SpendTooMuchOnAtari Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Here's a nice looking lot, tons of treasures in there. Too bad I don't have an extra $18,500 laying around. eBay Auction -- Item Number: 230506210271 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FND Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Here's a nice looking lot, tons of treasures in there. Too bad I don't have an extra $18,500 laying around. eBay Auction -- Item Number: 230506210271 18,500 / 501 boxed games = 36.92 each and we have not taken into account shipping yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetset Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Hopes these are just dupes and the old pitbull isn't leaving the scene. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpendTooMuchOnAtari Posted August 1, 2010 Author Share Posted August 1, 2010 Hopes these are just dupes and the old pitbull isn't leaving the scene. The wording of the first two sentences has me thinking that these aren't his dupes: "I AM SELLING MY ENTIRE ATARI 2600 C0LLECTION IN ONE BIG PACKAGE DEAL !!! IT HAS TAKEN ME 10 YEARS TO GET MY COLLECTION THIS BIG AND WHAT PICTURES YOU SEE HERE IS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO EVERYTHING YOU WILL BE RECEIVING!!!!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Here's a nice looking lot, tons of treasures in there. Too bad I don't have an extra $18,500 laying around. eBay Auction -- Item Number: 230506210271 18,500 / 501 boxed games = 36.92 each and we have not taken into account shipping yet At the bottom it says shipping is free in the United States. 12,500/ 501 =24.95 per game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 If I had the space I would bid 12,500. That's an awesome collection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARIPITBULL Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Thats right guys I am selling my entire atari 2600 collection and yes shipping is for free in the US only. now as far as trying to figure out my selling price, i just received an offer of $1400 for just 6 of those 501 boxed games and those she wanted weren't even the rare ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARIPITBULL Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Hopes these are just dupes and the old pitbull isn't leaving the scene. Nope these are no dupes, infact if there are more than one type of game in my collection is because one game has 2 different style of boxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwan-iwanowitsch-goratschin Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 This will be the best instant collection lot we have ever seen! WOW! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARIPITBULL Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Plus Ebay does not allow me enough pictures to show you all the other stuff you don't see like all the after market games that you will get and games that come with controllers like the Tron pack with both games, Cosmic Commander, the Joyboard MIB with mogual maniac 2600 game, both blue and silver Atari 2600 club member jackets and so forth. After all is said and done I think it will cost me well over $500 to ship all this stuff to the winner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
video game addict Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Thats right guys I am selling my entire atari 2600 collection and yes shipping is for free in the US only. now as far as trying to figure out my selling price, i just received an offer of $1400 for just 6 of those 501 boxed games and those she wanted weren't even the rare ones. Let me guess Schoolbus Anna? If you are serious I wish you good luck. I think the price isn't really that bad at all, probably could part it out for twice that much. But at that price it's gonna take someone with deep pockets to bite. I could see someone like JC hitting that BIN if all that promotional type stuff is really included also. A great lot, I think it would have been cool to see a $1 opening no reserve auction, would of been crazy exciting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARIPITBULL Posted August 7, 2010 Share Posted August 7, 2010 WOW I guess it was still a bad time to put my entire collection up for sale ! I guess there are not many people who can afford to pay this kind of money and others think I'm going to give it to them for next to nothing. I guess I'll be keeping it and have to buy my boat next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofrills100 Posted August 7, 2010 Share Posted August 7, 2010 I would have taken the $1400 for the 6 'not so rare ones'! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holygrailvideogames.com Posted August 7, 2010 Share Posted August 7, 2010 WOW I guess it was still a bad time to put my entire collection up for sale ! I guess there are not many people who can afford to pay this kind of money and others think I'm going to give it to them for next to nothing. I guess I'll be keeping it and have to buy my boat next year. The boxes look great! If you have the time to sell off piece by piece you probably could get quite a bit in return. The problem that you have is most people who are serious enough collectors to spend a lot of money already have many of these titles. They don't want to pay $12k-18k for a ton of duplicates. The price is too high for a reseller to turn around and resell these so your only shot is with a new collector with deep pockets. If you aren't in a hurry you could list it fixed price for 30 days and just relist it every 30 days until it sells. Set a buy it now at $18k-$20k with best offer. 30 day fixed priced listings aren't real expensive. For me it cost 5 cents but I believe it is a bit more if you don't have a store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARIPITBULL Posted August 8, 2010 Share Posted August 8, 2010 Yeah I know there are a lot of common games mixed in there but people don't think about the fact that they are in great shape if not new and sealed, the shipping price I paid to have them sent to my house and the shipping price of all this stuff was coming out of the winning bid so I was going to be losing money anyway but i'm not just going to give my whole collection away for less then half of what its worth and don't forget you were also going to be getting other atari related items that were not in the picture, not just the 501 boxed games. Well since the collection did not sell, I guess the next step will be to break this big mutha fuka up and sell it in pieces. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongbeat Posted August 8, 2010 Share Posted August 8, 2010 Maybe you can change the auction, it's impossible for me and maybe for us from France to see the auction, Ebay seems to block it. As you may know in France we can't buy guns and i can't even watch the auction as if you sell guns ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirage Posted August 8, 2010 Share Posted August 8, 2010 It seems to me (and this is probably obvious), that if you posted more pics of the rare/oddball/extra stuff, you'd get a lot more interest. I know you said ebay doesn't allow over so many photos, but there certainly must be another way to do it? I know they used to allow external links to photos... don't know if they do now. Anyway... or, like you said, split it up. I sure wouldn't let it all go for just peanuts though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horseboy Posted August 8, 2010 Share Posted August 8, 2010 I suggest selling the rare stuff individually and selling common stuff in one big lot. You will have much better luck finding a new collector will $3000 than $12000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinball22 Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 Yes, you can have externally-hosted pics on eBay so you can have as many as you need. You just have to use the selling form that lets you put in HTML directly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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