Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )

Arkhan Asylum · 02/03/2012, 11:10 AM

Its ok, later today, expect to see like 30 copies of Insanity for sale on eBay, all labeled 25/30

with a big middle finger in the picture, instead of a thumbs up.

I don't want my shit to ever sell for more than MY price, because my silver scribble isn't worth that. It's gay, LIKE ME.

They shouldn't be expensive until they're sold out and it's confirmed that 490 / 500 of them were blown up in an alien war and the remaining 10 can be used to summon forth robots to destroy the enemy.

Arkhan Asylum · 02/03/2012, 11:39 AM

Whoever bought the 150$ Insanity is a total moron.

Bernie · 02/03/2012, 11:39 AM

Quote from: guest on 02/03/2012, 11:39 AMWhoever bought the 150$ Insanity is a total moron.

Not just a total moron, but a fucking moron.

Arkhan Asylum · 02/03/2012, 11:44 AM

Well, Dan Barry is officially the new RoyVegas.

It'd be funny if Roy is who bought it.

Shrapnoid · 02/03/2012, 11:58 AM

Looks like people here are right about Tonma. I checked last night and couldn't find a single one new and most of the used ones were going for close to 50.

That reminds me. I found an old TI-99/4a cart of Munchman at the Goodwill yesterday that must've been part of some old store's display because it still had a security screw in one corner with the little attachment that would have been on a length of wire so, you could try out different carts before you bought them.

I'll bet some Home Computer fanatic would pay through the nose for something like that but, not this one because I don't collect for that computer anymore.

Why would someone pay a load of money for Insanity when they can just buy it from you for the price you've set? That makes no sense.

SMF · 02/03/2012, 12:03 PM

Someone really bought it? Lol wow won't they feel stupid when you toss on $25 ones lol

jperryss · 02/03/2012, 12:11 PM

Hey Ark, since you have plenty of copies, any reason not to leave a few up on eBay all the time? Not only would that make it harder or impossible for people to gouge, but it would also put the game out there for someone that might not have even known about it otherwise.

And of course, 'autograph' them for the seller so they can be tracked down later.

Arkhan Asylum · 02/03/2012, 12:25 PM

Quote from: jperryss on 02/03/2012, 12:11 PMHey Ark, since you have plenty of copies, any reason not to leave a few up on eBay all the time? Not only would that make it harder or impossible for people to gouge, but it would also put the game out there for someone that might not have even known about it otherwise.

And of course, 'autograph' them for the seller so they can be tracked down later.

i had some on ebay. the listing mightve finally ended.

I will relist and put IF YOU ARE PAYING > 20$ FOR THIS GAME YOU'RE A RETARD

MotherGunner · 02/03/2012, 12:39 PM

Watch the eBay language nanny though. Yea you should put some sort of disclaimer there.

MotherGunner · 02/03/2012, 12:40 PM

Quote from: guest on 02/03/2012, 11:44 AMWell, Dan Barry is officially the new RoyVegas.

Can't the Mods look up accounts and see who that is?

Arkhan Asylum · 02/03/2012, 12:48 PM

they could look by email

but so can we. I didnt see him.

MotherGunner · 02/03/2012, 12:52 PM

Perhaps he is using a different email so search by name? I swear I have sold to someone from Elizabethtown, PA. He is definitely on these forums.

Senshi · 02/03/2012, 01:53 PM

Quote from: MotherGunner on 02/03/2012, 12:52 PMPerhaps he is using a different email so search by name? I swear I have sold to someone from Elizabethtown, PA. He is definitely on these forums.

yea so have I.

Arkhan Asylum · 02/03/2012, 01:55 PM

Track him down!

jperryss · 02/03/2012, 03:05 PM

I can't search this board by user location. I even tried my best Google-Fu to search this site with no luck.

I bet a mod or admin could do it.

Samurai Ghost · 02/03/2012, 04:46 PM

Wow, someone bought it! For that price they could have bought 1/8th of a Magical Chase box!

CrackTiger · 02/03/2012, 05:02 PM

It doesn't matter what you have it's what you say. All these gouged items are selling hype with deception. Fortunately, they usually don't sell. The person who bought that overpriced "preorder" Insanity likely did not even know what the game is. Even if completed eBay searches only showed the regular game going for $30 or less, if this was the only they could find that was LE, then that means (to too many people) that it must be super rare.

Shrapnoid · 02/03/2012, 06:18 PM

How do you know that the person who bought it isn't in league with the seller to make it look like people are really paying these kind of prices?

NecroPhile · 02/03/2012, 06:23 PM

Quote from: Shrapnoid on 02/03/2012, 06:18 PMHow do you know that the person who bought it isn't in league with the seller to make it look like people are really paying these kind of prices?

We don't, but it wouldn't do the guy much good to pull such shenanigans. Presuming he has just the one (I don't think Ark sold a pile of pre-sale copies to one person), he'd have to relist this one and hope that the ~~sucker~~ buyer doesn't notice it's the same one; seeing as it's numbered that doesn't seem likely to happen, though anyone dumb enough to pay $150 for a game you can still buy new...

