Well i put my Magical Chase up on eBay a few days ago.... :-(

[SMF]

Yes its true, Magical Chase is going to be out of my collection for good.
Figured i would let the forums know.

Its a sad sad day but o well i have kids and they need the best in life.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/161366006667?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Hopefully the link works

[bob]

on my phone...it doesnt

unless its a BIN for $29.99...i dont want to see it.
(kidding)

[SMF]

on my phone...it doesnt

unless its a BIN for $29.99...i dont want to see it.
(kidding)

Yea i got it working lol.

[bob]

i wish you the best.  i applaud you for lettimg the bids ride.

[SMF]

i wish you the best.  i applaud you for lettimg the bids ride.

Thats the only way to do eBay in my oppion, No Reserve, No high buy it nows just 0.01 auction and let it ride. I have gotten offers but for stupid amounts of money. $100 and lower People are total asshats. I'm selling the game cause i have to not cause i want to.

Like i said kids come first. Thanks for looking at the auction.

[CrackTiger]

Would you be able to scan the manual before you let it go?

[esteban]

Would you be able to scan the manual before you let it go?

Scan the HuCARD, too!

Please 

[HailingTheThings]

Would you be able to scan the manual before you let it go?

This. Yes, please, this. No one else has been willing to. I as well as a lot of others, I'm sure, would be ever so grateful. :3

[Alt-Nintega]

kudos for doing this! The only other one I saw recently was selling for 5k BIN. Hopefully it goes to the right hands and not some clown that will put it on ebay for 4,999.99 BIN.

Are you leaving the hobby or just selling this one game?

[slinkyturd]

sorry for your lose. I hope you get a couple of deep pocketed collectors in a bid war.

[ToyMachine78]

Would you be able to scan the manual before you let it go?

This. Yes, please, this. No one else has been willing to. I as well as a lot of others, I'm sure, would be ever so grateful. :3

Don't do it!!! It will destroy the minty mintness !

[ToyMachine78]

I kid! I kid! ^^

[kisaku]

i would like to get it, but i need a minty with outer box too...

[SMF]

I can try to scan the manual and the Huey lol.

Truth is bills have hit us hard and either sell this and hopefully get a big chunk of debt gone or risk falling behind on the mortage and car payment. This is what happens to us some times. Like i said thats life and i have kids i need to worry about.

Thanks all for looking.

[geise]

I hope you get some crazy amount from a bid war.  Sad it's the way you have to go, but it's just video games.  Family first like you said.  I totally understand your situation.  A lot of us have  been there.  Wish you the best.

[EvilEvoIX]

i would like to get it, but i need a minty with outer box too...

bid 5k for it, and I'll send you a sparky repro box Iin by hyper-mint uncircumcised condition.

[Bernie]

DAMNIT MAN.... I so wish I had one of these....  People throwing their money at it..  WTF...

[Alt-Nintega]

DAMNIT MAN.... I so wish I had one of these....  People throwing their money at it..  WTF...

you deserve to find one in a garage sale one of these days amongst some 80's synth pop cd's. I hope you find one man.

[SMF]

DAMNIT MAN.... I so wish I had one of these....  People throwing their money at it..  WTF...

you deserve to find one in a garage sale one of these days amongst some 80's synth pop cd's. I hope you find one man.

Its killing me to let this go but when you run into hard times video games gotta go. Bernie i can tell you one thing, Im glad i have this to sell. Gonna help me in a huge way. Just sucks once its gone i probably will never own it again.

[NecroPhile]

Thank god you posted a link to this "ebay" place.  I've never heard of it before.

[cr8zykuban0]

really sucks that you have to let this gem go but best of luck in your situation!

[slinkyturd]

Necromancer, Ebay is where old people buy their Depends and prescriptions. I buy the best birthday balloons on there. The brand is Trojan.

[420GOAT]

the the fact you can buy a car with the money from the game, id have sold that shit long long ago.

[geise]

You can still have Magical Chase.  Just put a bit aside for the PC-Engine version and use the rest to pay off debt.

[MrFulci]

the the fact you can buy a car with the money from the game, id have sold that shit long long ago.

The guy who runs this board, sold a sealed Magical Chase on ebay for about the price this open copy, minus the display box, is currently selling for ($2500 or so). That in 2010 or so.

I'm curious to see what the current auction sale price will be for this game.

[NightWolve]

Thank god you posted a link to this "ebay" place.  I've never heard of it before.

Well of course, NecroPhile, he wouldn't want a hot item like this being put up for auction starting at .01 cent to go unnoticed. ;) When you take the risk of the auction rollercoaster on something like this, it's gotta be well-marketed or decently enough, lest you don't catch the attention of the big spenders out there... ;) Well, one day left at $2,425, so hopefully at least this will get bid down by the end of it and throw off the $5000 or more BINs out there. It did go for $7,200 not that long ago, we'll see...

[Gentlegamer]

I'm happy to see it being "ebay'd" the right way. I'd suggest you advertise the auction at Nintendo Age if you haven't already, but then again, it might end up getting slabbed. Wouldn't want that!

[Bklyn4ever]

Thank god you posted a link to this "ebay" place.  I've never heard of it before.

