Holy crap did that sealed Stadium Events jump in price!

[STICH666]

This must be some kind of a record.

 

eBay Auction -- Item Number: 140384097750

[DaytonaUSA]

Holy crap... and it's been BID ON TO THAT POINT? Geeeez!

 

:prays that I find that game sealed somewhere for cheap:

[+jsmith73]

HOLY CRAP!!!!

 

If you look at the bid history there is a retracted bid of $224,500.00. Who's kid is in mucho trouble?

[82-T/A]

This must be some kind of a record.

 

eBay Auction -- Item Number: 140384097750

 

 

I'm thrilled for this guy, it'll help pay for his two daughter's college education...

 

 

But I just don't get how or why someone would spend this money on something with so little useable value. To each their own... I know... I have to keep remembering that.

 

I've been there... well... (minus the 40 grand to spend on a game), but I've been in the mindset where I had to collect everything related to video games. Truth be told, I almost never played anything... but I had every system you could imagine, and I tried to get as many games as possible. I've been selling ALL that stuff over the past few months now. I don't know... we just had our first child a little over a year ago, and it's been an eye opener. These video games are just so not important in the grand scheme of things.

 

I think a lot of nerds (like me) envision having a massive collection and eventually having some big basement or house to have them all set up at so I can go and play any time I want. Then, in later years, opening up a video game museum.

 

What realistically happens, is you die a sad death with tons of crap that family members either donate to local thrift stores, or you grow up and blow it all out on eBay.

 

Hahah...

 

I'm consolidating my "collection" to just keeping the stuff that's actually important to me. That's stuff like a working NES 8-Bit, my entire Jaguar collection, keeping my 2600 games and a couple of 2600s... keeping my Missile Command Arcade machine, maybe my Sega Saturn, and a Super Nintendo... and then getting rid of everything else.

[DaytonaUSA]

You have to remember, people on eBay aren't all just regular Joe's like us. This could be a rich celeb or business owner. Remember Tony Stark in Iron Man? When Penny told him that car was for sale, he simply said "buy it, wrap it, ship it, store it".

 

Basically my point is, no one has this money just laying around. Those guys were the ones who bid 500-2000 bucks for this. Now it's just people with too much money. Obviously opening this would ruin the value. They are buying this ONLY to say that they have it, just like Stark with his cars.

[jaybird3rd]

That's just crazy.

 

This kind of thing makes me wish I had a time-traveling tractor-trailer so I could take it back to 1989 or 1990, when retailers were getting rid of classic video game stuff ultra-cheap. I'd get a Stadium Events cart if I could, I'd get a few hundred of Intv's rare Intellivision releases, and so on.

[DaytonaUSA]

That's just crazy.

 

This kind of thing makes me wish I had a time-traveling tractor-trailer so I could take it back to 1989 or 1990, when retailers were getting rid of classic video game stuff ultra-cheap. I'd get a Stadium Events cart if I could, I'd get a few hundred of Intv's rare Intellivision releases, and so on.

 

 

I'll work on the flux capacitor if you get the semi truck.

[StoneAgeGamer]

That's just crazy.

 

This kind of thing makes me wish I had a time-traveling tractor-trailer so I could take it back to 1989 or 1990, when retailers were getting rid of classic video game stuff ultra-cheap. I'd get a Stadium Events cart if I could, I'd get a few hundred of Intv's rare Intellivision releases, and so on.

 

Yeah me too. I remember when I was around 12 the Big Lots store down the road from where I lived had a ton of Atari 2600 Jr's for like $10 each. And they had a ton of brand new 2600 games for $1 each. Granted a brand new Jr. isn't worth a ton, but still it would be nice to have 'em for resale.

[jaybird3rd]

Yeah me too. I remember when I was around 12 the Big Lots store down the road from where I lived had a ton of Atari 2600 Jr's for like $10 each. And they had a ton of brand new 2600 games for $1 each. Granted a brand new Jr. isn't worth a ton, but still it would be nice to have 'em for resale.

This isn't exactly "classic gaming," but your story reminds me of a local big-box retailer that had a whole pallet of new Sega Genesis 3 consoles for $9 each about twelve years ago. I bought a few of them, but in retrospect, I wish I had filled my car with them.

[AtariLeaf]

You have to remember, people on eBay aren't all just regular Joe's like us. This could be a rich celeb or business owner. Remember Tony Stark in Iron Man? When Penny told him that car was for sale, he simply said "buy it, wrap it, ship it, store it".

 

Basically my point is, no one has this money just laying around. Those guys were the ones who bid 500-2000 bucks for this. Now it's just people with too much money. Obviously opening this would ruin the value. They are buying this ONLY to say that they have it, just like Stark with his cars.

 

Yep, these are people who are probably very high income earners with more disposable cash than most of us make in a year, probably several years. If you make $50,000 a year, then dropping a couple hundred on a game is no big deal but to you and me $40 or $50 grand is insane. However if you make several million a year, dropping $50,000 on a game is no big deal either.

Its all perspective.

[128Kgames]

You have to remember, people on eBay aren't all just regular Joe's like us. This could be a rich celeb or business owner. Remember Tony Stark in Iron Man? When Penny told him that car was for sale, he simply said "buy it, wrap it, ship it, store it".

 

Painting my friend, not car, but that's only 'cause I've watched it way too many times...

 

I agree though you never know who is buying what and for what reason. Plus the high bidder has feedback of 1242 so he could be just the type of person you were writing about.