OldMan · 02/03/2012, 07:35 PM

Quoteseeing as it's numbered that doesn't seem likely to happen, though anyone dumb enough to pay $150 for a game you can still buy new...

Makes me wonder what I could get for my signed/number 0 set......

Arkhan Asylum · 02/03/2012, 08:06 PM

Quote from: TheOldMan on 02/03/2012, 07:35 PM
Quoteseeing as it's numbered that doesn't seem likely to happen, though anyone dumb enough to pay $150 for a game you can still buy new...
Makes me wonder what I could get for my signed/number 0 set......

We're sitting on 45,000$ basically. How many unique signatures can we come up with?!

CrackTiger · 02/03/2012, 08:26 PM

Quote from: Shrapnoid on 02/03/2012, 06:18 PMHow do you know that the person who bought it isn't in league with the seller to make it look like people are really paying these kind of prices?

How do we know that your reseller witch hunts before you've even settled in isn't a ploy to raise yourself above suspician asap, so that you can score bigger than anyone?

nat · 02/03/2012, 08:26 PM

Quote from: jperryss on 02/03/2012, 03:05 PMI can't search this board by user location. I even tried my best Google-Fu to search this site with no luck.

I bet a mod or admin could do it.

If he didn't enter a location, I can't search him.

jperryss · 02/03/2012, 08:39 PM

Quote from: nat on 02/03/2012, 08:26 PM
Quote from: jperryss on 02/03/2012, 03:05 PMI can't search this board by user location. I even tried my best Google-Fu to search this site with no luck.

I bet a mod or admin could do it.
If he didn't enter a location, I can't search him.

Of course, I was just throwing it out there as a possibility.

djolof · 02/03/2012, 08:53 PM

The witch hunt begins...

Arkhan Asylum · 02/03/2012, 09:30 PM

well his email is rocktillyoudrop87@yahoo.com if that helps, lol

SMF · 02/03/2012, 10:04 PM

Good thing you didn't sell him a error label copy,god knows how much he would have asked for. $150 for mint copys. Might be triple if the label was off center lol.

djolof · 02/03/2012, 10:16 PM

yahoo, well looks like whoever it is, is stuck in the 90's

Arkhan Asylum · 02/03/2012, 10:17 PM

Its not mint though. I PLAYED IT AND WROTE ON IT.

Senshi · 02/03/2012, 10:28 PM

Quote from: djolof on 02/03/2012, 10:16 PMyahoo, well looks like whoever it is, is stuck in the 90's

and your point would be?

djolof · 02/03/2012, 10:55 PM

Haha, the dream of the 90's is alive on this forum! Just surprised to see a yahoo account... got one of those a short time after I got my turbo...aka middle school.

Shrapnoid · 02/03/2012, 11:13 PM

Quote from: guest on 02/03/2012, 08:26 PM
Quote from: Shrapnoid on 02/03/2012, 06:18 PMHow do you know that the person who bought it isn't in league with the seller to make it look like people are really paying these kind of prices?
How do we know that your reseller witch hunts before you've even settled in isn't a ploy to raise yourself above suspician asap, so that you can score bigger than anyone?

Witch hunt? I was just suggesting something that could happen.
Why would I bother to make myself out to be some kind of saint.
I'm a wack-job and everyone knows it.
Ask anyone online who knows me?
They'll tell you.
I am what I am.

alexsduo · 02/04/2012, 02:32 PM

Ark, I would like 100 copies signed, for um, my personal collection. Also, make each one out to "Highest Ebay Bidder", thanks...

CrackTiger · 02/04/2012, 04:29 PM

Quote from: Shrapnoid on 02/03/2012, 11:13 PM
Quote from: CrackTiger on 02/03/2012, 08:26 PM
Quote from: Shrapnoid on 02/03/2012, 06:18 PMHow do you know that the person who bought it isn't in league with the seller to make it look like people are really paying these kind of prices?
How do we know that your reseller witch hunts before you've even settled in isn't a ploy to raise yourself above suspician asap, so that you can score bigger than anyone?
Witch hunt? I was just suggesting something that could happen.
Why would I bother to make myself out to be some kind of saint.
I'm a wack-job and everyone knows it.
Ask anyone online who knows me?
They'll tell you.
I am what I am.

How do we know that Arkhan isn't in league with special version re-sellers? Afterall, he has the most to gain. Between his cut on the prototypes, limited editions and the renewed interest in the regular copies each time one gets gouged, it's a brilliant marketing strategy.

BigusSchmuck · 02/04/2012, 04:38 PM

I rather much start a lynch mob against the likes of PoweredupGames for overpricing his Turbo stuff way too much.

TheClash603 · 02/04/2012, 06:13 PM

I don't think there is a problem if this guy made a good profit off of his game...

as long as it is feeding a cocaine addiction.

