THIS SELLERS IS OUT OF HIS FCKIN MIND!

[RowdyRodimus]

The entire grading industry has gotten rediculous. I collect GI Joes, so I run into a lot of Star Wars collectors. I can't tell you the amount of people that have sent in repackaged figures on fake cards that they made themselves that have been graded perfect by some services.

Also, when it comes to comics, most of the new ones that are graded gem mint are sent in by places like Wizard (who creates the price guide), then sells them based on the prices that they create. How do they get these perfect copies? By being assbuddies to Joe Quesada (Marvel's EIC) and Brian Bendis (Marvel's top writer and Quesada's best friend). They split the profits with them. (I know that sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it really does happen). They did the same thing with Image books when they first came out (except the grading aspect), they got millions of copies of the #1's and priced them extremely high so they could sell their copies at shows.

[Da_Shocker]

How can PDS not be rare at all? I mean well Japanese copies are common as hell but US and Pal copies tend to fetch a few hundred dollars with ease.

[Dark Sol]

How can PDS not be rare at all? I mean well Japanese copies are common as hell but US and Pal copies tend to fetch a few hundred dollars with ease.

rare and "expensive" are different things.

[Zebbe]

Dark Sol: What would you sell a factory sealed Aero the Acrobat 2 (rated R7) for?

[RowdyRodimus]

rare and "expensive" are different things.

QFT
I wish more people realized this fact.

[The Coop]

rare and "expensive" are different things.

Not on eBay they aren't

[Rusty Venture]

Haha... no secret society i guess.

Good enough for me.

This is an interesting read indead, although I find the notion of comparing unpackaging a fresh sealed game with undressing a hot girl somewhat... disturbing. Personally I see a big difference between a night of sweet juju-making and opening a game for the first time.

There is a time and a place for both...but

boobies > video games

[Dark Sol]

Dark Sol: What would you sell a factory sealed Aero the Acrobat 2 (rated R7) for?

I don't know actually. I am not familiar with all the prices. I am mostly RPG pro.

[Dark Sol]

Not on eBay they aren't

haha.
No, there are some really sought after games like Chrono and Super Mario RPG. They are expensive, but not rare, they are everywhere.
And for example games like Defenders of Oasis. Damn good game, CIB copy is pretty rare to find at all. And i own a factory sealed copy which i bought for 5$, cause noone really cared for some reason..

[The Coop]

haha.
No, there are some really sought after games like Chrono and Super Mario RPG. They are expensive, but not rare, they are everywhere.
And for example games like Defenders of Oasis. Damn good game, CIB copy is pretty rare to find at all. And i own a factory sealed copy which i bought for 5$, cause noone really cared for some reason..

And yet the most common game gets "OMG L@@K RARE!" on eBay. I've seen Sonic 1 get a "RARE" in the sales pitch more than once. That's why I said not on eBay they aren't, because somehow everything is rare on that site. It could be a copy of Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt, have a BIN price of $0.99, and some idiot would still put a "RARE" in the auction title

[Dark Sol]

ohhh yes, this is common tendency

[Rusty Venture]

I'm still waiting for the ebay auction

BOTTLED AIR, OOP HTF RARE!

[Da_Shocker]

so I guess that explains why that Sega CD backup RAM Cart is being sold at $299.99

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=230268660254

it's SEALED

U know that item is still up for grabs lol.

[djshok]

U know that item is still up for grabs lol.

There was a better one I saw a while ago for $500 with $100 for shipping, because you know how huge and heavy a package a ram cart is.

[NeoVamp]

Biggest lulz i had was that time i found an auction of someone selling Double Dragon II for nes,
100 euro's cause it was a RARE GAME!!

or that guy that was selling Sonic 1 and said it was rare, but if you checked his ebay store you saw he was selling 5 more.