Huge Console Auction Debuts 393
neura writes "In quite possibly the largest console auction ever, someone is selling just about every development kit and production game console ever made in Japan. They also have listed tons (almost literally) of software to go along with the systems. Anybody ever seen the original Super Famicom development system? The pictures alone are worth taking a gander. :)"
100k??? (Score:5, Insightful)
Truly this is only for the insanely obsessed console freaks.
Re:How ridiculous we all are... (Score:5, Insightful)
But that's just me. Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh well.
Re:The Sega Deramcast is AWESOME (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:How ridiculous we all are... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:How ridiculous we all are... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:The Sega Deramcast is AWESOME (Score:2, Insightful)
Tons of software (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:The Sega Deramcast is AWESOME (Score:2, Insightful)
I have a good friend who lived in Hong Kong until he was 15. He spells exactly like this guy's auction and uses similar phrases.
He is absolutely brilliant though, and his goofs at English on occasion are nothing compared to how he storms through classes at the U of A.
Re:Let's get this out of the way (Score:3, Insightful)
Some of the 'OMG RARE 500 PCS ON EARTH' items are kind of interesting (well, would have been before discovering girls)
-fren
Re:How ridiculous we all are... (Score:5, Insightful)
If you honestly believe this you should buy the set, split it up, and relist it.
Re:shipping! (Score:3, Insightful)
"...ooh a limited first edition boxed Biohazard LE (dark blue)...".
Anyway must go back to drooling at that list. Ohhhhh lovely! 419 whatever... I want that stuff :)
Re:100k??? (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, a third world country like the USA...
There are a lot of import and collector's shops in this country. Most of them that I've been to are lucky to have one of the items on this list, and it'd usually be the showcase item in the store. I mean come on, a Dreamcast dev kit? Any store I know of would die to get their hands on one of those, and they'd slap a nice $1,000 price tag on it alone, easy.
In fact, this is obviously a HK retailer or wholesaler looking to dump a lot of stock quickly. It's not a collector, it's a guy who sells games for a living one way or another (he may not have an English web site or any US contacts; maybe this is the most convenient way for him to sell here). Look at his other auctions; no way he's got new, unopened copies of games (and systems) lying around because he's a collector. I collect games; this is not a game collector's collection, this is a game seller's collection.
That said, some of this stuff would get him into a lot of trouble if some of these companies found out he was selling it. I'm not sure if Ebay's going to let this auction go through to the end; dev kits, in particular, are mucho taboo to sell, though the older ones he could probably get away with. Nothing recent, though.
I will admit I'd give my left arm for this collection. If I had $100,000 to spare, I'd bid.
Re:Actually a good investment (Score:2, Insightful)
Plus a fair amount for shipping and a location
But I imagine 20,000 visitors would cover it fully.
Re:Let's get this out of the way (Score:1, Insightful)
No he didn't.
"7) In Soviet Russia, the consoles buy you!"
Anyone else notice a lack of legal protection here (Score:3, Insightful)
This guy will accept his $100K the same ways kidnappers accept theirs!
No sending an intermediate party after this guy to get your $$$ back (as one could with, say, a credit card)... and somehow I doubt Hong Kong's laws would protect an American buyer if something went sour...
Re:The Sega Deramcast is AWESOME (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm getting rather tired of using spelling as an IQ test. You just called somebody who probably doesn't speak english natively (which means they took a LOT of time to learn it. I bet you don't know Chinese.) as sounding like a 'first grade jackass' because he didn't spell a few words right. Big surprise some of us Americans have negative stereotypes.
Customs (Score:5, Insightful)
You're not just looking at the $100k pricetag plus S&H but also at spending quite a bit at customs (and it's going to be a b**ch to get some of this stuff cleared by customs in the first place). Oh, and be sure to tell the UPS guy not to leave the stuff on the front porch. ;)
Re:The Sega Deramcast is AWESOME (Score:5, Insightful)
If you used your imagination to determine what it might be like doing business in a second language you'd know:
1. translators will not keep your business interests in mind as well as you will.
2. Since it's difficult to determine where your own errors may be, it's even more difficult to spot errors made by a spellchecker. And what commonly used, unmodified spellchecker would have correct spellings for "Deramcast," Famicon, or the many other specialized words in this ad?
Re:The Sega Deramcast is AWESOME (Score:2, Insightful)
Many people in the US, however, have had a good deal of contact with people whose command of their second language is less than perfect wrt spelling, yet manage to communicate with them and trust them, even here in the US in southern Florida, or southwestern Texas.
Unless you are speaking from experience, which I doubt, you have no reason to tell either side of such business dealings that they are wrong.
Re:shipping! (Score:3, Insightful)
Illegal where? (Score:3, Insightful)
Where? Is it illegal in Hong Kong, where this guy is? Do you know, for a fact, that he didn't obtain these devices legitimately and/or without signing any type of agreement? Hell, for all you know he dumpster dove for the things.
A sticker on the bottom of thing marked "Property of Sony" has no legal force whatsoever. They could have trashed the thing and he obtained it from the garbage, which makes it now his, legally, and with no restrictions whatsoever.
Without knowing the complete and full path by which he acquired that devkit, you cannot say for certain whether it is illegal for him to be selling it.
Re:Very impressive (Score:3, Insightful)