Well of course, NecroPhile, he wouldn't want a hot item like this being put up for auction starting at .01 cent to go unnoticed. ;) When you take the risk of the auction rollercoaster on something like this, it's gotta be well-marketed or decently enough, lest you don't catch the attention of the big spenders out there... ;) Well, one day left at $2,425, so hopefully at least this will get bid down by the end of it and throw off the $5000 or more BINs out there. It did go for $7,200 not that long ago, we'll see...

That one was a boxed copy. The snipers will bid last second and it will go up some more. Good luck!

[xcrement5x]

Let me also please say scan the original manual before you ship it off.  I would be happy to throw a bit of cash your way for the scans if it can entice you to do this, others might also be interested.

[HailingTheThings]

Let me also please say scan the original manual before you ship it off.  I would be happy to throw a bit of cash your way for the scans if it can entice you to do this, others might also be interested.

I'd be willing to throw money at you as well as long as you gently removed the staples to do a proper scan. I've removed plenty of the old rusty staples to replace them with new for a lot of my old games. There's no risk of damaging the manual unless you're new to using your fingers. hehe

[NightWolve]

3 hours and counting... Snipers are in their standby positions with fingers on their mouse/keyboard triggers... Here we go soon...

[Alt-Nintega]

not bad. the clown is right, many snipers standing by. Current number is not bad, you should get more at the end. This is good moment in history. Lets see how far this goes. Hey maybe I will outbid everyone since I'm the devil, and as we all know satan has unlimited spendings.

[NightWolve]

Awww, the sting of "Tommy's" butt-hurt spreading to other threads. Poor little darling, yeah, we REALLY roughed him up bad... Shame on us!

I will remove my account myself!

So, when does the pending self-deletion of your account kick in, slugger ?? You're still here despite your statement.

[Gentlegamer]

3 hours and counting... Snipers are in their standby positions with fingers on their mouse/keyboard triggers... Here we go soon...

If so, they're amateurs.

[NightWolve]

Tick tock, tick tock, one hour to go! No sudden moves thus far...

[bob]

$2400+ and i love the $3.04 shipping. 

[viper0hr]

Good luck selling man!
It sucks to have to get rid of something as rare as that/ But when you need the cash you need the cash.

Hope you get alot for it, with an hour left it's possible it'll go for over $3k.

[Alt-Nintega]

it's worth 5k

[Bklyn4ever]

I'm going to guess the winning bid will be for $4,450

[elderbroom]

$2501.01 .. an absolute bargain !   

Glad that there was something in your collection you could part with to get what sounds like much needed money for your family.   But still makes me shake my head when I see prices like that on games that I remember seeing new in store.

[bob]

it's worth 5k

[NightWolve]

Awww, poor guy with his $5k BIN now. Shipping is free, though!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Magical-Chase-TurboGrafx-16-TG16-US-Version-NTSC-Hu-Card-and-manual/191206603598

[Bklyn4ever]

 

[Gentlegamer]

Magical Chase is worth 2.5k monies.

[elderbroom]

I figured it out .. Tommy V must live in Belize, and be conversing in his local currency.

As $1 USD = $2 BZD

So he was right when he said it was with $5000 BZD (or $2500 USD).  Certainly the new authority that I will consult on the value of my future sales, and purchases 

[HailingTheThings]

Hey maybe I will outbid everyone since I'm the devil, and as we all know satan has unlimited spendings.

Don't sully the name of Satan any more than it already has been, you creep.

[EvilEvoIX]

$2,500, is that a fair deal?

[NecroPhile]

What kind of stupid fucking question is that?

[NightWolve]

$2,500, is that a fair deal?

There's no concept of "fair" here, not really as it wasn't a straight BIN sale, that's why the question is understandably silly. The seller offered it for .99 cents, VERY FAIR, and that's it for him; the rest of the dynamic is the result of the potential buyers who saw the auction competing, deciding how high or how much they're willing to spend to get it...

You could do an auction next month and the winning bid might be $500 or $5,000. It all depends if the big-spending nuts are out there willing to drop thousands of dollars if need be to get the damn thing. Add in the reselling flippity-flip-flippers who also look out for this, etc.

It's a matter of timing, marketing, chance, history, etc. Now relative to a prior auction where two big-spending nuts bid the game up to $7,100 to $7,200, yeah, versus that auction, the winner in this auction gets to own the game for $4,700 less. I bet the big-spender that spent $7,200 ($7K!!!! All the new games/systems, or a new car, he could've had! It's crazy!!) feels like shit now, but then who knows if it was just some reseller.

What it is for the rest of us is that we've been priced out from ever owning a Magical Chase assuming we wanted one. I'm not willing to go over $100 for a single videogame, (one rare exception), but for the most part, yeah, it's not worth it to me as the money could be better spent elsewhere. That may "feel" unfair to me, that I'll never get to own a game like this if I wanted one, not until all the big-spenders got their copies and thus got out of the way, but yeah, since I don't place such a high/absurd premium on owning an original copy and would be fine with an emulator or a flash cart, I don't care, it's just a cutesy shooter game to me, and I can just observe the big-spending madness and comment on it occasionally. A bystander to the spectacle.

[elderbroom]

Very well put NightWolve.  Loving my Turbo Everdrive as I know it allows me access to games that I just can't prioritize high enough to justify their current prices.  Thinking I now need a NES Everdrive, and an SD2SNES.  Maybe birthday gifts to myself later this year.