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- obrysii, on 10/12/2007, -6/+94Will it blend?
- Stonedonkey, on 10/12/2007, -7/+44What?
- bbnkstr, on 10/12/2007, -5/+37go back to irc
- bblades, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31NES game cartridge: $5k
shipping: $25
Still having to blow into it for it to play on your NES: Priceless - digitally5, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28There's also a huge stash of cocaine inside the cartridge
- Sequence, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23Later guys, I'm going to shop for some gold paint.
- Godel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I'm no e-bayer, but is it suspicious that he is only accepting money orders?
- gravylookout, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15You'd think that he would polish it up a bit for the photographs. Still that's an outrageous amount to pay for a video game, hopefully the investment will work out for whoever ended up with it..
- revmitcz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I remember an article that was dugg a few months ago went over the list of the most valuable games. The NES World Championship gold cartridge was $10k and growing. So, actually, I'm quite surprised it went for only $5k.
Here's that list :
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2006/10/holy-grails-of-console-game-collecting.html - geodescent, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Is there a ROM in the wild?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Because whoever is willing to pay over $5,000 for an NES game would be concerned about a $25 shipping fee.
Also, perhaps the seller will ship it with extra protection and care. When anyone with common sense bids on ebay, they factor in the shipping costs and the selling costs together, so it really doesn't matter at all. - Eastlygod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11You must live in a pretty cheap house then...
- CaptShmo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11well, it's one of the most rare games for NES out there, if you're a rich collector, what's worth more? 5100 bux or being able to say "i have every video game for the NES ever made."
The guy could probably turn around and sell an entire, complete collection for well over the costs he paid for the individual games. - TheWalkingDude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I'm still hoping for a copy of "Zelda 3: The Triforce Saga" from the NES.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_The_Triforce_Saga
/I believe - rkuchiki, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8@Godel
I wouldn't trust PayPal with $5,100 either.
That doesn't make me any less honest of an eBayer. - geodescent, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Best comment I've read all day
- Eastlygod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm sorry, I'm not going to trust anything sold by someone who's also selling 'Bling Pacifiers'.
- t3hNinj4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yes, there is. I played it a while ago. You play Mario with a time limit for a while, trying to get as many coins as you can, then you play Rad Racer for a few minutes, then you play Tetris. It was kind of fun, but nothing incredible. You can find it at romnation.net.
- bdickason, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Sorry, but no paypal guarantee.. no thanks. Sending a money order for this thing has sketch written all over it.
- RobotKing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Is it real? On the article linked by revmitcz the gold cartridge has a red background. Maybe it's a grey one painted gold with the sticker modified. Exacto knife?
- Pelapp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I hope you're not feeling THAT much smerter Cymrubeats ?
- rkuchiki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@twit987: Well, the last 5 or so stories he submitted seem to have a rover.ebay.com url. Might be time for a digg blacklist addition.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270038692261
heres another auction he scored for 10 bucks....
with 715$ shipping costs - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Somewhere I have the Nintendo Campus Challenge from 1991. Same deal. You had to win it. The games were Super MArio 3, Pinbot and Dr. MArio. And for some reason, no one but me figured out that since they gave you unlimited lives on SM3, (you had to get 25 coins to advance) it was best to get to the part of the level where you could piggy back jump on several flying turtles, thus making them walk, and then piggy back on them all again to flip them over, thus giving you 6 jumps in a row which gave you huge points. Then you just died on purpose and did it again. I tripled the previous high score to make the finals. Some people saw me do this and started trying it themselves, but I had practiced it the night before so I won easily. And on hte female side, all 3 finalists were friends of mine who used my technique.
(The only danger was getting greedy and not moving on fast enough and then screwing up on Pinbot (where you needed 200,000 points), since if you didn't at least start Dr. Mario, you were disqualified
From what I am reading, it isn't worth as much as this one,. but it is worth a lot. I have it somewhere. - Cymrubeats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, i'm dumb as *****. I genuinely couldn't find a real reason for it at all, thanks for giving me many to ponder on, i already feel much smarter now.
- rhesuspieces00, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Whoa, I remember playing that. I pwned for my age bracket (I was 12) at super mario bros. and tetris, but couldn't get past the third heat because i had never played rad racer before and sucked at it.
Here's an article about it:
http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/nes/nwc/nwc.html - TwoD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, it's a collectors items. He didn't buy it for the fun of the game but because it's rare.
Collecting stuff is pretty much wasting money just to own something that doesn't necessarily do something useful anyway. - justinlarsen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Box of the NES Gold Zelda Cart's + Nintendo World Championships Stickers + Rom Flasher = a ***** ton of money
- D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I don't think I'd pay that much for anything unless it had 4 wheels and a engine
- sulthernao, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Free shipping for sales over $50.
- atomicrobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You're not very bright, are you?
I'm willing to be a $5000 NES game ships with insurance, via registered mail or with a personal courier even. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The reasoning behind it is ebay takes a sizeable percentage of whatever you sell, however if its shipping costs i guess they dont. You will notice a lot of things on sale for practically ntohing and the real cost is in the shipping.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1About a year and a half ago one sold for 6k.
http://digg.com/gaming_news/Nintendo_World_Championships_1990_on_ebay
The comments have a lot of insight and stories for those interested. I'm pretty sure that one was a grey one, so I would have expected this one to go for much more than $5,100. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i was just going to say 5100 is cheap for this
- TerekKincaid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, look: "The seller ended this listing early to sell to the high bidder(s) at current bid price".
eBay would have ended it in no time flat because of those shipping fees. Those guys were "in cahoots". Definitely something fishy going on... - piyaca, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it looks like it's made of chocolate from the big pic.
mmmmmmmmm $5100 chocolate cartridge aggggggghhhh - Cowboy5995, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You would be surprised how much some of these retro games are going for now days. Their is a business down the road from me that sells used games from the Atari to present. He is selling Mega man X 3 and Mega Man 7 for $ 150 apiece and even has a few virtual boys in stock.
- thep1mp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1SPAM^^^
- snodin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree everything about this sale looks sketchy from no paypal to the "Im selling this for my friend"
- Monosynthetic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If that didn't work I'm so going to want a vid of the response.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1WHOA! Commission Junction SPAM!
This puts a referral cookie on your computer for the submitter. He gets ~$20 if you sign-up for ebay.
They need to start filtering rover.ebay.com links NOW. - coreyos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I found a gold cartridge of The Legend of Zelda for NES about a year ago in a thrift store for 99 cents. It was the cartridge only but I figure it might be worth a bit of money in 10 years or so. I'll keep it as long as it takes. :p
- kevxross, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Also, he's shipping it Express so he's only padding it by about $5 which won't even cover his fees. Do you really think the guy dropping $5100 cares about $25 more? If he does... he should've only bid $5075.
- sanderscm2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0if i found a rom with this...and it won't open in nestopia for os x...i wonder what i would do in order to play it...
- bachflomid, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1That made me laugh so hard I had tears in my eyes!
For those who don't know what obrysii is talking about, search for blendtec on youtube. - D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Well I have a super-mega rare Donkey Kong Country in a gray cartridge for the Super Nintendo. I'll start the bidding at 500 bucks... It's in kinda mint condition and only like a bajillion were sold...
- millertime83, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5didn't the buyer know they can buy it eventually on Wii for like 5 bucks?
- amandaw33, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3wow people are nuts!
- Cymrubeats, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4He lives with your mom, so go ask her.
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