[DaytonaUSA]

You have to remember, people on eBay aren't all just regular Joe's like us. This could be a rich celeb or business owner. Remember Tony Stark in Iron Man? When Penny told him that car was for sale, he simply said "buy it, wrap it, ship it, store it".

 

Painting my friend, not car, but that's only 'cause I've watched it way too many times...

 

I agree though you never know who is buying what and for what reason. Plus the high bidder has feedback of 1242 so he could be just the type of person you were writing about.

 

Haha, my bad . I need to watch that again. I got it on Blu-Ray but I've only watched it once on that format...it was amazing though .

[CARTRIDGE STEALER]

This looks "staged", meaning that he (the seller) probably has friends helping him out with the bids.

 

recently, my friends brother was hired to do demo work on the Gotti's boys tanning salon and the contractor took the sign and put it on ebay. my friend called me and told me about it and I did some promo'ing for it and it got up $1000. I called him, joking about my cut since I helped him. He said that his 2 brothers were bidding on it themselves to get the other into bidding it.

 

aslo, I dont know if this auction has any credit card confirmation requirements because if not, anyone could bid on it with a fake account.

[+Psionic]

Let's see if it actually gets paid for before people get excited.

 

By the way, there's already a thread about this in the auction forum...

http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/158427-sealed-stadium-events/

[DaytonaUSA]

This looks "staged", meaning that he (the seller) probably has friends helping him out with the bids.

 

recently, my friends brother was hired to do demo work on the Gotti's boys tanning salon and the contractor took the sign and put it on ebay. my friend called me and told me about it and I did some promo'ing for it and it got up $1000. I called him, joking about my cut since I helped him. He said that his 2 brothers were bidding on it themselves to get the other into bidding it.

 

aslo, I dont know if this auction has any credit card confirmation requirements because if not, anyone could bid on it with a fake account.

 

 

Always the pessimist, huh Kenny?

[DeadlyDiskKun]

We all wish we could have bought stuff when it was never considered to ever gain in value.

 

Finding any sealed Kemco game for NES now is impossible or way to expensive.

I remember in 1994 all the stores selling NES games at like $8 sealed new, trying to get rid of old stock so they could completely transition into only Super NES and Sega Genesis.

 

I would have bought some if I had thought they might be worth something now... We never consider stuff like that when we are little kids.

[128Kgames]

recently, my friends brother was hired to do demo work on the Gotti's boys tanning salon and the contractor took the sign and put it on ebay. my friend called me and told me about it and I did some promo'ing for it and it got up $1000. I called him, joking about my cut since I helped him. He said that his 2 brothers were bidding on it themselves to get the other into bidding it.

 

Shill bidding

[mbd30]

I know why someone would buy this... to impress the ladies.

 

"Hey baby, wanna go see my sealed copy of 'Stadium Events'? It's quite rare."

[jboypacman]

Who in there right mind would pay that much for a video game? I mean seriously the most i have ever spent on a video game was $120 which i used money from some of my other video game items i sold off.

 

Top that with the fact i recently trade that $120 game for a game valued at $200 which i personally think is way to much to spend on a video game period which is way i traded otherwise that game would of never been gotten.

 

To me it's one thing spend $200 on a video game system and maybe $50 for a brand new game every few months but i don't care how rare a game is am not spending the amount of cash people are wanting for a rare game like Stadium Events its just crazy.

 

Am all for people making money and more power to them if they can heck we all want to make some big bucks but like with anything whose prices get over inflated on Ebay i think this will hurt the gamers/collectors market in the long run.

 

I hate to say it but i hope a giant crate of these rare Stadium Games shows up some where and the market gets flooded with these games to bring the cost down and deflate the value so that collectors with out deep pockets can get there hands on these for there own collections.

Edited February 26, 2010 by jboypacman

[SoulBlazer]

It's the fact the game is SEALED that is demanding the high price. Yes, the game itself is rather rare -- from most reports only about 200 exist in the wild. But this is a once in a life time chance for someone.

 

(Yes, I'm aware that another sealed copy exists, and a third sealed copy has been listed on EBay -- the former will probaly never be sold and I'm dubious about the latter being a real sealed game.)

[peeingas]

probably a NPB. You have to remember this is ebay. It could just be a 6 year old bidding on this. We all hear that "so and so went for X amount of $", but we never hear that the bidder didn't actually pay for it....

[SoulBlazer]

probably a NPB. You have to remember this is ebay. It could just be a 6 year old bidding on this. We all hear that "so and so went for X amount of $", but we never hear that the bidder didn't actually pay for it....

 

The seller seems to be doing the best he can to prevent that -- blocking 0 bidders, removing shill bids, and so on. Plus there's a lot of press on this auction -- a lot of eyes. I reconize a few of the bidders as being serious collectors. It's very possible the top bidder may not pay, but the second chance would be taken.

 

I think the seller would be willing to communicate if the item changed hands.

 

The last hour and 20 minutes of this auction tonight should be fun to watch.

[SRGilbert]

And the winning bid is............

 

 

$41,300.00

with free shipping of course...

[DaytonaUSA]

And the winning bid is............

 

 

$41,300.00

with free shipping of course...

 

: slow clap : wow

 

Kudos and talk about good luck for this guy. I wish I kept a would be return like that and had it worth that much 30 years later. I could pay off most of my mortgage with that money.

[DaytonaUSA]

Does this bother anyone else? "t***a( 1 )". The winner only has one feedback! In fact all the guys after the $39,800 bid had low feedback. Hopefully this guy gets his money.