Sen 0 Member · Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 Hey, I´d like to hear your opinion on some ebay sales. I wonder why these recent ebay (german) sells of PAL versions got much higher prices than the NTSC ones. PAL: https://www.ebay.de/itm/NES-Super-Mario-Bros-3-inkl-OVP-amp-Anleitung-CiB-/304116303925?hash=item46cebe8835%3Ag%3AQs4AAOSwIA9hIoI1&nma=true&si=9DmWFCUR9EnjV8n4nYbufmQ7NQQ%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557https://www.ebay.de/itm/NES-Super-Mario-Bros-2-inkl-OVP-amp-Anleitung-CiB-/304125105756?hash=item46cf44d65c%3Ag%3ATwwAAOSwFh1hK2uO&nma=true&si=9DmWFCUR9EnjV8n4nYbufmQ7NQQ%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 NTSC: https://www.ebay.de/itm/Nintendo-NES-Spiel-Super-Mario-Bros-3-US-NTSC-OVP-/194341732921?epid=1504696355&hash=item2d3fab8239%3Ag%3Ag3MAAOSwGDhhNkxs&nma=true&si=9DmWFCUR9EnjV8n4nYbufmQ7NQQ%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 https://www.ebay.de/itm/Nintendo-NES-Spiel-Super-Mario-Bros-2-Mario-Madness-Black-Label-US-NTSC-OVP-/194341730643?epid=1504696355&hash=item2d3fab7953%3Ag%3AChsAAOSw4D9hNiqA&nma=true&si=9DmWFCUR9EnjV8n4nYbufmQ7NQQ%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 I don´t see much difference in the overall condition of the games. Also what would you think what ratings these games would get by VGA/WATA? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knud 100 Member · Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 People in Europe generally want to collect games from theyre area. Just like people in US rather want to collect NTSC copy then PAL if it is available. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen 5,128 Member · Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 The PAL copies look 100% complete with the baggies and everything, the US copies aren't. Also nothing in this market makes sense and everything is volatile by the week, so who knows. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptOut 8,629 Member · Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 PAL NES games are less common in general than US games, and so finding good condition copies is that much harder. I'm not surprised they would sell for more, especially in top condition. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickman 3,632 Member · Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 16 minutes ago, OptOut said: PAL NES games are less common in general than US games, and so finding good condition copies is that much harder. I'm not surprised they would sell for more, especially in top condition. This is so true. I feel like so many PAL kids were savages with their games too. I see all these nice looking US NES games and they look like some pristine relic compared to the PAL stuff. I’m not really surprised these sold for more. PAL stuff is much rarer than US stuff, especially on NES because Sega dominated, so there’s nowhere near the same sales across PAL territories as the US/Can. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamW 713 Member · Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 (edited) Neither of the US game listings offered international shipping. Americans will pay much more for American games than Europeans will, generally speaking, and almost all American buyers would not even have seen those listings, since they didn't offer shipping to the US. Someone good at eBay searching likely got some good deals. Edited September 12, 2021 by AdamW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tidaldreams 654 Member · Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 Agree with @AdamW. If you're browsing pricecharting for a NTSC game and see an auction that sold for way under market, there's a good chance that the seller doesn't ship to the US. Which kinda sucks for the seller since it leaves a lot of money on the table. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sen 0 Member · Posted September 12, 2021 Author Share Posted September 12, 2021 Thanks everybody, sounds reasonable. Didn´t even realize the baggies were missing on the NTSC versions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nintegageo 561 Member · Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 @Shmup yeah and all regions treated their games like crap compared to the Japanese market which seems to mainly have pristine games haha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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