JustJeff2 Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Ok, there was an active auction for an OFF YOUR ROCKER prototype on eBay 2 days ago and now it just disappeared. Listing just poofed. Who did the end run and bought it out from under me?!?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Probably pulled by eBay. This has been happening often lately...I think someone's been busy reporting proto auctions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zwackery Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Probably pulled by eBay. This has been happening often lately...I think someone's been busy reporting proto auctions. Would these be the same people who report proto auctions, get them "officially" pulled, and then contact the buyer privately to make a "gee whiz, don't eBay suck!" pity sale? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustJeff2 Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 I have the original listing info and seller... I will post later if I do not hear back from them... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Probably pulled by eBay. This has been happening often lately...I think someone's been busy reporting proto auctions. Would these be the same people who report proto auctions, get them "officially" pulled, and then contact the buyer privately to make a "gee whiz, don't eBay suck!" pity sale? Yup! Exactly. I dunno...obviously I can't prove anything about anybody, but it just seems to me that almost all Atari protos are getting pulled lately, often within hours of them being listed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamTR Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Probably pulled by eBay. This has been happening often lately...I think someone's been busy reporting proto auctions. Would these be the same people who report proto auctions, get them "officially" pulled, and then contact the buyer privately to make a "gee whiz, don't eBay suck!" pity sale? Yup! Exactly. I dunno...obviously I can't prove anything about anybody, but it just seems to me that almost all Atari protos are getting pulled lately, often within hours of them being listed. I hate to say it, but anyone that actually spends their TIME reporting stuff to eBay left and right needs to find a new hobby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 I hate to say it, but anyone that actually spends their TIME reporting stuff to eBay left and right needs to find a new hobby. I concur. This has been going on for some time now. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemoncurry Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 I hate to say it, but anyone that actually spends their TIME reporting stuff to eBay left and right needs to find a new hobby.I concur. This has been going on for some time now. ..Al I think Zwackery's hypothesis sounds like a believable motive... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetset Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Probably pulled by eBay. This has been happening often lately...I think someone's been busy reporting proto auctions. Would these be the same people who report proto auctions, get them "officially" pulled, and then contact the buyer privately to make a "gee whiz, don't eBay suck!" pity sale? You think? It takes a pretty big loser to do side deals to begin with, but to do that would be the ultimate I think. It wouldn't surprise me though. Especially if the side dealer were just doing it just to turn around and resell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustJeff2 Posted March 8, 2008 Author Share Posted March 8, 2008 Here's a pic of the cart in question... the label is different than the stock pic I see on AA.com value? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucebidder Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Unfortunately this has been going on alot lately. Your best bet is to contact the seller if you can and see what happened. All it takes is a jerk to report it falsely and ebay to pull it no questions asked. The sad part is people get away with auctions like this: Atari 2600 game Intellivision NES Nintendo Sega Sony but someone reports a legitimate auction for a proto and ties the hands of a seller. If and when I see this happen I try to get the seller to post it somewhere like here at AA where they don't have to adhere to the ebay machine. Unfortunately most of the time by the time I get to the seller the jerk who did it has bought the item for next to nothing.... Bruce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustJeff2 Posted March 8, 2008 Author Share Posted March 8, 2008 Unfortunately this has been going on alot lately. Your best bet is to contact the seller if you can and see what happened. All it takes is a jerk to report it falsely and ebay to pull it no questions asked. The sad part is people get away with auctions like this: Atari 2600 game Intellivision NES Nintendo Sega Sony but someone reports a legitimate auction for a proto and ties the hands of a seller. If and when I see this happen I try to get the seller to post it somewhere like here at AA where they don't have to adhere to the ebay machine. Unfortunately most of the time by the time I get to the seller the jerk who did it has bought the item for next to nothing.... Bruce Bruce-- do you think the cart in the pic is authentic? The hand writing on the label (the r's) looks like the same as the only other pic I know of, but the missing Copyright by Amiga makes me wonder... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Bruce-- do you think the cart in the pic is authentic? The hand writing on the label (the r's) looks like the same as the only other pic I know of, but the missing Copyright by Amiga makes me wonder... Those carts are not true "prototypes" in the traditional sense. They were carts that were manufactured for retail but never sold. They were purchased from Amiga and sold by Pleasant Valley Video in the 1980's, so there may be some variation to the (hand-written) label. http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/o...fyourrocker.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayhem Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 I see AA here doesn't have a manual scan, just HTML. Maybe I'll scan mine. And the text is different to the HTML version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucebidder Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Unfortunately this has been going on alot lately. Your best bet is to contact the seller if you can and see what happened. All it takes is a jerk to report it falsely and ebay to pull it no questions asked. The sad part is people get away with auctions like this: Atari 2600 game Intellivision NES Nintendo Sega Sony but someone reports a legitimate auction for a proto and ties the hands of a seller. If and when I see this happen I try to get the seller to post it somewhere like here at AA where they don't have to adhere to the ebay machine. Unfortunately most of the time by the time I get to the seller the jerk who did it has bought the item for next to nothing.... Bruce Bruce-- do you think the cart in the pic is authentic? The hand writing on the label (the r's) looks like the same as the only other pic I know of, but the missing Copyright by Amiga makes me wonder... As Blue Jeans said these games are not true protos. It was actually a game designed and burned into cart form but due to financing AMiga could not pay for the labels and after several business deals and years later a different company slapped a handwritten label on them and sold them. So as far as this game goes your better to think of it as a limited release cart than a true proto. Still a nice little piece of history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 (edited) It's worth noting that Pleasant Valley Video was the same company who sold the Wizard games with the hand-written white labels. http://www.atarimania.com/zoom_frame.php?T...amp;NUM_IMAGE=4 Edited March 8, 2008 by PingvinBlueJeans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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