Domuhnator

4 minutes ago, tidaldreams said:

wow HA has sold a ton of majora's and only two of them have been non-CE. that's suuuuuper interesting. let's go non-CE

Non CE is 10-1 In my opinion. Not really any difference in price yet but there probably should be.

2 hours ago, tidaldreams said:

interesting... i actually sent in a majora's non-CE recently that i didn't pay that much for, it's definitely not in the best condition tho

Not many of them are. The best one I was able to track down was a 9.0 two years ago. 

1 hour ago, Gulag Joe said:

@Domuhnator I am having a hard time figuring out how to search completed auctions through Goldin's site. Am I missing something or is that not a feature Goldin offers?

I don't believe you can see completed listings yet. But it is coming. 

On 12/8/2021 at 11:37 PM, tidaldreams said:

Holy fuck, this is a complete shitshow. I've won items (like I literally got the email saying I won the item) and they keep getting extended.

Im so sorry about the technical issues you had. We are working very hard to fix them This was only the second auction on a brand new platform and as we scale up the auction size from that last one there were some issues that we did not see coming. But we are working round the clock to address them.

As far as your item reach out to info@goldinauctions.com if you have not. It should have reset to the price it was at before the second extended period regardless. 

On 12/9/2021 at 1:25 AM, OptOut said:

Because all they CARE about is the fuggin money dude! As far as they're concerned their customers are pigs, munching up slop, they'll get what they're given!

 

Also, congrats to @Maertens29 on the Sonic dude, PAL MASTER RACE FTW W00TTT!!!!!!   

I beg to differ. I care very much about this job and the people who work with me. These issues made me sick to my stomach. I want to bing the best product and experience possible. No one at goldin feels good about the issues we have had. But we are going to improve with every auction and do our best. If you think we're just here to get rich your gravely mistaken. Both Jared and I love this space and this hobby and these people. 

Also I apologize for not checking the forum sooner. I flew out directly after the show for C2E2 Chicago and the convention center has zero service. 

If anyone still has questions just watch this! 

1 hour ago, blarky said:

Hi, is there an official reason why Goldin employs this bidding rule?  It seems like this can only hurt the sellers, and not help in any way.  I think during the last GA video game auction, there were reports of items selling for cheaply due to bidders not being able to bid at the end because of this rule.  There's probably something I'm missing here, so just wondering what the reasoning is behind this, thanks!

It just gets people in and bidding early. Thats just how things have been done. Pretty much what I tell people is if you see something you would buy at that price place a bid. Don't wait till the last minute. If you do that you wont miss much. 

Just a reminder. Auction ends tonight at 10pm. You have to have a bid placed PRIOR to 9:30Pm eastern to be able to bid on any lots after 10PM. 

13 minutes ago, tidaldreams said:

so what happened to the other thread 

i think they're a bit better than before. here's what it used to show 

I mean, who doesn't like Dark Magician Girl?

10 minutes ago, ApebitMusic said:

Wow, I didn't know that there was a crazy rare Halloween for the 2600. Super cool. 

Right! Super Super rare. 

7 minutes ago, Gloves said:

I'm joking about laziness obviously, but I do wonder - did they not set you up with a CMS for managing the content? Surely they'd allow for the creation of new categories and subcategories within the CMS rather than requiring a dev to make that update manually in the code somewhere.

@Domuhnator if you need a dev consultant let me know, I'm very expensive and I like money.

To be 100% honest I have no idea. Im just going off of what they told me. I have zero experience in the field. I built my PC and can handle hardware fine but website building is out of my wheelhouse. 

2 minutes ago, Gloves said:

@Domuhnator some constructive criticism if I may for future auctions (if you can't resolve for this already live one): Can you add console/system as a filterable subcategory?

For instance, I couldn't care less about slabbed Atari games and would want to filter them out.

