be a Power Seller..." ?

Truer words were never spoken ... though there have been cases where gullible sellers have been talked into cancelling outstanding bids to shoehorn a BIN for pushy buyers, so maybe not so low a starter bid.

this is a low shoot..... BTW, why do you have only 8 posts.....do you hide behind an other username? Didn't mean it as a low shot. It might have been a mild exaggeration, but the statement more or less fits past observation. No condemnation. As for hiding behind another username -- I don't know what you're intimating here.

Knowing stlouisrams2004, that's almost a certainty. Give it a week, it'll show up for sale at 4x the BIN price referenced above...

True, but there's a referrer ID buried in the URL that tracks whether anyone purchases from that visit. The referrer get a (small) percentage of any completed sales. It's legit, but there's a reason for embedding the referrer ID in there ... a cut of the sales. Just sayin' is all.

Check the link ... looks like an attempt to garner a % off an Amazon referral account ... clickity click.

Add one more: + Blockade Runner

Oh, I have no doubt they're his. I figured he would have continued past nine carts by now, as I would think that if the ones listed are doubles to your lot, he would have quite a few more to list. Maybe he realized it's around midnight on the East Coast. His valuation (considering shipping, and a godawful $5 insurance option) is a bit high throughout. The BINs cross the "sucker" line by a fair stretch. Most exercise a bit more subtlety in the timing of sell-offs. To each their own.

The immediate, oncoming flood of single-cart auctions by the one who took down your lot: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZreiiel1 Hilarious.

The wrong time to evaluate "willingness to pay" is in the final three minutes (as with trebortoys). After five days, one should have a pretty clear notion of what something is "worth" -- especially when last minute course corrections run the risk of inflating end price. Any benefit from demonstration of "oh yeah, I can beat your bid ... again" in the closing minutes seems to me to be lost in the long-term by unforseen "sniper losses" and inflated "win prices" ... maybe that's just me. I agree with you - put in what you're willing to pay. Just don't screw around unless you're deliberately leading on others by signalling a degree of indecision that isn't really there. With a lot of this nature, I would think a selective bidder would know not to tip his/her hand early. By keeping mum, had trebortoys won (in an alternate universe), jimyt613 wouldn't have bumped the price as much, and other interested parties would not have been prompted to follow a similar approach and reevaluate *their* bids. Buy, hey, it's all moot. I guess we'll leave it at that. I'm beginnnig to wonder whether few video game collectors actually track expenditures toward their hobby with some level of detail...?

It went for about what a lot that size/diversity has in the past on eBay. Absent the eventual winner, trebortoys was more or less running the price up against himself with that bidding strategy -- moot in the end, and good for you, but a sure way to shoot oneself in the foot. If I'm not mistaken, it's also in the ballpark for what you paid to obtain the combined items in the first place. That's probably the best reason to be happy.