SOLID SNOW WHITE ATARI 2600 TELE SYSTEM--It's a fake!!

[64squares]

Several weeks ago I asked for information about a white Sear's Atari that was listed on eBay. Here's the link for the completed auction:

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...me=STRK:MEWA:IT

 

It went for the absurd price of $495--which is very high considering that many people on AA though it was a fake. I've checked the completed auction a few times to see if the seller left feedback for the buyer or vice versa and no feedback has ever been left either way. Today I checked the seller's other auctions and I came across this one:

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8127291697

 

In this auction he's selling some broken toaster style Nintendos but there's two that are painted--one black and one white. I think these were either practice for the Atari, or he was also thinking about doing the same thing with a Nintendo. Thieving scumbag! The seller is

pinheadkid. I would put him on your blackball list!

[Velvis]

How would someone paint the lettering in next to the switches?

[rexreed]

The lettering next to the switches does not appear to be painted. The white on silver color scheme was never real looking.

[video game addict]

He didn't paint that part. He just took really crappy pictures, and the color of that switch plate area was already a light silver color, so it's hard to tell it wasn't changed.

[Red 5]

The NES on the bottom right looks to be the same goofy paint job as he used on the Atari.

 

Unless that is one of those NES systems from the same "contest" the atari was won in.

 

Nice job catching him. Your like the Encyclopedia Brown of AtariAge.

[+RangerG]

I fully believe your he practiced painting on the NES theory. $500 for an Atari and some model paint.

[sku_u]

I can't believe someone bought that pile of junk for $70. Broken NES systems can be had for $5 or less each and those games are dirt common crap.

[BlackAtarian]

If he did paint it, thats quite an impressive paint job! Looks genuine.

[+Random Terrain]

I'd love to paint a wall or anything else that smooth.

[VidGameKing]

wow! that is pretty cool! Although he is a theiving scum bag, we should all learn something from this:

 

$10 VCS system

 

+

 

$10 paint

 

=

 

$475 profit!

 

 

oh, he also dings you $10 shipping!

 

Very smart man IMHO, not a very nice, or good man, just smart.

[+Nathan Strum]

This could start a whole new trend - custom painting fake 2600's. Wasn't there a green John Deere one posted awhile back?

 

Lots of possibilities...

 

Personally, I'd like to see "Refridgerator Almond", a special edition by Frigidaire.

 

eBay, here I come!

[moycon]

Notice there is no feedback yet for that 2600 auction.

I think enough people emailed the bidders and clued them in.

I'll bet the transaction never happened.

[Jermack71]

Maybe whoever purchased the Atari can buy this game to go with it!!

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...8129067335&rd=1

[Red 5]

If he did paint it, thats quite an impressive paint job! Looks genuine.

 

 

Masking tape and white spray paint.

[Atarinvader]

It looks like crap to me, you could see it was sprayed. Who ever was ready to part with $500 without doing some background reading is an idiot.

 

I'd like to see someone remould a 2600 case with clear iMac style plastic (like those iTari hoax pictures). I got a great repro case for a dirty old Dreamcast, got offical green VMU and Jap controller too, and now it looks like the Shiz Niz.

[sku_u]

If he did paint it, thats quite an impressive paint job! Looks genuine.

 

Krylon Fusion bonds with plastic at a molecular level and dries smooth enough that you can't tell the difference unless you look very closely.

 

If anyone's interested, my special Pink prototype system is still available. I also have SQ LSD World that I'll throw in for free.

[Gregory DG]

Well, looks like he did lie about finding it and all, but the auction did start at a reasonable $9.99. Some people were just too eager to buy it based on his false story. THAT's the real scumbag part of it. Not that it was painted or that it sold for a ridiculous amount.

[VidGameKing]

Who ever was ready to part with $500 without doing some background reading is an idiot.

 

 

idiots eh? maybe I should get into painting 2600's and selling them on ebay!!!!!!

 

I'd do coustom paint jobs!

 

like a Pitfall! motif, or Pac-Man or something like that!

 

 

Racing Stripes for Pole Position!

[+Nathan Strum]

I'm half-tempted to re-paint my 2600 using color-shifting paint.

 

Or maybe glow-in-the-dark.

[VidGameKing]

remeber those cars way back when,that would change colors when you put them under hot water?

 

 

Well, I should paint a 2600 with that! and then while your laying it, you run it under some hot water and watch the color change on the system, and the colors get weird on the screen too!!!!!

[The Lurking Horror]

A metalic silver 2600 would be great.

[Raijin Z]

Also, Fusion ain't for flexible stuff of course....

 

....like the still-black stick cover.

[VidGameKing]

how often do you flex your 2600?

[Raijin Z]

All the time. Whenever I'm done playing, I roll it up, bind it with a rubber band, and pop it in a pringles can for safe keeping.

[Cobra Commander]

That guy was diffinately decietfull, however I really think suckers deserve to loose their money. I've got a closet full of snake oil (good for most anything) I think I'll put em' up for audtion.