Yes. The categories and sub categories are lacking. They will be better in future auctions but the Dev team has a lot on there plate right now and cant add and more for this auction unfortunately. I already tried. 

On 11/23/2021 at 5:16 PM, tidaldreams said:

Ok, i'll be the elephant in the room here. @Jared_Goldinauctions or @Domuhnator care to comment on shipping $45k of raw 1st edition pokemon cards to smpratte in sandwich bags and bubble mailer situation? Namely, how in the f*cking hell could something like this happen? I mean, the most of the cards weren't even sleeved...

Not trying to be mean or anything, but as a prospective buyer who would be spending (significantly) less money than him, I would like some assurances that something like this doesn't happen to me. 

 

People Sent me that screenshot this over the weekend but it was the first I heard of it. I was unable to watch the video as well. But we ship an unbelievable amount of high end cards with no issues so I don't even know how something. like this would have happened. 

As far as the games go the shipping team and I personally came up with packing procedures for both graded and ungraded games. I expect zero issues on that front.  

21 hours ago, Mega Tank said:

Link? I don't see anything on the site.

https://goldin.co/buy?view=list&page=1&Category=Video%20Games

461 games in preview currently. 

21 hours ago, Jayleonis said:

Will games still be added or is this the final line up. Someone told me they had a game in this auction that I don’t see up

I believe this is it. We might add a couple last second, but it will be 1 or two if any. 

Hey all! Just a heads up. Our auction preview is live now! We did end up doing a longer than normal preview. If anyone has any questions or concerns please let me know!

- Dom 

4 minutes ago, Gulag Joe said:

Longer auction previews are needed. I know you're looking for feedback on how you can improve things, that would be a great start. I'm hesitant to use Goldin because of that.

I agree. I am working towards it. 

What is your preferred preview length?  

10 hours ago, tidaldreams said:

So when do we actually get to see the games? I see nothing but sports junk* on the website.

*pls don't hurt me

Soon! We're working on titles and making sure everything is migrated over properly. Typically we launch the preview the day before the auction starts. But im working to try and get a longer preview. But its not something Goldin has ever done. 

13 hours ago, RETRO said:

I wish this had been clear earlier. Not accepting products you don't think will earn $1,000 is fine—though to be clear, you create that sort of policy for you and your bottom line and not for either buyers or sellers; also, you already, in your first auction, sold items that went for under $1,000 elsewhere but didn't go for under $1,000 at Goldin because of your mandatory minimum starting bid—but now you're saying that there will be no minimum bid in your next auction, as "nothing will start at $1,000."

That's certainly an acceptable business practice, as it's what Heritage does and they are years ahead of you in terms of being in this market.

But if what you're doing here is saying that "nothing will start at $1,000" simply because there will still be a minimum $1,000 bid but someone will have to bid that for an item to not go unsold, that's a pretty lame rhetorical sleight-of-hand, man.

I hope you will clarify what you mean.

Im sorry ifs its confusing. Our starting bids are normally a fraction of what our rough estimated final value is. There is no item we value at $1000 that will start at $1000. Every item in our last auction got bids and im sure they all will in this one too. 

2 hours ago, Tetris said:

I don't mean to push, but that doesn't answer my question. It sounds like what you're saying here is that the starting bid is not $1000; you only have a minimum estimated value of $1000. So in your upcoming auction that starts in another couple of weeks, will lots be starting at $1000 and up, or below that (but each will have an estimated value of $1000 or more)? Estimates and starting bids are two distinct things. 

Correct, Nothing will start at $1000. It's just our estimated value. But like I said there is going to be a-lot of stuff that im sure wont hit that mark. We have a lot of new products and unproven items in auction.  

10 hours ago, Tetris said:

I'm a little confused from your posts on this thread. Are you saying that Goldin has a $1000 minimum lot value (but that the bidding doesn't necessarily open at $1000), or a minimum $1000 starting bid for each lot? Those are two very different things. 

