AdamW | 713 Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 So this is an interesting one. For the Pokemon games I watch I've been tracking flips from eBay to HA and vice versa. This one just ended: https://www.ebay.com/itm/274788132545?nordt=true&rt=nc&orig_cvip=true The seller bought that for $2160 (inc. premium) from HA in January: https://comics.ha.com/itm/a/122102-13790.s which I thought was a pretty bad buy at the time. They tried to sell it at a higher BIN price for months and it obviously didn't work, so seems like they decided to just cut and run, and put it up for auction starting at $1. It ended at $2232.77, so after paying shipping from HA, paying eBay fees, and whatever carrying costs they have, pretty sure they're not breaking even on that one. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a3quit4s | 4,097 Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 (edited) Never thought the day would come when I paid $130 for Nobunaga's Ambition II and thought it was a good deal. But here we are Edited May 17, 2021 by a3quit4s 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiamiSlice | 3,092 Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 50 minutes ago, AdamW said: So this is an interesting one. For the Pokemon games I watch I've been tracking flips from eBay to HA and vice versa. This one just ended: https://www.ebay.com/itm/274788132545?nordt=true&rt=nc&orig_cvip=true The seller bought that for $2160 (inc. premium) from HA in January: https://comics.ha.com/itm/a/122102-13790.s which I thought was a pretty bad buy at the time. They tried to sell it at a higher BIN price for months and it obviously didn't work, so seems like they decided to just cut and run, and put it up for auction starting at $1. It ended at $2232.77, so after paying shipping from HA, paying eBay fees, and whatever carrying costs they have, pretty sure they're not breaking even on that one. eBay fee alone puts them at a loss 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Centroid | 79 Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 6 hours ago, Naked Warrior said: https://www.ebay.com/itm/124714825078 Chances the buyer pays on this? I'm going to put it at 0%...give or take 0%... Those bids are a perfect example of someone that needs to seriously calm down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doner24 | 1,195 Moderator · Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 7 hours ago, Naked Warrior said: https://www.ebay.com/itm/124714825078 Chances the buyer pays on this? I'm going to put it at 0%...give or take 0%... Oof, I haven’t sold many things over the years, but I sold a dead mint box and manual for that for $200 a few years ago. I got them one night being stubborn, telling myself I was hitting refresh until I found a juicy, video game BIN as I rarely have time to look. About an hour later a big box of Gameboy boxes and manuals are listed for $30, but the listing was confusing as it seemed like it was a multiple item deal by drop down menu and you couldn’t see everything. The package showed up and was full of mint boxes and manuals, lots of Mario, Zelda, random games, and this. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptOut | 8,883 Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 10 hours ago, AdamW said: So this is an interesting one. For the Pokemon games I watch I've been tracking flips from eBay to HA and vice versa. This one just ended: https://www.ebay.com/itm/274788132545?nordt=true&rt=nc&orig_cvip=true The seller bought that for $2160 (inc. premium) from HA in January: https://comics.ha.com/itm/a/122102-13790.s which I thought was a pretty bad buy at the time. They tried to sell it at a higher BIN price for months and it obviously didn't work, so seems like they decided to just cut and run, and put it up for auction starting at $1. It ended at $2232.77, so after paying shipping from HA, paying eBay fees, and whatever carrying costs they have, pretty sure they're not breaking even on that one. The cracks are showing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,933 Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 Just because some ebay-HA shenanigans didn't pay off, I'll believe it when I see it that cracks are showing when these millions printed carts (only) stuff on ebay starts crashing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamW | 713 Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 yeah, counter example right here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/114807143193?nordt=true&rt=nc&orig_cvip=true $10300? Did the buyer not look at the pictures of the slightly squished box and sizable tear in the seal?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,933 Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 7 hours ago, AdamW said: yeah, counter example right here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/114807143193?nordt=true&rt=nc&orig_cvip=true $10300? Did the buyer not look at the pictures of the slightly squished box and sizable tear in the seal?! Damn dude...wow. Mine is slightly squished too, but I don't have a rip and chunk out of the seal, no holes other than the factory vent ones at all. Ooof... so so tempting. The stupid is strong with this one, can it really last?