Thomas Jentzsch Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 That is absolutely crazy. We better keep quiet about the super chip titles... No, no, no! Make them believe those are extremely valuable and they will provide free storage space for ages. And we don't even have to finance anything now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApolloBoy Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Just melt them all down please. It will raise the value of all the remaining matching carts in circulation. That is all Are you dead serious? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDW Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Just melt them all down please. It will raise the value of all the remaining matching carts in circulation. That is all You should be banned for even thinking such a thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Videogamecollector123 Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 It would be really sad if those 1 million carts were melted down, If this guy would lower the price to one dollar a cartridge and sell them to the public he'd make a lot more then scrap prices, just tell him that the guys at AtariAge will get the word out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirage Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 I'd buy quite a few for $1 each with reasonable shipping. I'm sure a lot of people would. Lower the prices to what people can't resist, and they'd move a lot of them out fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homerwannabee Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Wow, so after years of no one buying them at $5 a pop he decides that they are worth $15 a pop. Oshea's really is a horrible business man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 glad I bought what I needed when they were .85 cents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdement Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 (edited) Sorry. I think I was one of the first people to mention the POKEY carts in this thread. I should have PM'd it or not brought it up. So now they're worth $15/each? Where does he get these prices from? I guess he wants to ship singles for the next 100 years. Edited November 17, 2009 by gdement Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dommie Posted November 17, 2009 Author Share Posted November 17, 2009 Sorry. I think I was one of the first people to mention the POKEY carts in this thread. I should have PM'd it or not brought it up. So now they're worth $15/each? Where does he get these prices from? I guess he wants to ship singles for the next 100 years. We all (including Oshea) know they are definitely not worth $15. I think he's attempting to negotiate. Regardless, we can't offer him much of a premium for them because there are tens of thousands of them. I have no way of unloading them all, at least for anything more than like some number higher than like $0.50 a copy, and at that price I'll still have leftovers in the thousands. All the leftovers get melted, so we can only really offer him a minimal premium above scrap value. So he's either: A) smoking crack, B) trying to generate demand, or C) driving up his price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herbarius Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 (edited) B) trying to generate demand Yes, I thought about that. What if he did never plan to really melt the carts down, he just acted like he would, in an effort to artificially generate more demand. Or perhaps he really IS going to melt them down... Most, but not all of them. As a result, the value of the remaining games would increase significantly, maybe instead of lowering his prices to the actual value, he is trying to raise the value of the games to the level of his prices. Which, in my opinion, would be a scheme as corrupt as it is effective. Edited November 17, 2009 by Herbarius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdement Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Or perhaps he really IS going to melt them down... Most, but not all of them. As a result, the value of the remaining games would increase significantly, maybe instead of lowering his prices to the actual value, he is trying to raise the value of the games to the level of his prices. Which, in my opinion, would be a scheme as corrupt as it is effective. These games aren't rare. Even if they all melted down I don't think it would be a big deal. The utility of these cartridges is reflected by their market value - which isn't very high. I'd like to have a cheap supply of homebrew PCBs but frankly a custom board would be easier to work with. Retrofitting an Atari board is only worthwhile if they're cheap. The POKEY would be nice but that board has other limitations. These games have yet to enter circulation. Even if most of them get scrapped, I don't think it would affect near term value or his ability to sell what's left. They'd continue to sell at about the same rate as they do now. Scrapping the excess just removes carts that won't move in the next several years anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hornpipe2 Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 I didn't realize POKEY chips were so plentiful, otherwise I would have opted for a dual-POKEY in all my 8-bit computers already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dommie Posted November 17, 2009 Author Share Posted November 17, 2009 **FINAL UPDATE** We had a last minute bidding war, and lost. Oh well. Sorry everybody, but it looks like the lot is getting scrapped by somebody else. But he is still holding Ballblazer/Jinks separate. His price was too high for us at $0.60 a game/30K games. That was yesterday. Today he re-offered the Ballblazer/Jinks lot to us at $0.75 a game (WTF!?). Again, if $0.60/game was too high... sheesh, some people I just don't understand. So, feel free to pester him about the lot. He's either an uber-shrewd business man, or smoking major crack. I haven't decided which one yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 **FINAL UPDATE** We had a last minute bidding war, and lost. Oh well. Sorry everybody, but it looks like the lot is getting scrapped by somebody else. But he is still holding Ballblazer/Jinks separate. His price was too high for us at $0.60 a game/30K games. That was yesterday. Today he re-offered the Ballblazer/Jinks lot to us at $0.75 a game (WTF!?). Again, if $0.60/game was too high... sheesh, some people I just don't understand. So, feel free to pester him about the lot. He's either an uber-shrewd business man, or smoking major crack. I haven't decided which one yet. Oh well, you did your best to save them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ransom Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Fooey. It's criminal that all those carts are going to be turned into slag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Videogamecollector123 Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 This is quite a sad day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Videogamecollector123 Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Like I said before, If he'd just lower the price to 1 dollar on his carts they would move a lot faster and he'd make more money then the scrap rate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybird3rd Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 So, feel free to pester him about the lot. He's either an uber-shrewd business man, or smoking major crack. I haven't decided which one yet. I'd say the latter, and for quite some time now. I was fully prepared to go up there with a trailer to pick up a chunk of this lot so it could be saved for recycling, as you know, but now it looks like I won't have that opportunity. Pity. Thanks for your efforts to rescue at least some of them. Hopefully whoever is getting their hands on them will be shrewd enough to recognize that there is still a market for them outside of the scrap world, and unlike O'Shea's, will be enough of a businessman to seize the opportunity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirage Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 I'd say that's pretty unlikely, but who knows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horseboy Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 **FINAL UPDATE** We had a last minute bidding war, and lost. Oh well. Sorry everybody, but it looks like the lot is getting scrapped by somebody else. But he is still holding Ballblazer/Jinks separate. His price was too high for us at $0.60 a game/30K games. That was yesterday. Today he re-offered the Ballblazer/Jinks lot to us at $0.75 a game (WTF!?). Again, if $0.60/game was too high... sheesh, some people I just don't understand. So, feel free to pester him about the lot. He's either an uber-shrewd business man, or smoking major crack. I haven't decided which one yet. How much was the winning bid for the other games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Suck. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dommie Posted November 17, 2009 Author Share Posted November 17, 2009 **FINAL UPDATE** We had a last minute bidding war, and lost. Oh well. Sorry everybody, but it looks like the lot is getting scrapped by somebody else. But he is still holding Ballblazer/Jinks separate. His price was too high for us at $0.60 a game/30K games. That was yesterday. Today he re-offered the Ballblazer/Jinks lot to us at $0.75 a game (WTF!?). Again, if $0.60/game was too high... sheesh, some people I just don't understand. So, feel free to pester him about the lot. He's either an uber-shrewd business man, or smoking major crack. I haven't decided which one yet. How much was the winning bid for the other games? We bowed out at $0.20/unit X 1.2M units. This was minus the Ballblazer/Jinks titles. Dunno what the final was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 ive been watching this thread from the beginning...... I now wish the flood waters rush down into the oshea's salt cave and destroy everything in one fell swoop.That will teach the dirty business man a lesson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horseboy Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 **FINAL UPDATE** We had a last minute bidding war, and lost. Oh well. Sorry everybody, but it looks like the lot is getting scrapped by somebody else. But he is still holding Ballblazer/Jinks separate. His price was too high for us at $0.60 a game/30K games. That was yesterday. Today he re-offered the Ballblazer/Jinks lot to us at $0.75 a game (WTF!?). Again, if $0.60/game was too high... sheesh, some people I just don't understand. So, feel free to pester him about the lot. He's either an uber-shrewd business man, or smoking major crack. I haven't decided which one yet. How much was the winning bid for the other games? We bowed out at $0.20/unit X 1.2M units. This was minus the Ballblazer/Jinks titles. Dunno what the final was. Wow. You guys were willing to drop $240,000 on Atari games. That is awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 (edited) Suck. ..Al For us it sucks sure, but for the collectable market in the end this is a good thing that these are gone. And he still has Jinks and Ballblazzer so it's all good in my books cause thats all he has that I have any intrest in anyhow. 1.2 million units gone BUT 30 thousand left. That is more donor boards then we all will ever use combined. Edited November 17, 2009 by Shawn Sr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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