Our company policy is not to accept single items we feel will not hit $1000. There are alway exceptions and we get large collections from time to time with lower valued items but its a general rule. 

18 hours ago, Gloves said:

I can tell you that the majority of the people on this site would be more interested in the sub-1k range. Little bit of free datamining for you. There's a couple whales here for sure, but they'd likely be caught in the other nets I assume you're casting as well.

Just because we have a $1000 min doesn't mean that everything always hits that. We'll give some borderline or new stuff a shot from time to time and sometimes lower prices items come in with bigger consignments. I would recommend for everyone to look though the auction when it goes live and assign your own values to lots. You and everyone else bidding decide where the final value is. We just procure the items for your consideration. 

29 minutes ago, RETRO said:

OK, though I have never paid four figures for a sealed-and-graded game and my collection could easily be sold at Goldin.

I have many, many premium games—and they did not cost $1,000. I get that you want to goose your revenue but don't tell sealed-and-graded retro game collectors that premium games always cost over $1,000. They don't.

That minimum of course works—is fine—for games that you expect will go for $5,000 or over, but you are selling games that on other auction sites are going for $700 to $900 and you're doing so with a $1,000 minimum, which is insulting to those of us who research carefully before spending money on anything.

I'm giving you free advice in telling you that you are cutting down on your potential audience and fan club and consumer base by not having a sub-section of games with either no minimum or a $500 minimum.

If Heritage Auctions can be a premium auction house with no minimums, I think that Goldin—which has conducted all of *one* video game auction ever—can manage a sub-section of your catalog with $500 mins. Otherwise it looks like you are setting as a *floor* for certain games a price that is above their value. Not a good look for a business that relies on goodwill among a community that shares information fluidly.

But in any case, it's good to know that Goldin thinks Heritage—which has no mins—*isn't* a premium auction house.

There is a chance it changes in the future with us, but as of right now in auction setting its a $1000 minimum. Its actually more for you than us. We don't make any money on items that we don't sell. Its not like we don't want to generate more business. But to be honest our current bidder base does not respond well to items under $1000 and they tend to undersell when we have tried them. If our bidder base changes and more bidders come in who will respond well to items in the $200-$500 range I expect that will change. 

We never said that Heritage is not a premium auction house. But they do sell a-lot of non premium or cheeper items. 

13 hours ago, inasuma said:

Question for future me: do y'all prefer consignments be graded ahead of time? E.g., we can't submit a raw game and have Goldin take care of all the grading (assuming we would pay for it, but still)?

We can absolutely get games graded for you. We will front the grading cost and take out of your auction proceeds. We do this for a-lot of consigners.   

12 hours ago, RETRO said:

Hopefully that $1,000 minimum bid will be axed because it's stupid as hell and feels like icky micromanaging

We might adjust it for certain categories that are not as developed. But at the end of the day we are a premium auction house offering premium product. So for games the $1000 minimum most likely wont change. 

15 hours ago, tidaldreams said:

Jared sent his underling after us when he realized no one from here submitted in the last auction 

Lol, Not quite. But we value all members of the community wether they are consigners or not. 

12 hours ago, OptOut said:

 

@Jared_Goldinauctions after the last time he visited the chuckle-fuck denizens of VGS:

Come back we love you! 

Oh you guys are a treat compared to some of the other forums!

2 minutes ago, CodysGameRoom said:

Too busy for us? Guess they always forget the little guys when they make it to the big time.

Not at all! Thats why Im here! He wanted to make sure everyone here was taken care of. If he doesn't build the auction theres no auction to have and were on a pretty tight timeline. 

1 hour ago, tidaldreams said:

Who are u and what did u do with Jared

31 minutes ago, inasuma said:

yeah where's jared

is he ok??

also thanks for the heads up. will be sure to check out the auction when it's up!

Jared is good! We work very closely together. He is very very busy building the auction so he asked me to step in here and take care of you guys.