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    Sears Math Gran Prix with Box - sold for $305.00

    in Auction Central

    Posted

     

    Lets put it this way. If I go to the store and hand the clerk a $20 bill for something and then they realize the item was priced wrong and they hand me back the $20 that is fine.

     

    Now I draw the line when a deal has been completely done. In other words when both people exchange. So when person A gets $$ and person B gets items it is done.

     

    If I am at a yard sale and I hand someone $20 for an item the item is generally going to be in my hand so the deal is done. If I offer someone $20 for an item they have there and it is not in my possession and someone behind me offers more then they offered more.

     

    Online a deal is technically not done until you get the item. Just the same as a store. There are many reason people cancel sales. You likely would not walk into a store and see a new blue ray with a $1.99 sticker on it and expect them to honor that price, because a clerk hit $1.99 instead of $19.99, they may but from my experience I have been told too bad.

     

    Trying to say paying for a BIN that may have been mispriced and expecting someone to honor that is the same as slapping a $20 bill down on the table at a yard sale for a box of wii games marked $20 when in fact they may have meant $20 each or had someone offer more to hold the item.

     

    Now if this would have been a live auction instead of a bin then I would view it a little different. If a auction goes through the motions and everyone bids then it is more of a dick move to back out of it, but it is what it is.

     

     

    edit: Just for the record. I will not offer a price and then back out of it. I charge way too much for my stuff to ever have someone offer Hundreds more lol.

     

    A paypal payment is a payment with a receipt for a specific item at the sellers specific asking price. If a seller of Wii games refuses your $20 over confusion on what is being offered that isn't the same thing. They haven't accepted your money and given you a receipt for your purchase for that exact item.
    In the end, you are entitled to your opinion. My point is this. You should know that some (perhaps many would be a better word) of the people here do consider a deal done once they have completed their end of the bargain AND it has been accepted by the other party. While you may not agree but perhaps you can see where they are coming from. It isn't that unreasonable to think that some people would think this way is it?

     

    No matter where you personally draw the line I think you are being too harsh on those who expect others to follow through on what they said they were going to do.

    Sears Math Gran Prix with Box - sold for $305.00

    in Auction Central

    Posted · Edited by Buyatari

     

    I do not know for sure, I will assume. When I see a lot worth $200 listed for $20. I immediately send a message offering more. I'm sure there have been many times someone else beat me to the $20 price and I offer more so as I get $200 worth of games for $100.

     

    Nobody is going to commit to a $20 sale when they were just offered 5 times that amount.

     

    I could care less if you dislike my buying methods. At the end of the day I get the item at a good price. The person who was only willing to pay pennies well they get to keep those pennies.

     

     

    Well I'm sure you draw a line somewhere, right?

     

    When is a deal a deal for you?

     

    Many people consider a deal a deal when money has been paid and that money has been accepted. So if you hit the BIN AND pay for the item that is different than a potential craigslist deal when no money has yet changed hands.

     

    If you handed someone $20 for an item at a garage sale and the money went into the money box would you be ok with someone standing behind you offering $100 and the seller giving you your $20 back or would you be upset? Perhaps you are ok with that. I dunno where you stand but that is closer to what actually happens when a BIN is canceled.

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    Lynx original artwork paintings

    in Atari Lynx

    Posted

    Dig these! Michael Mendheim did the Cyberball and Xeno ones. He is actually in the Chicago area near me and also created the original (and current) Mutant League Football games.

     

    He did Fester's Quest as well but obviously not for the Lynx.

    I've never met him but several years ago he was kind enough to respond to my email to tell me he had no art for sale. :(

    Wanted: Interesting Auctions

    in Auction Central

    Posted · Edited by Buyatari

    Looks like the Sears Math sold for $100 via BIN and then was relisted.

    You have to wonder if cross dresser in a school dress had any sway in that.

     

     

    Looks like he/she was the runner up in the auction bidding. Why would anyone bid so many times? Unless someone wanted to jack up the bid it doesn't make any sense...

     

     

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    Worst Jaguar cartridge title?

    in Atari Jaguar

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    Probably "Zoop." Sounds like a term for zebra crap.

     

    I'll tell you the worst game title ever though, "Black Hole Assault" for the Sega CD haha

     

    Sega CD had some clunkers for sure.

    One thing I will say about Black Hole Assault is that no matter bad how that game is the cover image kicks ass.

     

    Cover painting was done by Roger Loveless.

