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Nouvostonolion powiedział(a):
I remember this guy on eBay refused to sell me a game because I didn't have enough reviews made about me as a buyer. It was the most bizarre experience and I've never had any seller do that since. Guy was an asshole about it, too.
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eBay always sides with the buyer no matter what happens. People get fucked out of rare or valuable shit all the time by a myriad of scams that take advantage of that seemingly default stance. Someone with <5 feedback bidding on a really expensive video game is suspicious. I wouldn't sell to them either. I've been fucked by eBay pretty bad. My guess is so did that seller.
 
Barry Williams powiedział(a):
eBay always sides with the buyer no matter what happens. People get fucked out of rare or valuable shit all the time by a myriad of scams that take advantage of that seemingly default stance. Someone with <5 feedback bidding on a really expensive video game is suspicious. I wouldn't sell to them either. I've been fucked by eBay pretty bad. My guess is so did that seller.
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They can even send you back broken shit (or don't and just claim they did) that you said no refunds for and get a full refund so you're out the item+shipping+the triple ebay fees AND get bad feedback lmao. I totally get why someone wouldn't sell to some feedbackscrub.
 
I hate selling shit online, its always "Is this still aviable" and when I reply yes they just never reply.
what the fuck was the point of asking?
 
Sometimes i see people selling things for insane amounts of money, and others buying it for even more insane amounts of money to the point where it's just sad. So i look at those people and think "Ok, SURELY there aren't less financially literal people who'll buy bullshit for far more than it's worth." And then i realize video game collectors exist...
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120K... i wish i was making this shit up... I mean, apart from it being a horrible deal and financial decision, the guy who busted 120K$ on it, obviously will not play it to "preserve it's value" And after like... 5 minutesof googling, i feel bad for the guy given he coulda bought a similar copy for like... 120 times less. Like, for 1600$ i can buy myself a PC that'll easily emulate that and every other nintendo console and console in general after that, no 1600$ "sealed copy" needed. Video game collectors, what makes you incentivized to buy a game for 120 Grand when you aren't even going to play it, specifically because and only because it's sealed. Really, it being forgotten in a drawer for 4 decades is what makes it worth?? TBH video game collectors should get their own thread in the community watch or wherever.
 
x3firehexx powiedział(a):
120K... i wish i was making this shit up... I mean, apart from it being a horrible deal and financial decision, the guy who busted 120K$ on it, obviously will not play it to "preserve it's value" And after like... 5 minutesof googling, i feel bad for the guy given he coulda bought a similar copy for like... 120 times less. Like, for 1600$
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Video game collecting/speculating is a weird thing. Not to justify the $120K price tag of Duck Hunt or anything, because that is probably money laundering, but you did post a listing of a US/NTSC version, and an EU/PAL version.

The PAL version is substantially less because nobody seems to give a shit about PAL territory Nintendo games with the exception of Devil World because that's the only "black box" NES game that was not released in the US because of Nintendo of America's stance regarding religious iconography in the games they allowed onto the system. Also PAL games don't work right on NTSC systems and televisions so for the longest time collectors just turned a blind eye to that region.

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I've posted this before elsewhere on the Farms but I always get a kick out of this. This is the most expensive listing for a WATA-graded game on eBay, and it was done as an intentional joke by the guy who does the Gatorbox Twitch stream. As the story goes, he bought this game still sealed from a secondhand store or something for a couple of dollars just because it was funny. Then when graded games became a gold rush, he sent this one off to WATA as a joke because he thought it was the most worthless game possible. When it came back with relatively high marks for the condition he put it on eBay for one million dollars (or best offer!!) as a way to make commentary on the speculative market for games.

This was a couple of years ago by now I think, so I can't remember the details and he hasn't put the video on his YouTube channel yet so I can't go back and check, but he mentioned that he gets offers in the ball park of $1-20 for it and he always responds with a counter-offer of $999,999.
 
