Shocking Ebay Prices

[samanosuke]

More sealed game insanity. $22,000!

PHANTASY STAR III & IV (3 & 4) - VGA 90 ~ SEGA GENESIS ~ SEALED NEW RARE RPG

Link: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PHANTASY-S...-/130692159921



I always remember telling my family there would be videogames on the antiques roadshow when I'm old. Might be sooner than that!

Does any other media fetch these sort of prices?

Check out the feedback the buyer left:

A+++ Seller. Excellent Item for a good price!!!!
Member ID imal3507 ( Feedback score of 60Blue star icon for Feedback score between 50 to 99)
21-May-12 21:56
PHANTASY STAR III & IV (3 & 4) - VGA 90 ~ SEGA GENESIS ~ SEALED NEW RARE RPG (#130692159921)

[25.05.2005]

Does anyone know where I can get back issues of the RETRO or RETRO GAMER Bookazines? They're all out of print on imaginepublishing & ebay prices tend to be well...a little high.

[Sketcz]

****ing hell, Hagane goes for HOW MUCH?!?! Jesus, I remember seeing it new in stores, many years ago. Why didn't buy it?

Blimey, he does have some pricey items in his shop - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-SEGA-MEG...#ht_500wt_1054

flabber ghasted

Says ?999.

Stuff like this, let me tell you from experience, is often a front for something else. Say there's a group that wants to offload some hot merchandise, say a prototype copy of The Last Guardian stolen from a Sony office for use on a CFW PS3*, and the seller wants to sell within an auction environment and with guarantees. eBay allows this, plus payment via PayPal, and both the buyer and seller have each other's details on record, even though the item is going under a funny name (examples I've seen tend to be nonsense, like Reverse Sprocket Calibrator or such like).

Spence, nob that he may be, also sells a lot of cheap retro tat. He knows the value of MD pads. There's probably a private forum somewhere, password protected, where he announces the real item in question and a URL link.

MD pads for ?999? What's worth a thousand quid right now in gaming circles? A NES proto cart perhaps? An unreleased NeoGeo game? If this guy is mass buying and selling crap like he seems to, there's a chance he's picked up something unique.

Look beyond the looking glass, gentlemen.


*a hypothetical example. Or is it?

[moonwhistle]

More sealed game insanity. $22,000!

PHANTASY STAR III & IV (3 & 4) - VGA 90 ~ SEGA GENESIS ~ SEALED NEW RARE RPG

Link: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PHANTASY-S...-/130692159921



I always remember telling my family there would be videogames on the antiques roadshow when I'm old. Might be sooner than that!

Does any other media fetch these sort of prices?

I don't believe that some of these transactions ever happened. Same buyer as above:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200756115975

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200746574956

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200746573124

There's got to be money laundering or an attempt to raise prices going on here. A sealed Pit Fighter for 20K anyone? That game is common, rubbish and can't be worth more than about ?200 at the absolute most.

[ETC]

I don't in all honestly think anyone would send a game worth anything to the VGA they only put it in the equivalent of a tesco security box and slap a cheap sticker on it big woop.

[Mayhem]

Does anyone know where I can get back issues of the RETRO or RETRO GAMER Bookazines? They're all out of print on imaginepublishing & ebay prices tend to be well...a little high.

I've got a bunch of spare Retro Gamer magazines from the last three years if there are any particular issues you're after...

[koopatroopa90]

Stuff like this, let me tell you from experience, is often a front for something else. Say there's a group that wants to offload some hot merchandise, say a prototype copy of The Last Guardian stolen from a Sony office for use on a CFW PS3*, and the seller wants to sell within an auction environment and with guarantees. eBay allows this, plus payment via PayPal, and both the buyer and seller have each other's details on record, even though the item is going under a funny name (examples I've seen tend to be nonsense, like Reverse Sprocket Calibrator or such like).

Ive always assumed something along those lines is happening, although I usually presume its something illegal being sold...

I remember seeing mince pies, and half eaten mince pies, going for hundreds and hundreds a few Christmases ago, for example.

[Sketcz]

There's got to be money laundering going on here.

I hadn't considered that. Good idea. But money laundering is converting ill-gotten physical cash into seemingly legitimate digital currency, isn't it? Organised crime use legalised gambling places to launder money because the authorities can't rightly argue that the physical money they declare came from a drug sale as opposed to gambling punters.

eBay demands PayPal for transactions, so not sure how that would work... Unless these buyers pay for their Mega Drive controllers using cash...?

[Brad]

eBay demand you 'offer' PayPal for transactions but buyers can use any other means can't they?

[25.05.2005]

I've got a bunch of spare Retro Gamer magazines from the last three years if there are any particular issues you're after...

Thanks mate, but I was more after the bookazines they did. I probably have most of the articles already but wanted these as a bit of a 'collectors' item kind of thing, you know.

[shiffy]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ALTERED-BEAST-SEGA-MEGADRIVE-GENESIS-100-CIB-NEW-POSTER-/350471634381?pt=UK_PC_Video_Games_Video_Games_JS&hash=item5199bcbdcd

I love the sellers write-up on this!

[Shingle]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ALTERED-BE...item5199bcbdcd

I love the sellers write-up on this!

Supposedly all his games come in "MEGA/SUPER SHINY COLLECTORS CONDITION!"

[acidbearboy]

A recent auction for PAL copies of Gradius 3&4 and Gradius 5 went for ?51 quid. Neither of those titles are that rare or valuable I thought?

[importaku]

LOL Bangaio on N64 worth nearly ?200 i seriously don't think so. Even more hillarious is they have listed it as new & yet the box sounds like it's in piss poor condition, the game is uncommon at best.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bangaioh-Nintendo-64-BRAND-NEW-BOX-new-other-N64-bangaio-bangai-o-ntsc-j-/160709780590?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item256b0ca46e

[BigDeadFreak]

Um...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2M-Metre-HD-AV-Scart-RGB-Cable-Lead-For-Playstation-2-3-/330558928049?pt=UK_Computing_Sound_Vision_Video_Cables_Adapters&hash=item4cf6d8f4b1#ht_2810wt_1089