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Espial and one of the MTE 201 test cartridges are now sold! The Vectrex War Of The Robots and the other test cartridges are still up for grabs!

Ha...don't know how Wata does their determinations. Wayyy above my pay grade, LOL!

I've been doing a lot of eBay auctioning recently, but realized I could offer lower prices by selling some things directly through the AA Marketplace. I'm starting off with the below three. If this goes well, I'll start listing more items directly on this thread. Pop me a direct message for more pictures or information. Vectrex WAR OF THE ROBOTS - New, Sealed - Only 100 made! $185 + shipping This is a New, Unopened, Ultra-Rare, Never-Used War of the Robots for the Vectrex video game system. This game was released in 2003 with a limited production run of only 100 copies. Each copy was sold in a plastic bag that was sealed with a "War of the Robots" sticker. This sticker on this copy was also signed by (I believe) the author. This is Cartridge #31 of the 100 that were released. The cartridge is still sealed in the plastic bag in which it was sold 21 years ago. Also sealed in the bag is the instruction booklet. Note that since this cartridge is new, unused and unopened, it cannot be tested, so be aware when you bid that I cannot make any warranties regarding its functionality. ESPIAL for ATARI 2600 - NEW, NEVER OPENED, GORGEOUS BOX - Ultra rare 2003 game $540 + shipping Until February, I owned two of these in identical condition, but in late February I auctioned one off through Heritage Auctions (it sold for $600 with buyer's fees in their February 23-24 Video Games Signature Auction #7359, lot #28145). That one received a CGC rating of 8.0 and was confirmed as unopened (which is exceedingly rare, given that Tigervision games were manufactured and sold without seals)...I would bet that it would have received a higher rating except that it (like this one) still had the original price sticker on the front. The one being sold here has not been submitted for rating but it is the twin sister/brother of the one that was auctioned in February. Note that since this box has never been opened, the cartridge has not been tested, so I cannot make any warranties regarding its functionality. MTE 201 TEST CARTRIDGE for INTELLIVISION - NEW, UNUSED! $129 + shipping This is a New, Still-In-The-Original-Plastic-Bag, Ultra-Rare, blue-labeled MTE 201 Test Cartridge for the Intellivision video game system. I have only a few of these left...all 5 of the ones in the back row are for sale (you can pick the one you'd prefer if you'd like). When I bought these back in the early 1990s, I got them from an Intellivision dealer who was getting out of the business. The dealer shipped each MTE 201 in its own separate plastic baggie, most sealed with a single piece of tape, which, as I understand it, is how he received them from the manufacturer. These have never been removed from the original plastic bag. If you want it to stay that way, I'll leave it in the baggie and will not test it (but I won't make any warranties that it works since you wanted to keep it as new-and-unused)...if you'd prefer for me to test the cartridge to confirm it works, I will gladly do so before sending to ensure you've got a working cartridge.

Just updated for April 5. Trying out some direct sales on AtariAge as well as adding other eBay auctions, too. Some highlights: FS on AtariAge: Vectrex War of the Robots (NEW), 2600 Espial (NEW), Intv MTE201 Test Cart (NEW) FA/FS on eBay: 2600 Labyrinth Starpath CD (NEW), Bally Ms Candyman (NEW), Nintendo Game Watch (NEW), and other Intellivision, 2600, Lynx, Bally, Apple 2 and IBM items ...and more...

I actually bought my Froggo games mostly from those buyout bins. Not the best games, of course...but at the time I didn't even know there WAS a company called Froggo Games making Atari games, and then, BOOM, there they were in the clearance bins!

March 30 update posted!

I think what you wrote would only apply if you try to come up with one flat fee across the board on your own instead of letting their shipping calculator do the work FOR you. When I list, I place the items (along with a shipping box) on a shipping scale I have in my house, get the weight and box measurements, and then enter that information into the listing tool. I select three shipping options...domestically, USPS Priority is my top option (because it's just easier to use the USPS premade boxes, it ships faster, and it allows for more weight for the same price) + I include two other options (usually UPS and a land-based USPS); internationally, I pick the least expensive two services on the list. When potential bidders look at the listing, they will see the shipping costs for THEIR address based upon the weight and measurements. Because eBay adjusts its estimates for each bidder based upon their own home location, I don't have to figure it out...it's giving the exact estimate. The only add-on I include is a small $1.50 shipping/handling charge (domestically...a bit more internationally) in order to mostly (though often not fully) cover extra expenses (ya gotta buy the bubble wrap and styro bubbles) and to also adjust for the fact that eBay, in a move that irks me, calculates their percentage based upon the sum of both the selling price AND the shipping costs. I understand why they decided to include shipping in their estimate of the fees they charge the seller...because they wanted to get around sellers who used to charge $1 for the item and $50 for shipping to get around eBay's cut of the profits...but that penalizes all the sellers who don't try to game their system...they shouldn't (IMO) be making a profit off of shipping costs, but they do.

