[Coco] The Friday Ebay-madness bit

[Mark McDougall]

On 6/07/2012 7:47 PM, Rogelio Perea wrote:

> Four bid offers rejected, I wonder for how much they were... $4.00? $5.00?

You may scoff, but it's indicative of where things are headed rather 
quickly. Take cartridges for the NES, SNES and N64 for example; they can 
fetch ridiculous prices depending on the title. Aside from the really rare 
carts going for thousands of dollars, there's a handful of titles that fetch 
hundreds, and _more_ than a handful that fetch up to $100. In some cases, 
it's not even related to rarity - precedence alone seems to set the price!?!

I'm not suggesting that this particular pak is worth the asking price, but 
it's not unreasonable for someone to 'go fishing' around this price point if 
they have no idea what it's worth. And if someone does pay a silly price, 
you'll see more coming out of the woodwork and demanding similar prices.

There's always 3-4 copies of Mario Party 2 for the N64 on eBay at any one 
time, yet it still fetches ~$50-60 each time. I don't really understand how 
that works!?!

Hold on to your Coco carts people! Unfortunately, I only own one!!! :(

Regards,

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