ShortTimer Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 Recently I sold my old Atari with about 50+ games on ebay. I didn't come to this site until after the auction because I didn't realize people would pay a crazy amount of money for this stuff. Everyone seemed interested in a game called "River Patrol" and the auction ended with me getting $1,052 for the Atari and other games. Does this seem like a fair price? I was looking and I did have other ultra-rare games like "Crypts of Chaos" in a different auction that only got $258 as the final bid. What's up with these crazy prices? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 A boxed complete River Patrol is worth about what you got for the entire auction, I watched all the snipers hit it in the last minute. Congrats, hope you package it well. None of the other games in both of your auctions were peticulary expensive so to speak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 Oh, this is what he is talking about btw.! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=3078298033 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=3078298867 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShortTimer Posted February 23, 2004 Author Share Posted February 23, 2004 Thanks for the quick reply! FYI the "new style" Atari I was actually selling for my grandmother. She was going to throw it away but by a accident I was about to sell mine on ebay so I told her I do it for her too. I do have an aunt who's getting some of her old atari stuff together so I should be selling that in the next month or so for her. I asked and, no, she doesn't have River Patrol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK WOMBLE Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 Missed out there...........stupid sniper software............ R , I'm still crying....... Si Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trade-N-Games Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 Hi shortTimer Its JAson from Trade-N-Games who won your auction. Like i was saying to you this week that that was the rare game of the lot. I am very happy with my purchase It was just under my max amount. Im sure you will pack it all up good for me . There are only a handful of games worth that much boxed you had some good luck for ending up with that one. Congrats on the sale! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaXpress Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 If anyone wants to buy my Crypts of Chaos for $258 I'll be more than willing to talk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShortTimer Posted February 23, 2004 Author Share Posted February 23, 2004 Thanks for the purchase! I never even knew people would pay that much for games. The breif research I did on ebay was just on full systems. I saw some people put up atari's with about 50 games and get around 300 for them, so I thought that would be the max amount I would get. Also: there are actually several people behind the gbsmith25 account. Originally my father started selling some stuff on ebay then my mother did and finally I piggybacked on their account because I'm lazy. :wink: So the email was actually answered by my father. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CincYnoTi Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 it only takes two bidders to drive the price up like that. . and we just can't seem to help ourselves . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 I'm sure your Aunt will be happy to know that you sold her system for $50! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpddytim Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 I know this is off topic but I had to ask. "ShortTimer" does your screen name come from the novel INSOMNIA? Just curious. Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShortTimer Posted February 24, 2004 Author Share Posted February 24, 2004 I know this is off topic but I had to ask. "ShortTimer" does your screen name come from the novel INSOMNIA? Just curious. Tim Nope. Back in the day when I was a computer contractor (before the dot com bomb) I was moving around quite a bit and one of the places I was at they called me "the short-timer" because I was only going to be there for about 9 months. That's where it came from, I've never actually read insomnia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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