     

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    Attention Pac-Man Haters

    in Atari 2600

    Posted

    Yo' Buyatari, make that at least the second person you've ever heard that didn't and doesn't care for 2600 Asteroids. lol And yes, there's a variation or two that has *some* diagonal movement, but hardly. As someone who grew up with the arcade game in their living room, 2600 Asteroids is not a version I would have ever played or even wanted among my small collection of 30 or so games back then. Space Invaders either and it wasn't. ;) (though today I recognize 2600 Space Invaders as being pretty darned good for what it is - Asteroids still not so much)

     

    We also had the real arcade Vanguard game for quite some time BITD (took forever to finally sell is why) - talk about a great conversion! 2600 version is brilliant, especially considering its control scheme. Surprised it doesn't get more praise. Even if you're unfamiliar with the original, it's one hell of a multi-screen shooting fest for the VCS.

     

    Even if you had some disapointment I still fail to believe that a single person on earth could have felt the level of disapointment that some Pacman fans felt with 2600 Pac-man.

    My Coleco handheld was a better port.

    Attention Pac-Man Haters

    in Atari 2600

    Posted

    First, I'm not sure you really read my post before flying off the handle, because you seem to have missed the part where I said Space Invaders was "pretty good".

     

    Second, things change. You're talking about a poll taken *now*. I'm talking about expectations *at the time*. I lived through that era; you probably did too, but I'm just telling you what I remember from people who had bought Asteroids at that time.

     

    I'm not sure what this means. Are you saying that Asteroids has gotten better with time?

    It didn't meet expections then but it does now?

     

    For ET and Pacman - I agree there were people and still are people who expressed major disappointment the first time they played the game. These are the titles that some even blame for the videogame crash. They may not have caused the crash but it shows you the extreme level of disappointment that some fans experienced. They stopped buying games after this.

    Attention Pac-Man Haters

    in Atari 2600

    Posted

     

    2600 Asteroids has asteroids that only move vertically. That didn't meet expectations even at the time.

     

    You are the first person that I've have ever heard say it didn't meet their expectations back in the bay. Even today I'd say that most people feel it meets expectations. Both Space Invaders and Asteroids are in the top 10 of best Atari 2600 games as voted on from users here on this forum.

     

    Original Carts:

    1. Pitfall II (425 points, 57 votes, 16 first place votes)

    2. Pitfall! (402 points, 62 votes, 8 first place votes)

    3. Adventure (393 points, 57 votes, 16 first place votes)

    4. Kaboom! (334 points, 51 votes, 12 first place votes)

    5. River Raid (297 points, 49 votes, 6 first place votes)

    6. H.E.R.O. (291 points, 48 votes, 6 first place votes)

    7. Warlords (255 points, 38 votes, 8 first place votes)

    8. Space Invaders (250 points, 44 votes, 6 first place votes)

    9. Yar's Revenge (234 points, 40 votes, 3 first place votes)

    10. Asteroids (216 points, 39 votes, 5 first place votes)

    Attention Pac-Man Haters

    in Atari 2600

    Posted

    I personally think it's one of those cases where sure, some people were *extremely* disappointed with it off the bat, but most people were just kind of "meh" and the problem is just that this was one of the very early examples of "overhype" for a game. The 2600 had a few cases of that; Space Invaders, Asteroids, Pac-Man, ET... although Space Invaders turned out pretty good. But the others had problems big enough that they fundamentally changed the game.

     

    I strongly disagree with this. Asteroids and Space Invaders were great ports and met if not exceeded expectations of the day. If anything these 2 games help set the high expectations gamers had for arcade ports that Pacman failed to live up to. Both are still very playable to this day. In my experience as a game store owner, people who don't like 2600 Asteroids don't like Asteroids and those who don't like 2600 Space Invaders just don't like Space Invaders.

    Attention Pac-Man Haters

    in Atari 2600

    Posted · Edited by Buyatari

    Pacman and ET were both hated for the same reason. They didn't meet the high expectation placed on them by gamers at the time they were released.

    The quickest way to fix both games would have been to release them with different names and then no one would have complained.

     

    There were other Pacman clones out for just about every system. Most of these clones played better than the official 2600 version. Some clones even looked more like Pacman than 2600 Pacman did!

    The screen flicker was hard to sit through. If this was some game no one had heard of then the backlash wouldn't be there. This was Pacman and it was for the Atari. Fans were expecting an A+ product and nothing less.

    Is Iron Soldier as good as the cover looks?

    in Atari Jaguar

    Posted

    WOW! Love the artwork. Thanks so much for sharing.

    You've tempted me into buying the Art of Atari book. I'm going to have to buy it now!

    Are these Atari Jaguar paintings airbrush?

     

    Eli

    Now that I'm awake I think you better check with Tim first.

    He took lots of pictures even some non Atari pieces like Sonic etc but I think the book is mostly related to the 2600.

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