SQ WaterWorld. Whats going on here?

[Cafeteriafraiche]

Hi all,

Long time follower. First time poster. I've just started building out my 2600 collection. I kinda worked my way backwards through Atari history since I've got just about all the Jaguar, 7800 and 5200 games I wanted to collect.

Now I know the story of the SwordQuest series and I understand that WaterWorld is a very rare game. But honestly I need to know what the hell is going on when it shows up on eBay for $25,000. Whats the scam here? Surely no one will buy it at that price. I'm not even sure if Stadium Events for NES has ever sold for that much. And previous auctions all sold for less than $1,000.

I guess I'm relatively naive to eBay scamming practices. I'd appreciate an education from folks that have been around the block longer than me on this.

 

The "$25,000" auction for WaterWorld

 

Previous auction price history

[Zwackery]

It's just clickbait to get on the hype-train to the seller's store.

 

While sealed copies of Waterworld are hard to come by, it's not a $25K game.  A few hundred years down the line, who knows...