Update posted! Some end tomorrow and Monday!

Just uploaded the March 14 update. Some highlights this week include Bally Astrocade Sea Devil (NEW), Atari 2600 Espial (NEW), Atari 2600 Crazy Valet (NEW), and a number of rarer cartridges, including Subterranea, Rubik's Cube, Atari Video Cube, Halloween, Shuttle Orbiter and more.

I get your frustration, NinjaWarrior, and some people definitely double the shipping and go way overboard. On the other hand, the weight thing is real, too. I just listed an item on ebay...a Marx TV Tennis game...for $15. It doesn't work, and I plan to bring it to the recycling center if nobody bids on it. I don't expect anyone to buy it because of the shipping costs. Before listing it, I put it in a box, weighed and measured it, and then listed it. The shipping costs are three times the listing price. But that exorbitant amount is the automatic shipping calculator, not something I selected...it really is what shipping costs, and it will unfortunately likely deter any potential buyers. I'm not sure what the radio you're bidding on weighs, but some of my old handheld radios had heavy (relatively) parts inside and easily weighed two pounds...that would surely increase shipping costs far higher than a similarly-sized videogame that weighs under a pound.

Okay...I just modified one of my earlier mid-February threads with a new title...and I deleted the content of the first post and changed it to reflect my newest auctions. I won't be adding new threads for future announcements, will just modify that one thread...and I was thinking I should just keep modifying the first post in that thread rather than add a new post every week. I didn't remember that people could "follow" a thread until I noticed it this evening, so I'm imagining people interested in the updates will follow the thread. However, I'm not sure how the system works, so I am unsure whether people who get notifications of new threads sent to their emails or phones also get notifications when a thread they aren't "following" gets updated...? In order for Marketplace fans to know about the recurringly-modified thread, should I have instead started a new "permanent home" thread rather than modifying the old one from mid-February? (I didn't want to repeat the faux pas of adding yet another thread, but I'm wondering if there was a downside to modifying the old one instead. And if I am modifying the first post, will that "bump" the thread as Shawn mentioned earlier...or should I be instead making it a new post in the same thread every week or two in order to get that "bump"? And if there's any other recommendations you all might have so I can best let the community know about the things I'll be selling while also making sure to do so in a way that will both serve and respect the standards everyone expects, I am all ears!! (well, that's not entirely true...I have other facial features as well, but at the moment, the "all ears" part is the one I'm focusing upon, HA!). 👂👂👂👂 Thanks, all! And, again, I apologize for starting off crossing a couple of lines of etiquette!

In order to keep my For Auction/Sale threads to a minimum, I just updated this previously-opened thread with most of my current early-March auctions and eBay sales. Hopefully I've done it right...but I'm always open to recommendations if someone sees a way I can improve the way I share my auctions with the AtariAge community! Enjoy!!

Another question for the crew: Is it possible for a thread-starter to delete some of his old no-longer-relevant threads? I was looking to see if I could do that with a couple of my threads...clear the "clutter", so to speak...but couldn't find a way to do so. If it's not possible, I'll edit one of my earlier threads for my future update-announcements rather than start yet another one, but it still would be cool if I could consolidate or winnow them down, if there's a way to do so.

I just experimented a minute ago and, yes, if the originator of a thread edits the original post, he/she can also edit the title. I just tested it on this current thread by changing the colon in the title to a double-dash. So I think I'll do that from here on out: One thread, edited every week or two, with an updated title that will sometimes highlight the best new additions. While I personally would go the route bfstats preferred...a different thread for each system...I totally get how it could feel overpowering to have multiple auction-announcement threads by the same person.

Sage advice. Thank you! 👍

From what I remember, I never actually considered that when honoring that "low-value / gift request", Bratwurst. Have you ever had that actually come back to bite you?

