Wow...

[blueraven]

Hmm,
I'm not sure if you are applauding to the example statements, or to the "go-away" statement!

Charlie

example

[CrackTiger]

BTW: /7f1b.jpg

85% NEW!!

I don't remember if i said this way back when, but I can understand the seller using a point based grading system if it was physically 85+% new and just happened to be filthy. But you can see at least 45 grading points of physically wear. Combined with the filth, the condition should've been graded as "as-is". A collectible like a sports card would have to be pretty valuable and genuinely rare in the first place, to hold any value in this kind of condition.

It's so awesome that the seller still tried to grade an item that was only worth what he was asking if it wasn't "85% new". An LT in this condition for any price wouldn't be as hilarious as something as an item as functionally useless as a 3 player tap.

Was this a lingjr auction? Maybe his fat finger hit the 8 and 5 keys at the same time and it was supposed to be labeled only "5% new" or "8% new".

[Tatsujin]

I'd say he appluaded to 85% to the example statements.

Tatsujin

[Tatsujin]

Was this a lingjr auction? Maybe his fat finger hit the 8 and 5 keys at the same time and it was supposed to be labeled only "5% new" or "8% new".

LOL, then it would have been something like 5678% NEW!

[VestCunt]

75-80% NEW!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Pc-Engine-CD-Rom2-/120746780765?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c1d11a85d

[CGQuarterly]

The units in the picture look more like 90% new.

This guy should post a "% of new" scale, complete with pictures.  I would like to see what something that he thinks is 0-20% of new looks like.  Once you get below 50%, it probably stops resembling what you would recognize as that item.  Like a 50% new PCE CD drive probably has so much moss and dirt on it that you can only recognize it by shape.  By the time you get down below 20%, it probably just looks like a pile of rotting bananas.

Chris

[Mathius]

Pile of rotting bananas

[VestCunt]

By the time you get down below 20%, it probably just looks like a pile of rotting bananas.

Yeah, I have a Duo like that.  Ya think Blue can patch it up for me? 

[BlueBMW]

By the time you get down below 20%, it probably just looks like a pile of rotting bananas.

Yeah, I have a Duo like that.  Ya think Blue can patch it up for me? 

[apachacha]

The units in the picture look more like 90% new.

This guy should post a "% of new" scale, complete with pictures.  I would like to see what something that he thinks is 0-20% of new looks like.  Once you get below 50%, it probably stops resembling what you would recognize as that item.  Like a 50% new PCE CD drive probably has so much moss and dirt on it that you can only recognize it by shape.  By the time you get down below 20%, it probably just looks like a pile of rotting bananas.

Chris

A 50 % new PC Engine looks surprisingly like a Sega Master System

[CGQuarterly]

The units in the picture look more like 90% new.

This guy should post a "% of new" scale, complete with pictures.  I would like to see what something that he thinks is 0-20% of new looks like.  Once you get below 50%, it probably stops resembling what you would recognize as that item.  Like a 50% new PCE CD drive probably has so much moss and dirt on it that you can only recognize it by shape.  By the time you get down below 20%, it probably just looks like a pile of rotting bananas.

Chris

A 50 % new PC Engine looks surprisingly like a Sega Master System

Right!  And it will still play HuCards, but only ones that are about 50% new and more closely resemble (in both look and performance) SMS Sega Cards.

See? We can just start making the "% of New" scale for him.

Chris

[apachacha]

The units in the picture look more like 90% new.

This guy should post a "% of new" scale, complete with pictures.  I would like to see what something that he thinks is 0-20% of new looks like.  Once you get below 50%, it probably stops resembling what you would recognize as that item.  Like a 50% new PCE CD drive probably has so much moss and dirt on it that you can only recognize it by shape.  By the time you get down below 20%, it probably just looks like a pile of rotting bananas.

Chris

A 50 % new PC Engine looks surprisingly like a Sega Master System

Right!  And it will still play HuCards, but only ones that are about 50% new and more closely resemble (in both look and performance) SMS Sega Cards.

See? We can just start making the "% of New" scale for him.

Chris

So, what would 0 % new be like ?

The Jaguar CD ?

[CGQuarterly]

The units in the picture look more like 90% new.

This guy should post a "% of new" scale, complete with pictures.  I would like to see what something that he thinks is 0-20% of new looks like.  Once you get below 50%, it probably stops resembling what you would recognize as that item.  Like a 50% new PCE CD drive probably has so much moss and dirt on it that you can only recognize it by shape.  By the time you get down below 20%, it probably just looks like a pile of rotting bananas.

Chris

A 50 % new PC Engine looks surprisingly like a Sega Master System

Right!  And it will still play HuCards, but only ones that are about 50% new and more closely resemble (in both look and performance) SMS Sega Cards.

See? We can just start making the "% of New" scale for him.

Chris

So, what would 0 % new be like ?

The Jaguar CD ?

No, an Action Max.

Chris

[apachacha]

The units in the picture look more like 90% new.

This guy should post a "% of new" scale, complete with pictures.  I would like to see what something that he thinks is 0-20% of new looks like.  Once you get below 50%, it probably stops resembling what you would recognize as that item.  Like a 50% new PCE CD drive probably has so much moss and dirt on it that you can only recognize it by shape.  By the time you get down below 20%, it probably just looks like a pile of rotting bananas.

Chris

A 50 % new PC Engine looks surprisingly like a Sega Master System

Right!  And it will still play HuCards, but only ones that are about 50% new and more closely resemble (in both look and performance) SMS Sega Cards.

See? We can just start making the "% of New" scale for him.

Chris

So, what would 0 % new be like ?

The Jaguar CD ?

No, an Action Max.

Chris

I never even knew this existed

[Mathius]

I had an Action Max growing up. It looked cooler in the commercials.

[CGQuarterly]

I had one, too.  I think my dad bought it off of a clearance rack or something.  I had whatever game it was that had you going through a haunted house. 

Just looked it up.  "The Rescue of Pops Ghostly".

Chris

[Mathius]

I had one, too.  I think my dad bought it off of a clearance rack or something.  I had whatever game it was that had you going through a haunted house. 

Just looked it up.  "The Rescue of Pops Ghostly".

Chris

Yep! I remember that one!

[shubibiman]

Can someone please rename that topic?

[nat]

I'm reluctant to mess with the legacy of 85% NEW!!!!!!!!!!

[offsidewing]

Of all the goofy things I've done in life, being part of this thread is certainly one of the most memorable.

We have a sales campaign in my region at work, and we have a customer category called "85% probability."  I squirted coffee out my nose when I read the power point deck for the first time.

This thread always has, and always will be, a day brightner.