Anyone looks at "foreign ebays" ?

[Lord-Chaos]

I mean other ebay sites than www.ebay.com - for example ebay UK , ebay France , ebay Germany/Swiss/Austria or maybe Asian ebay sites if there are any ?

 

Maybe it´s possible to find stuff there for a lower price than in the US - or you may sell stuff there for a higher price .

 

For example on ebay.de/ebay.at/ebay.ch , you´ll get more money for Commodore 64 games,since the C64 was very popular in Germany.

The C64 disk/cart games usually get more bids here - interesting are the US versions of Electronic Arts,Activision,SSI games etc. - which usually have better boxes than European versions.

 

The AMIGA was also very popular in Europe - especially UK and Germany , maybe Scandinavia and some games are really valuable.

 

But you won´t sell Sinclair games on ebay.de , since the Sinclair computers were only popular in England and Spain AFAIK - offer Spectrum games on ebay England and you may get more money for them.

 

You may also sell Nintendo/SNES or PSX role-playing games or others on European ebays,since they never made it to Europe - for example SNES Final Fantasy II and III , Chronotrigger,Mario Rpg or PSX Chrono Chross and others.Every collector has one or more adaptors (like me).

 

For ATARI gamers it might be interesting that some rare ATARI 2600 games are common in PAL countries - for example Spectravideo games like Master Builder.

 

Or ATARI 8 Bit games - the cart games like Crystal Castles are more common in Europe , I bought mine for 20 DM a few years ago , new and shrinkwrapped.You may also find lots of Tape-games especially in the UK , games by Zeppelin or Mastertronic.

 

Or you may find lots of Polish ATARI 8 Bit game which should be not common in the US.

 

US sellers may sell on European ebays , since all 2600 NTSC games usually work on PAL TVs , but not all 7800er games (the 5200 was not released in Europe).All NTSC 800 games seem to work fine except the artifacting problem.

 

Thimo

[CPUWIZ]

I do but most of the time I get pissed off because either the seller doesn't take PayPal or money orders and/or doesn't ship to the U.S. !

 

And when they do (like you), they use cheap ass bubble envelopes that nearly 100% of the time assure that boxed games are crushed when they arrive.

[Lord-Chaos]

I do but most of the time I get pissed off because either the seller doesn't take PayPal or money orders and/or doesn't ship to the U.S. !

 

And when they do (like you), they use cheap ass bubble envelopes that nearly 100% of the time assure that boxed games are crushed when they arrive.  

 

The paypal problem is the fault of ebay , they did not manage to give European users a good payment system since credit cards are not so common here.

If they´de allow to use normal bank accounts ,then everyone could use paypal , but not much happened at paypal.de in the last 2 years !

 

And I now use real packages , usually old PC Euro Boxes for sending stuff - I could not know that your postman is Rambo , but this won´t happen again - although it may be a little more expensive to send stuff becasue of the weight (250g max , no problem with the usual ATARI carts weighing about 100g , but a boxed BASIC Programming weighs 230g ...).

 

So this would not happen again and cannot happen with big packages , because I usually use original ATARI 6-packs.

 

You may buy another Fatal Run , this game would not be damaged in a PC Eurobox , I now have hundreds of these boxes , boxes of crappy PC games which I can sell for 1.- on ebay in the Jewel Case , so that no one needs the Euro Box (most people throw it away,anyway).

 

Thimo