Hi, Shawn, So to make sure I understand your perspective...your opinion would be that if I (or anyone, but we'll stick with me for the moment) were to post one thread on, say, March 1 mentioning 20 rarities up for auction, that then I should not be posting another thread -- ever again? -- on the Marketplace even if, two weeks later, I have 20 different rarities? Are you saying I should have one thread entitled something like "JeffGamer's weekly rarity auctions", then update it when I add new items, which will thereby "bump" it? (I haven't been actively using the "bump" option...hadn't even really thought about it.) And if this IS what you are suggestion, I have a question on that -- is it possible to modify the title of a thread on a weekly basis? For example, "JeffGamer's Weekly eBay auctions -- 3/5/24 update -- 2600 Grandma PacMan, Vectrex VForVendetta, Odyssey2 Nutella Invaders, lots more!", and then, rather than list a new thread the following week, change the title of the same thread during the following week to "JeffGamer's Weekly eBay auctions -- 3/12/24 update -- Intellivision Cookie Monster, Fairchild ChildOfTheFair, Bally Pickleball, lots more!". Is that possible? (note that none of those titles were real...just having fun making up new game titles!) My intention is and has been NOT to spam the Marketplace. You may not know but, while I have not been particularly active on the AA forums for several years, I used to be a more active presence here and I have great love for the AtariAge website. I with complete honesty am telling you that I've been under the belief that announcing what I'm selling here would be received with enthusiasm...the whole point of the Marketplace threads is to announce cool auctions of interest to the community, and I love opening up threads with interesting items (like that Computer Space one!). There were around 12 different people posting on the Marketplace in total in January, 8 in February...I didn't think that my putting up a weekly post or two (which has been my developing intent) would be selfishly hogging the bandwidth or pushing other people off the screen, I thought it would be increasing the mild-to-moderate activity on the board with things that I believe the classic video game community will want to see (and, of course, getting the word out to those people who will most likely want what I have to offer). You are right, though, that if there are NOT many people posting on the Marketplace (like I said, there were only 7 others in all of February), then even if I were to put only 2 posts up each week, without lots of other posters that will make my name come up in the majority of the visible threads. I AM trying to figure out the best way to go about it all. If there's a consensus on the "best ways" for me to be letting ya'll know what I put up for auction while simultaneously not going overboard or crossing lines of etiquette, I am all ears! That's why I started this thread! 😃

Hi, all! I thought this would be an interesting and enlightening discussion, so I'm starting a thread on it. Please keep all comments respectful and focused on a dialogue, as this is about a sharing of opinions and thoughts, and different people may have different-but-still-respectable views. The situation: the week of 2/22, I posted a combined-auction-of-mine thread...but the week of 2/15 I posted three (and had to repost one when something went wrong with one of my auctions). On the 2/22 thread, CPUWiz wrote the following: >> Please stop spamming this forum with individual posts, combine them into one with the relevant information please. As I just noted, that week I had only posted one thread for that week's auctions (and mentioned what was still up on eBay), so the post he responded to actually followed what he was requesting and DID combine them into one. However, the previous week (the week of February 15), I HAD put up more than one. I did so that week because there were several titles that were high rarities, from different systems, that I thought people would want to know about specifically...people open up a thread not just because the title says "I posted a bunch of stuff!" but often because the title says something they are particularly interested in (such as the Vectrex shoe lace tags someone else put up or the out-of-print homebrews I put up), and I thought they warranted a different thread. CPUWiz does bring up an interesting question, though. Where is the line dividing spam and "other"? This thread is specifically for listings of interesting auctions...putting up threads for interesting auctions would definitely be spam in non-sale threads, but in this one that's the whole reason for its existence, and I would imagine that thread titles that specifically mention specific items of interest would be of preference to at SOME of the visitors of this thread...while others obviously see more than one thread as spam. Suppose I (or anyone else) puts up for auction, in one week, five super-rare Vectrex titles...five super-rare Colecovision titles...five super-rare Bally titles...five super-rare Atari 2600 titles...and so on for another five systems. Should that person combine all of the items into a generic post saying, again, "Lots of rare stuff for a bunch of systems"? Or should that person put up one post for the Vectrex items, one for the Colecovision items, etc, so Atari Age members who are only into, say, Colecovision, know there are things in that listing for them and open up that one only? And if someone is listing new rarities every week, is it appropriate and of interest to the community to post each week the new stuff...or is that crossing some line regarding the purpose of this thread? Is it spam or is it welcome information? As I'm currently just at the starting stage of a year-or-more-long process of posting, every week, an increasingly large number of items for dozens of systems, I'd be curious to see if there's a consensus on how people on this thread would prefer posts to be placed, or if there are varying viewpoints on the subject. So...let's have an exchange of ideas! Discuss!!