A few years back I worked for a company that made custom t-shirts. The company had several acccounts on different platforms where they would post shirts and people could buy online. One was Etsy.

One day the account gets a message. It's from a guy saying that if we sold a shirt with an obscure Pokemon on it, he would buy it. I don't remember the specific Pokemon but it wasn't anything like Pikachu, Mewtwo, or anything familiar.

Keep in mind, we didn't sell and had never sold anything close to the Pokemon franchise.

I sent an inquiry reply, what size, etc. Was ghosted.

If the dude was into Pokemon, I don't know how he would've stumbled onto the profile or one of the items. I still think about it every so often. People are so strange.
 
First Gumtree, now Deliveroo, what is it with the UK taking antipodean inspiration for startups?
 
I stopped selling shit on online years ago, but my brother once sold a fairly expensive early 20th century coin to someone. It supposedly never arrived (the tracking was also fucked up saying "no such number exists"), so we gave them their money back. About a year later, it finally arrived, the same tracking number worked now for some reason, and the people actually paid him back via mail with a nice note and a check with a little bit extra. It was cool they were honest with him, because most people probably would of just kept it and not paid!
 
x3firehexx powiedział(a):
Sometimes i see people selling things for insane amounts of money, and others buying it for even more insane amounts of money to the point where it's just sad. So i look at those people and think "Ok, SURELY there aren't less financially literal people who'll buy bullshit for far more than it's worth." And then i realize video game collectors exist...
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120K... i wish i was making this shit up... I mean, apart from it being a horrible deal and financial decision, the guy who busted 120K$ on it, obviously will not play it to "preserve it's value" And after like... 5 minutesof googling, i feel bad for the guy given he coulda bought a similar copy for like... 120 times less. Like, for 1600$ i can buy myself a PC that'll easily emulate that and every other nintendo console and console in general after that, no 1600$ "sealed copy" needed. Video game collectors, what makes you incentivized to buy a game for 120 Grand when you aren't even going to play it, specifically because and only because it's sealed. Really, it being forgotten in a drawer for 4 decades is what makes it worth?? TBH video game collectors should get their own thread in the community watch or wherever.
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The first one might be fake. I hate to use Karl Jobst as a reference but when he covered it he did point out Heritage Auctions has links to WATA grading and one of the people involved had created fake auctions like that for coins previously to make it look like things were selling for significantly more. There's a real chance that auction is just fake to convince people it's worth more than it is.

 
About five years ago, I came across an Ebay seller selling CWC-esque drawings of Sonic characters (mainly Tails) wearing diapers and pissing themselves.
I doubt he's still around, but I swear this was real.
 
re: the grading plastic boxes
I've seen blatant bootleg cards selling in those graded boxes. Those faggots don't know shit about fuck lmao.

The real faggot is me, because they were cheap-ish, and I was gonna maybe buy one for a laugh. I didn't and can't find them anymore, so I assume some unassuming soul purchased.
 
ngl what makes me intensely MATI are sellers that use generic stock photos for a book and vague descriptions, leading to me having to DM for condition info. Then I'll find out that the customer service team can't get info from the warehouse.

Another one is the fucking spike in shipping costs too.
 
Old King Koaleamos powiedział(a):
Another one is the fucking spike in shipping costs too.
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USPS introduced a service earlier this year called Ground Advantage, which seems to be some kind of consolidation or phasing out of their previous shipping offerings. It is substantially cheaper than things used to be, but they are extremely picky about dimensions and how things are packed that use the service. Up until a couple weeks ago Ground Advantage wasn't any better or worse than their other options, but they fucked with rates (jacked up the price of stamps again etc) and that's when the new option took over.

So, hopefully shipping will come down a bit. I assume not though, since the "people have been paying X amount at a higher price forever so we know they will keep paying it" pitfall. Unless the seller is using the option to automatically calculate shipping at checkout.
 
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