How to find rare games in lots (on ebay) ?

[Lord-Chaos]

Some people don't list the games in large lots, like this one here :

 

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt...me=STRK:MEWA:IT

 

And if the quality of the picture is not that great and if there are no bigger pictures, how can you find out if there are good, rare games or just common carts in such an auction?

 

I mean, the resolution of the photos usually is too bad.

 

Thimo

[JerseyDevil]

Some people don't list the games in large lots, like this one here :

 

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt...me=STRK:MEWA:IT

 

And if the quality of the picture is not that great and if there are no bigger pictures, how can you find out if there are good, rare games or just common carts in such an auction?

 

I mean, the resolution of the photos usually is too bad.

 

Thimo

 

You ask the seller for a list of the games.

[Mindfield]

Or you just squint and try and visually match what you see in the lot to what you know certain games to look like.

 

'Course that's a lot harder when all you have to work with are end labels.

[Buyatari]

You ask the seller for a list of the games.

 

Problem is many people will email them and there may be someone who offers to buy that one rare game. Now if the seller sends you the lot after you win and that one rare game isn't included what can you do? It was not named or pictured in the auction.

[spacecadet]

Some people don't list the games in large lots, like this one here :

 

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt...me=STRK:MEWA:IT

 

And if the quality of the picture is not that great and if there are no bigger pictures, how can you find out if there are good, rare games or just common carts in such an auction?

 

The first thing you do is open the picture up on an image editor and rotate it so all the titles are facing up

 

Seriously though, it's usually not really worth bothering with for me, but YMMV. Either I can see the titles in the pic or I move on, or sometimes I just take a chance if I'm not sure. But there are too many auctions like this to really put much time into trying to figure out if any rare games are included... you could spend your entire life just going back and forth with sellers about what games they've got in their lots.