the sweet atari 7800 package i received today

[orangest]

i ended up getting a second chance offer on this auction, and quickly accepted it. i put in a bid not really thinking i was going to get it; i thought it was going to really spike at the end. it's a quirky little package-the pete rose baseball, water ski and title match manuals are photocopies, but i have those already so that's alright. the rampage is in nice cosmetic shape, and meltdown's end label was put on upside-down!

 

the seller also included a nice little handwritten letter mentioning that this was the last system he bought after he started collecting in 1982, how atari screwed up the marketing of the 7800, and what his favorite games were.

 

these are all doubles, and i only need mean 18 to finish off my US commercial 7800 collection, so anything (well, maybe not tank command ) is negotiable...

[lemoncurry]

Hm, I didn't know that "reserve not met" auctions were eligible for the seller making a Second Chance offer. Further, I was not aware that such auctions do not show up on the seller's recent completed auctions list. But there it is in the seller's feedback. The completed auction ad itself also gives no clue I can see that it was a second chance. Interesting!

[orangest]

yeah, i've hardly ever done reserve auctions, and this was my first second chance offer, so i don't know all the ins and outs of 'em. i received a notification from ebay which had a link to the buy-it-now auction, which i presume someone could had snagged before me if he or she had somehow seen it first.

Edited May 20, 2006 by orangest

[lemoncurry]

I have been involved in making second chance offers before, and they are only available to seller-chosen individuals who bid on the original auction, and the only allowed prices are whatever their bids were. So no, no one else could have snagged it.

 

This one was the first I ever had a chance to examine that was not one I was involved in...

[NightSprinter]

The only "Second Chance Offer" I received to date was for a new copy of DK Jr. for the 7800, but only because the seller had a second copy for $.99. Since I bought a number of other titles from him I decided "Why not? I could always use the extra game".

[taxman]

I know if the reserve is not met, the seller can offer 2nd chance offers. So if they offer to 2nd and 3rd high bidders, does that mean 1st one to snag it gets it?

[lemoncurry]

No, each offer is separate, so if there is only a quantity of one widget to be sold, they would have to offer to one bidder at a time, and wait until it expires to offer to the next highest bidder. (And if it was a reserve not met, they'd want to start with the highest bidder!)