Hi, CPUWiz. Actually, if you take a look, the thread you are replying to was the only post I put up the week of February 22, so I was following what you are now requesting...I did combine them into one. But you do bring up an interesting discussion question. I'm going to start a discussion thread on the topic you just brought up.

I never in the past had a problem with declaring gift when requested...are there downsides to that that I should be considering? What sorts of frauds have you had to deal with internationally?

Just letting you know that the first link in your post works...but the second doesn't. Good luck!

Hi, all! The new items I've listed this week (2/22/24) include a Brand New/Shrinkwrapped/Gorgeous Fairchild Channel F Casino Poker (Videocart 25), a tested/working Intellivision MTE 201 Test Cart, and several never-unflattened Intellivision boxes. These are in addition to the other rarities I've mentioned in last week's post that will end this Sunday -- Atari 7800 Klax (new), 2600 Rush Hour (new), Vectrex War of the Robots (new), Odyssey 2 128-in-1 multicart (new), and several shrinkwrapped Bally Astrocade games (new). You can check them all out here: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?item=126341639273&rt=nc&_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l170197&_ssn=jeffgamer And here are direct links to the Casino Poker and MTE 201. Fairchild Channel F Videocart 25 Casino Poker - https://www.ebay.com/itm/126342328779 Intellivision MTE 201 Test Cart (tested, otherwise brand new) - https://www.ebay.com/itm/126340985925 I'm hoping to list a much larger number of rarities next week!

It's now active! 🙂

Hi, all! I just added International Shipping options to my eBay auctions, and thought I'd share what I've learned through the process and see if it might spark discussion or ideas. Here's my journey from this past week: I'm beginning to actively sell a lot of classic gaming items on eBay. When completing the auction write-up, it says under the International Shipping section: "eBay International Shipping......Your listing will show up for buyers worldwide, where applicable. Ship to our domestic shipping hub, and we’ll handle the rest, including customs and returns—at no extra cost to you." It also allows the option to add additional international shipping methods. I didn't add additional methods...didn't see a reason to since eBay had a program for that and I'm included in that program." What they DON'T tell you on the seller's page is that electronics are excluded from that program...which means that all video games listed under the Video Games category won't display International Shipping as a choice...and they will also not even allow international bidders to place a bid. I wouldn't have even realized there was a problem if someone hadn't contacted me last night asking if I could include an option to ship to Canada for one of my auctions and I responded that I thought the option was already there. I was able to revise the listings for all of my auctions in order to add the "additional international shipping methods"...sellers need to ship directly to international buyers, not through the eBay service. But I was NOT able to revise the listings for the two items that already had received bids -- Democrat for Fairchild Channel F and Rush Hour for 2600 -- because the system won't let you revise or add shipping options once a bid is in place. For the Rush Hour, eBay advised me to cancel the one bid it had received...then add International Shipping options...then ask the bidder to put a new bid down. But they advised me incorrectly...even after cancelling the one bid, the system still treated the auction as if the bids were still active and I could not add International Shipping. The only option the next eBay rep could think of was to end the auction early and relist. Not my ideal...I like ending all my auctions around the same time on Sundays, and I like to be predictable and reliable for anyone bidding in my auctions...but that's what I needed to do. For the Fairchild Democart, it already had 10 bids on it and ends this upcoming Sunday evening (a little over 2 days from now), so I was NOT going to cancel all those bids. Best I could think of in order to accommodate non-U.S. bidders was to add a note to the Democart's page which read: "NOTE TO INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS: First -- YES, I will ship internationally...if you are an international bidder who wants to bid on this item, read on..... **The dilemma**: The seller listing tool says that International shipping is included through an eBay program...but, apparently, electronics (including video games) are excluded from that program and it did not tell me I needed to manually add international shipping options. The system also will not let me add international shipping once a bid has been received. Sooo...if an international bidder for this particular auction wants to bid, you'll need a U.S. eBay user to place the bid for you (I can find someone for you if you don't have anybody). If you win, you'll need to cover the extra cost for shipping to your country...but I am absolutely happy to ship internationally. Message me if you have questions." Sooooo..... Anyone have any thoughts on the above? Is there a better way to accommodate International bidders on the Fairchild? Is there something about International Shipping that I am not aware of and should know for the future? I may have come to the best conclusions...or those with more experience selling items on eBay might have other perspectives that never even crossed my mind. At the very least, sharing the above with ya'll might be helpful to others listing on eBay...and at the best, perhaps there might be some friendly community discussion to be had from it! Cheers! Jeff