voltron Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 Perhaps this will help: I bought some sealed games from Venezuela. Paid on November 23, shipping package registered on December 10 (according to usps.com), no tracking waypoints listed yet (i.e. I only see the registration date), and it has not arrived yet after 6 weeks. Even so, I am not concerned. A lot of people have talked about packages taking 2 or even 3 months and most of the sellers are very understanding. In short, you can get some great deals out of Venezuela but you will have to have much more patience. I ordered one game from there a while back took 3 months to arrive, but the issue seems to US custom holding packages from there longer than normal. when my game arrived it arrived with a "friendly" letter from customs that they opened my game for further inspection... it was a sealed game . .luckily I didnt pay much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxpressed Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 I paid for Fed Ex Priority, and it was totally worth it. $15 for the first game, $3 for each additional game. Won the auctions on a Sunday, left Venezuela on Tuesday, arrived on my doorstep in Wisconsin on Thursday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott9771 Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 well does anyone know why all this comes from venezuela? mattell have factories down there and someone bought up all the old inventory or what? HAS someone indeed bought up all existing inventory? the guy hasnt responded yet but will go to town and get him paid anyhoo. hopefully it works out. i get a mint mr basic and sell the rest to buy other goodies!......scot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 well does anyone know why all this comes from venezuela? mattell have factories down there and someone bought up all the old inventory or what? HAS someone indeed bought up all existing inventory? the guy hasnt responded yet but will go to town and get him paid anyhoo. hopefully it works out. i get a mint mr basic and sell the rest to buy other goodies!......scot You may have some luck here offering your extras here for direct trades. Just a thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 (edited) Sooo...anyone here won that lot with the loose LF2? (sorry no link, maybe later) eBay item # 301065512921 Edited January 12, 2014 by JasonlikesINTV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulBlazer Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 The way I understood it, during the crash years, gaming companies like Atari and Matell dumped tons of their product in Latin America. Venezeula just seemed to end up with the largest stash of stuff. Plus this stuff was made in SUCH huge ammounts that it's not uncommon to find NOS even today. One of the biggest changes that Nintendo did when they revived the home console market was to sharply control how many copies of a game title were made, which prevented the market from getting over satuated. Too much product was one of (many) reasons for the crash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari_Bill Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Sooo...anyone here won that lot with the loose LF2? (sorry no link, maybe later) eBay item # 301065512921 I saw that auction but no, not me. I was confused about why it was so high until I saw that included. I still think the auction went a little too high for a loose copy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lathe26 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Sooo...anyone here won that lot with the loose LF2? (sorry no link, maybe later) eBay item # 301065512921 Might lightning have struck twice for the 2 most expensive Intellivision games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott9771 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 well i can trade my bits and bytes. figured everyone on here already had one!? of course sealed ones may be of more itnterest to some? i guess im open to any of my wants if anyone is interested when i get them!.....scot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crade Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Hey Guys, Just put up an auction with some rare boxes... Tutankham, Fathom, Commando, Super Cobra. Auction starts at .99 cents but shipping will be expensive cuz it's a big lot. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Huge-Intellivision-Lot-System-59-games-Many-Extras-and-Boxes-Several-Rare-/161197080015?hash=item2588183dcf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Holy torpedo, that's a great auction! Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott9771 Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 ill take a looksee but the shipping even from canada seems exhorbitant or is that a safety net??........scot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crade Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 (edited) ill take a looksee but the shipping even from canada seems exhorbitant or is that a safety net? ?........scot Nope, it's not a safety net, it's 24 kg I only added 2$ handling for the box. Edit: Actually, I was going to add international shipping too, but it was like 300$ so I just left it off. Edited January 13, 2014 by crade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeguychicago Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Crade, would you be willing to sell some of the boxes separately? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott9771 Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 yeah we could all use some boxes. u shoulda offered up when i was askin! i still think yer holdinout on the shippin to yer fellow intelliman!......scot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Shipping from Canada is terrible these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott9771 Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 i dunno i shipped a pinball machine for xmas wasnt more than double that. i think u owe me!:)n just won an awesome auction. now can go to bed!........scot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crade Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Shipping from here really sucks. Thats why I do 99 cent auction, so people can take shipping into account with their bids. It depends where you are in the U.S. for this one though, for small packets usually it's the same for all U.S. but this one costs way more to get to the east coast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Looks like around $73 shipping to the Midwest (me) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cmart604 Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Not too much to ship to me...just sayin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cradelit Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Crade, would you be willing to sell some of the boxes separately? Hey, sorry I missed your question. No, I am intentionally bundling them together to hopefully make it worth the shipping costs for the buyer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Loguidice Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Most people hate this joystick. It's just one of the add on's we had in the 80's, so for me I just want one. I doubt it will see much playing time but for some games (Up-Down-Left-Right) it will serve me, I think. Really, all in all the attachable (Clip on) units work better. This however is all from memory. I think I lost the last one with a Snipe. I've seen 3 of these on ebay in the last year. Lost them all. I have a non working unit that I've not tried to troubleshoot yet. I have the clip ons and think they're pretty dreadful (fairly imprecise). It amazes me that no one could make a decent Intellivision controller with full function, but there you go. The "best" then is still the original Intellivision version and its variations. I really dislike the Intellivision II's controller for obvious reasons... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lathe26 Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 I have the clip ons and think they're pretty dreadful (fairly imprecise). It amazes me that no one could make a decent Intellivision controller with full function, but there you go. The "best" then is still the original Intellivision version and its variations. I really dislike the Intellivision II's controller for obvious reasons... I think the reason for this is that Mattel made the mistake of hard-wiring the controllers into the console. I chalk this up to that manufacturers of the time had not learned what were good designs versus bad designs in gaming (I chalk many 1st and 2nd generation console mistakes the same way). The hardwiring makes it difficult for 3rd parties to make a replacement joystick that is easy for users to install. The Wico achieved this for the original Intellivision this but still required that users take a screwdriver to their Mattel controllers, disassemble them, hopefully not break or lose any parts, and then install the cable into the Wico. This was the best anyone could realistically do. Yes, the Intellivision II and the Sears Intellivision had plugs (yay!), but they only represented 1/4 of the entire Intellivision market (based on estimates here). However, many potential manufacturers didn't make plug-only joysticks because of the smaller marketshare of the pluggable Intellivisions and because of the the risk of non-plug Intellivision customers returning a joystick ("dur, it no fit and me to lazy to read joystick box words"). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott9771 Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 i scored this last night.......ebay item 380811968100......so now i got a complete DINER. i didnt catch this the first few times thought it was a locomotion. he man and dreadnaught factor and stuff in there to recoup my cash. the intellivision 3 is missing the top aluminum inset. is there such a thing as an intellivision junk yard to get parts like that? thanx!.......scot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACFinPGH Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Any of you *cough* fine gentlemen outbid me for this Mountain Madness loose copy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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