Biggest Console System Collection on eBay

Cire writes "Someone named 'Mr. Soundtrack' is selling over 1300 games in one ebay auction. Included are more than 300 systems and a massive arsenal of gaming peripherals. The lot contains 23 Atari 2600s, 78 Nintendo NES's, 33 PlayStations, 60 SNES's, as well as some harder-to-find systems like the Bally Retrocade System, a Sega Nomad, and a couple 3DO systems."

Now if only...

[dudemm]

We could all find a way to post our ebay auctions on the front page of /.

That's quite a number...

[WarpFlyght]

And a few days after the auction is won, who wants to bet that 1300 hard-to-find ROMs for obscure game systems are going to appear on popular emulation sites?

Hmm a la carte would have been more profitable

[PrvtBurrito]

Selling them individually or in smaller lots, I bet will be more profitable. BUT, getting it listed on slashdot may just pull it out in the end.

ohh my

[Brigadier]

I dont know about you but if I had 5g's I would buy all that stuff just to relive my child hood. Thats all the stuff I grew up drooling over and never got. I woudl be the envy of all my friends. I'm being serious when I say this.

brilliant

[Anonymous Coward]

What a brilliant marketing scheme-post links to your eBay auctions on slashdots to drive up the price. Does slashdot need to add a Spam section for these articles?

This just screams.........

[ARRRLovin]

"I used to own a used video game store, but recently we went out of business because we sold all of our good games."

Re:More like Mr. Moron

['nother poster]

No, what we have here is most likely a liquidated "used game" store.

It looks like

[Enrico Pulatzo]

someone's used game store went under.

This auction is for those who want to give it their shot.

Re:huh?

[aussie_a]

Ever given away your systems? No? Well I have. I've given away my Amiga to my mother's friend and my Master System to my grandparents. Both of them are now broken but I gave them away to people who would let irresponsible people use them. It's quite possible his entire neighbourhood gave away their systems to him. It's also possible he got a lot of them at garage sales, second-hand stores, dug through garbage bins and replaced the broken bits (if there were any), etc, etc. It's also possible the whole auction is a fake.

Re:Jesus Christ.

[Nos.]

Simple, relist them on ebay individually or in small bundles (say an NES system, a few games, a few accessories). I bet you could double your money easily in a week or two.

Re:Not as bad as this guy

[}InFuZeD{]

That's not an "early mac", it's the FIRST mac. It's not just a random 386 that you can pick up at a yard sale.

A true collector would easily pay $12k if that's the real thing. Who wouldn't want a piece of personal computer history?

You people are horrible

[aussie_a]

I saw this 15 hours ago and I thought "oh that'd make a good article on slashdot" then I realised it would go for triple it's $3,000 price tag so I figured I'd let the person win it first before slashdotting it. But no, now it's going to go up a very large amount. I bet it was someone who was only willing to pay $2,000 for it that slashdotted it.

You evil, evil people.

Re:Hmm a la carte would have been more profitable

[whovian]

Selling them individually or in smaller lots, I bet will be more profitable. BUT, getting it listed on slashdot may just pull it out in the end.
Two words: Resale value.

No doubt, though, that parting out would be a PITA wrt shipping.

Re:ohh my

[texas]

Don't. Really. My friends and I bought a bunch of Sega Genesis games and a system a while back. It brought back good memories, and was fun for a few hours. But it was barely worth the $25 we spent on everything (if you figure entertaining 3 people for a few hours would cost at least that doing something else, like going to the movies).

Re:120$ Atari 2600

[stratjakt]

No, it's not. Maybe some of the really old models, remember with the fake 70s wood veneer, fetch an extra couple of bucks, but 2600s aren't worth crap.

Atari produced them from like 1978 till 1992, or something ridiculous like that. There are literally more Atari 2600s out there than any other home console.

Video game collecting isn't something you do for financial rewards. I can list on one hand games that have increased in value due to rarity (Panzer Dragoon Saga for Saturn, or Dracula X for PCE/TG16), but those are extreme cases where the publisher screwed up and didnt make enough copies of an excellent game. Usually they flood the market with copies, and there's rarely a scarcity.

You buy a game 50 bucks new, and in 10 years, it'll be worth 50 cents. That's just the way it is. People like me collect the shit because we like video games.

More like mr. didn't RTFA

[autopr0n]

No one has spent their life savings buying 75 NESs, 50 ps1s, etc. This is clearly excess inventory from a game shop, or something

Re:This is Bigger

[dynamo]

Uh, it may be a longer list, but it's almost all games, and the guy set the reserve price at $70,000. I don't think there will be a bid there, thus, no transaction, thus no one is gonna care.

Re:Not as bad as this guy

[soft_guy]

It's an Apple I, not a Mac. The Apple I was not mass produced - they were created in Steve Job's parents garage pretty much by hand. And yes, it's worth more than $12,000 (assuming it is the real thing).

The Mac, on the other hand, was always mass produced and was created after Apple was already a successful and publicly traded company.

Re:That's quite a number...

[GeorgeMcBay]

I'll take that bet.

I know that if I shelled out big bucks for a giant game collection, the furthest thing from my mind would be to give them out to everyone for free. I guess I'm selfish like that.

Re:Now if only...

[miltimj]

I agree this is advertising, but I still certainly find it worthy of posting on /. Very cool auction -- Geek Quotient is high on this one.

Re:That's quite a number...

[Saeger]

1st- most of those abandonware [wikipedia.org] games have probably already been ripped to ROMimage and emulated (so they haven't been lost to history because of IP hoarding).

2nd- yeah, I guess you are selfish like that, but fortunately many aren't. You think the chicks will see you lording your *exclusive* pile of cartridges over the bit-poor, and recognize you as a success for the awesome POWER you can leverage with said stash, and then they'll scream to have your baby? :)

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SOLD $11,500.00

[o0m]

that is a lot of cash for out of date games

Re:This is Bigger

[Dun Malg]

Huge auctions like these are futile, rarely would anyone ever put up that much money all at once for a gigantic collection.

They're only futile if you have an absurd starting bid like $70,000. If you start the bid at something reasonable, you'll sell it no problem. People who set high start prices don't understand ebay. It doesn't matter if that "ULTIMATE JAPANCENTRIC VIDEO GAME COLLECTION" is worth the $70K; no one is going to START their bid at that. People shop ebay mostly just for the chance getting a deal. Say, for example, that you're selling an item you know is worth about $50. Do you start it at $50? No, because no one will bid on it! You need to suck them into it by starting it at $1. Yes, ONE DOLLAR. If it really is worth $50, someone will bid on it in hopes of getting it for LESS than $50. Then, all it takes is ONE MORE PERSON to bid against them. What's even better is that people get caught up in the excitement and will usually bid MORE than it's worth just so they'll WIN. That same item that wouldn't have sold at a start of $50 will often go for $60 or more.

Now, with a huge collection that you think is worth $70K, starting it at $1 isn't going to work because the pool of potential buyers that can pony up that kind of dough is too small. Oversized collections like that ought to be broken into at least a dozen smaller auctions; get 'em under $10K value. The real sweet spot is probably $3K or so, but the stuff has to be actually appear to be WORTH that. I doubt the "ULTIMATE JAPANCENTRIC VIDEO GAME COLLECTION" is going to bring in $70K; maybe if he sold in blocks of less than 20 games at a time, but all at once? I doubt it.

Re:That's quite a number...

[cjpez]

I'll take that bet too. If you look closely, there's less than ten actual games being bundled in with the deal. It's all game systems and accessories.