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anyone got a spare 100k ...........????

blackeye123456789 — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 06:50:40 GMT

Here an interesting auction ............

sure e-bay are rubbing their hands already even before it ends .....

I really can't see the point surely a private auction house be more likely .....

Tho the bidding history might tell the story ....

Wondering if the seller hit it big time or was planned all along ......

Sit down and have a stiff drink .....

One I be watching till the end .......

Crazy Money

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imastawka — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 07:00:47 GMT

3,187 watchers lol, That's a lot of geeks

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digital*ghost — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 08:20:41 GMT

@blackeye123456789 wrote:

sure e-bay are rubbing their hands already even before it ends .....

I really can't see the point surely a private auction house be more likely .....

The US currently has a $750 FVF cap (recently increased from $250, though), so I think for a price like that, eBay might be better value, if auction houses don't cap their fees, anyway.

There was a rare comic auction a while back that went for over a mil from memory, and bidders had to be pre-approved, plus no online payments were involved (i.e. no PayPal, who have a payment limit anyway - I think it might be $20,000).

Still crazy, though. I don't mind video games, but I'm certainly not any kind of collector and I'd never spend that much on one, even if I could.

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kzb888 — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 08:31:00 GMT

WOW

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i-love-my-sheep — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:34:27 GMT

Someone cancelled a bid for $240K! I'm not into gaming at all, is this game really worth that much to someone?

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kzb888 — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:55:30 GMT

Just had a good look and to me it smells alot like shill bidding going on anyway so good luck to the winner

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duck---dodgers — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 10:07:17 GMT

This is one of those auction where dummy bids go berserck for reason at all, if this ends up being sold and payed for I would be very surprised. These sort come on a regular basis: the auction for the letter E, the auction for the ET shaped cereal, etc.

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saarzi — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 10:14:56 GMT

From Wiki -

The game is worth up to $38,000 according to the NES Rarity Guide. An eBay auction of a new, factory-sealed version of the game was sold on February 26, 2010 with a winning bid of $41,300, but the winning bidder never paid for the auction won. However, on January 22, 2011, another factory-sealed version of the game sold on eBay. The transaction was completed, and both parties exchanged positive feedback. The copy sold for $22,800.00, the highest confirmed price paid for the game.

Highest confirmed price ever is $22k. If someone wants this game, they can go through many other avenues to get it much, much less than 100K.

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blackeye123456789 — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 03:05:02 GMT

Not surprise to see those Bid retraction as it coming to an end .........

still interesting how it will pan out ......

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imastawka — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 03:12:49 GMT

Yeah, last time I looked it was AU$122,000 odd

Back down to $49,000 and some change.

Still ridiculously high

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i-love-my-sheep — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 07:46:36 GMT

Down to $AU39K now. Seems some bidders may have done some research and pulled out. Bet the seller is spewing that the really high bids have been withdrawn!

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k1ooo-slr-sales — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 07:47:58 GMT

the inclusion of pre-approval for bidders saw a lot of high bids cancelled.

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i-love-my-sheep — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 07:52:25 GMT

I'm surprised they were allowed to edit the listing after there were bids. I thought that once there were bids, that was it as far as editing goes?

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imastawka — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 08:13:22 GMT

You'd think for that sort of money, the game mat would've been included.

Fancy paying all that money, gettting it, ripping it open and not

being able to play it, cos there's no mat!

Just kidding

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i-love-my-sheep — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:43:14 GMT

I'm having visions of winning bidder having a party one weekend with all his mates over. Lots of drink, lots of boy talk, lots of "I'm better than you" stories. Then out comes the sealed game to gloat to the mates "look what I've got!". Winning bidder has 10 too many then passes out on the shoulder of the blonde bimbo from up the street. Rest of the drunk mates can't help themselves, so open sealed game and play it.......