+Yurkie Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 eBay Auction -- Item Number: 190548715918 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youki Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 I can not see it. Not visible from my country... :? :? :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennybingo Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 eBay Auction -- Item Number: 190548715918 Seems like a very lucky seller....or they have a shill account and they are jacking up the bids themselves. I can't see any other logic that fits this here. The deck and expansion module are both loose and common, as are the boxed games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph74 Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 Shill bidding? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroillucid Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 Oh, that's simply because ColecoVision is such a cool system! Seriously, there's really no reason why it end at $220 Some peoples are just plain stupid IMO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opeygon Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 It's at $224.72 with four and a half hours to go. It looks very clean but I think it's a bit high for sure. If you check the bid history it looks like that after around $60 two different bidders have been dueling it out. Neither of whom probably know too much about how much they should go for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Yurkie Posted July 1, 2011 Author Share Posted July 1, 2011 It's not ended yet, it's got 4 hours left. Here is my best case prices for the items. $100 for the CV $20 for the 2600 module $20 a CIB ( and that is being extremely generous for commons ) That's $180, and that would be at the extreme high end..."I have to win this auction" price wouldn't it ? Perhaps it is shilling, but unless the guy wants to get stuck with it someone has to be willing to outbid the shill and just don't understand who would want to pay that kind of money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColecoDan Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 I am sure it is probably stupid people. There are LOTS of them in the world. They probably did a search and said oh these things go for a lot of money and then didn't pay attention that the ones that went for a lot of money had boxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brockolye Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 They obviously don't know about the multiple other online retailers where you can just go and purchase one without having to bid. I went to one of my usual sites and priced this package at $110 there....and if I were to google a little more, I could probably get all of these same items for $80 without even leaving this comfy chair. Yep...people are stupid....AND LAZY.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recycled Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 12 people on crack? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlowCoder Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 Shill bidding? eBay's policy/definition: http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/seller-shill-bidding.html How to detect a Shill: http://www.ukauctionhelp.co.uk/shill.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIAD Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 Well, what about the rarity of a CiB Grand Prix for the Atari 2600... since I give a rats ass about A2600, I am going to be lazy and not search the Rarity List on AA to see. Or could it be, and I find it hard to believe with so many different bidders, that the bidders think Grand Prix is for the ColecoVision. In the end, let auctions like this keep happening as it increases the value of our collections!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Yurkie Posted July 1, 2011 Author Share Posted July 1, 2011 Looks like the Grand Prix is a 2 or a 3 on the rarity guide, so I think my $20 CIB guess is not out of line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cmart604 Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 I believe this is stupidity meets shilling! as for Grand Prix, $10 at most. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceDice2010 Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 You know. Maybe both of the bidders have gotten burned before by buying a CV on Ebay that didn't work. If I were in the market for a CV I would have seen the picture and realized that the display was good. Then my next question would be to ask the seller if the controllers actually worked. If I felt that they did I would probably have just bid until I won. I am saying this as the Colevision that I have now cost me close to $300 (I bought it from eightbit for like $100), but to get a working one I went through two that didn't work properly, each costing about $100 with various games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Yurkie Posted July 2, 2011 Author Share Posted July 2, 2011 You know. Maybe both of the bidders have gotten burned before by buying a CV on Ebay that didn't work. If I were in the market for a CV I would have seen the picture and realized that the display was good. Then my next question would be to ask the seller if the controllers actually worked. If I felt that they did I would probably have just bid until I won. I am saying this as the Colevision that I have now cost me close to $300 (I bought it from eightbit for like $100), but to get a working one I went through two that didn't work properly, each costing about $100 with various games. Should have sent me the first one and got it refurbished. Screenshot was likely after cycling the power switch a dozen times. The controllers will not work 100% without being refurbished regardless of what a seller tells you. They may be close, but close is shit. They need to be perfect or it takes all the fun out of playing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceDice2010 Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Yurkie, If I had known what you did at the time I would have for sure. I actually need to hit you up soon as I do have two CVs that need some work. (It's a shame to have them just sit here.) Would rather pay to get them refurbed and be in good working order than have a part of history go to waste. I also really want to get the joystick mods that you do as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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