SMF · 02/04/2012, 08:22 PM

I'm all for Ark making money off his homebrews, The more money he makes the more homebrews he can create.

SMF · 02/04/2012, 08:23 PM

Quote from: alexsduo on 02/04/2012, 02:32 PMArk, I would like 100 copies signed, for um, my personal collection. Also, make each one out to "Highest Ebay Bidder", thanks...

Also make sure you grade them and package in the hard cases for MAXIMUM PROFIT...

Arkhan Asylum · 02/04/2012, 08:49 PM

Quote from: CrackTiger on 02/04/2012, 04:29 PMHow do we know that Arkhan isn't in league with special version re-sellers?

We know because I'm not a dipshit motherfucker that hangs out with troglodytes like Roy, and brochad college wannabe gamers like Dingle Barry.

Plus, if I wanted to flip profits on these things, I'd already be doing stupid shit like smearing my paint-soaked dick all over the case, and then signing my name in blood.. followed by listing it on eBay as the Arkhan Fucked This One copy, for 600$. I could fire off CD-R "prototypes" left and right of the game. I have the code, and can do what I want with it and make so many wackoff versions of the game, people wouldn't know how to cope. Me and Oldman could make a fuckin circus out of Insanity in a weekend.

However, I have a real job to make money. This is for fun/knowledge/excitement/longevity of old consoles. It's not for douchenozzle shenanigans by people who are pretending to be gamers.

Anyone who resells homebrew to make $$ is a pole smoker. They don't deserve to have thumbs.

Shrapnoid · 02/04/2012, 08:54 PM

Nice one, Arkhan. Wonder what that would be like? Trying to use a control pad without thumbs I mean. Hope I never have to find out.

allyourblood · 02/05/2012, 01:15 PM

But c'mon Arkhan, tell us how you really feel!

Lilgrafx · 02/05/2012, 08:54 PM

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEC-TurboGrafx-16-Black-Console-NTSC-Box-7-Games-TG16-/270906160511?pt=Video_Games&hash=item3f1343f57f#ht_500wt_1287

this isn't a terrible price, but It's my brother selling it and he didn't offer it to me, that bastard!

Sparky · 02/05/2012, 10:27 PM

Quote from: Psycho Arkhan on 02/03/2012, 08:21 AMDaniel Barry, you're on my list.
http://nintendoage.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Users.Home&User=dantendo

what a dick!!

Quote from: Lilgrafx on 02/05/2012, 08:54 PMhttp://www.ebay.com/itm/NEC-TurboGrafx-16-Black-Console-NTSC-Box-7-Games-TG16-/270906160511?pt=Video_Games&hash=item3f1343f57f#ht_500wt_1287

this isn't a terrible price, but It's my brother selling it and he didn't offer it to me, that bastard!

& what a dick!!

Mathius · 02/05/2012, 10:40 PM

Quote from: Lilgrafx on 02/05/2012, 08:54 PMhttp://www.ebay.com/itm/NEC-TurboGrafx-16-Black-Console-NTSC-Box-7-Games-TG16-/270906160511?pt=Video_Games&hash=item3f1343f57f#ht_500wt_1287

this isn't a terrible price, but It's my brother selling it and he didn't offer it to me, that bastard!

I live about 45 minutes from there. You want me to go to his house and hit him over the head with a LaserActive???

Lilgrafx · 02/06/2012, 09:40 AM

Quote from: Mathius on 02/05/2012, 10:40 PM
Quote from: Lilgrafx on 02/05/2012, 08:54 PMhttp://www.ebay.com/itm/NEC-TurboGrafx-16-Black-Console-NTSC-Box-7-Games-TG16-/270906160511?pt=Video_Games&hash=item3f1343f57f#ht_500wt_1287

this isn't a terrible price, but It's my brother selling it and he didn't offer it to me, that bastard!
I live about 45 minutes from there. You want me to go to his house and hit him over the head with a LaserActive???

I don''t want to kill him ... maybe just a Genesis with a 32x and CD you know just knock him out for a few days.

Shrapnoid · 02/06/2012, 10:11 AM

Dang, Lil! That's messed up! That reminds me something one of bros might do. Just call him up and chew him out and if he gets mad, play it cool and lay a guilt trip on him.

MotherGunner · 02/06/2012, 05:02 PM

I love how his brother is offering a warranty, lol.

Lilgrafx · 02/06/2012, 06:42 PM

Well the Boxed system sold (and I died a little bit

) he said the only way he would trade it to me was if I gave him Musha. He's been selling of everything in his collection like a madman just to try to obtain a complete SNES collection.

nectarsis · 02/06/2012, 06:49 PM

Quote from: Lilgrafx on 02/06/2012, 06:42 PMWell the Boxed system sold (and I died a little bit ) he said the only way he would trade it to me was if I gave him Musha. He's been selling of everything in his collection like a madman just to try to obtain a complete SNES collection.

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MotherGunner · 02/06/2012, 08:23 PM

Wouldn't it be ironic and hilarious if LilGrafx and his brother lived in Philly?