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamW | 713 Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 people slip out of eBay buys relatively often, so I'll watch out and see if it gets relisted. if not you gotta think there'll be some buyer's remorse there if they get it graded, yikes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH | 4,903 Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 Here's one that blows my mind. It doesn't surprise me that people collect these but I am surprised they'd pay this much. https://www.ebay.com/itm/184809457216 This was a bag owned by Al Lowe. I know that had to be a factor, but still. $200 for a bag. A plastic bag. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPX | 1,369 Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 On 5/21/2021 at 11:39 PM, RH said: Here's one that blows my mind. It doesn't surprise me that people collect these but I am surprised they'd pay this much. https://www.ebay.com/itm/184809457216 This was a bag owned by Al Lowe. I know that had to be a factor, but still. $200 for a bag. A plastic bag. Big deal...people are paying a lot more for a plastic seal, with much less area/volume than that bag! 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctornick | 419 Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 On 4/7/2021 at 1:41 PM, Andy_Bogomil said: Do it! Start with games you don't have much attachment to and don't think have a significant jump ahead of them. I paid off a 10K car loan in 2 months by only selling a handful of CIBs and I didn't even touch my bank account. I am also thinking of throwing some bigger titles up so I can potentially buy some land or a new (to me) 2nd car. I took your advice, now I'm debating what to do with all this extra. It did feel great getting rid of stuff I wasn't attached to though. I used some of the profits to grab a few of my favorites CIB like EVO, MMX 3, and others. Thanks for the advice! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,933 Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 50 minutes ago, Doctornick said: I took your advice, now I'm debating what to do with all this extra. It did feel great getting rid of stuff I wasn't attached to though. I used some of the profits to grab a few of my favorites CIB like EVO, MMX 3, and others. Thanks for the advice! Good move, band-aid is ripped off, now you can smoothly sail through what I had been doing just ahead of the waves created a decade ago. I got a lot of NES, then as it got weird, dumped the less cared, used it 100% to do SNES, etc. It worked wonders being able to enjoy some, keep a few, then buy the next thing and have it covered to avoid the pains. In the end you find you have a lot less, but the quality outweighs the quantity which is a good thing. (Oof...wish I still had EVO.) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Bogomil | 815 Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 53 minutes ago, Doctornick said: I took your advice, now I'm debating what to do with all this extra. It did feel great getting rid of stuff I wasn't attached to though. I used some of the profits to grab a few of my favorites CIB like EVO, MMX 3, and others. Thanks for the advice! Nice, man... glad it worked out. I sold off a bunch of stuff and it was a win-win for me. I had extra cash and got rid of stuff I knew I would never touch again freeing up space. Liberating feeling once you get going and see that cash rolling in to spend on other stuff or re-invest for better quality into your collection. Besides the truly rare/sealed/graded stuff I personally think we've seen the major price bumps even if prices continue to generally go up. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctornick | 419 Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 18 hours ago, Tanooki said: Good move, band-aid is ripped off, now you can smoothly sail through what I had been doing just ahead of the waves created a decade ago. I got a lot of NES, then as it got weird, dumped the less cared, used it 100% to do SNES, etc. It worked wonders being able to enjoy some, keep a few, then buy the next thing and have it covered to avoid the pains. In the end you find you have a lot less, but the quality outweighs the quantity which is a good thing. (Oof...wish I still had EVO.) 18 hours ago, Andy_Bogomil said: Nice, man... glad it worked out. I sold off a bunch of stuff and it was a win-win for me. I had extra cash and got rid of stuff I knew I would never touch again freeing up space. Liberating feeling once you get going and see that cash rolling in to spend on other stuff or re-invest for better quality into your collection. Besides the truly rare/sealed/graded stuff I personally think we've seen the major price bumps even if prices continue to generally go up. It really was like a band-aid and felt a thousand times better. It was the first time I let go of a bunch of stuff. I am definitely going to surprise my wife with a vacation and tell her how the video games paid for it after we get there. I have a few sealed games that aren't anything crazy (opened all of those over the last 15 years) but I'm debating if I should let go of them raw because I'm so opposed to grading. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptOut | 8,883 Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 3 minutes ago, Doctornick said: but I'm debating if I should let go of them raw because I'm so opposed to grading. Don't mug yourself dude, do whatever you need to do to extract the highest possible value from your games! If there are fools willing to spend 2, 4, 10 times more for the exact same thing except with a number slapped on top, who are YOU to deny them their sweet investment potential?!!! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctornick | 419 Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 2 minutes ago, OptOut said: Don't mug yourself dude, do whatever you need to do to extract the highest possible value from your games! If there are fools willing to spend 2, 4, 10 times more for the exact same thing except with a number slapped on top, who are YOU to deny them their sweet investment potential?!!! I mean when you put it that way, I guess I've violated my personal code for much less. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,776 Administrator · Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 4 minutes ago, Doctornick said: I mean when you put it that way, I guess I've violated my personal code for much less. I hope you're a patient man lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctornick | 419 Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 1 minute ago, Gloves said: I hope you're a patient man lol. Hahaha not at all, what kind of time frame are we talking? Also I don't think any of it would be worth much, the only valuable game I won't open is LoZ, I'm keeping that for myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,776 Administrator · Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 3 minutes ago, Doctornick said: Hahaha not at all, what kind of time frame are we talking? Also I don't think any of it would be worth much, the only valuable game I won't open is LoZ, I'm keeping that for myself. See this conversation, specifically the last few pages of posts: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,933 Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 10 hours ago, Doctornick said: It really was like a band-aid and felt a thousand times better. It was the first time I let go of a bunch of stuff. I am definitely going to surprise my wife with a vacation and tell her how the video games paid for it after we get there. I have a few sealed games that aren't anything crazy (opened all of those over the last 15 years) but I'm debating if I should let go of them raw because I'm so opposed to grading. I'll say this much, I envy your situation a bit. I wasn't given a choice. A sleazy deal in a merger put me out of a job that was within a day or two of a promotion and good pay increase (10-15 an hour) with room to grow, then unemployment ran out 6mo later. Ended up caring for race horses 365/2 years and doing part time teaching work mostly to break even on bills, sometimes not. Sold off most my stuff as I had no choice, you did. The band-aid for me was horrible as it was a hard pull kick inthe teeth coming from a collection of probably 5000~pieces (console, access, games, guides, other paper, products, etc) as I never sold or traded a thing between 1985-2005. But once it was ripped off, which is why I related it to that, it gets easier. It's easier to finally let stuff go, the blunt trauma of it all being purged, makes you lose a LOT of attachment to a large majority of it. You like the added space, the lack of clutter, the trades for other less goodies or the cold cash to nest egg for something personal and nice as a little war chest. I would let them go RAW as you put it, screw grading. Let someone else eat that risk. At this toxic point people are paying stupid amounts of money for the ungraded because they feel the effort is worth the risk of advanced profit. They'll pay you like 5000 on an item, hoping it rates in the 8-9+ range, so they can maybe double or more their money -- let them, you'll enjoy the stupid money they shoveled over on a gamble. Remember, it's like Vegas rules, and you're the casino here, and how's that work? In the end, the house always wins. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AdamW | 713 Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 I dunno much about fractional investing but I'm scratching my head trying to figure out how $154,637 is ever a 99% gain from $77,600 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiamiSlice | 3,092 Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 2 minutes ago, AdamW said: I dunno much about fractional investing but I'm scratching my head trying to figure out how $154,637 is ever a 99% gain from $77,600 Oh my goodness dude. 77,600 * 1.99 = 154,454 is the same as 77,600 + (99% of 77,600) = 154,454 so that’s a 99% gain 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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